If you take medicine, keep it exactly as prescribed and talk to your doctor before adding Immority EvenOn, then check your sugar more often in the first weeks, because readings may come down.
It is a fair question in the polyclinic queue: if a drink made from plants can steady blood sugar, do you still need the tablets? If your doctor prescribed them, yes. The two are different kinds of things, judged by different rules, and the person who decides about your medicine is your doctor. This guide sets out the difference plainly and shows how to use both safely.
See also: Type 2 diabetes in Singapore and where EvenOn fits
What is the difference between a blood sugar supplement and a medicine?
A medicine is prescribed, dosed and reviewed by your doctor; a supplement like EvenOn is a food you choose to take with a meal. First, EvenOn in brief:
Immority EvenOn is a blood sugar balance drink from Immority. One 5 g sachet a day, stirred into water with your main meal, gives you 11 botanicals led by gymnema (25% gymnemic acid) and mulberry leaf (5% DNJ). It is halal (JAKIM) and classified as a food product by Malaysia’s NPRA, where it is made.
Then the two side by side:
- What it is: EvenOn is a botanical drink classified as a food product by Malaysia’s NPRA; metformin, gliclazide and insulin are prescription medicines
- How it is taken: EvenOn is one sachet in 100 to 150 ml of room-temperature water with the day’s biggest carb meal, never more than 2 a day (pack directions); a medicine is taken as tablets or injections at the dose and times your doctor sets
- Who decides: you choose EvenOn, after talking to your doctor if you take medicine; only your doctor starts, changes or stops a medicine
- Registration and checks: EvenOn is NPRA-classified food, halal (JAKIM) and lab-tested free of 408 common drug ingredients; a medicine is registered as a medicine for its use and prescribed for you
Nothing in this list compares how well they work, and nothing should: they do different jobs. Our guide to what Immority EvenOn is covers the formula in full.
Can EvenOn take the place of metformin, gliclazide or insulin?
No. Never stop, skip or lower a medicine because you have started EvenOn; only your doctor changes a prescription.
The reason is simple. Your medicine was chosen for you after your doctor looked at your fasting sugar, your HbA1c and your health as a whole, and your doctor reviews the dose as your numbers change. EvenOn is a daily food habit: one sachet with your main meal, a formula of 11 botanicals. The studies behind it tested its ingredients, not EvenOn itself, so none compared EvenOn with a medicine. There is no fair way to say which “works better”, and this guide does not try. What the two can do is sit side by side. EvenOn’s own page puts it plainly: keep your medicine, your meal plan and your sugar checks, and tell your doctor you take EvenOn. If you searched “EvenOn vs metformin”, that is the honest answer: not versus but with, and only with your doctor knowing. And because EvenOn is built to steady blood sugar after meals, your readings may come down, which is exactly why the first weeks need extra checks.
How do you take EvenOn and diabetes medicine together safely?
Talk to your doctor first, then follow these steps:
- Keep taking every medicine exactly as prescribed. Never stop it or change a dose on your own.
- Show the box to your polyclinic doctor or GP before your first sachet, so they can read the label.
- Check your sugar more often in the first weeks, because your readings may come down. Write the numbers down.
- Take extra care on insulin or gliclazide: people on insulin or on tablets that push the pancreas to release insulin are the most at risk of going too low.
- Know the low-sugar signs: shaking, sweating, a fast heartbeat, hunger and confusion. Below 4 mmol/L, follow the low-sugar plan your care team gave you, and see your doctor if lows keep coming back (HealthHub).
- Bring your log to your next review. If your readings change, your doctor decides what, if anything, to change.
Keep your HbA1c tests too: HealthHub’s target for people with diabetes is 7% or lower, and your care team may set a different one for you. Our guide to EvenOn side effects and safety covers allergies, pregnancy and the low-sugar question in more detail.
What does “free of 408 drug ingredients” tell you?
It tells you EvenOn was tested for hidden medicine. Lab tests show it is free of 408 common drug ingredients, as well as heavy metals and pathogenic microbes, and Malaysia’s NPRA, part of the Ministry of Health, has classified it as a food product, a functional botanical drink. That matters most if you already take medicine: when you show your doctor the box, they know it was screened for those 408 drug ingredients and none were found. It is also halal certified by JAKIM until 31 October 2028, and made in Malaysia in a GMP, HACCP and MeSTI certified facility.
When should you see a doctor first?
Before you reach for any supplement, see a doctor if you have signs of high blood sugar: thirst, passing urine often, tiredness, blurred vision, slow-healing wounds, weight loss without trying, or numb or tingling hands and feet. Many people have no signs at all, so if you are due for screening, book it with your polyclinic, your GP or your Healthier SG family doctor. If you already have diabetes, HealthHub advises seeing your doctor for low blood sugar that keeps coming back (below 4 mmol/L) or high blood sugar that stays above 16 mmol/L for over 24 hours. And if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, ask your doctor before starting EvenOn.
