Rhonda Patrick· PhD
But caution is warranted when using it as a general “longevity drug” in healthy, active people, especially if it interferes with the single most powerful longevity intervention we have, exercise.
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We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
But caution is warranted when using it as a general “longevity drug” in healthy, active people, especially if it interferes with the single most powerful longevity intervention we have, exercise.
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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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But if you're taking Metformin and you're still eating a lot of sugar, like many people with diabetes are doing because they have...you know, their brain is wired that way right now with the hedonic addiction, that Metformin is doing very, very little.
to me by the way I don't know if that's necessarily harmful I don't think it's a good idea which is why I don't believe in metformin as a geroprotective agent I think metformin is a good drug for someone who's diabetic if they can't exercise enough and they can't get into energy balance um but I don't think metformin is a great drug for someone like you or someone like me