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Each cap contains: Biotin 300mg, Lipoic Acid 100mg
Alpha Lipoic Acid, (also known as lipoic acid, “the ideal antioxidant,” or “the universal antioxidant”), is the king of Diabetes supplements.
Mayo clinic study finds alpha lipoic acid decreases burning pain and numbness
ROCHESTER, MN -- (April 8, 2003) -- A collaborative study between Mayo Clinic and a medical center in Russia found that alpha lipoic acid (ALA) significantly and rapidly reduces the frequency and severity of symptoms of the most common kind of diabetic neuropathy. Symptoms decreased include burning and sharply cutting pain, prickling sensations and numbness.
The patients who took ALA saw a 5.7-point total symptom score improvement from the start of the trial, while those who took placebo, an inactive substance, only improved 1.8 points. ALA produced no unfavorable side effects in the patients taking this substance.
Although regulating patients' blood-sugar levels is the ideal way to prevent diabetic neuropathy, physicians have recognized that not all patients can or will control their blood sugars to the needed degree.
Other studies have shown that alpha-lipoic acid speeds the removal of glucose (sugar) from the blood of people with diabetes and that this antioxidant may prevent kidney damage associated with diabetes in animals.
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