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cinnamon & type 1

I asked the question to a doctor during the DAFNE course and she told me it was not working for type 1 as it only lower the insulin resistance process but does not make your pancrea to produce insulin. She also told me that there was no certain studies done on it for type 2.
However i read several times on this forum that people with type 2 were using it and benefiting from the effect of the spice.
Not for us i'm afraid :x but it's always good with apple! :D
 
Dennis

The first of those studies was on people with Type 2, the second one crashed my browser!

Aggie - the best possible way to manage your Type 1 diabetes is to get on a good basal/bolus insulin regime and then attend a DAFNE (Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating) Course in your area if it's offered. This will allow you to have excellent blood glucose control and eat very normally/flexibly.

Please don't be duped into thinking there's a "cure" out there (yet!) - it certainly isn't being sold on the internet! Type 1s simply don't produce any insulin anymore. Eating cinnamon is NOT going to change/help that.

Dennis, cinnamon might help wiht insulin resistance with type 2s, but how is it meant to cause a type 1s beta cells to suddenly regenerate? The vast majority of type 1s don't have any insulin resistance.

LJ
 
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<br />Dennis

The first of those studies was on people with Type 2, the second one crashed my browser!

Aggie - the best possible way to manage your Type 1 diabetes is to get on a good basal/bolus insulin regime and then attend a DAFNE (Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating) Course in your area if it's offered. This will allow you to have excellent blood glucose control and eat very normally/flexibly.

Please don't be duped into thinking there's a "cure" out there (yet!) - it certainly isn't being sold on the internet! Type 1s simply don't produce any insulin anymore. Eating cinnamon is NOT going to change/help that.

Dennis, cinnamon might help wiht insulin resistance with type 2s, but how is it meant to cause a type 1s beta cells to suddenly regenerate? The vast majority of type 1s don't have any insulin resistance.

LJ
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FWIW the link that crashed your browser is to a study carried out on 79 T2s.

Patti
On Levemir/Novorapid. Last hba1c 5.3
 
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<br />Interesting comment for a DAPHNE doctor to make when in fact there have been many clinical studies done, all of which indicate cinnamon helps in reducing blood glucose, tyiglycerides and LDL cholesterol.

Here's just two of them:

http://0-care.diabetesjournals.org.pugw ... 26/12/3215

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/ab ... 06.01629.x
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I would hardly call an obscure Pakistani study and one in Europe "many". It didn't crash my browser but it is full of words like "may and "seem".

I include cinnamon in my diet for taste, not BG effects, because I found that it had no effect at all on my BG's. Yet another food that diabetics must try for themselves. One thing I can guarantee - cutting 15gms of carb from a meal will have more effect on your BG's than all the cinnamon you could stomach in a sitting.

I wrote a longer discussion here:
http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/2007/ ... milar.html



Alan, T2, Australia

Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter
 
Patti and LJ,

I was responding to the Erroneous post, where a DAPHNE doctor said there have been no trials done on Type 2s. That was why I listed details of two trials done specifically on type 2s. I didn't mention type 1s and I don't believe that cinnamon would be of any benefit to a type 1 for the reasons stated.

Alan, I'm not sure why we should regard research that has been conducted in Pakistan as inferior to that carried out elsewhere (and it was undertaken on behalf of a US research institute). I'm also not sure where the words "may" and "seem" appear. To avoid further confusion here is the exact text from the first paper:

"RESULTS— After 40 days, all three levels of cinnamon reduced the mean fasting serum glucose (18–29%), triglyceride (23–30%), LDL cholesterol (7–27%), and total cholesterol (12–26%) levels; no significant changes were noted in the placebo groups. Changes in HDL cholesterol were not significant.

CONCLUSIONS— The results of this study demonstrate that intake of 1, 3, or 6 g of cinnamon per day reduces serum glucose, triglyceride, LDL cholesterol, and total cholesterol in people with type 2 diabetes and suggest that the inclusion of cinnamon in the diet of people with type 2 diabetes will reduce risk factors associated with diabetes and cardiovascular diseases."

Perhaps someone could explain where the words "may" and "seem" appear because my radar just doesn't pick them up.

If you don't want to believe that cinnamon might be of benefit then by all means say so, but please don't back your argument with misinformation.
 
Strange that .I thought it was a study in US,which,by accident ,found this.Were they not testing the effects of apple pie on diabetics and found that the pie with cinnamon lowered BS?

Knowledge is the key to control
 
By the way...it's not a "DAFNE doctor" who we saw....just a normal one (!!!:D!!!) that answered our questions and talked about complications and details on blood testing. She said she wasn't aware of any studies done. Doesn't really mean there aren't any.
And yes Dennis you're right...a study made in Pakistan can be a good study! :)
 
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