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This Pill Promises to Extend Life for a Nickel a Dose. Also Treats Cancer, Diabetes Types 1 & 2, Cardiovascular & More


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2019 Mar 30, 10:09am   1,067 views  16 comments

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Nir Barzilai has a plan. It’s a really big plan that might one day change medicine and health care as we know it. Its promise: extending our years of healthy, disease-free living by decades.

The drug in question, metformin, costs about five cents a pill. It’s a slightly modified version of a compound that was discovered in a plant, Galega officinalis. The plant, also known as French lilac and goat’s rue, is hardly the stuff of cutting-edge science. Physicians have been prescribing it as an herbal remedy for centuries. In 1640, the great English herbalist John Parkinson wrote about goat’s rue in his life’s work, Theatrum Botanicum, recommending it for “the bitings or stings of any venomous creature,” “the plague,” “measells,” “small pocks,” and “wormes in children,” among other conditions.

According to some sources, goat’s rue was also a centuries-old remedy for frequent urination, now known to be a telltale sign of diabetes. Today, metformin, which helps keep blood sugar levels in check without serious side effects, is typically the first-choice treatment for type 2 diabetics, and it’s sometimes prescribed for prediabetes as well. Together, the two conditions afflict half of American adults. In 2014 alone, Americans filled 76.9 million prescriptions for metformin, and some of those prescriptions went to Barzilai himself. (He’s been taking the drug since he was diagnosed with prediabetes around six years ago.)

More: https://www.wired.com/story/this-pill-promises-to-extend-life-for-a-nickel-a-pop/

#Science #Medicine #Metformin #Diabetes #Cancer #Aging

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1   anonymous   2019 Mar 30, 10:12am  

60 years of metformin use: a glance at the past and a look to the future

https://link.springer.com/journal/125/60/9/page/1

Full PDF: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00125-017-4342-z.pdf
2   Ceffer   2019 Mar 30, 10:21am  

The universal salve for all major ills. Is it Oprah approved? Fuck the FDA, the Oprah Empire seal of approval is what matters.
3   Ceffer   2019 Mar 30, 10:46am  

Kakistocracy says
Not into reading or history huh ?

I guess you mean the history of Big Pharma browbeating doctors to dose the public with as many chronic meds as possible under color of controlling test results. Instead of narrow results, promise everything under the sun and the kitchen sink. Glad you're onboard, own stock?
4   tovarichpeter   2019 Mar 30, 11:49am  

Check out SENS
The Society to Engineer Negligable Senscence


https://www.sens.org/about-us/
5   Ceffer   2019 Mar 30, 12:39pm  

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says
What about the PERMANENT! ORGASM! ?


It's that feeling of burn and smoke and screams from being behind the Gatling, ALL THE TIME!
6   Ceffer   2019 Mar 30, 12:46pm  

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says
It's that feeling of burn and smoke and flaming flesh after hours of GATLING! CLEANSING! EVERY SECOND OF EVERY DAY!

And the cheers arising from the ESPN Live Feed!
7   anonymous   2019 Mar 30, 12:58pm  

Ceffer says
Glad you're onboard, own stock?


Filling in for the respondent from Jersey ?
8   anonymous   2019 Mar 30, 12:59pm  

Ceffer says
I guess you mean the history of Big Pharma browbeating doctors to dose the public with as many chronic meds as possible under color of controlling test results. Instead of narrow results, promise everything under the sun and the kitchen sink


Not sure what the rantet is about. This plant has been used for hundreds of years and has been effective at treating everything listed.

Nothing about big pharma in anything I posted above - just scientific technical stuff about how the stuff works and why.
9   komputodo   2019 Mar 30, 1:06pm  

Kakistocracy says
Nir Barzilai has a plan. It’s a really big plan that might one day change medicine and health care as we know it. Its promise: extending our years of healthy, disease-free living by decades.

The drug in question, metformin, costs about five cents a pill. It’s a slightly modified version of a compound that was discovered in a plant, Galega officinalis.


Will it work for the morbidly obese and their triple cheeseburger, super sized large fries, side order of McNuggets and 32 ounce soda pre-dinner snack crowd?
10   Ceffer   2019 Mar 30, 2:56pm  

A grant fishing scientist promoting longevity and medical panacea based on some data mining. He wants over 69 million to study wishful thinking? Glad there's no secondary gain involved.

Maybe he should just have invented a new diet to advertise in the back of Cosmopolitan magazine.
11   Booger   2019 Mar 30, 4:24pm  

komputodo says
Will it work for the morbidly obese and their triple cheeseburger, super sized large fries, side order of McNuggets and 32 ounce soda pre-dinner snack crowd?


According to reviews on Amazon, no. Now if your blood sugar is a little high, it might.
12   mell   2019 Mar 30, 6:14pm  

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says
What about the PERMANENT! ORGASM! ?

Where's the pill for that?


Viagra comes pretty close - while it doesn't give you directly an orgasm it allows you to extend your staying power from 1-3 romps in a day to easily 10+ if you can find a hot woman down with it and fit enough. And it is just being explored for many other benefits, cardiovascular, anti-cancer etc. I'd say it's one of the most important discoveries since Aspirin. Finally a drug that just works.
13   Ceffer   2019 Mar 30, 6:47pm  

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says
PCP and Viagra compounded with caffeine.

FUCK YOURSELF TO DEATH!


You could do it in the back yard and trench your garden plot at the same time.
14   Booger   2019 Mar 30, 6:55pm  

mell says
Viagra comes pretty close - while it doesn't give you directly an orgasm it allows you to extend your staying power from 1-3 romps in a day to easily 10+ if you can find a hot woman down with it and fit enough. And it is just being explored for many other benefits, cardiovascular, anti-cancer etc. I'd say it's one of the most important discoveries since Aspirin. Finally a drug that just works.


And you know this because???
15   kt1652   2019 Mar 30, 8:23pm  

"...staying power from 1-3 romps in a day to easily 10+ if you can find a hot woman down with it and fit enough..."
10+ a day with the SAME woman, after a few days... it is hell.
16   kt1652   2019 Mar 30, 8:35pm  

komputodo says
Kakistocracy says
Nir Barzilai has a plan. It’s a really big plan that might one day change medicine and health care as we know it. Its promise: extending our years of healthy, disease-free living by decades.

The drug in question, metformin, costs about five cents a pill. It’s a slightly modified version of a compound that was discovered in a plant, Galega officinalis.


Will it work for the morbidly obese and their triple cheeseburger, super sized large fries, side order of McNuggets and 32 ounce soda pre-dinner snack crowd?

A cure will always be 5 years away. It is not in the business plan for big pharma.
I rest my case, " The average yearly cost of insulin for people with type 1 diabetes, who do not make their own insulin and thus must take it to survive, doubled between 2012 and 2016, from $2,864 to $5,705, according to Health Care Cost Institute."

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