Adelle0607
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- Type of diabetes
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
Hi! What are vitamin supplements that you take for overall health and Diabetes management?
If your body is coming under attack from excess sugar then imo it makes sense to take supplements??? Vit B complex. Vit C and Vit D is high on the list. A good book would give you the needed information because it is too time consuming to list the benefits. Sadly some people knock the idea of taking them possibly because they can't afford them. If you do take them then don't expect to feel "better". It is an act of faith that they benefit you.
As above, emphasising we should each do what we feel is best for us. Atm I'm more interested in NOT taking anything so have stopped statins. Later I might wonder about VitB12 for my sore toe or Vit D since I heard that you don't get much from the low sun in winter. But by then it will be spring.Personally, I'd rather tackle to root cause (i.e. get and keep the sugars in control), and allow my body to function in the way nature intended. It's nothing to do with cost.
I have nothing against anyone who wants to take supplements. I'm certain there's a placebo effect in play, sometimes, whether or not the supplements do any good.
Interesting thanks for postingI used to take 6000IU of vitamin D daily during the dark months after I was diagnosed with insufficiency. Since taking natural thyroid hormones (NDT) this seems to have solved itself more or less. Last autumn my vitamin D level was 148 compared with 47 some years ago. I still take vitamin D but not quite as much.
I have also started to take a high dose vitamin B12 plus a vit B complex and the tingling in my feet has disappeared while sense of feeling has reappeared.
Also take selenium when I remember it.
Yes Kezzer very true, I take vit D supplements from autumn to spring because of the very short days up here in Scotland.I take a vitamin d and calcium tablet every day but only because it was recommended by the liver specialist as my levels were low. The vitamin d definitely helps if you get a bit low during the winter months...
Hear hear. I'm having one already and it's greatI want an energetic, healthy, vivacious old age, not one where I am just fading into the grave.
If it was the vitamin B 12 that caught you attention I go for methylcobolamin. Jarrrows have a good reputation but apparently they don't sell their sublingual methycobalamin to my country so I settled for Solgar instead. I could get the Jarrow's B-right complex though.Interesting thanks for posting
I think that H&B do supplements specifically for skin, hair and nails.I've always had thin hair but it seems to have gone even thinner since the diabetes and I'm very conscious of it. My mum and aunt suffer too but my sister doesn't.
I'm wondering what I could do or take?
I've always had thin hair but it seems to have gone even thinner since the diabetes and I'm very conscious of it. My mum and aunt suffer too but my sister doesn't.
I'm wondering what I could do or take?
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