Manahawkin 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 figuring out which ones work for what! Manahawkin Chiropractic Center shares some of the recent papers about this simple ingredient, cinnamon.
HELP FOR Manahawkin MIGRAINE
Cinnamon’s anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective properties 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 decreased the frequency, severity and duration of migraine episodes. Cinnamon helped migraine in this study! Plus, cinnamon is a safe supplement. (1) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center gladly presents research-based safe alternatives to try for health.
BLOOD PRESSURE
Blood pressure is a familiar health issue for many Manahawkin folks. Cinnamon supplementation favorably and significantly affected diastolic blood pressure and significantly affected systolic blood pressure when taken for at least 8 weeks. (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 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 sharing with our Manahawkin chiropractic patients.
DIABETES TYPE II
Manahawkin Chiropractic Center takes care of many patients who also are diagnosed with diabetes type II. Diabetes mellitus is a disease encompassing many different issues related to 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 added to the management. Cinnamon is stated as a positive 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) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center 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 finest of research-documented treatment methods to enhance Manahawkin chiropractic care clinical outcomes.
Schedule your next Manahawkin chiropractic visit at Manahawkin Chiropractic Center. We can exchange tasty cinnamon recipes during your Cox® Technic treatment if you like!
