hello & supplement doses question

[claymic]

Hi Everyone

It is great starting to come here again after a bit of an absence..... hope all are doing well!!

got a question about the doses of supplements I should be taken. I have started taking Cinnamon cassia and chromium picolinate and i am not sure whether it is ok to stick to the dosage recommended or as diabetics should we have more.

At present i am taking:

Chromium Picolinate - 1 x 200ug tablet (which is 500% of RDA)
Cinnamon cassia - 4 x 500mg tablets (two with each meal)

is this ok?

thanks & cheers
claudette x x

 

[Defren]

Hey Claudette, great to see you back. Hope you had a great time.

I can't help you with the Cinnamon or Chromium as I don't take either. I know Xyzzy takes a few supplements as does Sweetheart. Xyzzy is busy this week, but hopefully he will catch this, or Jules will see it.

 

[claymic]

I also thought...does it matter what time of day the Chromium and Cinnamon are taken?

 

[Truffle]

Hi Claudette,

I take cinnamon - 3 x 500mg per day with food.

I don't take Chromium but I do take Gymnema 3 x 400mg with food and Vit B12 500mg per day. The 'eye' doctor at the hospital told me to take omega 3 and fish oil supplements - I don't have an eye problem, luckily - but she said it helps to keep it that way.

I don't know if any of this is helping and I am beginning to rattle but if it is not harming me then surely it must be worth trying.....

 

[xyzzy]

Hi Claudette

Hope you are well. :wave:

I take the same 200ug of Chromium as you. Info on max dose can be found here http://www.diabetes.co.uk/Diabetes-and-Chromium.html. I have seen other members post that they take far more than one 200ug tablet a day.

On the Cinnamon there is some cause for concern if you take too much especially with the Cassia variety as it contains a substance called courmin that can cause stomach problems. At some point I worked out that someone weighing around 90kg who took 1.5grams / day would be consuming somewhere between 30 and 60% of the tolerated safe daily dose of courmin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coumarin

European health agencies have warned against consuming high amounts of cassia bark, one of the four species of cinnamon, because of its coumarin content.[not in citation given][13] According to the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BFR), 1 kg of (cassia) cinnamon powder contains approximately 2.1 to 4.4 g of coumarin.[14] Powdered Cassia Cinnamon weighs 0.56 g/cc;[15] therefore, 1 kg of Cassia Cinnamon powder is equal to 362.29 teaspoons (1000 g divided by 0.56 g/cc multiplied by 0.20288 tsp/cc). This means 1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder contains 5.8 to 12.1 mg of coumarin, which may be above the Tolerable Daily Intake for smaller individuals.[14]

 

[claymic]

thanks for the answers.... i ll probably decrease the Cinnamon to 3 a day and might increase the Chromium....