{"id":23942,"date":"2017-03-25T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T12:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/?p=23942"},"modified":"2017-10-13T12:59:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T07:29:54","slug":"is-it-better-to-take-metformin-before-or-after-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/is-it-better-to-take-metformin-before-or-after-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Better To Take Metformin Before Or After Meals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23944 size-full\" title=\"Is It Better To Take Metformin Before Or After Meals?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/rsz_shutterstock_597415079.jpg\" alt=\"online medicine store india\" width=\"630\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Metformin is currently the first line of drug for managing diabetes. Metformin is a very safe medicine for diabetics. The time of taking \u00a0metformin depends on your blood sugar readings, your weight and other factors like diet, exercise and lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>Metformin works in the following ways:<\/p>\n<p>-It makes your body more sensitive towards the action of insulin.<\/p>\n<p>-It acts on liver and it restricts liver in producing glucose.<\/p>\n<p>-It acts on intestines and reduces the absorption of sugar.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, metformin has several side effects like reduction of appetite and weight loss. Some other bothersome side effects are\u00a0<strong>nausea and stomach ache, giddiness, light headedness, muscle pain, body aches, constipation and flatulence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To overcome these side-effects<\/strong>, it is better to take it with meals or just after finishing meals. This helps to reduce some of these side-effects. Thus, it is advisable to take <strong>metformin with meals or just after finishing meals.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23944\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/rsz_shutterstock_597415079.jpg\" alt=\"online medicine store india\" width=\"630\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[56,222],"class_list":["post-23942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetes","tag-anti-diabetic","tag-diabetes-fact"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is It Better To Take Metformin Before Or After Meals? - Tata 1mg Capsules<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Metformin is currently the first line of drug for managing diabetes. 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