Hi, as you probably know, metformin aids weight loss by reducing your natural instinct of hunger, so you eat less. So it is really down to you to loose the weight by eating healthily which it sounds that you are. Recent Examples on the Web. The major players are rapamycin, metformin, resveratrol and hydroxycitrate. — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, Not So Fast, 24 Sep. 2018 The cost of common drugs like the generic version of the cholesterol drug Zocor, or the diabetes drug metformin, differ significantly from coast to coast. Metformin is a type of medication used to treat Type 2 Diabetes. Because there is a strong link between diabetes and PCOS, metformin is now commonly proscribed to treat PCOS. Since metformin does not increase the amount of insulin produced by the body, it is less likely to cause dangerously low blood sugar (hypoglycemia), as many other diabetes medications can do. Metformin may be one of the cheapest and most underused weight loss medications out there. Metformin is traditionally reserved for those with diabetes or insulin resistance, but many studies show that it can be effective in overweight or obese patients without diabetes. I feel that though metformin reduces sugar leel, it does not cure it it all or even help the body resist it. When I first found out I had pre-diabetes my sugar was 140 after food. Metformin side effects, use for diabetes treatment, dosage November 19 2018 by Ray Sahelian, M.D. Metformin is a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus. Free E-newsletter Subscribe to Housecall. Our general interest e-newsletter keeps you up to date on a wide variety of health topics. Sign up now Metformin is primarily used to treat type 2 diabetes, but recently it's being used to treat type 1. We explore to what extent type 1 and type 2 crossover. As many of my readers know, there is no requirement that the companies that sell pharmaceutical drugs provide an accurate explanation of what it is that their drugs do or of how they do it.