In recent years, the “miracle drug” metformin was found to have “weight loss”, “lowering sugar”, “anti-aging”, “extend life” and other magical effects, but also “immortality drug”, or let people live to 120 years old! So even by some people are called “miracle drug”, so amazing metformin ordinary people can eat? Is it really good to use it to lose weight? Today for everyone to answer. What is metformin Metformin is the world’s number one diabetes drug, metformin is the drug of choice for patients with type 2 diabetes. In the jungle of oral hypoglycemic drugs, it can be said that “there are talented people from generation to generation”, but it seems to be unable to shake the “invincible” dominance of metformin – metformin as the first-line drugs for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, recommended by almost all treatment guidelines and guidelines, it is by far the most widely used hypoglycemic drugs. Metformin extends the life expectancy of patients with type 2 diabetes even longer than non-diabetic patients. A large study that included 180,000 people found that people with type 2 diabetes who take metformin long-term may live longer on average than non-diabetics, and that metformin also has health benefits for non-diabetics. Researchers studied the survival of type 2 diabetics taking metformin and sulfonylureas and compared the life expectancy of these patients to matched non-diabetics, with all 3 groups matched on indicators such as age, gender, whether they smoked and other clinical status. The results found that diabetic patients taking metformin had significantly better quality of survival and higher life expectancy compared to non-diabetic patients, while those taking sulfonylureas had lower quality of survival and lower life expectancy. The study leader, Professor Craig Currie, said, “Metformin has anti-cancer effects, may also help protect people against cardiovascular disease, and can reduce the incidence of diabetes in people at high risk by up to 1/3.”