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Re:Review of Anti-Aging Drugs by FollowingTheDao on Monday August 18, 2025 @07:58AM (#44939658)
> The majority is gaining literal years of healthy lifespan

You’re saying this like it’s true already. Let’s give it 10 years.

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Re:Review of Anti-Aging Drugs by malfist on Monday August 18, 2025 @12:18PM (#44942318)
> 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.

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Re:Review of Anti-Aging Drugs by FollowingTheDao on Monday August 18, 2025 @04:38PM (#44945047)
Phen-fen helped people lose weight.
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Re:Review of Anti-Aging Drugs by malfist on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @08:09AM (#44950656)
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.

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