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It is often said that knowledge is power, and this is never more accurate than when you establish yourself as a foreign resident in a new country, like Spain. Being able to quickly familiarise yourself with the culture, rules, events, and customs can help ease the transition during a challenging time.
This is why Euro Weekly News makes it our mission to provide you with a free news resource in English that covers both regional and national Spanish news – anything that we feel you will benefit from knowing as you integrate into your new community and live your best life in Spain. In this way, you can forget about translating articles from Spanish into awkward English that probably don’t make much sense. Let us be your convenient and essential guide to all things that will likely affect you as a foreign resident living in Spain.
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By Connor Morpurgo • Updated: 28 Dec 2024 • 22:44 • 2 minutes read
A pill used to lengthen the lives of dogs and improve health outcomes could do the same for humans, scientists insist. Credit: Iago Ferraz, Twitter.
They say man and dog have a unique bond, unbreakable in fact – could this bond be reiterated in the form of a tablet that can increase the lifespan of both species effectively? Scientists think so.
A San Francisco based bio-technology organisation has unleashed plans to study the relationship between human life and dog life, with active testing in the works to see if a longevity enacting drug made for dogs can have similar impacts on us.
Loy-002, a compound and accessible pill for dogs, is reported to launch in the market as soon as early 2025, with grand promises of slowing and even reversing metabolic changes associated with aging in dogs. The substance aims to reduce frailty by suppressing specific age driven increases in insulin, thus reducing the risk of disease, promoting better all-round health.
With many similarities between man and dog in regard to environmental habits, compared with common controls in most clinical trials, mice, for instance, the results of studies into the promise of this drug truly could spell a great potential for human health in the future. Loyal founder, Celine Halioua, is supremely optimistic.
“Finding out how to prevent canine age-related decline is a really strong proxy for doing the same with humans because dogs get similar age-related diseases. Lab mice cannot be justly compared as dogs can”. And with over $125 million raised from keen investors already, with much of the appeal of the drug coming from the fast-track method of testing due to shorter dog lifespans, as opposed to human trials, it’s clear to see the traction Loyal is generating.
The concept of dog longevity testing is not solely limited to Loyal’s efforts however, as Rapamycin is currently undergoing clinical approval, with FDA supposedly set to give the all-clear depending on the outcome of intensive studies conducted by the Dog Aging Project. Researchers of the campaign, organised at the laboratories in the University of Washington, are brimming with excitement to see how positive effects on dogs could correlate in humans, considering Rapamycin is already a regularly used human immunosuppressant.
The co-founder of the project, UW biogerontologist Daniel Promislow told the Guardian: “Our study is light years ahead of anything that’s been done on humans, or can be done on humans”. Studies conducted will amass the equivalent of a forty year long trial on humans, in just five years, concluding ultimately if the key to enhancing our health can be found in canine supplementation.
Jamie Justice, professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine offered a valuable, conservative insight: “The Dog Aging Project is still five years away from releasing any results, and thus at this time researchers cannot test canine longevity drugs on humans, no matter how positive results are on dogs”.
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