and liquids
i wanted to ask if liquids have any effects on byetta or vise versa.
honestly i don’t know if they just go through the bladder or get filtered
via the liver. i assume the liver b/c ppl get cirrhosis of the liver when
they drink too much. i don’t drink alcohol but i do like coke zero, ice tea,
and lots of strong black coffee.
follow-up, i should have taken the byetta today. wound up not taking d-i-l
to town so stayed in the garage all day unpacking boxes for the big sale
this weekend. i realized about an hour ago that i never ate anything at all
today. thought hubby and i would stop to go out for lunch but next thing i
knew, d-i-l and baby were here and it was 3:30 PM. i thought i was getting
lightheaded from all the stuff i unpacked and then pricing it all! i don’t
even go to garage sales let alone have them. this is my first!
but anyway, the plan is still to start wednesday morning and only take 40
units of lantus tomorrow night.
jodi
March 24th, 2004 at 3:27 am
Hi Jodie,
The liver processes toxins to the body, hence the liver is impacted by a lot of
drugs (like tylenol, ibuprophen, metformin and the like).
The kidneys process liquids. The alcohol in liquor, beer or wine is a poison to
the human body in large quantities. The liver handles the small amounts or
larger amounts that we injest. Because the liver handles the toxic substance of
alcohol we can develop a scarred (cirrotic) liver from it - or from other
chemicals.
So, we drink, the kidneys filter and send the toxins to the liver to be
processed and gather in all the other debris from the blood, add it to the water
and send it to the bladder. Or at least that is what I remember from my human
physiology and anatomy classes some years ago.
Insofar as I am aware byetta has no particular effect regarding the body’s
processing of water (which is the basis for all the liquids we drink).
I drink tea, a cup of coffee now and then, water, and some diet soft-drinks. I
have a hunch that plenty of liquids which are not dehydrating (which coffee is)
keep the water volume in the blood up so that the concentration is less and the
BG is lower.
Cheers!
Marsha
March 24th, 2004 at 3:53 pm
thank you marsha! awesome explanation and easy for me to understand.
jodi
Hi Jodie,
The liver processes toxins to the body, hence the liver is impacted by a
lot of drugs (like tylenol, ibuprophen, metformin and the like).
The kidneys process liquids. The alcohol in liquor, beer or wine is a
poison to the human body in large quantities. The liver handles the small
amounts or larger amounts that we injest. Because the liver handles the
toxic substance of alcohol we can develop a scarred (cirrotic) liver from
it - or from other chemicals.
So, we drink, the kidneys filter and send the toxins to the liver to be
processed and gather in all the other debris from the blood, add it to the
water and send it to the bladder. Or at least that is what I remember from
my human physiology and anatomy classes some years ago.
Insofar as I am aware byetta has no particular effect regarding the body’s
processing of water (which is the basis for all the liquids we drink).
I drink tea, a cup of coffee now and then, water, and some diet
soft-drinks. I have a hunch that plenty of liquids which are not
dehydrating (which coffee is) keep the water volume in the blood up so that
the concentration is less and the BG is lower.
Cheers!
Marsha
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March 27th, 2004 at 2:17 am
> So, we drink, the kidneys filter and send the toxins to the liver to be
processed.
Actually that’s a bit of an oversimplification of the process. It doesn’t
really matter in what form we ingest (liquid or solid) it all takes the same
path, though the gastro intestinal tract. Alcohol, Tylenol, metformin, etc.
all end up in the blood stream. The liver and kidney’s both process what’s
in the blood, but have different jobs to do. The kidneys don’t "send"
anything to the liver, nor does the liver "send" anything back to the
kidneys. They are both part of the whole system. It’s all about the blood.
Roy
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