McHenry 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 enhance the body’s proficiency to take care of itself. The key is figuring out which ones work for what! OrthoIllinois Chiropractic reports on some of the recent papers about this simple ingredient, cinnamon.
HELP FOR McHenry 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 option, cinnamon significantly decreased levels of inflammatory agents, interleukin-6 and nitric oxide. Cinnamon also lessened the frequency, severity and duration of migraine episodes. Cinnamon helped migraine in this study! Plus, cinnamon is a safe supplement. (1) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic happily presents research-based safe options to try for health.
BLOOD PRESSURE
Blood pressure is a common health condition for many McHenry folks. Supplementing with cinnamon favorably and significantly affected diastolic blood pressure and significantly affected systolic blood pressure when taken for at least 8 weeks. (2) Quite a few studies have reported that cinnamon reduced blood pressure. A new meta-analysis of 9 randomized clinical trials reported that cinnamon supplementation can improve 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 giving to our McHenry chiropractic patients.
DIABETES TYPE II
OrthoIllinois Chiropractic cares for many patients who also are diagnosed with diabetes type II. Diabetes mellitus is a disease encompassing a variety of different issues related to insulin resistance or low production of it by the pancreas. This all results in lifelong damage to organs over a lifetime. Management is complex. Herbs are frequently added to the management. Cinnamon is stated as a favorable 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% consumed cinnamon. (5) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic requests to know what our chiropractic patients are taking 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 methods to help McHenry chiropractic patients!
Schedule your next McHenry chiropractic visit at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic. We can swap tasty cinnamon recipes during your Cox® Technic treatment if you like!
