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Metformin is just a drug that impairs the liver’s ability to put sugar into the blood stream. While there are certainly drugs to treat the conditions associated
by teslabox 8y ago
Metformin is just a drug that impairs the liver’s ability to put sugar into the blood stream. While there are certainly drugs to treat the conditions associated with aging, this is probably not one of them.
- ThJ 8y agoWell, as the article points out, and other articles have pointed out, Metformin has a modestly positive effect on longevity. The diseases associated with diabetes type II (metabolic syndrome, syndrome X) pretty much overlap with the main diseases that kill old people. It would thus make sense that a drug designed to alleviate symptoms of diabetes could modestly slow down aging.