eDOC wrote:Ordinarily, you don't want to stimulate insulin production.......... Who said that, all my patients with type 2 take VC oral or IV...... it’s like Sulfonylureas/ metformin.
Metformin doesn't stimulate insulin production, it reduces insulin resistance and blocks liver gluconeogenesis. I wish I could tolerate it. Sulfonylureas are too dangerous for any sane patient to consider.
The pancreas of most type 2s are running at full tilt because of their insulin resistance and decline in total insulin production due to beta cell death. That is, after all, why they're Type 2: their pancreas can't produce enough insulin and/or first-phase insulin response is too slow. My pancreas, for example, can keep me at ~80-85 mg/dL overnight if my liver doesn't get uppity, but it cannot get me there by itself like it should. Exercise is mandatory.
If IVC raises insulin production without also increasing the stress on the beta cells then it's great, quite aside from the tissue healing, plaque reducing, and lipid normalization effects of IVC. If it just pushes beta cells to produce more, as drugs like glypizide do, then it's killing beta cells to get a short-term insulin raise, which is disastrous long-term because it accelerates pancreatic decline.
eDOC wrote:it was paradoxically possible with large IVC infusions.......... He is wrong.
I was just reporting what he said in his speech. If he's wrong so be it.
eDOC wrote:If yr lipids are good why do you need an anti hypertensive?
At least I'm not taking statins
Calcium score of 30, which I'm told says that I'm in the beginning stages of hardening of the coronary arteries. As repeated numerous times on this board, even mild hardening causes BP spikes.
Systolic BP tends to run high, though the last couple of doctor visits from last week have my BP (measured at the upper arm) at about 107/71, which is notably better than when I first started taking anti-hypertensives.
Is the 6mg/day of vitamin K2-4 reducing my tissue calcification and thus lowering my BP? Don't know, haven't had another calcium score test.
Presuming the "kidney protective" effects of Losartan are unnecessary, maybe I should drop it. If my calcium score is dropping that would indicate that K2 therapy is working and thus Losartan is/will soon be unnecessary.
The Bystolic is a different story, that's to keep my resting heart rate under 100 so I don't develop an enlarged heart. There's still no diagnosis as to the cause of my tachycardia, and my cardiologist seems remarkably disinterested in finding that cause given that he's ordered no tests whatsoever to find it. I don't know if such laziness is common among cardiologists.
eDOC wrote:If you are suffering from Type 2 than why are you considering Lipo C?
Why, does lipo C harm Type 2s? I'd rather do IVC, if it weren't, so far as I can tell around here, overpriced, overtimed, and generally targeted at rich Californians with more money than knowledge coming to Scottsdale for a vacation and an expensive commercial IVC treatment. Nobody around here seems to be doing what you or Cathcart are/were doing, and they run screaming at the suggestion of doing what you're doing.
eDOC wrote:You are suffering from Diabetic neuropathy too........ enough have other things to take care of, rather than ungrateful freebies.
True, though it doesn't seem to be measurable yet in terms of sensory deficit. Had a monofilament test done, podiatrist says 10/10. It's mostly just intermittent tingling, and by "intermittent" I mean a few times a day, usually for less than 30 seconds, and only once has been outright painful. It could indicate nerves are healing, rather than getting worse.
How does one demonstrate proper gratefulness on an Internet board? I don't expect you to care, but I'd hire you in a heartbeat if I lived anywhere near Orlando, and if I could move to Orlando I would.