my stance on vitamins

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Some here may recall my outrageously high homocysteine levels in the past.

I am talking here about extremely high ones in the 20's. I started treating

myself to get these levels down into the safe level around two years ago,

and I was able to get it down in the mid teens up until this past March.

The only thing I did differently for three or four months before I had my

last A1C level and my homocysteine level done was to take a complex vitamin

B formula containing vitamin C and all of the vitamin B's. Some call it a

stress tablet. Now I understand why it is so important for any diabetic to

takevitamins, and especially all of the vitamin B's and some C.

Homocysteine is a harmful chemical compound formed by the body when it does

not have the balance of factors like B12, B6 and folic acid, I believe B9 in

their body. Homocysteine level is an excellent predictor of heart attack

potential, and mine has always run high to very high. I finally gave up

injecting B12 shots and fooling with those folic acid tablets, and I decided

to just take a single tablet containing all of the vitamin B's along with

some C. I have a well rounded diet, but apparently this is not enough.

This is why I recommend supplements. If you take supplements, then you know

for sure you are getting the vitamins you need, and you no longer have to

guess whether or not you have a " well rounded diet " .

The normal homocysteine level is below 11. After three or four months of

taking the B complex tablets I had a homocysteine of 9 for the first time

in the normal range. It finally happened in March, 2006, when I got an A1C

of 5.4 and a CRP near 4.0. A CRP below 3.0 is desired. People here also

know I am a niacin, vitamin B3, advocate. Every day for the rest of my

life I take at least 1000 mg of Vitamin B3 or niacin. You can count on me

taking it for as long as I live along with a daily tablet of vitamin B

complex with C. In my opinion any diabetic, heart attack victim, stroke

victim, heart bypass surgery victim or candidate or stint implant patient

should take these vitamins every day for the rest of their life in known

quantities, not in a guessed at well rounded diet. In fact if a person

wishes to avoid or prevent a heart attack, stroke, heart bypass surgery, or

a stint implant needs to be on these vitamins only on the day they wish to

live. It will cost you though about $10 or less per month for the rest of

your life. I think you are worth it. Of course there is one big drawback.

You may have to pay this amount for an extra ten or twenty years.

This is my advice to you, and it does not bother me at all to offer it. For

one thing there has never been a recorded death for what I have recommended.

For another I am law suit proof. You can sue me for every thing I own, and

you may get 100% of it. Now how much would that be. Let me see 100% of

nothing is...