Standard therapies in Europe right now should be investigated by those with diabetes or who have family members afflicted.
This include a normal, daily supplement of vitamin B-1. The excess urination caused by diabetes results in a loss of albumin, which in turn causes many severe problems to the kidneys and liver. B-1 preserves albumin levels so is essential to those with diabetes. Not megadoses, just normal amounts, like 100mg a day. Please research it.
A less common therapy is R-Alpha Lipoic Acid. (Note: though ALA is fairly common as a supplement, R-ALA is less available, usually only through mail order.) In specific, R-ALA is used to stave off or even partially reverse diabetic neuropathy (nerve damage leading to numbness) in the extremities. Please research it.
Entering vitamin B-1 and diabetes and albumin into PubMed's query box got 14 results. That's one of them. Check the right sidebar too for related results.
Entering (R-Alpha Lipoic Acid or Alpha Lipoic Acid or ALA or R-ALA) and diabetic neuropathy into PubMed's query box got 192 results. You got my drift. Save PubMed if you haven't already. Thanks for the reminders.
“A less common therapy is R-Alpha Lipoic Acid. (Note: though ALA is fairly common as a supplement, R-ALA is less available, usually only through mail order.) In specific, R-ALA is used to stave off or even partially reverse diabetic neuropathy (nerve damage leading to numbness) in the extremities. Please research it.”
Alpha Lipoic Acid is a powerful antioxidant and it is useful in regenerating organs, specifically the liver and the pancreas. Alpha Lipoic Acid is typically about 50% the R- isomer and is the only one beneficial to the body. When you buy ALA, you are getting both isomers...they are mirror images and can’t be overlaid. A 200 mg capsule of ALA would typically give you about 100 mg of R-Lipoic Acid.