 Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of SugarMD YouTube channel that is dedicated for diabetes. Today we are talking about cinnamon. Does cinnamon help your diabetes or your fasting blood sugars? I am Dr. Ahmet Ergin. I'm an endocrinologist and a diabetes education specialist. Let's get started guys. Alright, so common question. Hey doc, does cinnamon help diabetes? Well, it is kind of a difficult question to answer because there's a lot of variabilities to it and I'm gonna keep it nice and short guys, but I will also tell you what exactly I know what I have seen from my patients as well. Now, there are a lot of studies today, maybe hundreds and we still cannot for sure tell if cinnamon helps if you have diabetes. Now, it does help in some people. I'm not saying that cinnamon does not help. What I'm saying here is that we do not have conclusive evidence that the cinnamon helps to everyone at least some. So the reason for the variability among the studies is because they either use a different cinnamon because there are tons of different cinnamon out there. There's Chinese cinnamon. There's Vietnamese cinnamon, this cinnamon, that cinnamon. There's so many cinnamon out there and the studies do not necessarily use one type of cinnamon. They do not necessarily use one type of dose and the studies who really show benefit typically have cinnamon, pretty high dose and I'm gonna give you some perspective here. So for example, one gram of cinnamon is half a teaspoon. Now, there are studies using up to six grams of cinnamon and if you think about six grams, that's gonna be like three teaspoons of cinnamon. How are you gonna have that? I mean, you must really love cinnamon. I mean, come on. I mean, there are some studies saying that as low as 200 milligram cinnamon may help, but I don't really know if it really does. Another thing that some studies who showed the benefit, they said that it showed the benefit after three months. So you have to have the patience to wait three months to see the results. Now, if I was diabetic, would I do that? If I was really desperate enough, I would probably go for it. It's not necessarily harmful unless you have liver disease. If you have chronic liver disease or advanced liver disease, I'm not talking about like a little fatty liver or anything like that. I'm talking about like significant fibrotic liver disease. Can definitely too much cinnamon can cause problems in your liver. But it also has been shown to help your cholesterol. It has been shown to have anti-cancer effects. It has anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant effects. So overall, cinnamon is a very good spice, but I'm just not sure about eating three teaspoons of cinnamon every day. Now, of course, you know, that's why there are supplements out there, right? So they kind of, you know, put it together, you know, they've been on a capsule or a tablet. You swallow it. You don't really feel like you're eating something. I mean, you guys already know we have our own supplement and we have 12 different ingredients in our supplement. And the reason is we know what works and what doesn't. And as a result, you know, we try to put things together to make it work. Sometimes just one thing at a time does not work, even for regular pharmaceutical medications. Some of you guys are on like, you know, two, three, four, five different medications to kind of get the job done. And then, you know, the supplements are good, but they are not necessarily as sometimes as strong as regular medications, although on the plus side, they are natural. But just using cinnamon and hoping that your blood sugar comes comes down from 300 down to 100, it may be a little unreasonable. If it happened to someone, I'm not saying that it wouldn't happen. It may have happened to someone. If you do go on a nice diet and exercise and use some cinnamon, high dose, maybe it will work for you. I mean, you there's it's not going to hurt to try. But if you're not really on a good diet and exercise, pretty much nothing will work for you. So if you're just eating whatever you want and you're not working out and you just hope that the supplements will work for you, they will. But they're not going to get you to where you want to be. So we have to kind of open our eyes to the truth a little bit here. Same thing with our supplement, the sugar MD supplement. It works well when you're on a reasonable diet, but when you go eat pizza and expect it to work, it's just not going to happen. I mean, you can be on best pharmaceutical agents. There are like thousands of dollars out there, eat pizza, you will have a problem. But the bottom line, guys, I know a lot of you guys are using now by now, the sugar MD supplement, and we are constantly working to improve our supplement based on the feedback from you guys. So if you are using our supplements right now and you are happy about it, give a nice positive feedback on Amazon, for example, if you are not having a great result, if you are having any side effects, some people say diarrhea may happen, or if your sugars are not coming down enough, should have some message, maybe we'll help you guide you with your diet and so forth to kind of uncover maybe a problem. So, for example, a lot of people will eat cereal in the morning and they'll wonder why nothing is helping their blood sugar to stay stable instead of going to 300, 400. Well, because that cereal, you've got to give up, you know, that cereal is really hurting you. So things like that that people may not be aware of, they think that, oh, this may be a sugar-free or whatever, it's just not always helpful. So the bottom line is, guys, so I think cinnamon may help. There's a modest effect on cinnamon, on diabetic patients. When I have high dose, so if you want to go take some capsules, take, like, anywhere from, you know, at gram to three grams, I mean, six grams is possible, but I don't know if you can even achieve that, even with capsules. But if you are buying supplements, I believe there are a lot of supplements out there. I'll leave a link below for you to check some of the good ones out. But I think you really need to consider working on the diet and exercise, using your medications regularly, use some supplements, not every supplement out there in the world. Cinnamon is worth trying for a few months. But as I said, you should give some time for it to work. That's true for any supplement. You got to give some time for any medicine or for any supplement to work while you are still working on your diet and exercise. All right, guys, we'll talk to you soon. Make sure you give a thumbs up, you share this video and give a like. Thank you very much.