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.
What we know, epidemiologically speaking, is that metformin doesn't cure diabetes. And the immense majority of patients, they end up using insulin down the road. So we know that metformin is not that magical drug for type 2 diabetics. It just kind of gets them by. It buys them time. But eventually the majority enter insulin if they don't change their lifestyle, their nutrition, exercise.
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Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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