| Diabeticine has had to change its name to Diamaxol. | | | | Neither list a journal in which they are published. Being |
| Websites promoting the sales of Diabeticine have had | | | | published in a peer reviewed journal is part of the |
| to show FDA warnings that the claims made by the | | | | accepted procedure for proving your medical |
| manufacturers of Diamaxol/Diabeticine are breaking | | | | research. If you search Pubmed for "diabeticine" or |
| the law by making medical claims for a product that | | | | "Diamaxol", you will no entries at all. These two |
| is not approved as a drug. So where are these clinical | | | | "clinical studies" are only available on sites selling the |
| studies that the sites claim were done? Where were | | | | product. |
| the results published? Is this a safe product? | | | | If you search the FDA site for clinical trials, , you will |
| FDA approved as a dietary supplement | | | | not find any entries for diabeticine or Diamaxol. |
| Diamaxol/Diabeticine has been approved as a dietary | | | | Who are the authors? |
| supplement. That means that the FDA is reasonably | | | | Google may not be the best place to find someone, |
| sure that it can cause no harm. Further, any | | | | or the only place to verify the identity of an author |
| ingredients that have known daily limits (such as the | | | | of a scientific clinical study, but for the first article, |
| chromium) are not in excess of safe doses. If you | | | | you will have a difficult time finding anyone with |
| look at the ingredients, which are freely available for | | | | those names. Especially if you add -diabeticine to the |
| viewing in the internet, most all of them are generally | | | | search term. A PhD who has only ever published a |
| regarded as safe by the FDA. The harm will be | | | | paper that does not appear in any peer reviewed |
| largely to your pocketbook, not your body, if you | | | | journal? |
| purchase and consume Diamaxol. | | | | For the second article, you will actually find various |
| Safe Ingredients, but Effective in Diabetes | | | | scientists with name Andrew Stevenson, but I |
| Treatment? | | | | challenge any real Andrew Stevenson NMD MPH to |
| Pubmed, , is the science geek's place to start | | | | put his place of employment on the article. |
| searching for medical information on the internet. It's | | | | Go back to Pubmed and look at an article abstract. |
| not the last stop, but usually the first. If you do a | | | | The places of employment of the researchers who |
| brief search in Pubmed for each ingredient +diabetes, | | | | published the work are always listed in an article. |
| you will see that many of the ingredients are indeed | | | | These two "clinical studies" do not list the places of |
| shown by research to be helpful at least in certain | | | | employment (university, hospital, medical center) of |
| instances of diabetes treatment. | | | | any of the authors. |
| Banaba, Guggle (Guggul), Bitter Melon, Licorice | | | | No clinical studies can just list "The study was |
| extract, Cinnamon herb powder, Gymnema | | | | conducted in an Out-Patient Department of |
| Sylvestre, Yarrow, Cayenne, Juniper Berries, | | | | Endocrinology." Any legitimate clinical study must list |
| Huckleberry, Vanadyl Sulfate, vitamin C, vitamin E | | | | exactly the hospital, university, or other center |
| (d-Alpha tocopheryl acetate), magnesium, biotin, zinc, | | | | where patients are recruited and samples are handled. |
| manganese, and chromium picolinate can all be found | | | | In other words, these "clinical studies" look, smell, and |
| in medical research. Many of the abstracts are linked | | | | walk like fake ducks. They may have indeed been |
| to full text articles online, for those who enjoy | | | | done somewhere, sometime, at some undisclosed |
| reading up in scientific language what the latest | | | | place. However, at $75 - $90 per bottle of 60 |
| theory is regarding each ingredient. | | | | capsules, you can probably do your own online |
| But they say there is clinical research, and the studies | | | | reading research and purchase all the ingredients |
| are available online! | | | | separately in a far more economical manner. |
| Yes, there are two "clinical studies" available online. | | | | |