Alternative Diabetes Treatment:

Type II diabetes is is a disorder that is generally accepted, as a problem of Insulin Resistance. It is my belief, that the longer you have had it, in an unchecked condition, the harder it is to reverse.

Diabetes can be helped. However, it require a commitment on the part of the sufferer. Such is the case with prediabetes, which affects nearly 60 million Americans, in which a person has elevated glucose levels, but is not yet classified as diabetic, via an A1C test.

While diabetes is definitely no fun to live with, it is often very manageable. There are a number of medications for diabetes, and many patients have progressed to the point that they must take them. However, I would like to talk about only the vitamins and supplements that address the particular problems.

The main issue for people with diabetes is that high blood sugar levels cause dysregulated oxidative reactions in the body. To combat the free radicals contributing to this oxidation, it is necessary to take more antioxidants than diet alone commonly provides. Also worthy to note is that about 80% of type II diabetics are overweight. What makes it worse is that insulin used to treat the disease, can cause weight gain.

Being deficient in vitamins and some minerals such as chromium, a trace element, can cause insulin resistance and increase blood glucose. According to the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center, diabetics who are deficient in vitamins and minerals significantly increase fasting blood glucose levels. There are actually other more efficient delivery systems for minerals than the picolinate salts used in research. Consult your alternative physician, for these other options.

Always discuss every medicine you take or are considering, with your physician. Your doctor needs this information and in the case of diabetes, it is especially critical. The reason is that one substance might offset or enhance the effectiveness of another and at the very least, your doctor may want to alter the dosages of your medication or supplements. You also should know that diabetics should avoid taking unprescribed glucosamine, a popular supplement used as a remedy for osteoarthritis. According to a report from the National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine presented at the 2004 American Diabetes Association meeting, glucosamine can make insulin resistance worse.

Those with diabetes should make any necessary changes in lifestyle, such as eliminating sugar from the diet, use Stevia as a natural sweetener, to bring about better health. Diabetes is a disease of poor nutrition and lack of exercise. Both situations that people have the power to turn around. Eat well, exercise regularly, take your vitamins daily, in addition to the other supplements you need and you should be able to greatly improve or even eliminate adult-onset, or type II diabetes.

Here are some of the symptoms and conditions of Diabetes:

Kidney Failure
Blindness (retinopathy) (cataracts)
Amputation (removal of extremities)
Nerve Damage (peripheral neuropathy)
Impotence (inability to achieve an erection)
Accelerate Internal Ageing
Hardening of the Arteries
Increased Cardiovascular Disease
Excess Weight
Death

The apple a day theory. There has been some research, that shows that eating apples, can lower the blood glucose levels in diabetics. A study published in the "Annals of Internal Medicine" showed that apple pectin, helps to reduce blood sugar levels in diabetics.

Bilberry leaf tea is high in chromium, which is said to reduce blood sugar levels, and has therefore been suggested as a treatment for high blood sugar in diabetes.

Here are some of the vitamins and supplements that you might try, with the approval of your Alternative Doctor

Alpha Lipoic Acid