Diabetes Natural Treatment - Cinnamon Helps to Lower Blood Sugar Levels

Diabetes is a serious health problem that can affect your heart, kidneys, eyes, teeth and nerves. If you have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, oral hypoglycemic agents may have been prescribed such as sulfonylurea compounds to lower blood glucose levels. Unfortunately, these drugs are responsible of some unwelcome side effects. Are there natural, common and harmless ingredients that can help you stop taking dangerous drugs and stay in good health? How cinnamon can lower blood sugar levels? Is there a way to treat Type 1 diabetes too?
Active compounds



At least, eight different species of cinnamon have been identified. The specie most known and used worldwide is the cultivated one which is called by the botanists: Cinnamomum Zeylanicum. Another one which is sold in many grocery stores too is called: Cinnamomum Cassia. Its most active compound is a flavonoid, the MHCP or methylhydroxy chalcone polymer.
Properties
Cinnamon would help in reducing post-meal blood glucose levels in people with Type 2 diabetes. How? According to some studies, cinnamon water-soluble active components are able to increase glucose metabolism which means cells' ability to convert glucose to energy. They would have also the property to stimulate insulin sensitivity.
Health Benefits
Cinnamon bark stick or ground is a spice quite inexpensive which can easily be bought at most markets all over the world. Other practical advantage is that the active ingredient of this spice cannot be destroyed by heat. You can drink cinnamon tea (soak a stick in tea) or add it to dessert, juice, meats, salads etc.
Health Benefit Limits
Most of scientific studies were done with small groups of patients and therefore cannot offer enough evidence that cinnamon would be an effective hypoglycemic natural agent. Additionally, recent studies found that cinnamon doesn't help so much people who are suffering from Type 1 diabetes.
Conclusion
Did you find this information helpful? Even though there is no significant evidence that cinnamon is a 'miraculous hypoglycemic agent' playing a major role to lower blood sugar levels, the scientific community agrees to say that it does help diabetics! What could it hurt to try? You can also do the same than Maxie. Who is she?
Maxie who was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes wanted to stay in good health without medication. She started to follow a natural hypoglycemic home remedy. As the result, in few days her morning blood glucose dropped from 136 to 89! Feel free to read her story in Diabetes Reversal Report! This natural treatment is also able to cure persons who have been suffering from Type 1 diabetes for less than 7 years.

Alexis Roger is a French biochemist who loves investigating and teaching. He has studied various fields of science such as pharmacology, physiology, endocrinology, chemistry, bacteriology, anatomy and botanic. He displays a great interest in international alternative medicine therapies.