The TAME Trial: Targeting Aging with Metformin
If you have diabetes, metformin can make things better, but if you don’t, the drug may make things worse.
If you have diabetes, metformin can make things better, but if you don’t, the drug may make things worse.
As a mild mitochondrial poison, metformin carries a variety of downsides.
Amazingly, diabetics placed on metformin may live longer lives than those who never got diabetes in the first place.
AMPK is said to serve as a “mitochondrial guardian.”