Individuals with diabetes who engage in exercise programs may need to reduce their medication because their muscles become fitter and more efficient at clearing glucose.

“And so individuals who start and engage in an exercise program, one of the things that they'll find if they are diabetic is they have to reduce their diabetic medication because what's happening is the muscle's more fit. And rather than needing the drug to try and clear the glucose, your muscle's doing it more naturally, if you will, or it's grown these new glucose transporters, it helps to clear the glucose, the elevated glucose from the bloodstream.”