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The side effects can be pretty nasty. I took it for 6 months and the stomach pain and diarrhoea never went away. Berberine however acts on the same pathways as
by ollysb 7y ago
The side effects can be pretty nasty. I took it for 6 months and the stomach pain and diarrhoea never went away. Berberine however acts on the same pathways as metformin and doesn’t cause the side effects. As a bonus you don’t need a prescription to take it.
- Scoundreller 7y ago> stomach pain and diarrhoea never went away I always wondered if that's what caused the weight loss: destabilization of the digestive system, so you grow to fear overeating/eating crap. Dunno how one can say they work on the same pathways: we're not really sure how metformin does its thing.
- copperx 7y agoNot necessarily as you describe it, but weight loss might be the result of the microbiota changes induced by metformin. I never felt digestive issues when taking metformin, only a feeling of having less energy.
- synt4x1k0 7y agohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5867333/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5867333/