This is best achieved by restricting all processed foods, fruits, potatoes and especially bread products. Frequent small meals, 'smart' meats such as chicken and fish, green and white vegetables such as broccoli, asparagus and cauliflower, and regular exercise are the patients' responsibilities. The medical therapy is erroneously only concerned with the blood sugar. This will hopefully prevent a diabetic crisis with blood sugars going too high or too low. But the underlying disease process, that the body is 'overflowing' with glucose stores, is being ignored by the generations of treating physicians.
Ulcers develop when there is insufficient cirulation.
The medical term is gangrene. Expensive and time consuming debriedments, medications, antibiotics, therapy and skin grafts cannot correct the underlying process. Women do not realize that all their estrogen comes from Testosterone. This 73 year old man has been diabetic for 20 years. The second patient is a black woman on 40 units of insulin daily who already had amputation of toes on her foot.