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This post initially appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter. To get it in your inbox every Thursday, and check out short articles like this very first, register here. The diabetes medication metformin has actually been promoted as a wonder drug. Not just does it keep diabetes in check, however it can minimize swelling, curb cancer, fend off the worst results of covid, and maybe even slow the aging procedure. No surprise it's so popular. In the United States, the variety of metformin prescriptions has actually more than doubled in less than twenty years, from 40 million in 2004 to 91 million in 2021. Worldwide, we take in more than 100 million kgs of metformin a year. That's shocking. All that metformin goes into the body. It likewise exits mostly the s...
