“If you read medical journals, check out the article “Oral Hypoglycemics and Diabetic Nephropathy” by Nortin Hadler in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. (3: 159-162, 2008)”
Just tried, but can’t even get the abstract, without subscription to CJASN. Could you please post the abstract or summarize?
I tend to agree with your statement: “Unfortunately, it is quite possible that just reducing blood glucose is not the answer. It doesn’t solve what is going on that causes the high numbers in the first place.”
I tend to think that high blood sugar is a symptom, and treating the symptom doesn’t cure the disease.
It has no abstract.
http://cjasn.asnjournals.org/content/vol3/issue1/
Ah, I wish I could, but I have been unable to get to it now.
If you go to abcnews.com and search for Nortin Hadler, you will come up with several articles he wrote on the subject of diabetes treatment, as well as some eye-opening articles about other health issues.
Also, he has 2 books out, the most recent being Worried Sick. I recommend it, but you have to have an open mind, because he lays out a convincing argument against much of what passes for conventional wisdom.
Freegards,
Pining