Insulin, Leptin, and Blood Sugar – Why Diabetic Medication Fails

 Byron Richards, CCN

Type II diabetes is a difficult metabolic problem.  

It is a national embarrassment that so many of our young people are becoming type II diabetic.  It is a national disgrace that millions of type II diabetic patients are being injured with commonly used diabetic medications that are known to make their metabolic situation worse. 

An overwhelming body of science demonstrates that insulin resistance leads to obesity and vice versa.  Once this problem sets in a person heads down a path of ever-worsening metabolic control as diabetes-related issues, cholesterol problems, and heart disease risk factors pile up.  If nothing is done, very poor health and early death are certain. 

However, the Big Pharma blood-sugar remedies turn out to be really bad for health – and actually complicate rather than improve the patient’s health.  Even when the drugs aren’t directly damaging in a major way, they fail to address the actual reasons for diabetes and typically have the net result of making the factors causing diabetes worse.  I know that may seem hard to believe – but it is true, and I will explain it shortly.

On December 17, 2008 the New England Journal of Medicine put the nail in the coffin on another dismal year for the theory of drugs to treat disease, reporting that aggressive use of blood-sugar-lowering medication to prevent heart disease was a complete failure.  Its not that lowering blood sugar in this patient population didn’t do anything: it made the patients heavier and more hypoglycemic.  

This newer study followed equally dismal results from the ACCORD trial (Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes), which earlier in 2008 found a 22% increased rate of death in diabetic patients who were aggressively treated with medications.

Some of the newer diabetes medications like Avandia are quite deadly and likely to injure in multiple ways (such as doubling the risk for bone fractures).  Scientists at the FDA were so concerned this drug would cause heart failure that they wanted a black box warning on it from the start.  However, Von Eschenbach and his band of FDA management goons forced FDA scientists to not warn anyone!  As Avandia-treated bodies starting showing up on the doorsteps of morgues around the country, Congress started asking questions.  

Eventually scientists reported a 43% increase in the risk for heart failure from Avandia; however, the FDA had this data from the start and didn’t tell anyone.  The FDA allowed Avandia sales to reach 3.2 billion per year – while killing and injuring a lot of patients.  Even when the high-profile type II diabetic Tim Russert keeled over dead from a heart attack, nobody in the media seemed interested to know if he was taking Avandia. 

At the same time that the FDA was helping to create a market for deadly Avandia sales, they sent out twenty-fourwarning letters to small dietary supplement companies telling them that their promotion of various products to lower blood sugar, correct insulin resistance, or improve diabetes is against the law.  Against whose law?  Certainly not the first amendment.