Peter Attia· MD
then metformin was a safer part with much less of a lactic acidosis side-effects
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then metformin was a safer part with much less of a lactic acidosis side-effects
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there was a drug by the name of informing a cousin of metformin which apparently is much more potent it's much more potent because unlike metformin he doesn't need a transporter to get into the cells on the other hand it was associated with a lot of lactic acidosis and it was considered unsafe
one of the modification was fin forming it's an early form of metformin that kind of was a little too potent too potent on the mitochondria and cost trouble but we're over that for 80 years
and the old drug that caused all the problem was Fen Forin I bu guide as well but it had a powerful effect yeah Fen Forin was much more powerful yes and that's why people were afraid to uh bring metformin to the US