Many people would love to find a natural way to control their blood sugar and overcome diabetes. While we don’t advocate ignoring the doctor’s advice, one reader has found that changing her diet and adding cinnamon capsules to her regimen has helped enormously.
What Can Cinnamon Capsules Do?
Q. I honestly hate anything cinnamon and usually avoid it although my husband loves cinnamon and ginger.
I am 53 and was diagnosed with Type II diabetes several years ago. I’ve never had my blood sugar go over 220 at any given time, so my doctor, who is a diabetes specialist, has me on metformin.
Fasting Glucose Levels Are Down:
In the last few months, my fasting glucose levels have become completely normal again, between 73 and 92 every morning. So with my doctor’s knowledge, I’ve lowered my dose of metformin.
I believe this is due to two things: First, I try not to eat ANY white flour, rice or breads at all and second, I’ve been taking cinnamon capsules every morning with my diabetes-formulated multi-vitamin.
I don’t have any eye-focusing problems that I used to have in the mornings, no tingling, nothing! I’ve also lost 8 pounds. I think that all this together has improved my particular case.
No White Food Helps Control Blood Sugar:
A. Congratulations on your improved blood sugar control and your weight loss. Your decision to avoid white bread and other flour products has probably contributed to your success. Within the last several years, there has been a recognition that such foods can make blood sugar spike nearly as much and a rapidly as sweet foods. Restricting them makes sense for people struggling to control blood glucose.
Cinnamon can also help prevent blood sugar spikes after meals. For more details on these and a variety of other approaches to control blood sugar, we offer our Guide to Managing Diabetes.
