Peter Attia· MD
the leading cause is atherosclerosis now that's true in the united states it's true across the globe so when you mix and develop and undevelop it doesn't matter laboratory mice aren't that way wait they die of pretty much one thing and one thing alone and that is actually it's euthanasia but i know where you're going yeah yeah yeah yeah cancer right they all die right so so certainly every uh old mouse at time of death will will have cancer and again because of the way animal studies are done usually you have defined endpoints where when a mouse reaches that reaches that end point they have to be euthanized but the the expectation is that it if they hadn't been euthanized they would have died from the cancer so i think you're absolutely right they're not dying from atherosclerosis when you look at their arteries they're not littered with plaques the way ours are at least the commonly used inbred mouse strains that is definitely true for