Hormonal
Significant weight loss achieved through intensive lifestyle interventions, low-calorie diets, metabolic surgery, or GLP-1-based medications can induce remission of type 2 diabetes, particularly in patients with short disease duration and younger age.
If you have recently been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, aggressive weight loss through diet, surgery, or GLP-1 medications can potentially put your diabetes into remission, allowing you to stop medication. This is most effective if you act early, lose a significant amount of weight (10-15kg+), and maintain it. Consult your doctor about remission protocols like the DiRECT study's low-calorie diet or GLP-1 therapies.
numerous studies have shown that significant weight loss achieved through intensive lifestyle interventions, low-calorie diets, metabolic surgery, and glucagon-like peptide-1–based medications is associated with a high rate of type 2 diabetes remission. Notably, remission is more likely to occur in the early stages of type 2 diabetes, particularly among younger individuals, those with a shorter duration of the disease, better glycemic control, and greater weight loss.
Why this rating
Based on multiple RCTs (DiRECT, ARMMS-T2D, STANDby) and large cohort studies.
Source
Remission of Type 2 Diabetes: Can It Be the Goal of Diabetes Treatment?
Min Jin Lee · Journal of Korean Diabetes · 2024
DOI 10.4093/jkd.2024.25.4.199
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