For many newly diagnosed diabetics, their first line of therapy often focuses on diet and exercise alone.  While that will be enough for some, unfortunately for many, the inevitable first step into a pharmaceutical treatment involves a medicine called metformin.  Metformin has been used since 1995 in the United States to treat Type 2 Diabetes and is preferred by most physicians as the standard of care to treat newly diagnosed diabetes because of minimal associated risks.

Metformin helps manage diabetes through three functions:  (1) by decreasing the amount of glucose produced by the liver, (2) by inhibiting the absorption of glucose in the patient’s stomach, and (3) by enhancing the function of insulin.

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