It’s been getting safer overall for some time, despite everything that we see on the news. It has helped me to actually get out and talk to people I live near. It dispels the mistrust and fear that come with not knowing my neighbors.
As cool as it sounds, I remain sceptical of it’s viability. Oral insulin isn’t actually as good as injected because it is a slower method of getting into the system. Injected insulin doesn’t go into a vein, it’s under the skin where capillaries help distribute it faster. Oral insulin needs to pass the stomach, so can not enter the blood as fast. Being plant based is not really a factor for that.
In the trial on mice, the plant-based insulin was able to regulate blood sugar within 15 minutes, comparable to naturally secreted insulin. Mice treated with traditional insulin injections experienced crashing blood glucose levels leading to hypoglycemia.
This is kinda scaremongering. Improperly dosed insulin will always crash blood glucose. Plant insulin will have the same affect. 15 minutes in a mouse is probably a long time, given their size. 15 minutes is usually how long fast acting novorapid takes to start working, peaking at ~2hrs and lasting roughly 4hrs.
I’m not saying the findings aren’t useful or interesting, but there is always a level of hype around diabetes medicine. Expectations should be tempered.
This should be something that any plastics company should be forced to fund with taxes, *and all imports from outside the US should be tariffed to match. *Putting our responsibility for the trash generated by what we buy onto China is precisely how we got here in the first place.
I knew there had to be a dystopian take on this for Texas, of all states, to step in and prevent descrimination in HoAs.
And you blew it out of the water, thats probably exactly why. Cant have the poors live to far away cause they’d never be able to come into work and be exploited.
Anyone smarter than me able to tell me if state governors/governments have the authority to allow this before the FDA? Last I heard a non-script birth control was still in the pipeline to be sold over the counter.
“Birth control medication is already available over-the-counter in Oregon, California and Washington, D.C. More than 20 states have statutes that allow pharmacies to dispense FDA-approved hormonal contraceptives without the need for a prescription, per a statement from the Arizona Department of Health Services.
At the federal level, the Food and Drug Administration has endorsed the over-the-counter drug Opill, saying the risks of unintended pregnancy far outweighed any risks associated with the drug.”
Apparently it’s already OK’ed by the FDA. I did not know this prior.
What. Are prevention pills a new thing to you guys in the US or why does this seem like 40-50 year old news to me? What's the dealio? Sorry if obvious.
OTC (over-the-counter) means you can walk up and buy them on your own, no RX from a Dr needed.
Previously, and in many states, you need a prescription to get them. Pretty easy, as it's preventative and helps with other stuff as well, but with the way we're going, who knows what is getting hacked away next...
I don't know how it works where you are, but in the US, we've always needed to get a written prescription from a doctor to get birth control pills. The prescription gets you permission to obtain the pills from the pharmacist (chemist) "behind the counter." The change here is the pills will be available without seeing a doctor first aka "over the counter" as we call it.
This has its good and bad points. It's better for people to receive teaching from a doctor about the side effects of birth control and how to use it. But also, getting in to see a doctor is a huge hurdle for working class people who need birth control the most. So overall, I support the move to make both control available over the counter.
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