Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Supplement Use in People with Diabetes: A Clinician's Guide: A Clinician's Guide Paperback – Illustrated, June 11, 2007

Dr. Shane-McWhorter does a good job of reviewing most of the major supplements people with diabetes sometimes take. Unfortunately, her concluding comment and recommendation for many of them is to proceed cautiously and avoid most of them. This isn't to say she's wrong; the research on the use of supplements with diabetics is thin at best. Even so, her review of the research focuses almost exclusively on diabetes and fails to take into account the ways various supplements have been shown to assist with different conditions. The book does offer good food-for-thought, but it falls along the lines of those doctors who say, "Just take your medication and maybe a multivitamin, but nothing more."

Where's the berberine, benfotiamine, goat's rue, etc. Please write an updated edition. I'll buy it.

Dr. McWhorter is a waking encyclopedia of pharmacy knowledge as a long time practitioner and professor at University of Utah. She has a true passion for diabetes treatment and education and has become a respected authority on this subject. The information she has provided in this book should prove helpful in enhancing conventional diabetes treatment.