I have type 2 diabetes, and last summer my doctor convinced me to try Trulicity, which is another manufacturers drug that works on the same principle as Ozempic.
Basically, they are antabuse for fat people. They make you sick to your stomach when you eat too much.
They do lower your average blood sugar a little, but at the price of being up at 3am with ‘nausea’ (and all the gross accompaniments of nausea).
After being up for five consecutive nights a few weeks ago, I decided that I would rather just try to eat a little more salad, a little fewer carbs, and get my 10,000 steps of walking in.
The fact that the FDA approved a drug that works by making you not want to eat because you’re sick all the time gives me even less confidence in them than I already have.
Excess iron causes diabetes. If people have more iron than they need, removing it makes it easier to process sugar.
Blood letting in high-ferritin type 2 diabetes
https://diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/article/51/4/1000/34602/Blood-Letting-in-High-Ferritin-Type-2-Diabetes
If a person’s blood ferritin is less than 70 ng/ml, the person has an iron deficiency.