
Beyond Metformin and Statins: Treating Metabolism and the Heart as One Problem
There is a very common story in medicine, and it goes like this. At forty-five, a blood test comes back with a fasting glucose that is a little too high and an LDL that is a little too high. Metformin is started. A statin is added. The numbers improve. Everyone is satisfied. At fifty-two, the numbers have drifted again. The metformin dose goes up. At fifty-eight, a second agent is








