Does anyone know the mechanism by which cinnamon increases insulin sensitivity?
~Paul
Oh come on! I know someone out there can give a little feedback.
Researchers have shown that cinnamon extracts increase insulin sensitivity, helping glucose to metabolize. That is, cinnamon helps insulin to work more efficiently. The compound that causes this effect is a type of flavenoid, MHCP. This can be extracted from cinnamon since large quantities of real cinnamon can provide fat soluble toxins. I’m not sure what constitutes a large level though.
However, at the current time there isn’t much evidence showing that cinnamon has this effect on muscle cells as well as fat cells (or which effect is stronger). There has been some research on rats though.
http://gateways.bmn.com/endocrinology/article?pii=S0168822703001736&research=y
Anyway, its cheap, tastes good and has some other benefits. Maybe if you are low carbing it might be helpful since you won’t have much insulin around? Don’t know.
Can’t answer your question but have read recently that cinnamon increases insulin sensitivity equally in FAT and muscle…so can be a double edged sword…excercise is the only method that I know of to increase insulin sensitivity preferentially in muscle over fat.
I think tom incledon is a big proponent of cinamon
I just sprinkle it on everything for the last week makes things much taestier
if it is good for me well great
That’s interesting, I usually like a tipple of cinnamon in my protein shake to spice it up a little.