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Cinnamon as Nutrient Partitioner and 1st-Line Treatment for Pre-Diabetes? 5% Decrease in Fasting Glucose per Month in Human Studies, Up to 24% in 40 Days W/ High(er) Doses

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Yes, that's how real cinnamon look like. It does not grow as powder in plastic boxes on trees as I suspect the members of the generation McBurgerSubway believe ;-) No, this is not  absolutely new. In fact this is just "another" SuppVersity  articles on the anti-diabetic effects of cinnamon, but I promise it's going to be the most comprehensive one. One that discusses the currently available evidence from human trials, as well as the things we know and believe to know about how cinnamon acts its anti-diabetic magic qualitatively and quantitatively. Before I even go into further details, though, I would like to address one of the "cinnamon myths" that says that only the highly expensive Ceylon or Sri Lankan Cinnamon would do the trick, while the commonly sold Cinamon cassia would be useless or even dangerous due to its high (and in fact toxic) coumarin content. Trying to improve your blood glucose management? Learn how at the SuppVersity Protei...

Paleo Goes "Real Science" - First Meta-Analysis of Available RCTs Shows Improvements in Health + Body Composition

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The good thing about paleo is that you can eat a broad range of foods. An advantage that makes paleo versatile and tasty enough to adhere to. I know that I will probably have annoyed some of you by implicitly calling "paleo" non-scientific. If we are honest, though, the whole paleo concept is based on extrapolating data from modern hunter gatherer populations, infusing them with a minimal amount of real evidence of what our ancestors ate and mixing that with the intrinsically flawed assumption that the way our ancestors ate (which was 100% opportunistic and 0% "optimized") was the optimal way for us to eat... and no, I am not going to apologize for what some of you may consider an assault on respected scientists who have published more than a dozen of papers which constitute the theoretical backbone of an experimentally still mostly unverified, but promising approach to "healthy dieting". Meat is an essential part of the "paleo diet" | Lea...
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