The majority is gaining literal years of healthy lifespan. It would take a lot of damage to even approach this gain for the average person. Like we used to do very invasive and impactful gastric surgery to try and get weight loss and nobody batted an eye, no?
Re:Review of Anti-Aging Drugs
by FollowingTheDao on Monday August 18, 2025 @07:58AM
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> The majority is gaining literal years of healthy lifespan
You’re saying this like it’s true already. Let’s give it 10 years.
> You’re saying this like it’s true already
Because it is true already? You take an obese person who has a lower quality of life because of their obesity and give them a drug that helps them lose that weight and keep it if, they're literally gaining function and a higher quality of life from it. Today.
Re:Review of Anti-Aging Drugs
by FollowingTheDao on Monday August 18, 2025 @04:38PM
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Phen-fen helped people lose weight.
Yeah, and? Fen-phen was a drug controversially approved in April 1996 and withdrew from market September 1997.
GLP-1s aren't remotely similar. Their approval was 20 years ago and have been in used by diabetics since.
Besides, who is going to be the one that links thyroid cancers and pancreatic cancers to these drugs? My father died of pancreatic cancer, no one really thought to ask why.