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Could significantly increase life expectancy and health span.
20 years ago aging was a biological mystery.
Mice given metformin lived almost 40 per cent longer.
Targeting Aging with Metformin (TAME) trial scheduled for next winter with 3,000 70 to 80 years olds.
If you target an aging process and you slow down aging then you slow down all the diseases and pathology of aging as well – Professor Gordon Lithgow.