The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
We should say berberine does have some of the similar side effects of Metformin. We don't know in different groups of people might be different, but you're looking at diarrhea, constipation, gas, potentially upset stomach.
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berberine is essentially the same molecule that occurs in the french lilac these molecules are from plants and they do things berberine is like metformin actually but they have bad side effects associated with them
berberine is essentially the same molecule that occurs in the French lilac these molecules are from plants and they do things berberine is like metformin actually but they have bad side effects associated with them