CS: Your focus on Diet and Exercise as the first and foremost method of reducing IR is a little flawed in my view.
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First, that’s not my point. My point was that diet and exercise are tried and true first line defenses on IR and I in no way exclude drugs like Metaformin when called for.
CS: Not all people who are Insulin Resistant are overweight. Just ask the Japanese,.
While 90% of those with insulin resistance are overweight, what do the other 10% do?
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Again, you’re not reading what I’m saying. Of course not all people who are insulin resistant are overweight and do you really think I’m suggesting a skinny Japanese man to lose weight? He might, however, change the compositiion of his diet toward healthier fats (without decreasing calories or weight) and he might add some exercise and he might need a drug like Metaformin. Let’s not oversimply either the issue or what I’ve said.
CS: Wouldn’t a more sensible approach be to use as many methods as possible to reduce IR rather than to focus on only one.
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But that’s been my point from the beginning when I bring up the first line treatments of diet and exercise. Again, recommending diet and exdercise does not exclude pharmaceutical intervention when necessary.
In fact, I’ve just recently recommended Metaformin to others here as part of a pre-treatment strategy and even suggested they get more info from your pal “CoWriter”.
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/710464 I’m not the Johnny One Note here.
CS: Perhaps if you spent more time listening to what CoWriter has to say instead of confronting her at every opportunity
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Really? I was one of the first to defend CoWriter here for what I perceived were unwarranted attacks both to her personally and to her credentials. More so, I have referenced some of the studies she has posted here and given her due respect per the thread I posted above. You seem to confuse “confronting” with reasonable discussion and reasonable disagreement. No doubt, if you agreed with me and not her, then she would be the one "confronting".
CS: then maybe your well documented weight distribution issues you acquired after Tx would not have taken so long to resolve. Is it resolved? Diet and exercise weren’t that successful for you now was it.
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In my three years at Med Help fortunately it’s quite rare that someone takes such a personal and classless cheap-shot at someone’s disclosed medical issues with a such a mocking tone. This will be my last post to you. Life’s too short to roll in the mud.
But for others following the thread, yes, my post tx weight distrubtion issues post tx have been significantly improved by a diet and exercise program – issues caused by the interferon. Or perhaps do you want me to take IR drugs as I’m not pre-diabetic.