Re:FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
by 462436347 on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @07:51PM
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> Elevated glucose is exactly what causes type 2 diabetes. Take away the glucose supply, and you don't have elevated insulin. Fear of glucose that is too high too often is entirely justified and is not something that should be going on if people can avoid it. Sugar molecules are damaging to cells and are related to other things like cardiovascular calcification.
No, it doesn't: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6602127/
Re:FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
by ravenstine on Thursday March 07, 2024 @10:08AM
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Reread that article. It has literally nothing to do with cause and effect. The study finds an association between intramyocellular lipids and insulin resistance, and has absolutely nothing to say about whether diabetes is caused solely by glucose dysregulation or something else.
Re:FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
by sdo72 on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @09:35PM
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Every response you have don't relate to my comment! and I believe you have incorrect info in your responses as well.
Re:FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
by ravenstine on Thursday March 07, 2024 @09:47AM
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Surely you have a good example of what I am incorrect about instead of merely saying I am wrong?
Re:FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
by sdo72 on Thursday March 07, 2024 @11:17AM
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Your comments aren't the responses to my comments. Let's take an example, my comment is neither proposing a model for T2D nor saying CGM is part of any model.
You said Okinawa people eat a ton of pork, please compare with something.
You said they don't have birth record accuracy which is not totally true. In many asian culture, they use Zodiac and similar methods to keep track of age, the exact date may be off, but the year cannot be off because if it's off, that's 12 year difference. I cannot be a dragon and claim myself to be 84 when I am only 72 because all of my friends around know how old I am around.
When 1 or 2 persons say it, it may be mythical. But when most of population say it, there must be some truth. And it's also up to you how you believe it.
> Devices like this will make other people fearful of high glucose and think they're getting diabetes.
Elevated glucose is exactly what causes type 2 diabetes. Take away the glucose supply, and you don't have elevated insulin. Fear of glucose that is too high too often is entirely justified and is not something that should be going on if people can avoid it. Sugar molecules are damaging to cells and are related to other things like cardiovascular calcification.
> If we look at the Blue Zone, many people eat mostly carb.
So-called "Blue Zones" are not science. They are anecdotal, cherry-picked, uncontrolled, and can't be tested. Also, some of those zones, such as Okinawa, are mythical. Okinawans historically have eaten a lot of pork, and still eat a ton of pork. They also used to not keep much in the term of birth records, so there was really no way to know how old any of those people were back when they were studied.
> So carb/high GI food definitely doesn't cause diabetes.
Propose a model of type 2 diabetes that doesn't involve dysregulation of blood glucose and come back to us.