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> if people stop taking it, they return to the same problems they had without it

Source? Everyone I know who stopped taking it rebounded a bit, but not to where they were. And no literature shows 100% rebound to my knowledge.

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I mean roughly in reference to the underlying mechanism it directly addresses, not all the downstream effects. And even that was, admittedly, sloppy, because there's some complex feedback loops involved. I guess it would be more accurate to say it is a maintenance medicine and not a complete cure, and so stopping taking it unmasks the continuing condition that is treating.

> stopping taking it unmasks the continuing condition that is treating

Some of the prediabetics I knew who stopped taking it (N = 2) stopped being prediabetic (N = 1).

I mean, yeah. You could always just lose weight and probably get out of being prediabetic.

> just lose weight

This might be the left-wing analog of climate denialism.

What does the left-wing or more broadly, political philosophy have to do with that statement?

It's not like it's impossible unmedicated. Plenty of people have and will do it. Obviously most people are unable to. I was always surprised just how few prediabetics did though.

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