Metformin – P.S. You Should Know…

Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don’t Have To

July 17, 2020

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.” – Joseph Heller, Catch 22 What if we treated aging as a disease? Already you can imagine the controversy. It would feel wrong to call granny sick just because […]

under the microscope

Metformin promises to extend life for a nickel a pill.

August 13, 2017

Nir Barzilai runs the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He’s on a mission to get the FDA to classify aging as a disease. Then, he expects research to demonstrate that Metformin (and similar interventions) […]