That’s great it works for you. Doc took hubby off Metformin and told him to take Metamucil. No side effects, unless you have diarrhea/bowel problems. It says on the package that it helps A1C. Not many people are aware. Even people in the medical field that he has talked to didn’t know that, or they said they didn’t.
Hope it works for him the same as Metformin works for others, to add years to his life.
It looks like anything that extends the telomeres increases life span. Test animals that have lived a life of restricted caloric intake have extended telomeres and live longer than normal lives.
Now, I've also read that children born from older parents have a shorter life because they're born with short telomeres.
Adults with short telomeres can extend the length of their telomeres by serious calorie intake restriction.