Metformin is not a general-purpose anti-cancer or anti-ageing drug, and healthy people should not take it as one.

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• Exercise is the most powerful broad-based longevity intervention available today, and a drug that blunts its adaptations is not worth taking for longevity. PAPeter Attia4 Jul 2026
• A supplement or drug should be judged on well-defined benefits for well-defined problems in well-defined populations, never on a vague promise of slowing ageing. PAPeter Attia4 Jul 2026
• Encouraging people with diabetes to try ketogenic diets and minimise drugs gives the most benefit to the most people; long-term drug therapy is the bigger worry. GTGary Taubes14 Dec 2025
• Almost every consumer product needs to be optimizing for daily active use. PSPeter Sellis20 Sept 2026
• A useful thing should not be banned because it harms some people by accident I(Ibn Rushd (Averroes)c. 1126–1195

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