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Re: WebMD - Insulin Pill Fights Obesity
From: Alicia (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 5 Feb 2002 15:58:06 -0600 (CST)
Panacea ,
Hi .. Did you read my response???? Well I appreciate you explaining it,
maybe I am just a dumb ass but I still do not get it. It does not make
sense to me.
Alicia
At Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Panacea wrote:
>
>At Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Belle wrote:
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>>Let me try again, I think that I am a little more cognizant than I was
>>at 2 this morning. The bottom line is that we have too much insulin and
>>get sugar lows because we over-compensate. We eat something then our
>>body struggles to deal with the sugar and we pump out more and more
>>insulin. If we do not have adequate assistance (such as an insulin
>>sensitizing drug), we will get *too much* insulin in reaction to the
>>glucose.
>>
>>It is thought that if you have the insulin ready, the glucose will be
>>metabolized before your pancreas has an opportunity to deliver the
>>excess insulin. When this is the case, you end up with **less insulin
>>in your system**.
>
>That doesn't make sense. Our body pumps out more insulin because the
>insulin doesn't work. IE our body doesn't know what to DO with it.. it
>wouldn't matter if the insulin was ours or someone else's.
>
>--
>Panacea
>
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Alicia
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