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Not into reading or history huh ?
What about the PERMANENT! ORGASM! ?
It's that feeling of burn and smoke and flaming flesh after hours of GATLING! CLEANSING! EVERY SECOND OF EVERY DAY!
I guess you mean the history of Big Pharma browbeating doctors to dose the public with as many chronic meds as possible under color of controlling test results. Instead of narrow results, promise everything under the sun and the kitchen sink
Nir Barzilai has a plan. It’s a really big plan that might one day change medicine and health care as we know it. Its promise: extending our years of healthy, disease-free living by decades.
The drug in question, metformin, costs about five cents a pill. It’s a slightly modified version of a compound that was discovered in a plant, Galega officinalis.
Will it work for the morbidly obese and their triple cheeseburger, super sized large fries, side order of McNuggets and 32 ounce soda pre-dinner snack crowd?
What about the PERMANENT! ORGASM! ?
Where's the pill for that?
PCP and Viagra compounded with caffeine.
FUCK YOURSELF TO DEATH!
Viagra comes pretty close - while it doesn't give you directly an orgasm it allows you to extend your staying power from 1-3 romps in a day to easily 10+ if you can find a hot woman down with it and fit enough. And it is just being explored for many other benefits, cardiovascular, anti-cancer etc. I'd say it's one of the most important discoveries since Aspirin. Finally a drug that just works.
Kakistocracy saysNir Barzilai has a plan. It’s a really big plan that might one day change medicine and health care as we know it. Its promise: extending our years of healthy, disease-free living by decades.
The drug in question, metformin, costs about five cents a pill. It’s a slightly modified version of a compound that was discovered in a plant, Galega officinalis.
Will it work for the morbidly obese and their triple cheeseburger, super sized large fries, side order of McNuggets and 32 ounce soda pre-dinner snack crowd?
The drug in question, metformin, costs about five cents a pill. It’s a slightly modified version of a compound that was discovered in a plant, Galega officinalis. The plant, also known as French lilac and goat’s rue, is hardly the stuff of cutting-edge science. Physicians have been prescribing it as an herbal remedy for centuries. In 1640, the great English herbalist John Parkinson wrote about goat’s rue in his life’s work, Theatrum Botanicum, recommending it for “the bitings or stings of any venomous creature,” “the plague,” “measells,” “small pocks,” and “wormes in children,” among other conditions.
According to some sources, goat’s rue was also a centuries-old remedy for frequent urination, now known to be a telltale sign of diabetes. Today, metformin, which helps keep blood sugar levels in check without serious side effects, is typically the first-choice treatment for type 2 diabetics, and it’s sometimes prescribed for prediabetes as well. Together, the two conditions afflict half of American adults. In 2014 alone, Americans filled 76.9 million prescriptions for metformin, and some of those prescriptions went to Barzilai himself. (He’s been taking the drug since he was diagnosed with prediabetes around six years ago.)
More: https://www.wired.com/story/this-pill-promises-to-extend-life-for-a-nickel-a-pop/
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