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Re: Anti-aging drug for dogs moves closer to gaining FDA approval

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Post by drakonka »

antisthenes wrote: post #24
drakonka wrote: post #14

If anyone here has any anti-aging resources for cats, I'd love to see them. I have two 9-year-old Maine Coons whom I'm supplementing with glucosamine for joint and urinary health, and wonder if there's more I could be doing. Edit: Getting some great tips on core diet and health down below! Luckily we're already doing most of those, and I guess I'm largely wondering about advancements in supplementation or preventativ…

Make sure they drink enough water. May have to get them a water fountain or a wider bowl, and make sure it's fresh. Aside from that, Maines are already a very long lived generally healthy breed.

Good point; despite fountains and large bowls mine tend to not drink much except when the male is on urinary-specific food that ups his thirst (he was sick as a kitten which made him prone to urinary issues). I've read that cats in general don't tend to naturally drink much and are more used to getting moisture from their food. So I make sure they only eat wet and raw food, which provides extra moisture.

Re: Anti-aging drug for dogs moves closer to gaining FDA approval

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Post by lm28469 »

appplication wrote: post #32
wiz21c wrote: post #31

After transhumanism, here comes transanimalism. I understand one may really like its dog/cat/... but, why not just accept time passes ? (I've lost a goldfish and I was not happy, proper burial helped a lot)

Time passes far too fast for dogs. Many do not even make it to 10.

Accepting it is 10 times less stressful than fighting it. Also most of these issues are brought by dumb breeding practices...

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Post by nayuki »

pmx wrote: post #39
fallingknife wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I propose treating all animal medication as supplements. Safety (including safety when consumed as food for livestock medications) is required but not efficacy. And given the fact that people have the legal authority to euthanize their pets on demand, it seems pretty silly that we are spending millions of dollars in taxpayer money ensuring they don't get fed snake oil.

The people benefiting from from these millions are tax payers just like you. You may have differing priorities but that in no way gives you the right to decide what public money is spent on. You're expressing a very self-centered view. Try to step outside your own needs for a moment and understand that everyone has their own rich lives, desires, and needs and that they are all just as valid as yours are.

> You may have differing priorities but that in no way gives you the right to decide what public money is spent on.

Disagree. Public money is subject to the public process, which includes debating about and voting on how resources are spent. Don't shout down people who are participating in the process.

Re: Anti-aging drug for dogs moves closer to gaining FDA approval

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Post by ornornor »

drakonka wrote: post #14

If anyone here has any anti-aging resources for cats, I'd love to see them. I have two 9-year-old Maine Coons whom I'm supplementing with glucosamine for joint and urinary health, and wonder if there's more I could be doing. Edit: Getting some great tips on core diet and health down below! Luckily we're already doing most of those, and I guess I'm largely wondering about advancements in supplementation or preventativ…

We just lost our cat last week. She was 18 and got a tumor in her nose which became too big.

Her kidneys were mostly fine and it wasn’t a concern the last time we checked (about 6 months ago)

I think she lived so long because she was allergic to most commercially available food (chicken and beef allergy) so we had to feed her higher quality food with 95+% meat. We also put her water in a different spot or the house (cats hate drinking where they eat, the smell of food near water makes them think it’s unsafe to drink so they’ll drink much less of it)

She was an indoors only cat for the last 10 years of her life after some crazy junky partially shaved her.

If we ever get over the pain and get a new cat, I’d do it all over again:

- high quality, 95+% meat food (dry and wet, the cat picks whenever she’s hungry)

- indoors only (no crazy people, no antifreeze, no cars, no cats/animals fights)

- water bowl far away from food bowls

Not a miracle recipe, but she was older than any other cat I’ve known.

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Post by I_Am_Nous »

deadbabe wrote: post #2

Why would any creature have hormones to accelerate aging as opposed to just letting the body wear out naturally with use?

Kind of seems like a mercy, especially depending on what part of your body would wear out first. Would be interesting to study since we know stress also seems to increase aging, so I wonder if a stressful event triggers the aging process as a way to reduce suffering in the aging individual. Similarly there are cases where long married spouses die pretty closely to one another and I could see the stressful loss of your partner increasing your aging factor in such a case.

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Post by richbell »

mhb wrote: post #43
jurassicfoxy wrote: post #4

In addition, if anyone has an older dog, they should also immediately look into Librela: https://www.zoetisus.com/products/dogs/librela/ This is a miracle drug that pretty much instantly changed both my (older) dogs' lives. Every vet tech I've spoken to (it's a monthly injection) agrees it is amazing.

What does it cost?

In Canada it's $78 a month.

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Post by apwell23 »

deadbabe wrote: post #2

Why would any creature have hormones to accelerate aging as opposed to just letting the body wear out naturally with use?

> body wear out naturally with use

Body doesn't `wear out` from use. Yes there are overuse injuries and overuse arthritis .

Aging related `wear out` has nothing do with use. Infact, opposite is often true. Its unfortunate that doctors refer to age related joint issues as 'wear and tear' issues.

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Post by actionfromafar »

wiz21c wrote: post #31

After transhumanism, here comes transanimalism. I understand one may really like its dog/cat/... but, why not just accept time passes ? (I've lost a goldfish and I was not happy, proper burial helped a lot)

Dogs already are transwolves.

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Post by drakonka »

DanHulton wrote: post #50
drakonka wrote: post #14

If anyone here has any anti-aging resources for cats, I'd love to see them. I have two 9-year-old Maine Coons whom I'm supplementing with glucosamine for joint and urinary health, and wonder if there's more I could be doing. Edit: Getting some great tips on core diet and health down below! Luckily we're already doing most of those, and I guess I'm largely wondering about advancements in supplementation or preventativ…

I just wrote a comment above, but I wanna make sure you don't miss it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38601677

Thanks for posting this. Mine don't have OA (that I know of or see symptoms of, at least), but I know joint issues are common in larger breeds like Maine Coons. I'll definitely ask my vet about this if the time comes (since this seems like more of a pain-relief thing rather than a prevention method?)

So glad your cat is happy and pain-free!

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