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Hehe I'll have to work out how to drive this forum like that. I've just tried this... It's delicious!

What we can say, is to keep blood glucose as low as practicable. Everyone agrees on that I think, and it has to be a diabetic's highest priority. Beyond that, it's not clear at all. The 4 pathways for diabetic complications were idenitified by the early 90's, and there is broad agreement that...

@Fairygodmother. Hi, I'm just a layman, but have been doing a lot of reading around the diabetic pathways, and looking at what supplementation could possibly do to minimise the damage each one does. I started taking Benfotiamine around 10 years ago when I first heard about Thornalley's work...

"But perhaps it's good for other stuff?" In diabetes, as I understand it, Thiamine is metabolised to be a co-factor of the enzyme Transketolase (TK). This can activate the Pentose-Phosphate pathway, which is a pathway in the body which is not implicated in Diabetic complications. In this...

I know this is a zombie thread, but it popped up in my Google search results, so I thought I'd add an update. "I wish there was another forum user who has been using Benfotamine longer than I have, who could give me some feedback." I stopped taking Benfotiamine a few years ago, after taking it...

I know this is a zombie thread, but it popped up in my Google search results, so I thought I'd add an update. I stopped taking Benfotiamine a few years ago, as it didn't do well in 3 human clinical trials (the Groningen, Melbourne and Oslo studies). Thiamine supplementation was found to provide...

I know this is a zombie thread, but it popped up in my Google search results, so I thought I'd add an update. I stopped taking Benfotiamine a few years ago, as it didn't do well in 3 human clinical trials (the Groningen, Melbourne and Oslo studies). Thiamine supplementation was found to...