Effects of Cinnamon Supplementation on Type 2 DM
Costello, R.B., Dwyer, J.T., Saldanha, L., Bailey, R.L., Merkel, J., Wambogo, E. (2016). Do cinnamon supplements have a role in glycemic control in type 2 diabetes? A narrative review. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics . 116(11) 1794-1802. We’ve all read Facebook posts that claim cinnamon helps diabetes, turmeric helps crohn’s disease, and so on and so forth. This review set out to either prove or disprove the theory that cinnamon can help lower Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels and fasting blood glucose in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus. There were eleven studies found from PubMed, which included 649 adults total. The subjects were all kept on their regular medicines during the trial period, which lasted anywhere from 4-16 weeks depending upon the study, with dosages of 120-6,000 mg of cinnamon per day. The cinnamon species also varied, which may have played a part in the results. The authors were unable to conduct a meta-analysis because ...