Nature's Bounty Cinnamon 1,000 mg Caps, 100 ct

This is CASSIA CINNAMON - which is what you want for health!Cinnamon Cassia is the second best for health, first is Saigon (hard to find in pill form). Next to useless appears to be Ceylon Cinnamon, or what people keep calling 'True' Cinnamon. Hard to believe, but true. My conclusion based on research, and studying this topic is this.. Someone decided they needed to find a way to sell the most tasteless, useless, dirt like cinnamon tree on the planet, and since there was absolutely no way to sell it as a spice, they came up with with some mythological health properties to tack onto it. I'm not buying into this, nor am I buying into the fear mongering around normal Cassia Cinnamon.First, and foremost lets consider this; Tim Ferriss had a glucose meter implanted in him to 'study' what changed his blood glucose chemistry. His discovery? True Cinnamon(Ceylon) was actually the absolute worst for health benefits, little to no real effect on blood glucose levels. Tim is well respected, well researched, and doesn't take these things lightly. WebMD, and various studies also support Tim Ferriss's findings - that is Ceylon is USELESS. Tim found Saigon to be the best for modulating blood glucose, with Cassia a close second, and Ceylon not even effective.This stuff is relatively tasteless, so you can't use it as a spice. It's texture is more like dirt than a powder, so it goes down pretty harshly. So you aren't going to be using this on your toast, oatmeal, or smoothies in the morning unless you can stomach bland tasting dirt, Ok?Third. What's all this fearmongering about Coumarin by the Ceylon crowd? Let me set the record straight. I've consumed Cassia-type cinnamons my entire life, and I am extremely healthy. Everyone in my family has consumed it, and they are all healthy. My mother turns 80 soon, and has dumped cinnamon on everything - everyday, all of her life. Cinnamon is one of the most widely used spices on the planet, yet we are supposed to believe there is a new, sudden, magical 'danger' to it? Do you really believe this? I've studied TCM for years, and can tell you 'bland' spices/herbs are rarely medicinal, it's almost always the pungent, spicy, strong ones that are the most medicinal.. Remember that.Let me shock you by saying - COUMARIN IS THE MEDICINAL COMPONENT OF CINNAMON! True Cinnamon(Ceylon) has almost no Coumarin, and therefore LITTLE TO NO MEDICINAL PROPERTIES! That's right folks - you've been wasting your money on Ceylon, which has little to no medicinal properties, primarily because COUMARIN IS MISSING! What is Coumarin, really? The truth about it? It's a Phenylpropanoid, a Flavonoid. It's in the same class as Resveratol - yes the Resveratol everyone loves to take as a supplement is already pretty potent in 'similar' form in normal cinnamon. Coumarin is also a blood thinner (mild), which is GOOD as it removes what we call 'blood stasis' in TCM, and Blood Stasis is a common cause of a wide array of illness. Toss some sugar into water, how does the water flow? That's what glucose does to your blood as a diabetic, and that's how your organs/tissues/nerves start to decline. Thin the blood, and your health improves - that's part of the aspect of Cinnamon you WANT to take place, as our lives are filled with blood thickeners! Coumarin activity includes anti-HIV, anti-tumor, anti-hypertension, anti-fungal, anti-arrhythmia, anti-inflammatory, anti-osteoporosis, antiseptic, and analgesic. It is also used in the treatment of asthma and lymphedema. Strawberries, Cherries, beans, lavender, liquorice, apricots, and sweet clover. and many other things contain Coumarin, and these are considered healthy, medicinal.Do you really want to remove one of the most potent anti-cancer,, anti-inflammatory components from a spice? I don't think so! Ceylon is very nearly useless medicinally - and if you research you will discover this yourself. Can Coumarin be toxic? Yes it can, but so can water, or vitamin D. Vitamin D3 kills rats in 8-10 hours, what does that have to do with humans? Very little. There has been little to no demonstrated toxicity with Courmarin in humans. Why? Because humans synthesize it differently. Rodents metabolize it mostly to 3,4-coumarin epoxide, a toxic, unstable compound. Humans metabolize it mainly to 7-hydroxycoumarin, a compound of low toxicity.Pakistani Scientists gave humans (clinical study), 1, 3, and 6 GRAMS of Cassia/Saigon Cinnamon per day over 20 weeks, and discovered something remarkable. Serum Glucose levels dropped 29%, Triglycerides 32%, LDL Cholesterol 27% compared to placebo. This would be enough to declare Cassia/Saigon Cinnamon as the wonder drug of the century. Yet the study found no ill-effects over the 40 days(with 20 day washout, followed by another 40 days) from all of the study participants consuming up to 6 GRAMS per day. However many studies indicate Cinnamon should not be used at higher dosages(2-4g), continuously over the long term due to potential of allergic development, and mutagenicity. (but the mutagenicity lacks any real evidence) Treat it like an on-again, off-again medication at higher dosages, and as a 'supplement' at lower dosages. (like anything really)Lethal dose of Vitamin D in rats is L50 42mg/kg of body weight. Caffeine is lethal to rats (LD50) at 100mg/kg. LD50 for pure Cassia Oil Extract in Rats was 5,000mg/kg. (essentially the level of water) A water extract of Cassia was non-toxic 'under any level' to Rats over an 8 week period, or greater than >6,200mg/kg. Cinnamon, crude extract (RTECS nºGE1440000): LD50 i.p. mouse = 4980 mg/kg. The most informative studies report 'as a spice', not raw extracts, Cinnamon;No adverse effects were registered in the consumption of Cinnamomun zeylanicum as spice (Tratado de Fitofármacos y Nutracéuticos; Dr. Jorge Alonso, pag 261 ) In a 24-week carcinogenicity screening test, groups of 15 male and 15 female mice received doses of 0.8 or 4.0 g/kg i.p.. The higher dose had previously been calculated to be the maximum tolerated dose.There was no increase in the incidence of negative effects, or tumors.

Helps with neuropathy in my feet and hands. I'm type 2 diabetic and if you know, you know how itchy your nerves get in your feet and hands. This right here helps it.

These are very easy to swallow. Two tablets once a day has helped keep my blood sugar numbers down along with my regular medication. I stopped taking these just to see if they were actually doing anything and found that my blood sugar numbers went up a bit. Once I started back on these it went down again. It wasn't a huge difference but enough that it's worth adding these to my daily medication.

Helped my mom with her diabetes especially with her A1C

Great deal

My husband is pre-diabetic, and read online that cinnamon may aid with both that and his metabolism. He has taken pills in the past that are tablets and difficult to swallow. These capsules are easy to swallow and he refuses to be without them. They are a regular part of his vitamin/supplement routine.

Was a great help with my diabetes. 2 capsules a day. Gelatin capsules. Like the bigger bottles so I dont have to order so often Will continue to order.

as advertised

Don't know yet if it will reduce glucose reading yet or not, but it is not causing the indegestion or cinnamon 'burps' that other products may cause.

Decent product