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Eli Lilly has released the full results of a large, late-stage study of retatrutide, an experimental weekly injection for weight loss. The findings were presented at a major European diabetes conference in Milan and published in The Lancet. They build on early headline numbers the company shared in July. What is retatrutide? Most people know
This article is an addendum to our previously published series on GLP-1s. If you are interested in catching up on our previous articles on this subject, you can click here to be directed to the series intro. Scroll through longevity TikTok or a biohacker newsletter right now and you’ll run into a confident claim: take
You’ve seen the ads. A sleek kit arrives in the mail, you collect a sample in the privacy of your bathroom, post it back, and within two weeks an app on your phone reveals the intimate secrets of your gut. Information such as which bacteria you’re housing, which you’re missing, why you’re tired, why your
Welcome to our fourth post in our Gut Health series — a six-week deep dive into one of the most researched areas in modern medicine. If you missed part one, catch up by clicking here. Few health topics split opinion quite as evenly as leaky gut syndrome. On one side: a vast wellness industry selling
Welcome to our third post in our Gut Health series — a six-week deep dive into one of the most researched areas in modern medicine. If you missed part one, catch up by clicking here. Your gut has been trying to tell you something. The problem is that most of the signals it sends don’t
Welcome to our second post in our Gut Health series — a six-week deep dive into one of the most researched areas in modern medicine. If you missed part one, catch up by clicking here. There are a lot of wellness trends that make researchers roll their eyes. Raw water. Charcoal lemonade. Eating cotton balls
There are more microorganisms living in your gut right now than there are stars in the Milky Way. Scientists estimate the number at around 38 trillion; outnumbering the human cells in your body by a ratio that researchers are still debating but agree is staggering. For most of medical history, these organisms were either unknown or dismissed
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have created a new kind of vaccine; and for the first time ever, its key ingredient was designed entirely by artificial intelligence. The goal? To protect people not just from viruses we know today, but from ones that haven’t even infected humans yet. Here’s the problem with most vaccines:
Welcome back to the final part of our blog series on the science of longevity and aging! For most of human history, aging was viewed as inevitable and largely untouchable. Medicine focused on treating illness after it appeared, while aging itself remained outside the reach of science. That perspective is beginning to change. Over the past
Welcome back to Part 5 of our ongoing series diving into the science of Longevity and Aging! For much of modern healthcare, treatment begins after disease appears. But longevity research is helping drive a major shift in thinking: What if the best way to live longer is to prevent disease before it starts? This is the foundation
