How Do You Solve a Problem Like This, Maria?

If you watch the presser...

Something about the way she said it was prescribed in part, due to a family history of diabetes...

"...a family history of diabetes."

It's like she was attempting to deliver a line in a Broadway performance.

Plus I'm not seeing anything about this drug preventing diabetes in healthy adults who may or may not be genetically predisposed.

 

So Lugs got me curious. In addition to being used to treat heart issues, it's also a carnitine synthesis inhibitor. My very Googling skills and total lack of drug knowledge seems to indicate that there's suggestions but no proof that carnitine can be used to help with diabetic neuropathy. However it seems like if that were true you'd want to promote carnitine synthesis not inhibit it...but again, not an MD or really understand this stuff...

 

Here I was about to ask if some sort of ex-post-facto defense could emerge, but it appears she needed the medication as much as Manny Ramirez needed female hormones. Can't really blame the Ruskies' sports machine either since she's never more a product of IMG's sports machine.

 

Drugs are funny. For example, the ADHD drugs are stimulants that help those afflicted to sit still and focus.

The best diabetes inhibitor is probably to exercise and lay off the sugar, though. She seems to be doing OK there.

 

What if it were a suppository?

 

We'd have another dead president.

 

If family history of Diabetes were such a concern, why come out with a line of candy called Sugarpova ?

Just asking.

 

There are probably people on this board who have spent more time in Russia than Sharapova over the past decade.

 

There are probably people on the board who take banned substances, too.

 

Maybe Taibbi can ask some of his Russian journo buddies.

 

Got a bangin' little body, though.