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- Type of diabetes
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About a year after my type 2 diagnosis I started taking cinnamon supplements for two reasons. Firstly to help stabilise blood sugars and secondly to ease the symptoms of my arthritis, both characteristics which many agree are benefits of taking cinnamon.
Wind the clock forward to this year, and as some of you will have read I had a kidney stone a few months ago. I just received the results of the stone analysis and it was a calcium oxalate stone. It is recommended I eat a low oxalate diet now to reduce my risk of forming another stone. Whilst researching high oxalate foods I was puzzled as many of them were things I don’t like, spinach, soy products, rhubarb, beer and tea amongst others. Others are things I avoid as they are high carb such as certain fruit juices, wheat, bread, cereals, grapes and dried fruit.
Today carrying on my research I found than cinnamon is also high oxalate. Now I was never completely convinced that it did very much for my blood sugars and my arthritic pain is so up and down unpredictably that who knows if it helped, yet I never chose to stop it and it just became a habit.
So from today I’m stopping taking it. As far as my HbA1c is concerned, at 36 mmol/mol I have a good margin to maintain a non diabetic number even if it does creep up a bit. As for my joint pain, as I said it’s unpredictable, but I’m prepared to take the hit to reduce my chances of another kidney stone, which was the most painful experience of my life
Just thought I’d jot my findings here in case anyone had had a similar experience or wanted to reconsider their cinnamon supplements.
Wind the clock forward to this year, and as some of you will have read I had a kidney stone a few months ago. I just received the results of the stone analysis and it was a calcium oxalate stone. It is recommended I eat a low oxalate diet now to reduce my risk of forming another stone. Whilst researching high oxalate foods I was puzzled as many of them were things I don’t like, spinach, soy products, rhubarb, beer and tea amongst others. Others are things I avoid as they are high carb such as certain fruit juices, wheat, bread, cereals, grapes and dried fruit.
Today carrying on my research I found than cinnamon is also high oxalate. Now I was never completely convinced that it did very much for my blood sugars and my arthritic pain is so up and down unpredictably that who knows if it helped, yet I never chose to stop it and it just became a habit.
So from today I’m stopping taking it. As far as my HbA1c is concerned, at 36 mmol/mol I have a good margin to maintain a non diabetic number even if it does creep up a bit. As for my joint pain, as I said it’s unpredictable, but I’m prepared to take the hit to reduce my chances of another kidney stone, which was the most painful experience of my life
Just thought I’d jot my findings here in case anyone had had a similar experience or wanted to reconsider their cinnamon supplements.