Metformin, a diabetes drug that may protect against cancer and Alzheimer’s disease

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There are studies that suggest it may be useful for treating other types of diseases.

It is commonly prescribed to control type II diabetes, but may have protective effects against cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. We refer to Metforminmedicine sold in Spain With name Dianben and is used to help “reduce the production of glucose in the liver and delay the absorption of this molecule in the intestines”they explain from Herald.

There are now studies that seem to show that the drug may be beneficial for “Treat other diseases and may even help slow aging and therefore increase life expectancy.”

One of these tests was coordinated University Hospital of Navarraa work that aims to reverse the accelerated aging caused by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (one of the main pathologies associated with accelerated aging) with metformin, which involves fifteen Spanish hospitals and is also funded Institute of Health Carlos III and Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery.

Other possible uses of metformin

Also last Congress of the Society for Reproductive Research (SRI, its English acronym), which presented the latest advances in this regard, presented a study from which it was concluded that treatment with metformin “reduces the incidence of clinical abortions and improves fertility rates in women born under assisted reproductive technologies with insulin resistance”they explain from the same point of view, because “Previous studies have shown that insulin resistance may play an important role in female reproductive dysfunction.” they explain.

In turn from Newspaper link to a study conducted by a research group from Hong Kong Medical University and published in 2023 in “The Lancet of Healthy Longevity”, “which describes the genetic properties of metformin and its protective effects against cardiovascular and neurodegenerative pathologies such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, as well as some types of cancer.”

However, it is too early for experts to draw conclusions before metformin is sold in pharmacies as an anti-aging drug, for which additional research is needed.