{"id":225343,"date":"2025-11-18T05:08:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/a-common-diabetes-drug-is-linked-to-exceptional-longevity-in-women"},"modified":"2025-11-18T05:08:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:08:47","slug":"a-common-diabetes-drug-is-linked-to-exceptional-longevity-in-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/a-common-diabetes-drug-is-linked-to-exceptional-longevity-in-women","title":{"rendered":"A Common Diabetes Drug Is Linked to \u2018Exceptional Longevity\u2019 in Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-common-diabetes-drug-is-linked-to-exceptional-longevity-in-women.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not only can the drug <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metformin\">metformin<\/a> help to effectively manage type 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/diabetes\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">diabetes<\/a>, but it may also give older women a better chance of living to the grand old age of 90, according to recent research \u2013 thanks, it seems, to a variety of anti-aging effects.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists in the US and Germany used data from a long-term US study of postmenopausal women. Records on a total of 438 people were picked out \u2013 half of whom took metformin to treat diabetes, and half who took a different <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/study-confirms-experimental-drug-breaks-record-for-weight-loss-in-clinical-trials\">diabetes drug<\/a>, called sulfonylurea.<\/p>\n<p>While there are some caveats and asterisks to the study, those in the metformin group were calculated to have a 30 percent lower risk of dying before the age of 90 than those in the sulfonylurea group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only can the drug metformin help to effectively manage type 2 diabetes, but it may also give older women a better chance of living to the grand old age of 90, according to recent research \u2013 thanks, it seems, to a variety of anti-aging effects. Scientists in the US and Germany used data from [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225343","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=225343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}