Metformin serves as a valuable tool to demonstrate the principle of targeting aging, paving the way for future, more effective drugs and combination therapies.

“metformin, the other diabetes drug that may delay aging”

“Metformin is the best studied drug that is believed prevent age-associated diseases such as Alzheimer’s and cancer”

“The type 2 diabetes drug metformin is finally shown to slow aging!”

“metformin, a cheap, widely available drug used to lower high blood sugar and potentially delay diseases of aging.”

“I support that study I think that it's probably the right first study in this area because as you've already said metformin we we know that it's very safe at least as far as as a drug you might consider for a study like this it's very safe”

“those treatments are metformin rapamycin you give it to any animal it almost delays the aging there”

“well I call metformin a tool from my perspective it's just a tool to show that we can target aging because I think that there will be much better drugs and combination drugs and either in the future”

“the bottom line is there's evidence that metformin hits every one of those hallmarks”

“all of a sudden we have everything we have all ages age-related disease clinical association studies would have mortality that just made metformin the perfect tool for us to push geroscience ahead”

“the mechanism of action the fact that metformin actually hits all the hallmarks of aging miraculously”

“it suggests that if if tame shows a reduction in all-cause mortality in a subset of people so old in quotes um because when i say so old meaning in five years is really what i'm saying um it would suggest biologically that there would be a benefit to starting sooner”

“And most people if they want to find the systems-level control of aging, they're trying to do it through metabolic health. And so people like the idea of this drug metformin, it might be a way to systematically slow aging.”