Diabetes is a serious disease effecting humans and dogs and other pet animals. DiaIonX is a natural glucose lowering supplement available by the innovative company Vetionx. If your pet dog is borderline diabetic, then this may help, since it is claimed to help lower glucose levels. Diabetes is when your body loses tolerance to insulin, causing excessively high levels of glucose to stay in the blood. This excessive glucose can lead to all sorts of health problems. Normally, a person shuttles a lot of that excess glucose into their cells by secreting insulin. However, diabetics because of their insulin desensitivity, wind up having too much glucose in their blood to sit around and do damage. Thats why people with diabetes or borderline diabetes get thirsty and urinate a lot because your body is trying to flush out the excess glucose.

Now Let’s look at some of the ingredients of DiaIonx to see what it contains. Calcium, Potassium Gluconate, Chromium Picolinate, and Zinc (Amino Chelate). Chromium picolinate has long been known to help with insulin sensitivity and is recommended supplement for borderline diabetics. A lot of people are deficient in Chromium because it is hard to absorb, but Chromium Picolinate is the easiest absorbed form. Chromium helps create the growth factor called Glucose Tolerance Factor. This factor helps insulin bind to the receptors, to increase sensitivity. Many studies have shown chromium having a beneficial effect on diabetic rats including American Society for Nutrition J. Nutr. 136:415-420, February 2006 and The American Society for Nutritional Sciences J. Nutr. 132:1107-1114, 2002. This abstract published in Journal of the American College of Nutrition, Vol 16, Issue 5 404-410 pointed out the large body of evidence supporting chromium in helping diabetes. They also say that dosage and chromium form is important, citing a chinese study where the 500mg 2 times a day chromium picolinate group had results after 4 months, whereas the 100mg 2 times a day group had little. You can’t take too high of doses of chromium picolinate because there is side effects at the very high levels.

Vetionx adds zinc because it used by enyzmes that are important in insulin binding and buildup. They also claim that zinc supplementation research has shown lower insuline levels with the same glucose levels, thereby proving zinc increases insulin sensitivity. I looked up some studies myself and found some supporting zinc’s role in glucose. A study published in Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2006 Dec 8;351(1):165-70. Epub 2006 Oct 11. showed an improvement on rat’s type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndromes, from zinc complex use after 4 weeks. A study published in Dustri, Deisenhofen, ALLEMAGNE (1994) (Revue) by the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, TURQUIE showed that high doses of zinc decreased serum glucose levels after 22 days on 100 male rats. Interesting enough, I found a study published in Biol Trace Elem Res. 1991 Feb;28(2):123-33. that showed acute doses of zinc did not change glucose metabolism in humans like it did with animals in studies. A study published in J Trace Elem Med Biol. 2007;21(2):113-9. Epub 2007 Mar 6 showed that rats fed with zinc plus high fructose diet, had higher insulin sensitivy compared to high fructose diet without the zinc. From my research on zinc on other processes in the body, it also plays a crucial role in many other complex factors dealing with cells and glucose metabolism. You do not want to take zinc excessively though, as it can cause side effects, as pointed out in a study published in Indian J Exp Biol. 2006 Sep;44(9):705-18. It showed excessive zinc for 6 months led to symptoms of metabolic syndrome-x.

The potassium is added to DiaIonx for energy for ATP (Which is the basic energy “currency” in cells). Not sure exactly how that has to do with insulin sensitivity and glucose, but it probably just helps make sure all the enzymes in the body are working at optimum.

Overall, DiaIonx seems like it could help because the Chromium and Zinc in DiaIonx, have extensive research to indicate they help with glucose metabolism and insulin sensitivity. You can only buy DiaIonX directly through Vetionx. They offer a 90 day money back guarantee too, so I think it’s worth a try.