Posted on 09/17/2006 6:57:42 PM PDT by neverdem
Type II diabetes is mainly hereditary only because you learn to eat and exercise like your family....
I trust manufacturers much more than any interest group. That's because when the drug fails due to their having not informed folks they can be sued. Interest groups can't.
Since everybody using metaformin is NOT under the control of diet and exercise alone, the probability of having those other problems is very high.
The dose of metaformin in the combined drug is far less than the dose in a prescription for metaformin alone too.
My total cholesterol has been 110 - 115 for the past 10 years.
Maybe that explains my brain stalls!
Remember the Ice Man discovered near the glacier at the Austrian and Italian borders? Every Spring he went up the mountains to take the herds to higher meadows. He lived there all summer eating a low glycemic diet with plenty of fatty meat.
In the Fall and Winter he returned to the villages in the valleys where he became ill eating their high carbohydrate diet.
Same thing with Type IIs. Your food is killing us.
Are you referring to the 'Eat right for your Blood Type' theory?
Are you referring to this?
That heart failure is treatable. It's from fluid overload. If the patient is symptomatic with shortness of breath, that's congestive heart failure from excess fluid in the lungs. Stop the drug and diurese the patient. Avandia is one of a number of oral agents for type 2 diabetics. All of them can have adverse effects. Most patients want to max out on oral therapy before they are forced to take insulin injections.
All of the patients in the study were treatable in the study, IIRC. I believe there was at least one study of metformin to prevent diabetes in folks with impaired fasting glucose or abnormal glucose tolerance tests. IIRC, it also worked. As I said before on this thread, I would go for diet and exercise before any drugs.
No.
Yes, diet and exercise first. And, if you have any liver disease, even an undiagnosed liver disease, you should avoid avandia until you have been thoroughly checked.
Okay, thanks. Your comments reminded me of that book. It was interesting but I'm not yet convinced that it's a reliable theory.
IT IS NOT CINNAMON --it's something else that tastes remarkably similar to cinnamon and is really cheap.
The metabolic effect of cinnamon DOES exist as described above, but ONLY for REAL cinnamon.
Crazy, huh? It's TRUE.
Funny thing is there's no law against selling this other crap as "cinnamon" --they can legally put that on the label, even though it's a huge lie.
One rolls up as a scroll (both sides) and the other as a simple tube --consistently.
I don't remember which is which.
My latest cholesterol test was 120. That's a real figure. Cinnamon is cheap & tastes good so what the hell.
And effective.
From: http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/8513/31402/346470.html?d=dmtContent
Since the 1970s, there have been reports that red yeast lowers cholesterol and triglyceride levels, helping atherosclerosis or congenital heart disease. In March 2001, a U.S. District Court ruled that the red yeast rice extract product Cholestin contained the same chemical as the prescription cholesterol-lowering drug lovastatin (Mevacor) and therefore could not be sold without a prescription. This product is no longer available in the United States, but other products containing red yeast rice extract can still be purchased, mostly on the Internet.
According to the manufacturer’s website (accessed August, 2001), new and improved Cholestin contains policosanol, a natural product from the wax of honey bees. It no longer contains any red yeast. Policosanols are potent inhibitors of cholesterol synthesis and have been well-studied in clinical trials in Cuba and South America. As of June 14, 2005, the manufacturer's website says that Cholestin recently has been reformulated with a unique proprietary blend of ingredients, including Lipidol.
Last time I did this was 2 days ago.
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