New diabetes drug can snap your bones like twigs
Diabetics, you can practically feel the love coming from Big Pharma.
No, they don't love YOU (let's not get carried away). They love your disease... they love that it requires daily medication... and most of all, they love your money.
...They're working overtime to cook up expensive new drugs to pump into diabetics not because these meds are better or safer, but to get their paws on more of that cash.
Naturally, their pals at the FDA are happily hitting the "OK" button on each new drug, knowing full well the true risks aren't even known yet -- and in most cases, won't be known for years.
Well, here we are, two years after the approval of canagliflozin -- the blockbuster new drug from Johnson & Johnson also known as Invokana and Invokamet -- and the FDA says it turns out this med could leave you crippled, weak and broken.
This drug can cause your bones to thin so fast you can practically watch it happen, according to a new warning from the agency.
Today, your bones might be solid as oak. But if you start on the drug now, then in just three months' time -- that's before Christmas -- those once-mighty bones could be reduced to twigs.
Then it happens: SNAP!
The FDA warning says up to 1.5 percent of patients who take the drug suffer bone fractures, especially in the hip or in the spine.
While any bone break is a painful affair, a hip or spine break could be devastating or even crippling.
The drug appears to screw with your levels of parathyroid hormone, which regulates calcium in blood and bone. The drug causes some folks to pump it out like crazy -- and, as those levels rise, it sucks the calcium right out of your bones.
That can lead to thinner, weaker bones and eventually a horrific injury that could leave you hobbled for life.
Don't think the other new drugs are any better. The FDA warning says this might be a risk of this entire class of new meds, known as SGLT2 inhibitors.
That means you've got to beat this disease the old-fashioned way: Through diet, specifically one with minimal carbs, zero added sugars and plenty of fresh animal fats.
With news from the bone zone,
Jack Harrison
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