#25: Metformin For Long Covid

LongCovidMD.substack.com LongCovidMD.com In this episode of The Medicine Cabinet series, I explain how Metformin, a drug we often associate with diabetes, helps acute covid and may help Long Covid. Metformin is an old, relatively inexpensive medication that has many established off-label uses. I explain its mechanisms of action, who it might be right for, and I discuss the recently published COVID OUT research findings that supported metformin's use in acute infection. It reduces hospitaliz...