West Des Moines 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 capability to take care of itself. The key is finding which ones work for what! Executive Chiropractic of Iowa reports on a few of the recent papers regarding this simple ingredient, cinnamon.
HELP FOR West Des Moines MIGRAINE
The anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective properties of cinnamon were put to the test for migraine management. Migraine, the most common primary headache type, has higher levels of inflammation. Compared to a control treatment, cinnamon significantly reduced levels of inflammatory agents, interleukin-6 and nitric oxide. Cinnamon also reduced the frequency, severity and duration of migraine episodes. Cinnamon helped migraine in this study! As far as cinnamon goes, it’s safe. (1) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa happily shares research-based safe alternatives to try for health.
BLOOD PRESSURE
Blood pressure is a common health condition for many West Des Moines folks. Cinnamon supplementation positively and significantly affected diastolic blood pressure and when taken for more than 8 weeks significantly affected systolic blood pressure. (2) Several reports 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 using 2 grams or more a day of cinnamon for at least eight weeks. (3) That’s news worth sharing with our West Des Moines chiropractic patients.
DIABETES TYPE II
Executive Chiropractic of Iowa cares for many patients who also are dealing with 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 brings about lifelong damage to organs over a lifetime. Management is complex. Herbs are frequently added to 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% used cinnamon. (5) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa wants 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 combine the best of research-documented treatment approaches to enhance West Des Moines chiropractic care clinical outcomes.
Schedule your next West Des Moines chiropractic visit at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa. We can swap tasty cinnamon recipes during your Cox® Technic treatment if you like!
