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and "Stephen Barrett's Quackbustery"-- I take issue with both.
I respect David Mendosa and everything he says. But I disagree about the merit of these 2 reccomendations, the first with qualifications, the second with none.
I am my diabetic 2 wife's unofficial physician. Her A1C is now 6; her fasting glucose is usually below 100, without metformin; her blood pressure is usually 110/70; her weight is around 130, down from 200; her LDL is 77, HDL 70, fastimg triglycerides 100; and she is mad at me most of the time. Those are some of my medical credentials. We've done it without double-blind placebo tested drugs by using alternative methods that Dr. Barrett would term quackery-- including lots of Vit C, fish oil, low glycemic index carbs, nattokinase, alpha lipoic acid, and other products of quackery. Once in a while we use metformin, an ace inhibitor, a diuretic. Occasionally double- blind - placebo- tests come up with helpful, benign drugs. Often, as with the statins, the tests are designed to distort reality to reward official sanction to drugs with very bad side effects.
Oh, why is my wife mad at me? Because I don't let her eat white bread or rice or potatoes or pasta.
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