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Co Q10 improves BP, glycaemic control: trial with type 2 diabetes – (12-19-02)

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Co Q10 improves BP, glycaemic control: trial with type 2 diabetes

This study used a very reasonable dose of 200 mg/day of CoQ10 and showed favorable effects in diabetics. While this effect was small, keep in mind that CoQ10 supplementation will have a wide range of other beneficial effects (as opposed to pharmaceutical interventions, which typically have a wide range of deleterious effects) and that CoQ10 would only be one tool in the natural approach to diabetes and HTN.

Coenzyme Q10 improves blood pressure and glycaemic control: a controlled trial in subjects with type 2 diabetes.

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GLYCAEMIC CONTROL AMONG PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS – (11-24-08)

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Glycaemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in seven European countries

The authors conclude that the progressive decline in glycemic control in most diabetics over time despite increasing medication usage indicate “the progressive nature of the disease and need for more effective disease management/therapeutic alternatives.” Maybe we should look at it from another perspective….maybe if we gave diabetics REAL lifestyle advice (lower glycemic, high plant based, no artificial sweeteners, impactful exercise, stress management, etc…) instead of relying on more and more medication, that we would not see the “progressive nature” of diabetes.

This review pretty much locks up the idea that lifestyle changes are the ONLY way to manage diabetes, and that reliance upon medication for management is a slowly progressive decline into worsening glycemic control.

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