Elgin Nutrition: Beneficial Cinnamon
Cinnamon. It is a tasty way to help several health issues: migraine, blood pressure, diabetes mellitus. Chiropractic is all about health! Nutritional approaches to various ailments boost the body’s proficiency to take care of itself. The key is figuring out which ones are best for what! Connected Chiropractic reports on a few of the recent papers about this simple ingredient, cinnamon.
HELP FOR Elgin MIGRAINE
Cinnamon’s anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective properties were put to the test for migraine management. Migraine, the most common primary headache type, has increased levels of inflammation. Compared to a control option, cinnamon significantly reduced levels of inflammatory agents, interleukin-6 and nitric oxide. Cinnamon also decreased the frequency, severity and duration of migraine attacks. Cinnamon eased migraine in this study! As far as cinnamon goes, it’s safe. (1) Connected Chiropractic happily shares research-based safe options to try for health.
BLOOD PRESSURE
Blood pressure is a common health condition for many Elgin folks. Supplementing with cinnamon favorably and significantly affected diastolic blood pressure and when taken for more than 8 weeks significantly affected systolic blood pressure. (2) Quite a few reports have stated that cinnamon reduced blood pressure. A new meta-analysis of 9 randomized clinical trials reported that cinnamon supplementation can boost blood pressure by a modest degree overall. Significant reductions in both diastolic and systolic blood pressure decreased when taking 2 grams or more a day of cinnamon for at least eight weeks. (3) That is news worth sharing with our Elgin chiropractic patients.
DIABETES TYPE II
Connected Chiropractic cares for many patients who also have diabetes type II. Diabetes mellitus is a disease involving a variety of different issues associated with insulin resistance or low production of it by the pancreas. This all brings about lifelong damage to organs throughout a lifetime. Management is complex. Herbs are frequently included in the management. Cinnamon is mentioned as an advantageous choice for diabetic hypertensive patients. (4) A survey of the use of complementary alternative medicine by diabetic patients found that many use bitter apple, ginger, fenugreek, garlic and cinnamon. 66.1% consumed cinnamon. (5) Connected Chiropractic wants to know what our chiropractic patients are using and if they find benefit.
CONTACT Connected Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jeremy Heidt on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he talks about migraine care and neck pain care with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. Chiropractors like Dr. Heidt combine the finest of research-documented treatment methods to help Elgin chiropractic patients!
Schedule your next Elgin chiropractic visit at Connected Chiropractic. We can swap tasty cinnamon recipes during your Cox® Technic treatment if you like!
