Lowering blood glucose with medications, as opposed to diet and lifestyle, is not necessarily beneficial. Consider two type 2 diabetic patients with an identical A1C of 6.5 percent. One takes no medications and the other uses 200 units of insulin daily. These might seem like identical situations, but they’re not. The first situation reflects mild diabetes while the other reflects severe diabetes. The use of insulin does not change severe type 2 diabetes into mild type 2 diabetes. The cardiovascular risks are completely different. Indeed, insulin may not have any benefits at all.
