Diabetes and Cinnamon - Is there a real link between them?

If you have diabetes, you may ask about diabetes and cinnamon, if there is any possible link between them.

Also, it happens for you to go around and ask about other natural cures for diabetes, just like many other diabetics in the world.

All the scientific researches have shown that they have a strong link. But you must watch the excessive one.

How real is the link between diabetes and cinnamon?

All the above I told you not to bother you with a story, that you might have listened or read somewhere else. But for the beauty of the fact what cinnamon’s components can do to lower your sugar blood level.

Yes, the real key of diabetes and cinnamon link stands inside the components of cinnamon. In fact, it is a water-soluble polyphenol called MHCP, which is very alike to insulin, and mimics its actions.

Basically, cinnamon can help you in three ways in lowering sugar blood level as following:

1. It can stimulate insulin production from the pancreas ( the organ responsible for its production and secretion)

2. Due to its active component MHCP, it helps in increasing the effectiveness of insulin receptors. This component is very alike to insulin, and can mimic its actions connecting with insulin receptors. So, MHCP together with insulin have a higher overall effectiveness.

3. It can slow down the emptiness of the stomach after each meal. That means, that when your stomach empties quickly, than your sugar blood level can raise up very quickly and reaching high levels. While, with cinnamon, the stomach can be emptied slower, and in this way, your sugar blood levels cannot reach peak.

For the first time, diabetes and cinnamon link was discovered by accident during a research made in Maryland Human Nutrition Research Centre of the US Department of Agriculture.

These studies showed that our grandma’s pies and buns, especially apple pies for Americans, spiced with lots of cinnamon, resulted not to increase sugar blood level due to cinnamon presence. Here are in fact, the first "unknown" steps toward diabetes and cinnamon link.

Now, I’m not telling you to put cinnamon cakes, buns, or apple pies as part of your daily diabetes diet menu. But, what you can do is to add cinnamon powder in almost everything you eat.

Only, small amounts of cinnamon consumed everyday for long periods of time can lower your sugar blood level, turning them into the normal ones. Don’t make the mistake to take large amounts of cinnamon, because not only this doesn’t improve its effectiveness, but it can make your harm in damaging your liver.

But, even if you are not a diabetic, but are part of a high-risk population ( for more info you can go to this page), everyday consumption of small amounts of cinnamon can help you preventing the disease onset.

Meanwhile, cinnamon can do only little for type1 diabetics. It cannot help in the increase of the insulin production, because in type1 diabetes, the pancreas doesn’t produce insulin at all. It can help only little in slowing the emptiness of the stomach during eating and with the mimics to insulin.

How can you take cinnamon for everyday?

You can add cinnamon powder in everything you eat or drink, like coffee, tea, juices. Or, you can prepare cinnamon tea by putting a stick of cinnamon into a cup of boiled water.