Hello,

I've had this site bookmarked for a couple of months. I guess it's time to say hello and start contributing. I'm a very controlled, 52 year old male, type 2 diabetic, HA1C 6.4 so guess I could do better (and will!). I only use glucophage morning and evening, strict healthy eating, vigorous exercise (highly recommend using http://www.readysetgofitness.com) and losing weight like a tortoise (if you know what I mean).

Question: Have any of you ever heard or had experience with Food Matrix
from Sportron? I've had some fella call, sending emails, and telling me this is the answer for diabetic control. Very leary about it, but then I like to have open mind. Anyone???? (web site: www.sportron.com)

It is always a pleasure to know some fellow diabetics, and help if I can. Right now, exercise is like insulin to me! It keeps me on the straight and narrow!

Regards!
Darrell D.
"Diabetic D"

From what I read on their website, it's simply a high potency multivitamin with added Chromium. It may help some, but it's certainly not a "cure" or "the answer to diabetes control" by any means. You can take their vitamins until you are blue in the face, but if don't do something about what you eat, they will have very little, if any, effect.
My opinion, of course....

We tried it and did not notice any differences in my mom's blood sugars. It is very expensive for a month's supply - about $100 - and I decided that we can get the same vitamins for a lesser price. Get a good multi-vitamin, add ALA and Pimrose per Bernstein, and we added "Glucobetic" which has many of the helpful herbs such as Gynema and Bitter Melon. We also added Fenugeek, Carsolic Acid, Chromium, Bilberry, Lutein, a multi-vitamin and probably a few others.

My mom went on low carb and with exercise, she was able to go off her medicine which was 2.5 Glyburide. She started with an H1ac of 14. Now she is 5.3, but that was before she was taken off her medicine.

Foodmatrix appears to be a multi-level marketing set-up, and must have high profits built in. We did not notice any change with it. The other stuff, however, seems to work.

My mom's blood sugars continue to drop as we work with her supplements - down from 130 to about 107 now in the morning. We hope to see her in the 90s soon.