• Aim for total nutrition with a multivitamin
• Help ensure your body is getting the vitamins and minerals it needs to help prevent common infections

• Check out chromium
• Improve glucose tolerance by taking 200 to 1,000 mcg of this essential trace mineral every day

• Fight back with fiber
• Under a doctor's supervision, stabilize your blood sugar by eating fiber from whole grains, beans (legumes), vegetables, and fruit, and consider using a fiber supplement such as glucomannan or psyllium or senna. 

• Use a topical ointment
• An ointment containing 0.025 to 0.075% capsaicin four times a day might help control nerve pain

• Improve and protect with ALA
• Take 600 to 1,200 mg a day of an alpha lipoic acid supplement to improve insulin sensitivity and help protect against diabetic complications such as nerve damage 

Yours in Health,

- Dr M.