Me too I started it a few months ago and I feel amazing I have more energy. I sleep better. I am a much happier person my skin is looking better it’s just amazing and I’ve had no side effects. I love it
Interesting because Metformin is a 'standard' treatment for Type 2 diabetes so here in the UK where almost 10% of drug expenditure is directed towards Diabetes, there will be a lot of people already on this medication.
I also made a comment saying: "I also heard hyperbaric oxygen chamber therapy reveres aging. What if you also installed metformin into the gas? seriously!" The drug has potential agreeing with your statement that it will be more widely used.
you may want to get the genetic components of my 90yo father, eats everything , doesn't exercise (but keeps busy working on stuffs), only has one maintenance pill (for hypertension), got delta covid but survived just on home care, mind works perfectly, body naturally a bit battered but he is still very much mobile on his own
That's impressive. My wife's grandmother is 89 and still lives on her own and does her own errands and shopping and flies here every year to visit for Christmas. I find it amazing how some can be like them, then other people are 65 and are far less healthy mentally or physically.
@@booyabooya5162 this is simply untrue. There are many young people dying from Covid and having their lives completely changed. I know SEVERAL and even know a 45 yo woman who died. Another 50 ish year old guy I know had to get a lung transplant and likely only has a year of life left. A 20-some year old girl I know from college can barely walk into class without passing out. Please stop acting like this doesn’t affect people. I have seen it first hand. If 100 million people get something and only 1% of them die, that is still 1 million people. Just keep that in mind.
I was 270 when I started it and now I'm in the upper 240s three-and-a-half months later I think it works, I'm just satisfied now eating half of the amounts that I used to
@@tjmnsthey put me on metformin for my pre-diabetes and when I started 3 weeks ago I was 270, right now I'm at 263. Help me diet, lose weight, control my sugar and start my journey to healthy life. I used to be 285 ish. Lost a little bit of weight when compared to other but it was all me doing the work, I was really depressed when younger so I just ate and ate. Figured if I filled my stomach it would fill the void in my soul so I gained weight and had no interest in losing weight, now I am in a different path in life and I look and feel much better 💪🏼🤲🏻👌🏼
Great video! Love it when wired uk put one up. Also my first time seeing James after listening to him for years on the podcast, not at all what I imagined you looked like mate 😂
Thank you for being the dedicated, thoughtful, and compassionate doctor that you are, you are more honest than I imagined, thank you so much Dr Igudia RU-vid channel for curing my type 2 diabetes, you are amazing
i was on metformin and i felt good results in 2 days but the third day i was getting stabbing pain in my lower stomach. it felt like electricity shooting up towards my throat and heart. i was so scared i dropped that pill very fast ! i also felt stabbing pain in my left side that had to be my pancreas . you really have to do your homework with taking medication .
I've been taking metformin for over 25 years for type 2 diabetes, 2X1000mg, daily with no side effects. I believe the average male life span in America is 78, with diabetics having a shorter average life span....so, maybe metformin for me has already helped my longevity?
Some people cannot tolerate metformin. I could not function. Had to just sit around or sleep. Too much fatigue. After a year I gave up. Feel fine without it. Dr claimed not possible. But I have read about others on internet.
I saw a YT video about the toxicity of Metformin. I think it was a 60 Minutes segment, but not sure? After years & years of taking it, I felt like I was indeed being poisoned by it. I stopped taking it for a couple of years. Now I’m back on it. Idk if it has anti-aging benefits, but I take it to help control my Type 2 diabetes. If there are bonus effects to taking it “Great!”, if not, than so be it. To be honest, I don’t really feel any better/younger while taking it, but maybe it works on a more cellular level to help slow the aging process, idk? I have heard of doctors prescribing it to those with Syndrome X. HBP, high cholesterol, & borderline diabetes. They say it can help prevent full blown diabetes if taken early along with diet modification. I’ve also heard that women with fertility issues have taken it to help them conceive a child. I think it helps with fertility when the woman has PCOS which are small cysts on the ovaries. Insulin signaling along with other hormones, plays a very important role in the ability to conceive. Best wishes to all those facing these auto immune conditions, that can be so detrimental to one’s overall health!🙏”Health is your wealth!” as they say.
I almost bought Metformin but became aware about the side effects as problems with gaining muscle and better cardio when you work out…???So I am still concidering….
So bummed. I've read David Sinclair's book and a bunch of other literature on anti-aging and Metformin, but becuase I'm currently healthy, and not pre-diabetic, I can't get a prescription for Metformin to try this. Wanted to try a low dose, ~500mg, on off days. Very frustrated with the medical establishment.
@@blacdiamond2334 the uk isnt like the US where you can just ask for a drug because you want it. You have to meet specific criteria or you cant have them
I would recommend going to a private GP and asking for an off label prescription, bring some research papers and say why you want it. Alternatively go to mexico where you can buy your years supply over the counter.
My GP is clueless on these subjects. I pay out of pocket for a functional MD who also prescribes hormones. My fasting glucose was slightly elevated. Hopefully this will put me into the “optimal” range. I’ve only been on it a week so will retest in 6 months.
Americans really need to adjust their portion sizes and slow their roll on the processed food. I’ve noticed that the less I eat and the less often I eat, the better I feel. Makes one wonder wtf they are doing to our “food”. I also notice that my overweight friends are addicted to the food. God forbid they miss a freakin meal, they act like they’re going to eat your soul.
@@RNCHFND no ...better living thru chemistry was an advertising slogan.... in many ways was supposed to be a sign of great things for a fancy new future ...but instead has actually brought in horrors as money making edges out long term safty concerns
Thats what they should focus on. Reparing dna cells everytime they break inmidiately. We would be 25 permanently. And choose when to die. We could have multiple careers and increible knowledge. We could make the world advance 1000 years in 10 years with all our knowledge combined. We could make the world a better place and go on a mission to bring the best of humanity to space and other habitable planets.
Metformin is not proven by anyone to slow down aging! It's just an assumption so far. Метформин - для замедления старения не доказано ни кем! Это пока всего лишь предположение.
This is to make it more expensive, and not attainable for people who actually need Metformin, like the drug Ozempic that is now the new weight loss drug Being used by celebrities and influencers and it's now out of stock
There is one thing that bothers me: the only ways to be healthy in the old age are also ways which cause the longer life. I don't want no bloody longer life! I'm so old already! I want to be healthy, yes. But what would I do with another 20, 30, 40 (if people can become 120) years? What's the point of that?
Ok, clearly you hate life and you don't have to have this if you don't want. But that's not a reason to prevent other people from having it who love life.
One can't simply die from natural causes while at the same time being "healthy". Also what is the point in becoming 10,20,30,40? what is the point of it all ? and why does the average lifespan of around 80 years sounds so appealing to you?
And why should we take that into consideration when assessing our chances of living longer? If you don't to live longer, by all means don't! Euthanasia is a thing. To each their own mate.
@@Ahmad-ww4ue There's obviously no reason for you to do that as long as these treatments are not one-shot irreversible alterations - and it doesn't look like they will be. If anything, the people who this could be addressed to would be the scientists in the field. It's obviously illusory that they will take this into consideration or that there's even a viable research path to what I'm proposing, but the alternative I would - personally - like would be to stay physically and mentally, say, 20-30 until the end of a normal lifespan. "Euthanasia" doesn't exactly help with that and is a facetious supposition in the first place, because suicide is a far more onerous option than letting life run its course. It does sound good as a theoretical argument on paper though, which tells me that you are probably in your late teens or early 20s.
People look at it bad but to live longer is not bad it open new door think if all the innocent people wrongly convicted of jail time that they didn’t do imagine you do time and come him and don’t even miss a beat or your youth and have a extra 100 years to live
" When you're 60 you get your first chronic disease you get your Diabetes " What rubbish! I got Diabetes before I turned 40. Some are born Diabetic & have Type 1 Diabetes and some develop Type 2 Diabetes like I did through Obesity and/or Genetics. My Father & His Mother both had Type 2. So maybe there's further generations going back that had it. It's ridiculous for any medical professional or medical scientist to make such a incorrect misleading statement. This gentleman needs to get his facts straight.
That doesnt make sense. Metformin needs to be eaten and metabolised through the liver. Thats like saying instead of drinking water go and sit in a steam bath for hydration.
@@MegaPoliyo Oh ok I understand better now, I made a assumption that metformin could seep into the bloodstream if it was released topically throughout the entire body as a gas.
My 4-month trial of Metformin (1.5g) proved me right: For all the wonderful health and longevity-enhancing benefits, I' experienced a 36% drop in total testosterone since starting which I knew about and several studies have shown.. I was already low normal (high 400s) which was not optimal, now am at 318 which is basically hypogonadal. Have been contemplating TRT for years but was concerned mainly over issues with moderate hypertension, and past blood clots. This seems like it will push me over the edge to have embark on TRT.
To be honest, high 400s is not great to begin with. Do you exercise? More specifically, are you performing compound lifts with reasonable weight? How’s your diet? I’ll read more info on meteor in affecting test, but I think you are right that TRT would benefit you heavily. No brainer if you ask me if your natty levels are sub 500 and you are over 35
Fighting against old age and therefore against death must be the primary task of modern science We must demand a total mobilization of humanity for the extension of life in good health. Declare biology a priority science and train biologists massively. Build laboratories to declare war on death.
Robert Stancliff, SR I've been taking metformin for over 25 years for type 2 diabetes, 2X1000mg daily, with no side effects. I believe the average male life span in America is 78, my current age, with diabetics having a shorter average life span....so, maybe metformin for me has already helped my longevity? I believe metformin is one of the safest and most useful drugs ever invented......
@@trijit96 No, but I do at least 30 pushups daily. Often 60 in two sets of 30. Helps keep my arms from looking flabby......getting strength and energy like young people isn't going to happen. I'm busy most of the time and feel good, but, yes I have chronic back problems that I take an occasional meloxicam to help relieve. I do feel certain 25 years of metformin has not harmed me in any way, in fact it has helped me eat more of what I like and still maintain a normal for a non-diabetic A1C......
Thankfully mine have not been recalled. Been taking metformin for 25 years for type 2 diabetes and I'm 78 now. I"m.hoping it proves to be an anti-aging drug.. also......
@@robertstancliffsr9575 lots of people with t2dm have been on metformin for years and years. I am 75 and has been on 2 grams since 1987. They could use people like you and me in a study. They would have lots of subjects vs those people who never took it. There is no need to start a study from ground zero.
@@robertstancliffsr9575 if it turns out this drug is anti aging, there will be a run on metformin and people like you and me won't be able to get it and we need it. so I don't really care if people think it is fake and phony and that drug companies want to make money.
Medical model. Biochemistry only. Lifestyle factors, such as individual & social stress do not exist in humans? Used to work in medical (physiology) research. Then I moved to social work. Humans are not laboratory rats.
Social stress & lifestyle factors are literally biochemistry buddy. Everything is. And laboratory rats expierence more stress & trauma than most humans.
the drug is so cheap, been around 60+ years. the drug companies won't make any money. That's the problem. Any thing that works people believe has to cost lots of money. People take all kinds of vitamins and not has ever proven anything about them. Read the vitamin bottles.
I didn't know research was "hype". At what point was it said in this video that they have the cure. They have a hypothesis, as in a scientific question to be answered.
The earth is round was utter nonsense at one time also. We all agree it's not flat. Let these people test it. Right now millions of t2DM are taking it for many years. People are spending billion$$ on vitamins today, where is the proof they work?
