Drugs For Treating Diabetes Are Not Total Miracles Or Are They?
We tend to think that drugs or medications are the answer to our prayers.
That there is a medication to fix our every health issue and the health issue will disappear, just like magic...
we don't necessarily need to change anything in our life, just "pop the pill".
For people with Type 2 diabetes, it's easy to believe that once on medication, that will take care of the high blood sugar levels and that's the end of the problem...
the Type 2 diabetes will be gone.
Let's stop and have a look at this...
is this true or isn't it? In the case of Type 2 diabetes, there's an increased risk of cancer of the breast, colon, endometrium and bladder.
Did you know that just by having diabetes you are placing yourself at risk for developing cancer? Researchers at the Outpatient Clinic of Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism, Second Department of Internal Medicine at Democritus University of Thrace in Greece reviewed population studies and found that in general, the use of metformin in Type 2 diabetics was associated with a significant reduction of neoplasias (growths and tumors), and cancer of the breast and prostate.
Metformin (brand name Glucophage) works by:
Here's a list of them below.
Remember that a drug is a drug and a drug will never heal the body.
Side Effects of Metformin:
Metformin should be taken with food because of the irritation to the stomach and intestines.
While metformin is relatively new to the US market, a similar product called phenformin was banned in the United States because if caused a fatal complication called lactic acidosis...
a condition where the blood becomes very acidic.
Consequently the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was reluctant to okay metformin until clinic studies proved it to be safe, even though it had been used in Europe with no problems.
It is interesting to note, in a July 2009 study published in Critical Care Medicine, people given an experimental overdose of metformin suffered no negative consequences.
That there is a medication to fix our every health issue and the health issue will disappear, just like magic...
we don't necessarily need to change anything in our life, just "pop the pill".
For people with Type 2 diabetes, it's easy to believe that once on medication, that will take care of the high blood sugar levels and that's the end of the problem...
the Type 2 diabetes will be gone.
Let's stop and have a look at this...
is this true or isn't it? In the case of Type 2 diabetes, there's an increased risk of cancer of the breast, colon, endometrium and bladder.
Did you know that just by having diabetes you are placing yourself at risk for developing cancer? Researchers at the Outpatient Clinic of Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism, Second Department of Internal Medicine at Democritus University of Thrace in Greece reviewed population studies and found that in general, the use of metformin in Type 2 diabetics was associated with a significant reduction of neoplasias (growths and tumors), and cancer of the breast and prostate.
Metformin (brand name Glucophage) works by:
- reducing your body's high levels of insulin.
High levels of insulin cause a cascade of reactions to occur in the body that are not physiologically or biochemically advantageous - reducing blood sugar levels by reducing the production of glucose from the liver, where it is held in a storage form called glycogen
- because it does not depend on stimulating insulin to work, metformin does not lower the blood sugar level to hypoglycemic levels, only to normal
- activating a certain type of protein kinase which inhibits protein synthesis and growth.
Here's a list of them below.
Remember that a drug is a drug and a drug will never heal the body.
Side Effects of Metformin:
- diarrhea (53%)
- nausea or vomiting (25%)
- gas (12%)
- weakness (9%)i
- indigestion (7%)
- stomach discomfort (6%)
- headache (6%)
Metformin should be taken with food because of the irritation to the stomach and intestines.
While metformin is relatively new to the US market, a similar product called phenformin was banned in the United States because if caused a fatal complication called lactic acidosis...
a condition where the blood becomes very acidic.
Consequently the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was reluctant to okay metformin until clinic studies proved it to be safe, even though it had been used in Europe with no problems.
It is interesting to note, in a July 2009 study published in Critical Care Medicine, people given an experimental overdose of metformin suffered no negative consequences.
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