We spoke to Professor Bryan Williams, the Chief Scientific and Medical Officer at the British Heart Foundation.
We spoke to Professor Bryan Williams, the Chief Scientific and Medical Officer at the British Heart Foundation, who’s attending the conference in London, and began by asking for his assessment of claims that it could slow ageing and prolong life.So my assessment of that is if you are overweight, and particularly if you’re extremely overweight and you develop type two diabetes as well, then we already know that shortens life.
I suspect if people were able to reduce their weight by an equivalent amount, by following longstanding guidance to eat healthy and take more exercise and ‘look after yourself’, we’d probably get the same benefits. And that’s probably one of the reasons why people who adopt those lifestyles don’t get those diseases that we’ve just mentioned quite so often until very late in their longer lives.And just in terms of the whole picture, this drug won’t necessarily suit everyone.
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