La Grande Nutrition: Beneficial Cinnamon
Cinnamon. It’s 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 finding which ones are best for what! Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC describes a few of the latest papers about this simple ingredient, cinnamon.
HELP FOR La Grande MIGRAINE
Cinnamon’s anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective properties were tested for migraine management. Migraine, the most common primary headache type, has higher levels of inflammation. Compared to a control treatment, cinnamon significantly decreased levels of inflammatory agents, interleukin-6 and nitric oxide. Cinnamon also lessened the frequency, severity and duration of migraine attacks. Cinnamon helped migraine in this study! Plus, cinnamon is a safe supplement. (1) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC gladly shares research-based safe options to try for health.
BLOOD PRESSURE
Blood pressure is a common health issue for many La Grande 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) Several studies have reported that cinnamon reduced blood pressure. A recent 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 lessened when taking 2 grams or more a day of cinnamon for at least 8 weeks. (3) That is news worth sharing with our La Grande chiropractic patients.
DIABETES TYPE II
Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC takes care of many patients who also have diabetes type II. Diabetes mellitus is a disease encompassing many different issues associated with insulin resistance or low production of it by the pancreas. This all gives rise to lifelong damage to organs over a lifetime. Management is complex. Herbs are frequently included in the management. Cinnamon is cited as an advantageous choice for diabetic hypertensive patients. (4) A survey of the use of complementary alternative medicine by diabetic patients revealed that many use bitter apple, ginger, fenugreek, garlic and cinnamon. 66.1% used cinnamon. (5) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC requests to know what our chiropractic patients are using and if they find benefit.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jeremy Heidt on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes migraine care and neck pain care with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. Chiropractors like Dr. Heidt utilize the best of research-documented treatment approaches to enhance La Grande chiropractic care clinical outcomes.
Schedule your next La Grande chiropractic visit at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC. We can exchange tasty cinnamon recipes during your Cox® Technic treatment if you like!
