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As I say the duodenal sleeve is a cheap operation that takes 10 minutes and it's a small tube they put in the area between the stomach and the lower GI the duodenum. According to Discover (science) Magazine and the American Diabetes Association this cures 87% of type 2 diabetes and profoundly changes the chemical signal between the duodenum and the pancreas..
50% of adults now have blood sugar issues..
The problem for sugar control is, while presumably safe, the duodenal sleeve operation often will cost 10,000. If you're taking a prescription that's unsafe for you, as about your blood sugar as 2/3 of seniors are, you may want to keep the prescription from giving you low blood sugar which doctors will often ignore.
I had a prescription that was doing this and each night I would get sleepy before I would wake back up and then go to sleep again and sugar would just zonk me out..
(I presume because low blood sugar is with a more technical lab method, not high blood sugar this might be why the doctors couldn't find it on the test.)
I thought of trying to take fiber like first celery before my prescription since this is considered to be quite good for blood sugar by slowing down digestion by perhaps shielding my duodenum with all the fiber or ground up bean powder.. However celery is expensive and other fiber like bean powder is without good flavor also expensive due to the cost of bran on the web and inconvenient..
Finally I realized mastic gum might be of worth..it's rather like chewing gum but has been proven to wondrous for duodenal and stomach health..
This method shoes and coats your GI! As I say below this may help with weight reduction.. if you go out on a hot afternoon and had one too many slices of rum at Christmas and you're not wearing 20 lb of Christmas insulation!
While you want to see your doctor before doing this for blood sugar it might be a good general area to be in for good duodenal health and blood sugar issues and because of the duodenal connection as in the article by Discover Magazine a few years ago.
In essence this might seem to be a way to have your own enteric coated prescription even without using pill caps or other methods like this, at least as far as shielding your duodenum and your stomach might go.
Pharmaceutical companies are spending billions on proprietary drug delivery methods like time released like this that the consumer often doesn't have access to because it's specific to that prescription. And of course a lot of pharmaceutical companies aren't doing their job by using methods of time released like this which can cause prescriptions themselves to cause blood sugar.
Of course using this method might also limit the absorption of your prescription at least into your duodenal wall. Even so continuing to take the gum at other times of day might be just as good for it for the long-term value of your duodenal health and my research is continuing..
I don't think it would hurt much and if you try it you might want to take the gum and the prescription at the exact same time each day with the gum perhaps 5 minutes before the time of your prescription or you may want your prescription to be sugar as some still will like for nutrition about oranges or other foods that are essential even with sugar! So that if it does enteric coat your prescription it also may keep the levels of your prescription in circulation even which may be important for many prescriptions. It's possible this might even help with sugar itself and not just prescriptions.
In essence this might seem to be a way to have your own enteric coated prescription with a simple cheap mechanical way to have a possible strong influence on blood sugar, perhaps even bypassing prescriptions most of the way for this particular advantage even without using pill caps or other methods like this, at least as far as shielding your duodenum and your stomach might go.
This may also help much with weight loss because insulin turns out to be the main fat storage hormone..
