A New Study Suggests Semaglutide Can Help Us Live Longer—And Not Just by Eating Less

Older female mice lived 12 percent longer on semaglutide and showed benefits that matched food restriction alone could not fully explain.

If you give a mouse a cookie… I mean, if you give a mouse semaglutide, it doesn’t just get thinner, it lives longer. That’s the striking claim from a new study, and it’s drawing attention because it could be another use case for the popular weight loss drug, marketed as Ozempic and Wegovy.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley gave 20-month-old female mice (that’s “older” in mouse years, roughly equivalent........

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