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Alternative Therapy Series---
Supplements In Diab. Mellitus
Impact And Relation
To Complications

Overview

Basic Nutrition

Why We Don’t Know More

Who Uses Complimentary Therapy?

Causes Of Damage

Nutrients Of Interest

Where Vitamins & Minerals May Help

Retinopathy---Prevention

Retinopathy

What Causes Proliferative Retinopathy?

What Causes Leaky Blood Vessels
Macular Edema and Kidney Disease

Vitamin E Levels
With & Without Retinopathy

High Vitamin E Lowers VEGF

Retinopathy---Treatment

Neuropathy---Prevention

Neuropathy---Treatment

Kidney Disease---Treatment

What Is Oxidation?

How Free Radicals Damage Cells

Oxidative Damage

Antioxidants

Vitamin E Is Recycled By Other Antioxidants

"Oxidative states (aging,"

Antioxidants May Slow Aging

Superoxide Free Radical Levels
Before & After Improved Control

Antioxidant Benefits In Type 2

Vitamin C

Vitamin C
With and Without Complications

Vitamin C
With and Without Retinopathy

Does Taking Vitamin C Help?

Blood Sugar Control Affects Glutathione

Vit C Intake and Mortality in Men
Relative risk of death: 11,348 U.S. adults followed 10 yrs

Vitamin E And Clotting

Vit E And Risk Of CVD In Men
Relative risk of CVD in 39,910 men during 4 year study

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Antioxidants May Help Hypoglycemia Unawareness

Selenium

RBC Selenium In Type I DM

Glycosylation And AGEs

AGEs From Drinks

AGEs From Food

Why Joint Problems Are Common

AGE Blockers

Essential Fatty Acids

Mortality vs Flavanoid Intake
Zutphen Elder Study of 805 men over 5 years

Magnesium Deficiency---How Common?

Magnesium

Magnesium

Zinc

Zinc

Serum Zinc In 68 People With Diab.

Where Is Zinc Lost?

Copper in Type I Diab.

Iron

Vanadium May Help

Vanadium May Harm

Chromium

Unwanted Food--Drug Interactions

Gymnema Sylvestra

Vitamin A In Type 1 And Type 2

Conjugated Linoleic Acid or CLA

Other Alternative Treatments

Steps To Prevent Type 2

Other Research Findings