Can Metformin Fight Aging?

As you get older, your chances of getting sick and developing diseases get higher. But what if aging itself is the condition we should be treating? Scientific studies indicate that the diabetes drug, metformin, may be the anti-aging drug that medicine has long sought.

Dr. Nir Barzilai is the founding director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the world’s leading expert on metformin. Here, he joins host and Medcan CEO Shaun Francis to discuss the potential of metformin to fight aging, and other potential gerotherapeutics, like rapamycin and SGLT-2 inhibitors.

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