Your Type Yoga

To eat or not to eat? To bolus? How much? Juice for low. Insulin when high. Should I run, skip, or lie from an elevated sugar? Should I even try to Diabetes today? Did ya know people with diabetes make an extra 180 decisions a day.... have to make : to lower the list price of insulin. Will PhRMA finally put patients over profits?

When someone says “cinnamon cures diabetes” me: does fireball count? 😂🔥🔥🔥

PSA: cinnamon does NOT cure type 1 diabetes.... although let’s look into this. Are you ready for a deep dive? A study of the effects of cinnamon in type 1: “There were no significant differences in final A1C..., change in A1C..., total daily insulin intake, or number of hypoglycemic episodes between the cinnamon and placebo arms [arms= different study groups]” (source 1). Effects of cinnamon in type 2: “ The results of this study demonstrate that intake of 1, 3, or 6 g of cinnamon per day reduces serum glucose, triglyceride, LDL cholesterol, and total cholesterol in people with type 2 diabetes” (source 2).

What about the other types of diabetes?

1: The Effect of Cinnamon on A1C Among Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes. Justin A. Altschuler, BA1, Samuel J. Casella, MD2, Todd A. MacKenzie, PHD3 and Kevin M. Curtis, MD4. American Diabetes Association. Diabetes Care 2007 Apr; 30(4): 813-816.

2.Cinnamon Improves Glucose and Lipids of People With Type 2 Diabetes. Alam Khan, MS, PHD123, Mahpara Safdar, MS12, Mohammad Muzaffar Ali Khan, MS, PHD12, Khan Nawaz Khattak, MS12 and Richard A. Anderson, PHD3. American Diabetes Association. Diabetes Care 2003 Dec; 26(12): 3215-3218.
Also and always, ACAB.