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What you need is original Ceylon Cinnamon, not the cheap Cassia Cinnamon, which is often loaded with potentially toxic coumarin. The mechanism by which cinnamon and metformin work may be completely different, the net outcome, on the other hand, is very similar: Both reduce the blood sugar excursions in insulin resistant individuals. In contrast to metformin, of which I can only repeat that it is pointless to use it (unless you want the AMPK overexpression to leave you hypoglycemic and hungry all day), if you are lean and healthy, cinnamon may yet also offer benefits to normal-weight, normo-glycemic individuals like the 18 subjects (11 men, 7 women) in a recent study from Dialpha SAS in France (Beejmohun. 2014). You can learn more about protein intake at the SuppVersity Maintain and Improve Your Insulin Sens. 5 Tips to Improve Your Insulin Sensitivity ALA, Gaba, Taurine & Co to Improve IS Berberine, Banaba & Co to Improve IS Curcumin, Licorice & Co...

Tea: An anti-oxidant carb-blocker with class - The Britons do it right - the always have a cup of tea with their scones. As a (hopefully) regular SuppVersity reader you will know that I don't buy into either the fructose or the sucrose theory of everything (diabetes, cancer, obesity, stupidity, etc.). This does not mean that I wouldn't understand that the average Westerner would largely benefit from a reduction in carbohydrate intake. A reduction that - and this is what a recent paper in the peer-reviewed journal Advances in Preventive Medicine can tell us could be achieved by something as simple as drinking more tea (Oboh. 2014). Commercial teas turn out to be carb-blockers In said paper Ganiyu Oboh and his colleagues from the Federal University of Technology and the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria report that: "The antidiabetic property of the teas could be attributed to their inhibitory effect on carbohydrate hydrolyzing enzymes implicated in diabete...