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Ashburn 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 enhance the body’s proficiency to take care of itself. The key is figuring out which ones work for what! Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn describes a few of the recent papers regarding this simple ingredient, cinnamon.

HELP FOR Ashburn MIGRAINE

The anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective properties of cinnamon were tested for migraine management. Migraine, the most common primary headache type, has increased levels of inflammation. Compared to a control option, cinnamon significantly reduced levels of inflammatory agents, interleukin-6 and nitric oxide. Cinnamon also decreased the frequency, severity and duration of migraine attacks. Cinnamon eased migraine in this study! Plus, cinnamon is a safe supplement. (1) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn happily shares research-based safe alternatives to try for health.

BLOOD PRESSURE

Blood pressure is a common health condition for many Ashburn folks. Supplementing with cinnamon 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 recent meta-analysis of 9 randomized clinical trials reported that cinnamon supplementation can boost blood pressure by a modest degree overall.  Significant reductions in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure reduced when using 2 grams or more a day of cinnamon for at least eight weeks. (3) That’s news worth giving to our Ashburn chiropractic patients.

DIABETES TYPE II

Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn takes care of many patients who also are diagnosed with diabetes type II. Diabetes mellitus is a disease encompassing a variety of different issues related to insulin resistance or low production of it by the pancreas. This all results in lifelong damage to organs throughout a lifetime. Management is complex. Herbs are frequently included in the management. Cinnamon is mentioned 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) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn wants 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 talks about migraine care and neck pain care with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. Chiropractors like Dr. Heidt mix the best of research-documented treatment approaches to help Ashburn chiropractic patients!

Schedule your next Ashburn chiropractic visit at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn. We can swap tasty cinnamon recipes during your Cox® Technic treatment if you like!

 
Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn presents research on the benefits of cinnamon for migraine, diabetes and blood pressure. 
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