[HN Gopher] Forget the Blood of Teens. Metformin Promises to Ext...
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       Forget the Blood of Teens. Metformin Promises to Extend Life for a
       Nickel (2017)
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2024-01-06 19:37 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | toomuchtodo wrote:
       | Check with your doctor with regards to consuming Metformin if
       | you're attempting to conceive or are going to cryopreserve semen.
       | Also consider a semen analysis to get diagnostic confirmation of
       | sperm quality if on the drug.
       | 
       | https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/03/birth-defects...
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       | https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-4389
        
         | joshxyz wrote:
         | uhm.. so it extends my lifetime at the cost of my lineage? lol
        
       | prepend wrote:
       | I've been taking metformin for life extension for about 5-10
       | years. It's dead cheap ranging from free at some pharmacies to
       | like $5 for six months. And I haven't had any discernible side
       | effects.
       | 
       | What's funny though is that my insurance and some health systems
       | now think I have diabetes and are sending me mailers and calls
       | for diabetes interventions. So I guess their CDS is pretty simple
       | and just looks for rxnorm metforming scripts for "undiagnosed"
       | diabetes. I don't have diabetes and don't have any of the
       | clinical markers that would indicate diabetes or prediabetes.
       | 
       | Just a fun fact.
        
         | stevenwoo wrote:
         | This seems to require a prescription in the USA so may I assume
         | you are not in the USA?
        
       | i8comments wrote:
       | Metformin is a pretty nasty drug with some serious side effects
       | on healthy people that is not proven to extend lifespan or
       | healthspan in healthy people, and in fact makes you weak when
       | taking it.
       | 
       | In fact, in 2024, it can be said it failed to live up to its
       | hype.
       | 
       | Only take it if you have diabetes.
        
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