I’d like to dedicate this article to a diabetic patient I treated in the ER recently, who arrived in a coma, with a blood sugar level over 1000. The patient survived and is recovering, but the entire traumatic and expensive episode could possibly have been avoided had they been aware of a widely available natural dietary supplement called Lipoic Acid (LA).

Like many of the patients I treat in the ER, this patient was receiving “state of the art” diabetes management, and was being fed a carefully controlled diet, following the guidelines of the American Diabetes Association (ADA). On multiple, prescription blood sugar control medications, this patient still experienced dramatic complications of her diabetes, leading to near-death, and a heart attack.

What makes this patient’s situation more tragic is that I knew that these complications were by no means inevitable. Had she been using a proven, complementary treatment – Lipoic Acid, she could have been spared the extreme suffering she experienced the other night, in the ER.

I know this is a bold statement, and certainly LA is no substitute for proper diabetes management practices such as eating a low-glycemic diet and maintaining a healthy body weight. But, the fact is, LA has been shown to exhibit measurable and sometimes dramatic effects in both safely lowering blood sugar and in reducing the symptoms and damage caused by prolonged high blood sugar.

Painful and dangerous conditions such as diabetic neuropathy (peripheral nerve damage) and poor peripheral circulation are often greatly improved upon taking LA.

Recently, one of my family members was experiencing fasting blood sugar levels between 300 and 400 every morning. He poured his heart out to me, describing the efforts he had made, working closely with his doctors, to get his blood sugar controlled.

Naturally, he felt like a ticking time bomb, as he checked his blood sugar every morning, looking at those extreme levels. He was spending a small fortune on blood sugar control medications, to minimal avail.

After the first dose of LA (in a slow-release form at a dose of 600mg per day), his fasting sugar levels dropped to 145! His doctors had been trying to do that for months, using “conventional medical methods,” but this complementary medicine miracle accomplished what conventional therapy alone could not do for him.

I don’t have to tell you how happy this man is now, especially given the fact that a months supply of LA costs far less than any of his diabetes medications.