Diabetes And Cinnamon: What’s It All About?

If you have diabetes, or you’re caring for a loved one who does, you have heard something about diabetes and cinnamon.  What’s the connection?  Does cinnamon cure diabetes?  Does it cause it?  Can it prevent it?  What are the facts?  There’s a lot of confusion out there about this topic, and that’s why we wrote this article.  After reading this, you’ll have all the facts you need to understand the diabetes and cinnamon connection, and what to do about it.

Here are the facts on diabetes and cinnamon.  Cinnamon, according to some medical researchers, has a very positive effect on people with diabetes, making their disease much less severe, and much easier to cope with.  Here’s the short story.  In healthy people,  a hormone called insulin lets the body know that it needs to remove sugar from the bloodstream when too much accumulates.  In diabetics, their bodies no longer respond to this hormone, which causes a dangerous buildup of blood sugar when it’s not processed out of the system.  But back in 2000, researchers discovered that cinnamon acts as sort of spark plug which revives (somewhat) the body’s ability to respond to insulin and remove glucose.

The researchers believe that this is due to a substance in cinnamon known as MHCP.    Now, why MHCP has this effect is the matter of quite a bit of debate.  No one really knows why it triggers this reaction, but it’s been clearly demonstrated that it does.  And, unlike drugs, there are no known side effect to cinnamon, which is a natural substance that comes from a plant.  So there are no known health risks associated with taking it.   Doctors recommend that diabetics take up to 1 teaspoon a day in a glass of water or other drink.  This story of diabetes and cinnamon is one of the great natural health breakthroughs in recent years.