Diabetic Drugs Cause More Harm Than Good!

Author's Perspective: Have you ever heard of a diabetic getting better once he/she started taking metformin or some other diabetic drug? Gee, I wonder why!

What Your Doctor May Not Be Telling You

Unfortunately, most diabetics are told to take the diabetic drug metformin (Glucophage), because the drug helps to lower their blood glucose to the normal range. This gives the diabetic the false sense of security that the drug is actually helping their diabetes. 

But, the doctor fails to tell the diabetic that the drug does absolutely nothing to stop the spread of the cell and tissue damage being caused by the diabetes! In fact, over a period of years, the drug actually causes damage to the liver and/or kidneys!

If you have an adverse reaction to the drug (such as an upset stomach) your doctor will not tell you why this is happening -- instead, he/she will just put you on a different drug such as glimepiride (Amaryl) or glipizide (Glucotrol).

So, be careful, not to jump at taking this drug!  Once you start down the "path of prescription drugs", your doctor will eventually add one or two additional drugs, which is going to make it difficult for you to wean off the drugs later on.

  

Western Medicine uses various types of diabetic drugs such as metformin (Glucophage), glyburide (Micronase, DiaBeta) and glipizide (Glucotrol) to "treat" your diabetes.

So, do these drugs actually work?  It depends on your point of view. These drugs help to (artificially) lower your blood glucose level, so that it seems that the drugs are working. On the other hand, the drugs do absolutely nothing to help your body get rid of the diabetes! So, from that viewpoint, the drugs aren't working.

In fact, these drugs contribute to long-term cellular and tissue damage that leads to gastrointestinal problems, kidney failure, liver failure, and other health issues that your doctor may not mention to you. 

 

Recently, the New England Journal of Medicinepublished a study that was supposed to prove what drug strategy for diabetics works the best. The study participants took several common diabetes drugs along with varied insulin treatments (once, twice, or three times per day).  

But, the researchers were disappointed to find out that none of their strategies worked! The researchers appeared confused – unable to explain why their study didn’t work.

Let me explain why their study failed.  Using insulin in a Type 2 diabetic is a last ditch effort and should be avoided if at all possible. Insulin transports sugar out of the blood – but it must put it somewhere. All too often it forces the formation of fat, leading to weight gain and deteriorating health.  If sugar is forced into cells that don’t want it, it will damage them. In other words, insulin injections don’t fix anything.  

Apparently the only thing doctors now know how to treat is the symptoms of a disease. If you want to fix someone with Type 2 diabetes, you need to re-balance their hormones and metabolic function. That means a plant-based diet, periodic exercise, and phytonutrients that help the body use sugar properly.

And, make sure that you're aware of drugs such as Avandia, which was pulled by the FDA because the drug was causing "too many" heart attacks! 

Avandia was originally approved even though the FDA knew that it caused heart attacks but it was within an acceptable range. What is an acceptable range for heart attacks? Isn't one heart attack too many?

Big Mistake!: Many diabetics believe that they are controlling their diabetes with these drugs. But, they're not!!

The drugs are actually hiding the symptoms of the diabetes, making  diabetics think that they're "controlling" their diabetes -- creating a false sense of security! In the meantime, the diabetes is still running rampant, causing organ, tissue, and blood vessel damage that goes undetected for years!

The top-selling prescription drugs in the U.S. are the drugs for diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol -- which happen to be the three major drugs given to most Type 2 diabetics.  Coincidence? (Don't think so!)

In addition, these drugs do not stop the development of diabetic complications such as amputation, kidney failure, blindness, stroke and heart attack. In fact, several recent studies have shown that some high blood pressure and cholesterol medications can actually fuel or cause diabetes!

If you find this hard to believe, just visit any of the pharmaceutical websites or google on "diabetic drug side effects" -- do your own research.

Health Impact of Drugs
Just like any other drug, these diabetic drugs Danger!create biochemical and hormonal dependencies within your body that can lead to long-term damage to your cells and organs.

If you are taking one of these drugs, it may be difficult to believe this, because you feel fine, you do not feel any discomfort or side effects.

However, many of the side effects will not be felt for several years, maybe even longer. But, eventually the following scenario will occur:

• The drug loses its effectiveness and your blood glucose level starts to rise.
• Your doctor increases the dosage to bring your blood glucose level back to the normal range.
• If this doesn't work, your doctor adds a new drug.
• Eventually when the oral drugs lose their effectiveness to lower your blood glucose level, your doctor will put you on insulin.

I know that you're probably thinking that if you keep taking the oral drugs and watch what you eat, you won't have to go on insulin.

But, that's not true. Why? Because while you were taking the drugs, the diabetes continued to progress (silently) and cause damage to more and more cells in your body. Eventually, the damage becomes so widespread that your doctor has to either increase your dosage, add another drug, or put you on insulin.

Please Note: Doctors shouldn't take the total blame here. Truth be told, most diabetics take the drug because it's easier to take a pill than to change one's diet. So, diabetics are partially complicit in taking the drug and not pushing back on their doctor for a non-drug solution.

Food for Thought: Diabetes is disease that is rotting out your insides. So, do you really believe that a pill can stop the rotting? 

Note: Visit the Death to Diabetes website or read Chapters 3, 12, 14 and 15 of Death to Diabetes to learn how to decrease the damage caused by the long-term use of these drugs.

Warning! 
Recent studies indicate that some drugs can damage to the pancreatic beta cells or trigger insulin resistance, causing you to develop diabetes! Those drugs include steroids, some hypertensives, statins, and some antibiotics. More specifically:

Statins (e.g. Lipitor, Mevacor): These drugs do a great job at lowering your cholesterol by attacking your liver, which produces 80% of your cholesterol. As a result, statin drugs have become the top--selling prescription drug in the U.S. with more than 80 million Americans taking this drug. 

Unfortunately, while you may have good cholesterol numbers, these statin drugs may cause damage to your liver while increasing your risk for diabetes and cataracts!

These drugs also deplete your CoQ10 levels and may lead to muscle aching and a serious condition called rhabdomyolysis. 

We have been bamboozled into believing that just because this drug lowers our cholesterol that we won't develop heart disease or have a heart attack. But, heart disease and heart attacks have risen since this drug was made available to the public in 1989! Recent studies now show that this drug can lead to damage to your heart muscle and your liver!  Read about the Statin Drug Hoax for more details -- especially if you're taking a statin drug.

Sulfonylureas (e.g. Glipizide, Glyburide): Nutrients such as chromium and magnesium lose efficacy, requiring careful monitoring  of therapeutic dosage.

Biguanides (e.g. Metformin): Known to induce vitamin B12 deficiency, likely via impaired absorption. Metformin may also cause lactic acidosis, may inhibit folic acid absorption, and elevate homocysteine levels, which can lead to arterial plaque formation and heart disease and the need for more drugs.

Thiazolidinediones (e.g. Pioglitazone): May increase the risk for osteoporosis and fracture, warranting careful monitoring of vitamin D status.

Insulin (e.g. Humalog, Lantus): causes you to gain weight and remain diabetic! Long-term term use increases fat cells, which require more insulin.

This increases the dependency on the injections and ensures a complete reliance on the insulin injections – creating pancreatic beta cell dysfunction and the “insulin addiction trap”.

So, is it really worth it taking these drugs for your diabetes just because drugs are more convenient to take than changing your diet?