Do any of you give your children any herbal treatments or natural supplements of some kind to help with regulating blood sugars/insulin? A friend of mine mentioned a supplement that she gives to her autistic son, is supposed to help with diabetes, or autoimmune diseases. I am sure it mainly helps with Type 2 diabetics, but I wonder if adding some natural treatments to insulin therapy for a Type1 diabetic is helpful in some way. I can’t remember the name of it, I think it starts with an A. I have never really looked into things like that since I know our main focus needs to be getting his insulin levels where they need to be.
I have been looking into this.
I think that Chromium, Magnesium and vitamin D3 are important. Someone told me about insul-opt. It has a huge list of ingredients. I have looked each one up and I am not so sure. they sound great on the insul-opt website but uf you look each one up indvidually it gets questionable.
If you want I can list all of the ingredients and what they supposedly do.
I have my daughter on a good multi extra d3 and fish oil with dha and epa.
Do these supplements seem to help keep her regulated? I know I have heard it is important to take a good multivitamin. I guess I just feel like I should be looking into whatever might help with managing this for him. I can check out the website for insul-opt. Thanks
Vitamin D supplementation (as most kids with Type 1 are deficient in Vita D) and Cod liver oil, have to get on the ball with the cod liver oil. I think all kids need this but, particularly, kids with D. She uses Teen Advantage multi vitamin right now, which seems to have decent amounts of the vitamins (800 units D, etc.) I am sure there are better multis out there, though. I don’t know if these vitamins lower insulin usage (I strongly suspect not). I don’t want a supplement to lower her insulin usage as I don’t feel it would be reliable. Supplements and herbs can have different potency/strength batch to batch. Need consistency here. Nothing, including insulin, lowers blood sugar faster than exercise. I can see the effects of exercise in fifteen minutes. However, must have working insulin in body if using exercise to lower BS and cannot be too high. Have read about Chromium Picolinate (book written by Lori Pruerung (sic) given to us in “Bag of Hope” at diagnosis. She swears it lowers her children’s TDD. I believe recent studies may disagree with chromium picolinate having that effect. If it is not dangerous, you may want to try that one.