All Prescription Drugs Have Side Effects

Here is information from a March 21, 2000 press release from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA):

”The FDA today asked the manufacturer of Rezulin (troglitazone) -- a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus -- to remove the product from the market. The drug's manufacturer, Parke-Davis/Warner-Lambert, has agreed to FDA's request. ... Severe liver toxicity has been known to occur with Rezulin since 1997.”

This instance of using a prescription drug as one part of a diabetes treatment makes me think of the warning Dr. Alex Duarte, PhD in Nutrition, issued more than two decades ago: “With prescription drugs, it’s not a question of IF there are side effects. All prescription drugs have side effects. The question is how many side effects are there, and how severe are those side effects?”