Gut micribiome affect on metabolism

[elte]

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-12-mi...ories.html

I heard about Zyprexa being linked to diabetes type 2.  The article takes a look at risperidone, how it affects gut microbiome, and how that, in turn, affects the body's metabolic rate.

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Sounds like part of that ridiculous meds situation I sometimes encounter of an acquaintance talking about how they eventually had to have the side effects of one drug treated with yet another drug. And continuing to spiral onward like that with their doctor's prescriptions....

[elte]

Indeed I generally find the only prescriptions I like are for antibiotics for bacterial infections, and for anticancer therapies like immunotherapy, or ones like Lorenzos oil that prevent certain death.  Or sometimes maybe ones that the side effects tend to be overwhelmingly beneficial, like how metformin seems to enable type 2 diabetics to live longer than the general population, and aspirin seems to lower colon cancer risk by something on the order of 15%.  So lately I have been taking about 40mg of aspirin per day .  Or I might not be opposed to an antidepressant, not for that nominal quality, but for the apparent brain protective abilities of at least one of them in helping to prevent Parkinson's disease.