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Skriven 2012-05-24 19:27:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: diabetes 642
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 05-12-12  09:34 <=-

 ML>> Oh, my father's diabetes went on uncontrolled, although he
 ML>> pointed out that unless his sugar was over 200, he was
 ML>> confused and logy - various kinds of -opathy notwithstanding.
 NB>> I have some sympathy for him.

 ML> Sympathy wasted, as he passed a couple years ago. You
 ML> could, of course, reissue that sympathy on my behalf.

For him, sympathy in retrospect.  For you, of course...  :)   Numbers
don't always tell the whole story.
 
 NB>> It's gymnema... I looked at the bottle more closely to be sure.  But I
 NB>> really don't know anything more than it appears to be another herb
 NB>> that has medicinal value.  No "useful" blurbs about it on the bottle,
 NB>> just the listing of how much was in the mix.  With the right spelling,
 NB>> maybe you can find out more somewhere...

 ML> From lowering blood sugar to regenerating pancreatic cells to
 ML> reducing the taste of sweets, it's supposed to do it all. The
 ML> Web give a strange mixture of information, and you have known
 ML> me long enough to know that I tend to devalue what I find there
 ML> (most of it is crap), and I remain dubious about all of it.

Indeed.  Consider the source, and all that...  Empirically, the
supplement, which contains it along with the other helpful items, does
seem to be helping MJ, probably in conjunction with the meds she is
taking.  At the moment, she's been having lower blood sugars, but the
why is still unknown.  Whether I'd be comfortable with trying just the
supplement and dropping all the meds is debatable... the doctor, as
willing as he is to use some alternative medicine, probably is less
comfortable yet.

 ML> It's not that I underestimate the intelligence of the rest of
 ML> the world, but rather that I have a full appreciation of the
 ML> levels of neurosis, malice, mischief, and roguery in the human
 ML> race.

Indeed.  And as well a willingness on the part of some to just swallow
it all without resorting to any critical analysis...
 
 NB>> Part of the trouble being, of course, that different bodies react
 NB>> differently, whether to medications or to foods... and, as we've been
 NB>> finding out empirically, the same body can react differently as time
 NB>> goes on...

 ML> Indeed - mine does periodically. Yesterday, for example, I was
 ML> desperate about a crick in my neck and needed a pain-killer -
 ML> aspirin and ibuprofen and such were out, because of my tendency
 ML> to bleed, so I took an extra-strength acetaminophen, and the
 ML> effect was almost immediate and almost total analgesia, which
 ML> has never happened to me before, even with opiates. At last,
 ML> for the first time in my 60 years, I realized why people like
 ML> to take drugs.

Yeah, when they work, drugs are amazing.  ;)  I'm glad it worked for
you, all of them are out for me for one reason or another, and don't
work to boot.  For me it's the reflux drug that works a charm (unlike
the bulk of meds out there.)

ttyl          neb

... Advice is usually worth what it cost. Less if you hired a consultant.

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