[Pining_4_TX]

I will keep saying it. It has not been proven that drugs for type 2 diabetes materially affect the course of the disease. They may, but the studies have not shown that to be the case. The studies that are done just show the drugs lower blood glucose values. That may be like curing a cough when what you have is pneumonia.

[Pining_4_TX]

FYI

[swamprebel]

Ping for later scrutiny

[FatherofFive]

I believe type 2 diabetes is completely curable and completely preventable.

The Type 2 Diabetes Breakthrough. Go here to see Dr. Frank Shallenberger’s website with a discussion of this and other books he wrote.

http://www.realcuresletter.com/products.aspx

[Grunthor]

Wife is on glyburide and metformin. Will be starting insulin next week. Hoping the insulin is only needed during the rest of her pregnancy.

[PetroniusMaximus]

ping

[Minn]

It seems past time for type 1 and type 2 diabetes to have completely different names. They are completely different diseases.

One is likely an auto-immune deficiency that strikes one in 300 people out of the blue and is forever. The other seems to be, in most cases, the result a lifetime of too many carbs and too little motion, leading to insulin resistance.

They don't even seem to have a lack of insulin in common, since insulin resistance, not a lack of insulin, seems to be the major issue with type 2.

The causes, the conditions themselves, and the treatment options have nothing in common. I wonder why they continue to share a name, leading to bad headlines like this one.

[quintr]

later

[Gene Eric]

bttt - thanks for posting!