# Hormone roller coaster, also metformin

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/hormone-roller-coaster-also-metformin/1109>\
**Category:** Type 1 & LADA\
**Tags:** metformin, hormones, tdd\
**Created:** [June 1, 2017, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/hormone-roller-coaster-also-metformin/1109 "2017-06-01T00:31:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/hormone-roller-coaster-also-metformin/1109/8 "2017-08-22T19:34:00Z")

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@Jen I can vouch for the help that metformin and SGLT2 drugs can give to T1’s with insulin resistance.

And as far as metformin is concerned there are benefits of taking it that are now being discovered. I wouldn’t be surprised if people who don’t have diabetes are soon taking metformin.

> [@Metformin as an anti-aging pill?](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/metformin-as-an-anti-aging-pill/1369):
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> So, I saw this story. It’s a feature, but if you skip to the sixth paragraph you get to the nut – the idea that metformin could be an ani-aging pill for all types of people, not just those who have diabetes. What do folks think?

> [@Metformin in Type 1 Patients Slows Development of Heart Disease](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/metformin-in-type-1-patients-slows-development-of-heart-disease/276):
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> “For the first time, this study has shown metformin has additional benefit beyond improving diabetes control when given to patients with relatively well controlled type 1 diabetes. We have established the drug increases patient’s own vascular stem cells, which will help delay or slowdown heart disease.…The study showed that all the patients in the study had their insulin doses reduced after taking metformin and have not suffered any serious adverse effect…” To continue reading \>\> [http://www.dia…](http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/metformin-in-type-1-patients-slows-development-of-heart-disease/)

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