NEW YORK, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Medical science continues to develop new and innovative ways to boost health and well-being, but a relatively old drug -- metformin -- may hold the key to human longevity and preventing life-threatening illness, experts told UPI.
Used to treat Type 2 diabetes since the 1950s, metformin has in recent years been touted as a preventative medication for everything from dementia and heart disease to certain types of cancer.
Although the drug has been around for decades, relatively recent research has identified those potential benefits.
This research has been spurred, at least in part, by similar benefits associated with another class of drugs for Type 2 diabetes and/or weight loss, GLP-1 receptor agonists.
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