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But metformin's anti-aging effects were yet to be tested in primates, so biologist Yuanhan Yang and colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences spent 40 months studying the effects of metformin on crab-eating macaques and three middle-aged male monkeys were also tracked to specifically account for age effects.
But most importantly, the study found that metformin does indeed delay brain aging, and provides neuroprotection in elderly monkeys,"rescuing" their frontal lobe by an average of nearly six years.onclusive evidence of functional rejuvenation is sparse, and a full understanding of its side effects in humans remains elusive," the authors
Experts from the United States were impressed at the rigor of this experiment, which molecular geneticist Alex Soukas from Massachusetts General Hospital described topointed out
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