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Re:Ozempic Shows Anti-Aging Effects in Trial, Reversing Biol... by smt88 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:26PM (#44803022)
There are lots of miraculous, life-saving drugs that have minimal side effects and aren't snake oil.

Metformin, insulin, many vaccines, some statins, and some antibiotics are clearly on that list.

Re:Ozempic Shows Anti-Aging Effects in Trial, Reversing Biol... by genewitch on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @04:01PM (#44803493)
> panacea or cure-all

specifically, is what i said.

Re:Ozempic Shows Anti-Aging Effects in Trial, Reversing Biol... by smt88 on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @05:11PM (#44804367)
"GLP-1s are beneficial for many conditions downstream of liver dysfunction and metabolic disease" is a much milder claim than "cure-all".
Re:Ozempic Shows Anti-Aging Effects in Trial, Reversing Biol... by genewitch on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:38PM (#44807343)
also in the news in the last couple months was "promising for breast cancer" and another cancer (can't remember, don't care), and depression as well as some other mental health disorder.

If you would like to give me money i would be happy to do the research on what claims have been published about GLP-1 inhibitors since they became prescribed off-label.

I assure you it's more than "many conditions downstream of [...]", unless you want to concede that mental health like depression and dementia are related to gut bacteria, then we can be friends.

also, i caught wind that by December 2025 it's going to be recommended / "proven" to work for erectile dysfunction. At a certain point, we're mincing words.

Re:Ozempic Shows Anti-Aging Effects in Trial, Reversing Biol... by nwienert on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:55PM (#44807453)
As someone who saw miraculous cessation of lifelong immune issues on it, saw another friends dramatically improved allergy symptoms, another lifelong smoker finally quit, and other friends generally get in great shape, I actually do believe it’s uniquely good. If even half of the seeming benefits it seems to be showing in early stages right now turn out to be true, it is.
Re:Ozempic Shows Anti-Aging Effects in Trial, Reversing Biol... by smt88 on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @01:39AM (#44808087)
> I assure you it's more than "many conditions downstream of [...]", unless you want to concede that mental health like depression and dementia are related to gut bacteria, then we can be friends.

You have no way to assure that and haven't even made that assertion. Depression and dementia are absolutely related to digestion, gut bacteria (as you mentioned), metabolism, and hormones, all of which are affected by GLP-1s.

Also, if someone starts taking GLP-1's (which has a placebo effect to begin with), loses weight, exercises more, and sees improvement in their diabetes, why wouldn't they also see improvement in their depression?

Re:Ozempic Shows Anti-Aging Effects in Trial, Reversing Biol... by astrange on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @03:09AM (#44808675)
Statins cause uncontrollable anger in some people… but also lower it in other people.

eg https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... finds it reduces anger in men but increases it in women.

Re:Ozempic Shows Anti-Aging Effects in Trial, Reversing Biol... by petesergeant on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @07:00AM (#44810408)
Sure, but most people take statins without side-effects