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Semaglutide started late in life extended lifespan in female mice and matched calorie restriction
Weight-loss drugs keep producing benefits nobody designed them for. Giving semaglutide to 20-month-old mice, roughly late middle age for a mouse, slowed several measures of aging and extended life.
Sep 16, 2026
Cutting one amino acid from the diet made mice healthier, and only the males lived longer
Protein restriction extends life in laboratory animals, and nobody knew which part of the protein mattered. Removing most of a single amino acid for life separated health benefits from lifespan.
Sep 16, 2026
A third of people with 'preclinical' obesity crossed into the clinical kind within five years
A Lancet commission split obesity into two conditions: one that is only a body measurement, one that has started causing harm. Nobody had counted how often people move between them. In 92,396 US adults, 26% did in under three years.
Aug 31, 2026
A raised heart-strain marker that came back down carried no extra risk eight years later
Most risk markers are measured once and treated as a verdict. An Annals of Internal Medicine analysis of 8,454 adults measured one twice, three years apart, and people whose reading normalized ended up where those who never had it did.
Aug 30, 2026