From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 22:41:50 MDT
Brian Atkins wrote:
> How much Metformin do you take daily, and are you getting it through
> your health insurance or via other sources?
I have a huge supply of 800 mg tabs. I've forgotten where I obtained it. I
did not however obtain it through health insurance (I probably couldn't do
so even I tried as I am not diabetic). Metformin is however very cheap, as
medicines go. I split the tabs in half and take 1 or 2 half-tabs daily with
meals, depending on how glycemic my meals happen to be. I've tried taking
metformin in the absence of meals but in my case doing so tends to send my
blood sugar too low. Claims to the contrary (that metformin cannot cause
hypoglycemia) should be considered suspect, imo.
> To be clear, the news re: Metformin is that it is a very good CR
> mimic... not an AGE blocker.
Okay thanks. I have tried to find research to support this claim but
couldn't. Have you seen any? A couple of weeks ago I looked at the site of
the organization funded by LEF that makes the claim, but couldn't find
anything to substantiate it.
> There has been news recently on another
> form of AGE blocking via something called Benfotiamine:
> http://www.designinglogic.com/upload/www.aor.ca/proddetail.asp?prod_id=289
"Benfotiamine" appears to be ordinary thiamine (vitamin B-1). At least I did
not see any research on that site to suggest otherwise. I have seen in vitro
research that ordinary niacin (vitamin B-3) inhibits AGE formation as well.
-gts
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