Admin Should Healthy People Take Metformin? Background Drug or Supplement: DRUG Natural or synthetic: NATURAL metformin is extracted from the herb Galega officinalis (French lilac, also known as goat’s rue or Italian fitch Years since Discovery: 99 (1922) Safe for Humans: YES Based on the fact that it is taken by more than one hundred million … Read more
The Abbott made Libre Sense continuous glucose monitor/biosensor is one of the first, or the first CGM to be available without a prescription. The sensor is targeted at endurance athletes. It is, to my knowledge only available in Europe. I have now tested the Libre Sense continuous glucose monitor for 8 subscription periods. So ~4 … Read more
People always ask “are there multiple causes of aging?”. Surely there are. If not, we would only die of one cause as we get older. We would all get cancer or something. There would be something like 90% of deaths from The Single Cause of Death and the remaining 10% from pick your choice of: … Read more
I’m not a doctor; I’m just a guy who doesn’t want to die at age 80. These are some thoughts based on my own research. They are absolutely not medical advice. I’ve heard this claim bandied about quite a bit — that diabetics who take metformin, a Type II diabetes drug, live longer than non-diabetics. … Read more