Active Low-Carber Forums - View Single Post - Did you hear? Metformin as an anti-aging drug.

Ran across this today.

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The Safe, Boring, and Extremely Cheap Drug That Could Cure Aging

Metformin, Barzilai and his team believe, will be the first drug ever to be officially approved to treat aging.

“Over dinner one night, I said to Nir, ‘You know, I’m leaving this weight-loss clinic, which means they’re going to stop prescribing metformin. But I think I’d like to stay on it,’” Cantor says. Barzilai wrote the prescription himself, and Cantor now takes metformin off-label in hopes that it will grant him a few extra years of life, or at least of health.

“I’ve bought into this idea — it’s not just an idea, it’s a fact — that you don’t really die of old age,” Cantor says. “Most people die of age-related disease.”

Or, I dunno, maybe EAT RIGHT?

A low carb diet has a known anti-aging effect too... reduces free radicals, inflammation, and AGEs.

And so metformin is not without its side effects, I understand.