Diabetes is when there is too much sugar in your blood. Your body makes insulin to carry sugar from the blood into your cells where it can be burned as fuel. If your insulin is too low or is not effective (insulin resistance), the sugar can’t get into your cells and builds up in your blood.
TREATMENT
Diet and Exercise
Don't be overweight
Lose weight if you are overweight. This restores your own insulin’s effectiveness and is often enough to make the diabetes go away — especially if you add regular exercise to your regimen.
Avoid sweets
Stevia, artificial sweeteners, and sugar free chocolate with maltitol like the “Russell Stover” sugar free brand are OK.
Increase fiber intake
Recommended Supplements
Multi-nutrient powder
The vitamins B12, B6 and Inositol can help prevent (or heal) diabetic nerve injury. These can be found in a good multi-nutrient powder (see Energy Revitalization System). Treating the magnesium deficiency routinely caused by the diabetes helps decrease the risk of heart disease (do not take magnesium if you have kidney failure without your doctor’s OK). The antioxidants may decrease the damage from the high sugar, and other components may help increase insulin sensitivity.
Lipoic acid
Take the supplement lipoic acid 300 mg 2x day to prevent and treat diabetic nerve pain.
Acetyl-L-Carnitine
If you have diabetic nerve injury, add acetyl-l-carnitine 1,500-3,000 mg a day.
Medications
Metformin
For Type 2 diabetes, try the medication "metformin" instead of insulin. Though you may need insulin, it simply causes more weight gain and more insulin resistance in the long term. For these reasons, use the treatments discussed here so your doctor can get you off your insulin.
Other Therapies & Advice
Treat low testosterone
In men, if the blood testosterone level is under 450, consider bioidentical testosterone hormone by prescription (aim for a blood level of 700-900).
Treat heart problems
source: mdinfo
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