Just lowering the numbers does not mean that one is doing anything to arrest the course of the disease! All the hypoglycemic drugs do is treat the symptom, not the disease.
If There’s No Benefit, Why Tolerate Any Risk?
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=3232247&page=1
Also, check out the book, Overdiagnosed. http://www.amazon.com/Overdiagnosed-Making-People-Pursuit-Health/dp/0807022004
My wife actually felt quite sickly in the 4 or 5 years preceding going on Glucophage. It was remarkable to watch the change in her with treatment (I know this is not typical) and she still marvels about it. I will check your link, but we would never want her to go off it!
8:37 AM EDT Jun 03, 2007 Hm; so Dr. Hadler doesn't bother treating diabetes, hypertension or hyperlipidemia. I'm sure his nephrology colleagues adore him for augmenting their dialysis practices with patients whose kidneys fail years earlier than they otherwise would. Likewise, his cardiologist friends are probably toasting his continued health, as are the vascular surgeons. I don't disagree in principle with being a "late adopter" of new therapies, but to say that "high blood sugar" does no harm marks him as foolishly antiquated.
Don't think we'll follow that doc.