Peter Attia· MD
there's very good human data suggesting that that diabetics taking metformin not only have less diabetes but they have fewer other age-related diseases
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there's very good human data suggesting that that diabetics taking metformin not only have less diabetes but they have fewer other age-related diseases
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so my view even though it's a single study and others now need to be done and all sorts of caveats need to be kept in mind during the interpretation that's a hint that metformin may well be pretty good for non-diabetic people as well
now in metformin we have this undeniable data of diabetics that take it versus diabetics that don't and you know you can slice that 10 ways to sunday it always seems to favor metformin in that diabetic group