While the general overall benefits of good nutrition have been acknowledged for some time, even by skeptics, it is only over the last 20 years or so that we have seen an acceleration of research into the effect of singular nutrients on specific conditions.  Fish oil for heart health and cognition, for example. Or chromium and diabetes.

Now comes a well designed study that shows 2 nutrients can head diabetic complications off at the pass, by normalizing the formation of AGES ( ) and reducing inflammation.

Alpha-Lipoic Acid plus Benfotiamine May Benefit Patients with Type 1 Diabetes

And we have both of these substances:

http://www.vitaminlady.com/vitamin_research_products/benfotiamine.asp

http://www.vitaminlady.com/the_vitamin_lady/alpha_lipoic_acid.asp

http://www.vitaminlady.com/jarrow/Alpha_lipoic_acid.asp