{"id":113377,"date":"2020-09-24T05:22:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T12:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/diabetes-drug-metformin-may-protect-aging-brains"},"modified":"2020-09-24T05:22:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T12:22:30","slug":"diabetes-drug-metformin-may-protect-aging-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/diabetes-drug-metformin-may-protect-aging-brains","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes Drug Metformin May Protect Aging Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/diabetes-drug-metformin-may-protect-aging-brains2.webm\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Sept. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) \u2014 A common <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/diabetes\/type-2-diabetes\">type 2 diabetes<\/a> drug called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/drugs\/mono-7061-METFORMIN+-+ORAL.aspx?drugid=11285&drugname=Metformin+Oral\">metformin<\/a> may have an unexpected, but positive, side effect: New research suggests that people taking the drug appear to have significantly slower declines in thinking and memory as they age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur six-year study of older Australians with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/diabetes\/rm-quiz-type-2-diabetes\">type 2 diabetes<\/a> has uncovered a link between metformin use and slower cognitive [mental] decline and lower <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/alzheimers\/types-dementia\">dementia<\/a> rates,\u201d said study author Dr. Katherine Samaras. She\u2019s the leader of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/healthy-aging\/default.htm\">healthy aging<\/a> research theme at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in New South Wales, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe findings provide new hope for a means of reducing the risk of dementia in individuals with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/diabetes\/ss\/slideshow-type-2-diabetes-overview\">type 2 diabetes<\/a>, and potentially those without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/diabetes\/default.htm\">diabetes<\/a>,\u201d Samaras said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEDNESDAY, Sept. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) \u2014 A common type 2 diabetes drug called metformin may have an unexpected, but positive, side effect: New research suggests that people taking the drug appear to have significantly slower declines in thinking and memory as they age. \u201cOur six-year study of older Australians with type 2 diabetes has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}