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Metformin Diabetes Drug Could Extend Lifespan
Medical News Today ^
| 8-8-2014
| Hannah Nichols
Posted on 02/17/2017 4:45:58 PM PST by blam
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People who take Metformin live longer than those who don't take it....even the people with diabetes live longer than people without diabetes who don't take Metformin.
Has to do with the length of the telemeres
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posted on
02/17/2017 4:45:58 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
There was a statistic on taking female hormones...you would live longer if you took it for 20 years....8 days longer
LMAO
To: blam
Or maybe this will sell more of the drug....meh!
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posted on
02/17/2017 4:57:14 PM PST
by
antceecee
(Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
To: blam
Sort of off topic, but have you seen Donald Watkins latest on Gov. Bentley?
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posted on
02/17/2017 4:58:16 PM PST
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Bodleian_Girl
(Trump: "I'm not going to tell you.")
To: Sacajaweau
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posted on
02/17/2017 4:59:03 PM PST
by
blam
To: Bodleian_Girl
"Sort of off topic, but have you seen Donald Watkins latest on Gov. Bentley?" No.
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posted on
02/17/2017 5:00:03 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
Spelling counts, Blam.
Telomere.
Not telemere.
To: blam
He’s sort of insinuating that Rebecca Mason’s husband lives an alternative lifestyle and that’s why he puts up with her being the governor’s mistress.
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posted on
02/17/2017 5:05:40 PM PST
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Bodleian_Girl
(Trump: "I'm not going to tell you.")
To: antceecee; blam
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posted on
02/17/2017 5:06:24 PM PST
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Bodleian_Girl
(Trump: "I'm not going to tell you.")
To: blam
Yeah Metformin, I take 2000mg every day and my stomach is always upset and I’m always dizzy. Diabetes sucks.
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posted on
02/17/2017 5:11:42 PM PST
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
To: Bodleian_Girl
"He’s sort of insinuating that Rebecca Mason’s husband lives an alternative lifestyle and that’s why he puts up with her being the governor’s mistress." I thought the governor gave the husband a big government contract.(?)
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posted on
02/17/2017 5:13:23 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
That too. But the “alternative lifestyle” seems to be the bigger issue according to Watkins, but the money doesn’t hurt.
He’s just hinting around at it now, I guess we’ll see in a few days if anything comes of it.
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posted on
02/17/2017 5:15:44 PM PST
by
Bodleian_Girl
(Trump: "I'm not going to tell you.")
To: antceecee
The patent has lapsed, it’s cheap, and anybody can manufacture it. I dont think there is much upside for the pharmaceutical companies to hype it at this point.
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posted on
02/17/2017 5:17:03 PM PST
by
Gideon7
To: blam
I take metformin twice a day along with an Invokana, and a weekly injection of Trulicity. I still feel like I'm gonna drop dead half the time, so I don't see what the hullabaloo is about.
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posted on
02/17/2017 5:19:06 PM PST
by
Viking2002
("If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck." - John Steinbeck)
To: blam
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posted on
02/17/2017 5:24:29 PM PST
by
GailA
(Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump! DRAIN THE SWAMP)
To: blam
But is it worth the very real risk of lactic acidosis? Not to mention the cost.
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posted on
02/17/2017 6:36:56 PM PST
by
mtrott
To: blam
It is the only drug ever approved for trials by the FDA as a potential life extension medication. Trials are ongoing. I am 61 without any glucose or diabetes issue. I’m in the Philippines and can buy it OTC here and I take it for just the potential health benefit. (It has some anti-cancer benefits shown as well.) Link here: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02432287
To: right way right
Yeah Metformin, I take 2000mg every day and my stomach is always upset and I’m always dizzy. Diabetes sucks.
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Ditto on the dosage plus 8 Mg of glimepiride (sp.?)
Ditto on “diabetes sucks” and I will add having Metformin induced diarrhea sucks too. In addition neuropathic pain sucks, just, possibly, worst of all.
Metformin absolutely cures constipation.
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posted on
02/17/2017 7:14:21 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
To: Bodleian_Girl
It’s free at Publix.
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$4 at W-M.
We don’t have a Publix anywhere around here
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posted on
02/17/2017 7:16:31 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
To: Sacajaweau
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