Opinion: Study on new Type 2 diabetes patients is encouraging

Patients frequently ask me whether they will ever be able to stop their medications. Be it for their blood pressure, cholesterol or Type 2 diabetes, they always want to know whether, if they change their diet and start exercising, taking medications will no longer be necessary.
In truth, I’ve seen very few people manage to come off their medications, although there have been a few notable patients who drastically changed their lives and managed to normalize their cardiac risk factors. But,