Nutritional supplements for improving glucose metabolism
CA 2284664 A1 · Owner: Womack, Rick W. · Inventors: Womack, Rick W.
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The invention provides nutritional supplements and methods for administering nutritional supplements that improve glucose metabolism particularly for , persons with diabetes. A first nutritional supplement or "Phase I" , supplement, comprises a source of vanadate and a source of chromium. A second nutritional supplement, or "Phase II" supplement comprises Gymnema sylvestre , and lipoic acid. The nutritional supplements are alternated to prevent accumulation of the nutrients in the body and also to overcome desensitization that can occur over long periods of continuous use. While the nutritional supplements may be alternated at almost any frequency and taken over almost any duration, …
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- Filed March 24, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended March 24, 2018.
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