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Good morning Staker! Here’s what’s cookin’ today. There’s new evidence that GLP1s help with arthritis; NASA blowed up an asteroid real good; and Phil Collins suggests he might be ready to head back on tour.

Let’s get into it!

In a successful experiment involving Eli Lilly’s new weight loss drug retatrutide, participants found relief for a condition separate from obesity.

Recently, a study conducted using data from Eli Lilly’s Phase III trial also determined the medication can be helpful for reducing sleep apnea as patients shed their excess weight.

On top of that, yet another study found taking the drug can relieve knee joint pain in those with osteoarthritis (OA).

An analysis conducted using data from the same Phase III trials found two thirds of participants experienced a 50% reduction in knee pain.

"The findings are really saying for people who are overweight and have OA, if you lose a significant amount of weight with this treatment, there is a good chance that you're going to get a meaningful reduction in your knee pain," said corresponding author Dr. Thomas Schnitzer, professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, anesthesiology and medicine (rheumatology) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

"A major factor is that you're loading your knees less and therefore, there's less pain and it allows you to increase your function."

In 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft was sent to the Didymos binary asteroid system…to crash into it. 🤯

The mission was intended to see if a collision could knock a smaller asteroid in the system (Dimorphos) off its orbit. It succeeded, shortening the orbital period by about 32 minutes.

Two years ago, the European Space Agency sent the Hera space probe to get a glimpse of the impact on Dimorphos. The image was transmitted the other day—the clearest photo yet of the space rock that could theoretically become a hazard to Earth some day.

Rendered above, the photo was taken about 122 million miles from Earth.

“The first thing we said was wow!” Patrick Michel, Hera principal investigator, said in a statement. “This feels like looking at a whole new world.”

Phil Collins’ last show was the final show of the Genesis farewell tour, which took place on March 26, 2022. He couldn’t play drums due to nerve damage and hip issues, but sang the songs from a stool placed in center-stage.

Ahead of his solo induction—and second overall induction—to the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame coming up this Saturday, Collins sat down for an interview with the museum, and suggested he has some more gas in the tank when it comes to being out on the road.

"I mean, I've got a studio that's totally in working order downstairs in the basement of my house, and I keep saying to myself, I should go down there," he explained. "I've got ideas. I've got things I've finished. I've got things that I've half finished. So who knows? I'm now back to being where I think I could do it.

"Once you've been on stage all your life and tasted that, it's difficult to stop. I never say exactly never," he noted. "Every now and again, I think about, well, going out on the road again. You can't do that kind of thing just for a half a dozen shows, because it's not financially practical. So I do think every now and again that I haven't finished."

You can read more of his interview here.

Throwin’ it back to ’85

It’s Monday and you know what that means! Do you remember what was happening this week in 1985? Play today’s trivia and find out!