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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AMBrennan" data-source="post: 349606" data-attributes="member: 37697">Re: WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE NORMAL BLOOD SUAGR LEVELSHumans function well on low BG (4-5%, apparently) so higher BG will damage blood vessels much like using the wrong fuel will damage a car.Of course, it's not surprising that he'd attempt proof by analogy.You are begging the question.The "right to normal BG" is about therapeutic thresholds - when should Alice be given more drugs, and when should Bob increase his insulin doses. Watch out for Simpson's paradox. That's irrelevant to the question at hand - therapeutic thresholds. If you can achieve good control on exercise and diet alone, brilliant (although that does seem a bit unlikely in the t1 forum...) but the question is when the rest who are unable to do so should be given more drugs. As you noticed, more drugs means more side effects, and the damage from those side effects may outweigh the benefits from better control. The question is where that balance is.</blockquote>

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