YOUTH NOW

The Safe, Boring, and Extremely Cheap Drug That Could Cure Aging

Forget Silicon Valley biotech wonderdrugs. Leading gerontologists are making a historic bet on metformin.

Lissa Harris
Elemental
Published in
12 min readSep 5, 2018

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Art: Scott Gelber

OOld age is, we know, a gauntlet of chronic illness that almost no one gets through without some deep unpleasantness. Most people who reach…

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Lissa Harris
Elemental

Writer. Alt-weekly alum. Recovering local-news startup founder. MIT Science Writing ’08. Rural Catskillian, swordfighter, sci-fi enthusiast, queer royalty.