{"id":1963,"date":"2006-10-11T12:49:40","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T12:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/lizard-spit-is\/"},"modified":"2006-10-11T12:49:40","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T12:49:40","slug":"lizard-spit-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/lizard-spit-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizard Spit is as effective as insulin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only that, they didn&#8217;t see the weight gain in the Byetta group.<\/p>\n<p>FYI:  I went to the pump because when I was on MDI, I kept having to eat to avoid lows and I kept gaining weight.  I have done much better on the pump.  If Byetta had been available I probably would have tried that first.  I&#8217;m happy with the pump life though.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Diabetes In Control - Exenatide As Effective As Insulin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diabetesincontrol.com\/modules.php?name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=4202\">Diabetes In Control &#8211; Exenatide As Effective As Insulin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Results from a study indicating that exenatide improves blood sugar levels as effectively as biphasic insulin aspart 30\/70 (NovoMix 30(R), NovoNordisk) for people with type 2 diabetes failing to achieve acceptable blood sugar control on both metformin and a sulfonylurea. This long-term clinical trial is the second study conducted at European clinical centers demonstrating that exenatide can control blood sugar as effectively as insulin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only that, they didn&#8217;t see the weight gain in the Byetta group. FYI: I went to the pump because when I was on MDI, I kept having to eat to avoid lows and I kept gaining weight. I have done much better on the pump. If Byetta had been available I probably would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetic-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}