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<blockquote data-quote="Mbaker" data-source="post: 2516725" data-attributes="member: 256617"><p>I would use what you were born with, Type 2 diabetes is not a metformin deficiency, I feel it should be a last result. Personally I dropped my fasting blood glucose from 20+ to 16 in 1 week, without knowing what I was doing.</p><p></p><p>My opinion is biased as this drug caused me kidney issues, but there have been so many issues (well documented on this site), not just gastric. Based on this I feel metformin gets a badge of "safe" on shaky ground. A ten minute walk after each meal has been proven to out-perform metformin, so why take a less effective tablet. The "benefits" of metformin such as liver dump control, insulin sensitivity, weight management, are easily covered by low carb / keto / carnivore dietary patterns and optionally boosted with resistance exercise.</p><p></p><p>Here's the latest scare with a version of this drug:</p><p><a href="https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2022/metformin-recall-cancer-risk.html" target="_blank">Diabetes Drug Recalled Due to Risk of Cancer (aarp.org)</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mbaker, post: 2516725, member: 256617"] I would use what you were born with, Type 2 diabetes is not a metformin deficiency, I feel it should be a last result. Personally I dropped my fasting blood glucose from 20+ to 16 in 1 week, without knowing what I was doing. My opinion is biased as this drug caused me kidney issues, but there have been so many issues (well documented on this site), not just gastric. Based on this I feel metformin gets a badge of "safe" on shaky ground. A ten minute walk after each meal has been proven to out-perform metformin, so why take a less effective tablet. The "benefits" of metformin such as liver dump control, insulin sensitivity, weight management, are easily covered by low carb / keto / carnivore dietary patterns and optionally boosted with resistance exercise. Here's the latest scare with a version of this drug: [URL='https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2022/metformin-recall-cancer-risk.html']Diabetes Drug Recalled Due to Risk of Cancer (aarp.org)[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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