More studies are needed to understand the relationship between metabolic risk factors and the efficacy of drug therapy in people who have the metabolic syndrome. To gain the most benefit from modifying multiple metabolic risk factors, the underlying insulin-resistant state must become a target of therapy. The safest, most effective and preferred way to reduce insulin resistance in overweight and obese people is weight loss and increased physical activity. Other steps for managing the metabolic syndrome are also important for patients and their doctors: Routinely monitor body weight (especially the index for central obesity), blood glucose, lipoproteins and blood pressure. Treat individual risk factors (hyperlipidemia, hypertension and high blood glucose) according to established guidelines. Carefully choose anti-hypertensive drugs because different agents have different effects on insulin sensitivity.

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This is the first real episode of Michel’s Trial & Error. My hypothesis (H1) was that fasting glucose, triglycerides and blood pressure would be reduced after one day of ice climbing. The p-value was 0.04315, despite only 2 subjects = substantially lower one day after ice climbing. I believe that low-intensity workout is the best type of exercise (like hiking and climbing) as that is what we have always done (at least from an evolutionary stand point), combined with high intensity interval training (HIIT) and lifting heavy for maximum strength. I think “chronic cardio” (high intensity training (running) for more than 30-40 minutes) is not optimal (at least not in the long run). Mark Sisson is probably the best known proponent of this type of exercise (Primal Blueprint), including Erwan Le Corre (MovNat) and Art DeVany (Evolutionary Fitness).

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Sept. 2005 – FDA is alerting healthcare practitioners about a possible association between PDE-5 inhibitors used to treat erectile dysfunction, such as Viagra, Levitra and Cialis, and a serious vision disorder. This condition, known as NAION, or non-arteritic ischemic optic neuropathy, can cause a sudden loss of eyesight by blocking blood flow to the optic nerve. This possible association is reflected in newly approved labeling for these drugs. Thus far, over 40 cases of NAION have been reported in patients using the drugs, and 26 of these patients experienced continuing or permanent vision loss. Though the proportion of patients affected is probably very small, since NAION can produce permanent vision loss, it’s important for physicians and patients to be aware of the possible risk. Moreover, we do not know for sure that these drugs were responsible for the vision problems. It could be the drugs or it could be certain other known risk factors like diabetes, smoking, hyperlipidemia, hypertension – but in about half of the reported cases, there was a temporal relationship between taking the drug and the onset of visual symptoms, and that does raise some concern about the role of the drugs. Practitioners should caution patients who are taking these drugs that if they experience a sudden loss of vision in one or both eyes, to immediately stop the medication and seek medical attention. Practitioners should also ask patients whether they’ve ever experienced severe loss of …