Medications and Lifestyle Changes for Diabetes

Name: Medications and Lifestyle Changes for Diabetes
Uploaded: 2024-10-14T16:00:51+00:00
Duration: 26 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: A healthcare speaker recommends that people with diabetes or pre-diabetes should use medications (examples: metformin, semaglutide, tirzepatide) in…

14 Oct 2024 · 0 min

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A healthcare speaker recommends that people with diabetes or pre-diabetes should use medications (examples: metformin, semaglutide, tirzepatide) in addition to diet and exercise to lower A1c and reduce cardiovascular risk. For overweight patients, the speaker highlights semaglutide or tirzepatide as options and emphasizes lifestyle intervention to address underlying cardiovascular risk.

If you're in that diabetes or pre diabetes range, we definitely recommend you go on medication, be it metformin or semaglutide or something similar. The two most effective for lowering a 1C with along with diet and exercise. If you do have diabetes, you know, diet and exercise is extremely important, but you should go on the medication to give you a little bump, give you a bump down. If you're overweight, you should consider semaglutide or tirzepatide, but certainly lifestyle intervention to get that down because that's the smoke and smoldering and causing cardiovascular disease.