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does cinnamon help lower blood sugar?
Question : does cinnamon help lower blood sugar?
the past couple months i have been on here asking questions about diabeties and ive been getting really good advice. i was dignosed in feb and no one i know has it and its not in my family. needless to say this is kinda my support group:)
in previous questions about my blood sugar, a few people have suggested adding cinnamon to my diet to reduce blood sugar readings. has anyone on here tried that and it has worked? how much a day do i take? will it be a noticable difference? anyone on here know anything and can give me more info? thanks:)
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Best answer:
Answer by ncbound
in type 2 it is supposed to help a little.. but not in type 1
just eat right, exercise and take your meds!
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#2 written by GM Virtual 1 year ago
hello,
I am curious if anyone has actually tried MonaVie here? My sister has adult diabetes and I gave her a bottle for fruit intake and she told me the other day that her blood sugar levels have decreased. typically she is running 175 – 220 and she was 117. We decided to run a personal test, checking her levels before drinking and then drinking for a week, she is day 3 into the test and her levels have been 117 – 130, she said she had an ice cream yesterday and expected the level to go up and it went to 149….it’s weird, nothing else has changed in her diet in the past few days.
I know the internet states all of these great things about MonaVie, but I didn’t believe increasing your intake of fruit via this juice could do anything do really help maintain blood sugar levels on that much of a range…….has anyone else noticed this??
Thanks,
Gina
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#3 written by Tin S 1 year ago
Use ¼ to ½ teaspoon of cinnamon per day. Add it to your coffee, oatmeal, smoothie, or wherever you find it palatable.
If you already suffer from diabetes, be sure to stay on a regular schedule with your cinnamon usage so that your blood sugar levels don’t yo-yo.Use the same amount at the same time every day so that you can get a sense of how cinnamon affects your own personal blood sugar readings.
Use the powdered spice or a cinnamon stick. Cinnamon pills are also available, and can be found easily via an online search. MHCP is water soluble and is not found in cinnamon oil.Lime and lemon juice delay the digestion of starches as does vinegar. I’ve found that 2-3 tablespoons of lime or lemon juice reduces my post prandial BG response by 10-20 points. Rick Mendosa’s site has a lot of material on acids in the diet. Take a look at http://www.mendosa.com/acidic_foods.htm .
Fight Diabetes with Sweet Laughter
A Japanese study finds a chuckle after a meal may help lower your blood sugar.A chuckle may help the body process blood sugar, according to research from Japan. A study of type 2 diabetes—the most common form of the disease—found that laughter was linked to lower blood sugar levels after a meal.
Over two days, participants were given identical meals. On one day, they watched a humorless lecture, and on the next they watched a Japanese comedy show. The group of 19 people with diabetes and five without had their blood sugar monitored during the study.
Afterward both diabetics and non-diabetics alike had lower glucose levels after laughing through the comedy show than they did when they listened to the monotonous 40-minute lecture. The study was published in Diabetes Care.
Keiko Hayashi, of the University of Tsukuba, Japan, who led the study says that he cannot yet explain the laughter-glucose connection. It could be that laughter affects the neuroendocrine system, which monitors the body’s glucose levels. Or it may be an effect of energy used by the stomach muscles.
Increased blood sugar can cause major complications for diabetics. If glucose is not kept in check, diabetics are more at risk for heart disease, kidney disease, and blindness. Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body fails to produce enough insulin to control the body’s glucose levels.
I hope this answers your question and then some.
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#4 written by Mazher 1 year ago
Yes it lowes blood sugar.
I eat 1/2 table spoon a day and has helped me lot in controlling my blood glucose levels.
more here http://www.reddiabetes.comust half a teaspoon of ground cinnamon a day significantly reduces blood sugar levels in diabetics. The effects of cinnamon on diabetes can even be achieved when you soak a bark of cinnamon in your tea.
The researchers were looking at the effects of food on blood sugar when they stumbled across the benefits of cinnamon. They found that an apple pie spiced with cinnamon helped reduce blood sugar levels. Eating apple pies and cakes covered in cinnamon is not recommended because of their fat and sugar content, but adding cinnamon to your tea can help.
The link between diabetes and cinnamo is not the only benefits of cinnamon. The herb has also been used in fungal infections, stomach ulcers and some allergic reactions. Just as a point to note, cinnamon can also reduce blood sugar in non-diabetic people.
It is advised that you speak to a trained healthcare professional, such as your doctor, before you start taking any herbal treatments to combat your diabetes or any other medical condition.
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#5 written by sb@work! 1 year ago
the last, most recent report i read said there was no conclusive evidence but what could it hurt to try? it’s a pleasant addition to oatmeal, coffee, and it’s fairly inexpensive bought in bulk. . .
but, yes, your diet, exercise, and general health are the things most important to keep up with. . . listen to your practioner. . .go for your eye and foot checkups. have your blood chemistries tested regularly, etc. . . good luck!
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#6 written by j@z!b 1 year ago
Hi, cinnamon really helps in reducing blood sugar levels. It also helps with LDL lipoprotein, triglycerides and total cholesterol. However, cinnamon can not help in Type 1 Diabetes and insulin dependent. It can only help in Type 2 diabetes by taking 1/4 teaspoonful 2-3 times a day. You can add it to your coffee, tea or anything else that you drink or eat. If you decide to try this, be very patient, because it usually takes 40 days to notice the first results. It would be the best if your physician monitors your blood sugar levels. Because there are many different types of cinnamon, be sure that you found the right one, which is called Cinnamomun cassia.
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#7 written by MamaSmurf 1 year ago
The affects of cinnamon on blood sugar is very little. On most people it has no significance at all. We discuss this at almost every diabetic ed. class I have been to (one every month) and no one has had it lower their blood sugar. It is another one of the money making schemes that are everywhere. Everyone wants to make a $ off of someone elses disease.
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Cinnamon has been shown to not only lower insulin resistance (the precursor to type two diabetes), it also lowers cholesterol and triglycerides…. http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/fnrb/fnrb0104.htm#pinch
Don’t get the idea that cinnamon is going to help that much, but it is an integral part of a more comprehensive plan that really works. For more on this, see how I got off the meds after being type two and taking Metformin for years. In December, I stumbled upon a diet plan that lowered my blood sugar enough to stop the Metformin completely. More here: http://www.geocities.com/seabulls69/Type_II_Diabetes.html