Research on diabetes took a new direction in Britain during the 1950s when it was discovered that a mild form of it was widespread but previously unrecognised in middle-aged, overweight people. This condition eventually became known as Type II, or non-insulin-dependent, diabetes mellitus. The new direction was not what you might expect, an attempt to prevent what seems to be a perfectly preventable degenerative condition. This line of approach was judged politically sensitive and public funding was not made available to pursue it. Meanwhile industrially-funded research concentrated on the production of newer and better forms of insulin for the treatment of Type I, insulin-dependent diabetes.
This is why in this country we have little idea of preventing diabetes, even though that is possible — Type II, at least. This is largely a matter of nutritional caution. Reliance on sugar or refined starchy foods — especially without adequate exercise to use them up — will eventually wear down your pancreas, leading via hypoglycaemia to diabetes over a decade or two. There are two reasons for this. Refined starches flood sugar into the blood too fast, jerking your pancreas into action too fast. However the process of refinement itself removes from the starches important nutrients which would otherwise enable you to cope better with the sugar. Once of these is GTF-chromium.
It is a protein containing chromium, the only form in which chromium is needed or useful in your body. Most of us can make it from a small selection of ingredients present in food, but some cannot. It helps insulin to deal efficiently with sugar, transferring it to muscles and liver to be used or turned into glycogen (a storage form of starch in the body). It also helps to keep the lining of your arteries healthy and free of atherosclerosis. Correction of deficiency can even help repair established coronary disease.
replete can supply food-state GTF-chromium in tablets of 50 microgrammes. Typical supplementary amounts for diabetes, atherosclerosis or hypoglycaemia would be three tablets daily. If you wish simply to ward off any risk of these, one tablet daily long-term is ample.