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hi guys in this video we’re going to talk about metformin which is marketed

as glucophage okay this medication is normally for diabetes type 2 and PCOS

polycystic ovarian syndrome and it basically does two things it helps

increase sensitivity to insulin so it’s it improves insulin resistance as well

as the suppression of glucose production from the liver okay because if your

livers making too much glucose it’s gonna raise the sugar so metformin will

chill that out and increase the sensitivity so here’s the hormone

insulin here’s this receptor it comes in it makes the connection and there’s

resistance it allows the insulin to work better in the cell okay well that sounds

great but two things one is the actual root cause is rarely addressed like the

high levels of sugar in the diet are rarely addressed the frequent eating is

rarely addressed if that was addressed you could eventually improve it without

metformin so one of the challenges with metformin is that it not only has side

effects diarrhea nausea abdominal pain gas but it has a boxed warning which is

a very severe warning based on the FDA that will spike lactic acid okay

which can then severely affect your pH and create a lot of more serious

problems also it blocks the absorption of b12 and folic acid so that has a

whole series of side effects connected to that and in addition to that you

don’t want to take metformin and if you have a liver problem or a kidney problem

but who doesn’t have a liver problem or a kidney problem if they’re pre-diabetic

in the first place so it does come with a package so there

are some natural alternatives that you can use in addition to metformin and by

the way check with your doctor before taking this recommendation okay but you

can research a berberine which is helps improve insulin resistance okay cinnamon

goat’s rue green tea bitter melon all of these improve insulin resistance so it’s

something to do research on as a way to possibly avoid these side effects

alright thanks for watching hey guys I want to personally invite you to a new

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fasting lab ok so I created this so we can share our successful actions what

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