Controlling blood sugar with supplements

I'm never real sure about alternative treatments but with diabetes nutrition does matter.

Vitamins and Herbs Effect on Diabetes
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
With vitamin E, helps get sugar out of the blood stream and into the cells.5 Keeps diabetics’ blood vessels and kidneys healthy.6,7

Vitamin E (mixed tocopherols)
With the B vitamins, vitamin E helps keeps the pancreas healthy and helps prevent nerve damage.8,9 Helps prevent kidney damage, blindness, and heart attacks.10,11 With vitamin C, helps keep blood vessels healthy.12,13

Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine HCL)
With folic acid and B12, B6, helps prevents heart attacks and nerve damage.14,15 Helps prevent diabetic blindness, vision loss.16

Folic Acid
Along with B12, folic acid helps prevents strokes and loss of limbs due to diabetic complications.17 Vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin) Helps relieve neuropathic pain.18 Also works with folic acid and B6 (see above).

Biotin
With chromium’s help, biotin (one of the B vitamins) helps insulin work better, keeps the pancreas working well, and lowers blood sugar levels.19 Magnesium (Krebs cycle chelate) Relieves neuropathic pain and helps insulin work more effectively.20,21

Zinc (picolinate)
Helps blood sugar get into the cells and insulin work better.22

Selenium (aspartate)
Called an "insulin mimic", selenium helps take blood sugar into the cells. Selenium also protects against blood vessel and nerve damage from elevated blood sugars.23,24

Copper (picolinate)
Copper helps protect the cells in the pancreas that make insulin healthy, helps prevent diabetes-related damage to blood vessels and nerves, and lowers blood sugar levels.25

Manganese (Krebs cycle chelate)
Helps prevent damage to blood vessels and nerves.26,27

Chromium (picolinate)
With biotin’s help, chromium helps insulin work better, keeps the pancreas working well, and lowers blood sugar levels.19
Gymnema sylvestre leaf extract
Helps balance blood sugars and may protect us from gaining weight.28,29

Bitter melon whole fruit extract
Helps pathways in the diabetic liver work more efficiently; lowers blood sugar levels.30

Fenugreek seed extract
Helps lower blood sugars and helps our liver and kidneys metabolize blood sugars more efficiently.31

Bilberry berry extract
Helps prevent and reduce the severity of diabetic cataracts.32

Mixed bioflavonoids (citrus)
Helps protect vitamins C and E from diabetic damage. Like bilberry, bioflavonoids help keep diabetics’ vision clear and sharp.33 Vanadyl sulfate Helps cells of both the liver and muscles use insulin more effectively.34