There is an interesting idea for a new diabetes drug. Only now, they are going after my brain! In 2006, Januvia was the new drug of promise. By 2009, we learn that it has been suspected of causing pancreatitis. Oh man, what if over the next 3 years we learn that there is more dementia - thanks to Cycloset?

I'm sorry, but when I consider the pros and cons of drug therapy vs. behavior modification I am amazed that less than 10% of type 2 diabetics seem to control their diabetes without medication, i.e. by diet and exercise only.

It requires more work to get those numbers down by non-drug methods, but the multiple benefits far outweigh the many side effects to which we expose our lives from the long-term use of those drugs. Some of these dangers we will discover 3 or more years later, but the damage will be blamed on "diabetes" - not the drugs. After all, the drugs have been "approved."

Diabetes drugs are for "short term" control

The headline, "FDA backs drug that treats diabetes via the brain," is eye-catching and the feeling of "hopefulness" that seems to ooze from those drug advertisements is pale compared to what a great diet, exercise, and one or two natural food supplements can do for your blood pressure, cholesterol, arthritis, and blood sugar all in one shot.

Well, if you've read my rant this far, thanks for sticking it out. I hope you realize how bad I feel when I see very little effort been made by drug-sponsoring agencies in advocating natural control (maybe) because it would cut into their bottom-line. Of course, I am a sore "former" client to them now because for the past three years I haven't needed their products for my diabetes, but I've been more productive. While it seems that drug makers and approving agencies back away from the old natural methods of controlling my diabetes, you, the individual can consider the reality that these three things are running together:

1. increase in technology and ability to develop more drugs
2. increase in prevalence of type 2 diabetes and related conditions
3. drug companies profits increase each year


If profits from drug sales are soaring and our drug manufacturing "know-how" increases daily, why can't we prevent more people (even children) from developing type 2 diabetes? Maybe we are not doing something right. How about looking at how our diet and lifestyle have changed over the last 50 - 100 years and fix that?

New diabetes drug on the right track?

Don't think that the new FDA approved Cycloset puts us on the right track. By targeting the brain with a drug doesn't mean we are advocating "behavior modification". If that were the case it would be like trying to get to the moon in a parachute - we would not get very far.

Well, let us hope that Cycloset won't become the next Januvia, because this time it won't be the pancreas; it will be the brain, and then my fellow type 2 diabetics, we won't even know what has hit us in the head.


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