Got Diabetes? Get Vitamin C!
According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control), almost 24 million people have diabetes… that’s 8% of the population. The complications for those diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes can be debilitating, even life threatening. The worst of these complications that can result from the body’s inability to produce insulin include heart disease, blindness, nerve damage, and kidney damage.
Findings regarding the ability to stop the damage caused by these complications were recently published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. Researchers from the Harold Hamm Oklahoma Diabetes Center revealed the way to stop this damage is by using a combination of insulin and vitamin C. While neither therapy proved effective when used alone, the combination of insulin to control blood sugar together with the use of Vitamin C stopped the blood vessel damage in patients with poor glucose control.
With a huge body of knowledge showing the effects of oxidative stress on diabetic complications, this theory had been tested and shown to be successful on research models. The results of this study have great importance, because it is shows that this theory actually proved effective when tested on humans.
Therefore, using this combination can reduce or stop the damage and patients with diabetes could avoid some of the painful and even fatal consequences that include heart disease, amputation, kidney failure, and blindness.
Dr. Ihnat, lead researcher, noted that, “For patients with diabetes, this means getting their glucose under control is not enough. An antioxidant-based therapy combined with glucose control will give patients more of an advantage and lessen their chance of developing complications associated with diabetes.”
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