Insulin and Metformin are the most widely used forms of all diabetes medications. That is why it is important, particularly if you are a diabetic, to take time to learn about them. Both medications are used to lower blood glucose (sugar) levels in your blood stream, but how?

Insulin is the hormone needed for sugar in the blood to be transferred into the cells and be converted into energy. In most people insulin is produced naturally, but type-1 diabetics do not produce adamant amounts, and so they must inject the hormone medically. In type-2 diabetes, there is usually enough insulin being produced, but the cells ignore it and build up a tolerance to it. Type-2 diabetics sometimes also use insulin along with their oral diabetes medications.

Metformin is normally the first of all diabetes medications used in diabetes treatment. It is particularly helpful with overweight and obese type 2 …