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Boliss SOS works by addressing the underlying causes of insulin resistance.. By addressing these causes, Boliss SOS can be used to supplement traditional approaches for blood glucose management when blood sugar levels are high and should be used as a rescue medication. It should be taken whenever a diabetic reaches a high enough blood sugar level, with a high level being unique to each diabetic. Take 1 tablet of Boliss SOS and 8 ounces of water per 70 pounds of body weight, in addition to your current blood glucose management. If there’s been no significant change to BG within 40 minutes, take some additional Boliss SOS. 
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Boliss SOS has had mixed results for insulin dependent and non- insulin dependent type 2s. Insulin dependent type 2s have had much more success then those type 2s who do not use insulin,  however, we can not guarantee success. Use at your own discretion. Boliss SOS should not be taken by anyone with a sodium restrictive diet. .

Experimental evidence suggests that more sodium salts are not necessarily bad for diabetics. For example, a recent article describing a prospective cohort study looking at the correlation between sodium and outcomes in events diabetic patients concluded that: “lower 24 hour urinary sodium excretion was paradoxically associated with increased all-cause and cardiovascular mortality.”

• (1)Therefore, too little sodium can increase the risk of long term complications like cardiovascular disease.
• In a nationwide multicenter study (the FinnDiane Study) between 1998 and 2002, 2,807 enrolled adults with type 1 diabetes were prospectively followed to look at the correlation between sodium excretion and health outcomes, which yields the following results. The study concluded that, “Urinary sodium excretion was nonlinearly associated with all-cause mortality, such that individuals with the highest day sodium excretion was inversely associated with the cumulative incidence of ESRD (early stage renal disease), such that individuals with the lowest sodium excretion had the highest cumulative incidence of ESRD.” This association was independent of age, sex, duration of diabetes, the presence and severity of chronic kidney disease (CKD) (estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR] and log albumin excretion rate), the presence of established cardiovascular disease, and systolic blood pressure. During follow-up, 126 patients developed ESRD (4.5%).”
• (2)Therefore, the high amount of elemental sodium contained in Boliss SOS's formulation has a small risk, which we believe is a justifiable risk to reduce the more immediate risk of ketoacidosis for a hyperglycemic person. Moreover, we believe that the long term risks associated with higher A1C levels (for individuals not taking Boliss SOS) are likely to be much greater than any long-term increase in risk of heart disease that a diabetic might encounter as a result of a lifetime of using Boliss SOS. In other words, we believe Boliss SOS will reduce both short-term and long-term health risks. Any concerns about an individual’s health should be brought up to their health care provider(s).
• For more information please see:
• (1) (http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/34/3/703.short)
• (2) http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/34/3/703.short)

No, Boliss SOS is meant to reduce your insulin resistance, caused by dehydration and hyponatremia, and augment the speed with which your insulin works.

Boliss SOS'sinitial concept was an attempt to develop a convenient and affordable product that would be taken to prevent diabetic ketoacidosis. Boliss SOS's formulation contains many of the same ingredients provided in intravenous fluids given to diabetic patients when they are hospitalized with DKA. However, any patient who enters a state of DKA should seek immediate emergency treatment.

Yes

Boliss SOS is not regulated as a drug and thus is not approved by the FDA. All the active ingredients in Boliss SOS are classified as ‘generally regarded as safe” by the FDA. We plan to run a more robust clinical study in the future, and petition the FDA for approval of qualified health claims.

Boliss SOS should be used as a rescue medication for extremely high blood sugar levels, and at most no more than 2 doses of up to three tablets, based on body weight, should be taken per day. 

Ask your doctor or primary care provider as this has not yet been evaluated. 

The maximum we’d recommend is 6 tablets per day.

We believe that using Boliss SOS significantly reduces the risk compared to the conventional treatment of taking insulin, drinking water, and waiting. In the conventional treatment, when blood sugar levels do not drop quickly enough, type 1 diabetics may self-administer additional insulin, which can lead to blood sugar levels dropping significantly below the desired level. However, we have not observed this with Boliss SOS. With Boliss SOS, less insulin is needed as blood sugar levels drop rapidly, and Boliss SOS's formulation does not independently reduce blood sugar levels.

• We conducted an informal, open-label, proof-of-concept human clinical study among type 1 diabetics in the “friends and family” category. A crossover design was used.
• When the subjects were significantly hyperglycemic, they self-medicated by following either the active control procedure or the experimental procedure as described herein. Sometimes a subject followed the active control procedure, and other times the subject followed the experimental treatment procedure.
• For the active control, the significantly hyperglycemic type 1 diabetic subject consumed eight ounces of water, took insulin as appropriate in accordance with their habits and insulin pump recommendation, and waited until their blood glucose levels were no longer hyperglycemic. This is the current standard practice treatment among type 1 diabetics. Blood glucose levels were recorded (using a glucose meter with finger prick test strips) at the outset and every 15 minutes after the intervention was commenced until blood glucose levels dropped to less than 180 mg/dL.
• For the experimental treatment tests, the significantly hyperglycemic subject consumed at least 8 ounces of water along with a therapeutic dosage of Boliss SOS, took insulin as appropriate in accordance with their habits and pump recommendation, and waited until their blood glucose levels were no longer hyperglycemic. Typically, the dosage of Boliss SOS was administered within five minutes of the insulin administration. Blood glucose levels were recorded at the outset and every 15 minutes after the intervention was commenced until blood glucose levels dropped to less than 180 mg/dL. The average starting blood glucose levels were approximately 320 mg/dL for the two groups.
• Clearly, when treated with the experimental procedure, subjects experienced reduced duration and magnitude of hyperglycemic events. On average, hyperglycemic blood glucose levels were dropped below hyperglycemic levels in less than one hour when the type 1 diabetics were subjected to the experimental treatment procedure. In contrast, when subjected to the active control procedure, it took an average of roughly 2.5 hours to return to sub-hyperglycemic blood glucose levels of less than 180 mg/dL. Accordingly, when subjected to the active control treatment, which is the long-time standard of care for diabetic individuals, the hyperglycemic period was about three times longer than when individuals self-administered the experimental treatment procedure. This is an enormous difference, particularly given (i) the physical discomfort associated with hyperglycemia, (ii) the risk of ketoacidosis when high levels of hyperglycemia persist for long periods, and (iii) that the duration and magnitude of hyperglycemic events is believed to correlate closely with A1C levels, which correlate with long-term complications of diabetes.

Although we did not conduct a robust clinical trial to test Boliss SOS's impact on hemoglobin A1C percentages, we measured the A1C percentage levels of Tommy and Gary (the founders) over a period of several months. They consistently took what would become Boliss SOS and, over 6 month period, they experienced an average A1C percentage reduction of nearly 0.1 percent per month. The A1C percentage for both Tommy and Gary have remained at life long lows.