Ozempic Shows Anti-Aging Effects in Trial, Reversing Biological Age by 3.1 Years

Re:Ozempic Shows Anti-Aging Effects in Trial, Reversing Biol... by mullingitover on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @04:31PM (#44803873)

The cynic in my thinks this will its undoing. Some huge fraction of alcohol profits come from a small portion of drinkers. If these G* peptides help these poor people their drinking under control, it would take a huge wrecking ball to the profits, and thus to the taxes. Can't have that.

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Re:Ozempic Shows Anti-Aging Effects in Trial, Reversing Biol... by c4ptnjack on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @07:50PM (#44805950)

I think you over estimate the liqour lobby and underestimate how much of alcohol profits likely come from luxury purchases

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Re:Ozempic Shows Anti-Aging Effects in Trial, Reversing Biol... by snek_case on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @06:16PM (#44805135)

They're very expensive drugs so it would be one lobby against another. However given that they're so expensive, I would think that broke, uneducated alcoholics just won't have access to them, so those profits are safe...

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Re:Ozempic Shows Anti-Aging Effects in Trial, Reversing Biol... by quickthrowman on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @05:32PM (#44804629)

Reduced healthcare, policing, and other costs that are paid for with tax dollars from lower alcohol consumption would almost certainly be a net gain over the piddly tax revenue from alcohol consumption sales.

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Re:Ozempic Shows Anti-Aging Effects in Trial, Reversing Biol... by mullingitover on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @06:45PM (#44805420)

So you're saying it's also going to harm the revenues of the health care industrial complex and the police state? That's not going to help its case.

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