Most of us long timers here on the newsgroups have tried every
supplement you can imagine and found their effects to be underwhelming
and at times troubling.

For example, I found that the lower blood sugars cinnamon caused at 2
hours were canceled out by the extremely high blood sugars I saw shortly
after ingestion, once I measured a value 100 mg/dl higher than usual.
Since it is very dangerous to the eye have blood sugars over 250 mg/dl
for any period of time, that was the end of my cinnamon experiment.
Cinnamon also, contrary to what I'd read in the research paper, raised
my blood sugar in a predictable manner after ingestion.

Newbies often waste a lot of time and money on these supplements hoping
that by doing so they can keep eating the same crap they were eating at
diagnosis. Ask anyone here who has gone from a diabetic to normal blood
sugar how they did it, and the answer you are going to get is NOT
through using supplements.

And it's worth noting that many of us are people who do use alternative
health approaches for other conditions. I certainly do. But supplements
and alternative practices are virtually worthless for diabetes, and if
you really want to normalize your blood sugar you'd do a whole lot
better to ask the people who have done it how they have done it.  There
are dozens of them here who would be happy to tell you how.

 --Jenny

http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes  Diabetes Info

http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/newlydiagnosed.htm Get Your Blood
Sugar Under Control

I just buy Fenugreek seeds from the neighbourhood
Pakistani/Indian store. I grind 1 spoon of the seeds in
my coffee grinder & have it after dinner with water.

The Hindu name for Fenugreek is "Maythee".
They also have Fenugreek leaves available in their
grocery section. Apparently, that's also supposed to
be good, but haven't tried it.

I've seen studies claiming that green tea lowers BG.  I haven't noticed this
effect, but I like green tea!