Having a high risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder was associated with almost double the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study in JAMA Psychiatry. Use of antidepressant medications accounted for nearly half of that increased risk.
Harvard University researchers examined data from the Nursesā Health Study II, a group of 49,739 US women over a 22-year period, and examined body mass index, smoking, alcohol intake, diet quality, physical activity, and antidepressant use as mediators of possible increased risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) for women with PTSD.
“Antidepressant use and a higher body mass index associated with PTSD accounted for nearly half of the increased risk of T2D for women with PTSD,” they wrote. “Smoking, diet quality, alcohol intake, and physical activity did not further account for increased risk of T2D for women with PTSD.”
Roberts AL, Agnew-Blais JC, Spiegelman D, and et al. āPosttraumatic Stress Disorder and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in a Sample of Women: A 22-Year Longitudinal Study.ā JAMA Psychiatry 72, no. 3 (March 1, 2015): 203ā10. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2014.2632. (Abstract)
“Risk of type II diabetes and hypertension associated with chronic insomnia among active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 1998ā2013”
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https://www.afhsc.mil/documents/pubs/msmrs/2014/v21_n10.pdf
No mention whatsoever of psychiatric medications.
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These drugs are marketed as ālike insulin for diabetes,ā and they actually cause diabetes. Isn’t that ironic?
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And just to tie it all in, here is a teasing mention of insulin being tested as a treatment for “bipolar dis-order.”
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/insulin-may-treatment-depression-researchers-20110330-080648-027.html
Must have been this fishing trip:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bdi.12006/full
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Fishing trip, lol. What a farce, it’d be comical, if it weren’t so tragic.
It seems like the medical evidence is coming in showing that most “bipolar” is caused by the adverse and withdrawal effects of antidepressants, ADHD drugs, the steroids, opioids, street drugs etc., etc. being misdiagnosed as “bipolar.”
But such massive misdiagnoses is very profitable for the medical community.
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Insulin shocks are back?
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