Is medication inevitable if I am developing diabetes?
Often the answer depends on your lifestyle. Compared with the diabetes drug Metformin, for instance, losing weight and adopting a more active lifestyle is twice as effective at preventing type 2 diabetes.
Even when type 2 diabetes has occurred, it can often be managed entirely through lifestyle, without medication.
The problem is that whilst the lifestyle changes are achievable, many struggle to make that change permanent. The result? We resort to drugs, suffer the side effects and eventually need to take insulin to manage the condition.
A lifestyle alternative to drugs, achieved by others but somehow eluding the rest of us is a frustration that Imperative Health understands.
We are here to help you make changes that last for good.
What if I have type 1 (genetic) diabetes?
A healthy lifestyle helps manage your blood glucose, but the critical control will always be your insulin. On this you will need specific guidance from your healthcare team.
Imperative can help you
Imperative is truly groundbreaking. It is the first solution to combine all those factors essential to permanent lifestyle change in one affordable, personal service.
The approach
The key to the success of the Imperative approach is the personal measuring, motivation and coaching our members receive across physical activity, nutrition and weight management.
People managing their diabetes through diet and lifestyle enjoy a significantly reduced risk of complications and an improved quality of life.
Imperative has been designed by medical professionals, tested with hundreds of clients and reviewed by independent experts.
The results
Imperative clients are more physically active (by over 2 hours a week), eat a better diet, sleep better and have lost weight (up to 1kg (2lb) a week). They report that they don’t just feel more energetic, they also have fewer worries about the future.
Most importantly, these are changes that they are able to sustain.