Posted: 03 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT
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study by Belgian doctoral researcher Wouter De Haes (KU Leuven) and
colleagues provides new evidence that metformin, the world's most widely
used anti-diabetic drug, slows ageing and increases lifespan. In
experiments reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences, the researchers tease out the mechanism behind metformin's
age-slowing effects: the drug causes an increase in the number of toxic
oxygen molecules released in the cell and this, surprisingly, increases
cell robustness and longevity in the long term.
