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    Aspartame - Is it a possible carcinogen?

    It’s classified as 2b. So is, Carpentry and Joinery. Gasoline (Petrol) Pickled vegetables (traditional Asian) Melamine Carbon Black Titanium Oxide. Found in white paint Metronidazole (a common antibiotic) Acetaldehyde (a metabolite of ethanol) Ginkgo biloba And hundreds of others, listed...
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    Should all diabetics have a GADA test at first diagnosis

    Looked through about 200 pages of data. GAD results, two of them, were both 5.0 U/mL (Range:0 - 5). So nothing to get excited about.
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    Should all diabetics have a GADA test at first diagnosis

    In my mid 50s I was diagnosed with diabetes T2. A few years later I was diagnosed with Idiopathic Axonal Neuropathy. I was re-reading the letter my London neurologist sent to my local neurologist (who was stumped for a diagnosis. This thread reminded me of a sentence in that letter… ”I do not...
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    COVID vaccination

    In the past a new vaccine would have required isolating the virus then finding a way to kill it or weaken it, so that it could still provoke an immune response while not infecting anybody (well, not too many). That could take many years. The RNA sequence of SARS-CoV-2 was emailed around the...
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    Type 2 FBG Readings

    Wow. Well done. Dropping 10 kg and getting the HbA1c down are probably related. I managed something similar (but FBG not so low) and I'm now off the metformin. It might be worth discussing this with your doctor/diabetic nurse. Personally, I would skip the FBG measurements unless you just want...
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    Gave up metformin - got my life back

    After 7 months on metformin SR and huge problems with diarrhoea I gave up in October. My HbA1c had dropped from 9.9 to 6.8 over the first three months but, after then, my fasting CBG had changed not one jot. It seemed that it was making no positive difference at all. The gut problems were so...