Medications
Evidence-based medication profiles covering pharmacology, mechanism of action, clinical trial outcomes, drug interactions, contraindications, and graded research references. Informational content only, never medical advice.
alpha glucosidase inhibitors
Acarbose
Acarbose acts less like a drug than like a partial subtraction of dietary starch. It blocks the i...
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Aspirin
A single low dose of aspirin permanently disables an enzyme inside every platelet it meets, and p...
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Dapagliflozin
Dapagliflozin is an SGLT2 inhibitor taken once daily that makes the kidneys spill sugar into the...
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Dasatinib
Dasatinib began as a leukemia drug, engineered to jam a rogue enzyme roughly 325 times more poten...
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Empagliflozin
Empagliflozin is an SGLT2 inhibitor that lowers blood sugar by flushing it into urine, but its bi...
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Metformin
Metformin is the most prescribed diabetes drug in the world and one of the most studied molecules...
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Rapamycin / Sirolimus
Rapamycin, found in Easter Island soil bacteria, sits on the switch that tells a cell whether to...
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Semaglutide
Semaglutide imitates a gut hormone the body releases after every meal, except it keeps the signal...
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