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If Exercise Is Medicine… Why Would a Diabetes Drug Block Its Benefits?
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If Exercise Is Medicine… Why Would a Diabetes Drug Block Its Benefits?
An interesting article in The Epoch Times today reports on new research suggesting that metformin, the go-to drug for managing diabetes, may blunt some of the benefits of exercise.
In 2023 alone, nearly 86 million Americans filled prescriptions for metformin. Most of those patients are diabetic or overweight , and are actively encouraged to exercise to improve blood sugar control and cardiovascular health.
Yet researchers at Rutgers University found that metformin may reduce improvements in:
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Blood vessel function
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Fitness gains
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Insulin sensitivity that typically comes from exercise
If true, this raises a serious concern.
We tell patients:
👉 Move more.
👉 Build muscle.
👉 Improve metabolic health.
But if a commonly prescribed drug dampens the very benefits exercise is meant to provide, are patients being given the full picture?
it’s about informed decision-making and metabolic control.
💬 Discussion:
If you are on metformin where you told about this this potential interaction?
Are we once again, being too quick to medicate before fully optimizing metabolic health naturally?
👉 Link to the article is in the comments.
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Malin clarified that these findings do not mean people should stop taking metformin or exercising. Rather, he said, they highlight the need for doctors to carefully consider how these treatments are combined and to monitor patients closely. Future research may help find ways to preserve the benefits of both.
Read the article here https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/common-diabetes-drug-blocks-benefits-of-exercise-5945829?
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Doctors prescribe metformin to obese patients who have made themselves diabetic with their gluttony or who are in the process of doing so because it forestalls the date on which they ahve to start using insulin to deal with their dietary habits. Also all diabetics are merely overweight. (The HLA_based genetic diabetics are identified in childhood and are not overweight.)
In the mean time, metformin has anti-carcinogenic properties and one of the repurposed FDA-approved drugs with such properties (per Paul Marik, I believe). I am very thin and I take metformin as a cancer preventive drug.
Maybe people who are overweight could re-think their strategies for staying alive. In my professional experience, they do not really understand that they are overweight because of their diet. They generally think they were born that way.
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I think that people have been convinced that popping a pill works, and that hard changes like diet and lifestyle wont make a difference.
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