Diabetes Supplements: An Overview
Although some diabetes supplements may be effective, others can be ineffective or even harmful.
Patients who use diabetes supplements need to let their healthcare providers know what they are doing.
This article focuses on several diabetes supplements that people try, including:
There is limited scientific evidence on the effectiveness of
dietary supplements as alternative treatments for diabetes. The evidence that is available is not sufficiently strong to prove that any supplements or herbal remedies for diabetes discussed in this article have benefits for
type 2 diabetes or its associated complications. A possible exception may be the use of
omega-3 fatty acids to lower triglyceride levels.
If you decide to use diabetes supplements, you should know that what you see on the label may not accurately reflect what is in the bottle. Some herbal supplements, for example, have been found to be contaminated; some tests of herbal supplements have found that the contents did not match the labeled dose on the bottle.
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