<p>taking on quackery,even going up against a rich and famous tv celebrity.
<a href=“Meet the medical student who wants to bring down Dr. Oz - Vox”>Meet the medical student who wants to bring down Dr. Oz - Vox;
<p>Good for him! Oz drives me nuts.</p>
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<p>Pretty much the only diabetes medication–other than insulin–that does not have significant health risks is metformin. It is also just about the only one that is not associated with weight gain. If this woman’s doctor was trying to get her to take some of the dangerous drugs out there, many of which are associated with organ failure and death from heart attacks, not to mention dangerous low blood sugar events, then stopping them may not have been a bad idea. Relying on green coffee-bean supplements, on the other hand, is obviously NOT a good idea. IMNSHO, she probably needed a realistic low-carb diet, as much exercise as she could reasonably undertake, and metformin if her kidneys were not compromised. If what she took away from Dr. Oz was that weight loss would help her and a lot of diabetes medications are dangerous, well, that’s true. If what she took away was that she could solve her problems by swallowing a pill, well, that’s bad. But was her regular doctor also telling her that? A lot of doctors don’t want to deal with patient’s denial, so they prescribe instead.</p>
<p>I don’t know if Good Pills, Bad Pills is available on line, but I would consult that and other sources before allowing one’s doctor to talk one into taking the vast majority of diabetes drugs.</p>
<p>That said, I am NOT a fan of Dr. Oz.</p>
<p>Physician here. Dislike much of the media doctors’ spins. There is a book about/by the two physician Chopra brothers- the famous one, Deepak, dropped traditional medicine while his brother stayed within it. “Brothers…” </p>
<p>Re diabetes drugs- too much speculation by consolation. Most likely the patient would have had the common, least side effects et al drug appropriate for her prescribed. I certainly would not go by most books out there as they deal with generalities, not a specific patient’s profile. One can get a lot of information without the physician log in from Medscape, that’s a good website to peruse.</p>
<p>oz says a lot of half baked stuff not based on science and a lot of people do watch him on tv. the fact he has an M.D. after his name gives legitimacy to him in a lot of peoples eyes. </p>
<p>I’m sure Dr. Oz can speak intelligently about heart surgery, but he’s a borderline quack on almost everything else.</p>
<p>That is NOT A MEDICAL STUDENT. He cannot, absolutely cannot be older than 10th grade. To convince me he is 3 years out of college, I would have to admit that I am really old. And that cannot be.</p>
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<p>His middle name is Doogie.</p>
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<p>lol…yes, med students do look young to us “old folks”. My son and his housemates are all MS2’s and they still look like they’re in high school. My son doesn’t even have to shave…lol. </p>
<p>My daughter is a MS3 doing an outpatient clerkship at a HUGE CA childrens hospital. A Resident stopped her yesterday to question her credentials (I guess hospital badge) because she thought my D was no more than 14…she is almost 25! Maybe they thought she was a patient making a run for it. I have for many years called her Dougiette because of her youthfull look. She is most likely going into trauma surgery and says her patients won’t care! :)</p>
<p>Doctors can preach diet and exercise til they are blue in the face, Consolation, and most patients simply won’t do it. Sometimes you have to reach the patient where they are. </p>
<p>Re looking young, when my H graduated from medical school, we were dressed up (him in a tuxedo, me in a cocktail dress) and stopped on the way there to get gas. The attendant asked us which prom we were going to. </p>
<p>“Doctors can preach diet and exercise”, we would all like control but your outcome is 99% tied to your genetic lottery results. not eating more cabbage and carrots. </p>
<p>Our D can still pass as a kid and get kid prices if she wants. She will shortly be turning 25. We had dinner with a young woman who was in her 20s or 30s. She also can still pass as a kid when she makes an effort. It helps if you have a “baby face,” and are slender and even petite.</p>
<p>Our S is only w years older than D but looks closer to his age (26) than she does. When she “dresses up” she looks closer to her age.</p>
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<p>Carrots are too carby for a T2 to eat many of them. 
I lost the genetic lottery in getting T2, when plenty of fatter and less active people don’t. The fact that I maintain an HBA1C in the 5.1-5.5 range is due mostly to my low carb way of eating. </p>
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<p>Speaking as a person who has comparatively recent experience with being diagnosed as T2, the “diet” recommendations being touted were perhaps better than a completely unrestricted diet, but still way too carby to effectively control BG levels <em>in a T2 patient</em>. They were pushing a WOE based on limited protein and fats, and more whole grains. The “acceptable” BG levels promulgated by the ADA were much too high to effectively prevent complications. Many of the drugs that they used worked by forcing the remaining beta cells to produce more insulin, which not only exposed the patient to life-threatening lows, but probably wore out the cells that much faster, resulting in a faster progression of the disease and insulin dependence. The problem I saw was that “doctors”–read diabetes educators–were NOT preaching EFFECTIVE diet and exercise. Nor were they being realistic with people about the effects of what they did. I realize that this is at least partly because so many people are in denial and just want a pill to swallow, but the medical industrial complex really supports that way of thinking. The materials they gave me spent more time talking about foot care and warning against going barefoot and wearing sandals than talking about restricting carbs and getting exercise.</p>
<p>Just recently, the powers that be have publicly stated that a low carb WOE is best for diabetics. That is a major breakthrough. In 2010, that info was only available from online activists.</p>