For a narrative of how this drug interaction was first serendipitously discovered by David Bailey (a Canadian clinical pharmacologist) (Bailey et al, 2013)
Richard Russell Wenwen Wang, 1, * Aihua Mei, 1, * Hang Qian, 1, * Dongfeng Li, 1 Hao Xu, 1 Jishun Chen, 1 Handong Yang, 1 Xinwen Min, 1 Chunlei Li, 1 Li Cheng, 1 Jun Chen 1, 2 1 Sinopharm Dongfeng General Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Hubei Key Laboratory of Wudang Local Chinese Medicine Research (Hubei University of Medicine), Shiyan, Peoples Republic of China
In people with type 2 diabetes, the body becomes resistant to insulin or doesnt produce enough of it
Any claims regarding the "safety" or "effectiveness" of this compound in humans are purely theoretical based on preclinical animal models