Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Will Multivitamins Benefit Someone With Diabetes

By Robbie Bainer


Do diabetics understand how multivitamins, taken on a regular basis, will benefit their overall health and well-being? Why? Because a person with diabetes usually has trouble maintaining high levels of most vitamins and minerals versus someone without diabetes. This is because of the way a diabetic's body functions in terms of the processes necessary for balancing and detoxifying the body. For example:

When a person has diabetes their kidneys assume the responsibility of clearing the body of any unwanted glucose. This happens by pulling a lot of fluid from the body which is where a lot of the vitamins and minerals are stored. The end result is that the average diabetic (more than 20 million of them in the United States at this point) if tested, would be found to have a deficiency in the vitamins and minerals that it definitely needs to function well.

As well, it is important to figure out which specific vitamins and minerals a diabetic will benefit from. Unfortunately, when someone asks about what type of multivitamins a diabetic should take they typically receive the same generic information that says exercise and diet are the single best "cure" for diabetes.

These generalities are very misleading. For instance, a diabetic cannot just jump into a rigorous diet and exercise plan because they will not necessarily know what is needed. They must first sit down with their physician and/or a nutritionist to determine the right course of action. The same thing can be said about multivitamins for diabetes. Though there are some obvious items to consider, it is necessary to begin the process with a very thorough meeting with a medical professional. This is the person who can indicate which foods and food sources are ideally suited to your individual needs, and which vitamins would help your condition the most.

As you are learning more and more about the importance of multivitamins you will find that there are several ways to get your daily dose. The best way is by eating the different foods that contain all the vitamins you need. But the quickest and easiest way to ensure that you get your recommended dose of multivitamins is to take vitamins in the form of liquids, tablets and capsules. It is easy to establish a routine, especially if you take them with your meals, which is highly recommended. For example, you can buy vitamin C in small fruit flavored chewable tablets and each tablet has 500 MG of vitamin C. You will find a list below which shows the vitamins that are considered to provide the most benefit for people with diabetes, however as mentioned above; you should begin by discussing things with your doctor.

Vitamin C - insulin delivers glucose into the cells, and a diabetic never has adequate glucose to properly "feed" the cells in their body. Vitamin C is molecularly similar to glucose and nearly all diabetics have a deficiency in this essential vitamin;

Vitamin E - most people with diabetes know that they are likely to develop eye trouble and to have bad circulation in their hands and feet. Vitamin E is incredibly useful in combating these issues by protecting cells from oxidative damage; and

Vitamin B-Complex - a complex vitamin B supplement will help get glucose into cells, protect nerves from damage, and assist in pancreas functions.




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