Your Ozempic Prescription May Come With a Surprising Bonus: Slower Aging

GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide (Ozempic and Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro and Zepbound) are reliably helping people lose weight and control their blood sugar. They may also be slowing biological aging, recent research suggests.

Scientists with Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, the two biggest current GLP-1 makers, revealed intriguing data this past week at an anti-aging conference. Both teams found that their drugs respectively can slow down the molecular aging clocks of users by several years compared to a placebo. Though…