This "anti-ageing drug" is actually just Metformin, an old drug commonly used to not help those suffering from type-2 diabetes. Some people like it, some people hate it.<p>> Scientists think the best candidate for an anti-ageing drug is metformin, the world’s most widely used diabetes drug which costs just 10p a day. Metformin increases the number of oxygen molecules released into a cell, which appears to boost robustness and longevity.<p>Metformin actually inhibits cellular respiration by poisoning the mitochondria. The saturated fatty acid palmitate is an antidote for the effects of Metformin [1].<p>[1] <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005272812000552" rel="nofollow">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005272812...</a>