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#123 – Joan Mannick, M.D. & Nir Barzilai, M.D.: Rapamycin and metformin—longevity, immune enhancement, and COVID-19
“I think what the mTOR inhibitors are doing is not stopping people from getting infected [with a virus], but if you get infected, there’s a better immune response and your symptoms will be milder.” — Joan Mannick
#270 ‒ Journal club with Andrew Huberman: metformin as a geroprotective drug, the power of belief, and how to read scientific papers
“This paper basically addresses how our beliefs about the drugs we take impacts how they affect us at a real level, not just at a subjective level, but at a biological level.” —Andrew Huberman
#204 – Centenarians, metformin, and longevity | Nir Barzilai, M.D.
“If you prevent aging and age-related disease, you’re going to compress morbidity, too.” — Nir Barzilai
#246 – AMA #45: Pros and cons of GLP-1 weight loss drugs and metformin as a geroprotective agent
“The thing that concerns me the most with these drugs. . .is this drive towards sarcopenia.” —Peter Attia
#207 – AMA #35: “Anti-Aging” Drugs — NAD+, metformin, & rapamycin
“It’s really hard to know, in my view, how important sirtuins are as longevity factors…If we accept that, then it’s difficult to know [the importance of] activation of sirtuins by NAD as a longevity mechanism.” —Matt Kaeberlein
#35 – Nir Barzilai, M.D.: How to tame aging
“I think the prevention of aging is really a good place to be. . .and I think life is going to be very different in the next decade with our advances.” —Nir Barzilai
#279 – AMA #53: Metabolic health & pharmacologic interventions: SGLT-2 inhibitors, metformin, GLP-1 agonists, and the impact of statins
“It is worth noting, and this is a very important question, that it does not appear that the effect of statins on insulin resistance is a function of lipids being lowered.” —Peter Attia
Metformin and exercise – déjà vu all over again?
Metformin blunts muscle hypertrophy in response to progressive resistance training
#31 – Navdeep Chandel, Ph.D.: metabolism, mitochondria, and metformin in health and disease
“I pay more attention today to stress than anything else.” —Nav Chandel
A recent metformin study casts doubts on longevity indications
A new retrospective study contradicts previous evidence of metformin’s potential effects on lifespan extension in a general population, but for real answers, randomized trials are needed.