Medically reviewed by Femi Aremu, PharmD Foods to avoid while taking metformin include high-sugar foods, high-sodium foods, processed foods, fatty foods, and alcohol. Instead, it's best to focus ...

Metformin is a cheap, easy-to-access drug that used for diabetes, weight loss, and even anti-aging. A new study found that it also reduced the risk of developing long COVID by 40% in some patients.

Metformin, the most widely prescribed drug in the world to treat Type 2 diabetes, may have other health benefits like anti-aging effects, experts say.

LOS ANGELES — Metformin prescribed within a week of SARS-CoV-2 infection was associated with a 53% reduction in long COVID or death over 6 months in people without diabetes or prediabetes ...

Metformin is the first-line drug that can lower blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes patients. One third of patients do not respond to metformin treatment and 5 per cent experience serious side ...

Metformin helps increase energy production in cells by improving insulin sensitivity, and some believe that may be an important way in which it specifically helps prevent long COVID-19.

At a 10-month follow-up, 6.3 per cent of those who took metformin had been diagnosed with long covid, compared with 10.4 per cent on placebo, suggesting that the drug prevented 41 per cent of long ...