Health Benefits

We all know cinnamon as a well known delicious spice and relaxing spice for a long time. Long time means actually for several millennials. Rather than an ingredient in recipes, cinnamon is a proverb in all the dishes it participates

Cinnamon rolls | Cinnamon pie | Cinnamon tea | Cinnamon bun

Have you ever wondered why? The Chef knows that rather than it’s amazing flavor cinnamon has a magical power of provoking the immune system while boosting health. So they try to attract the real cinnamon lovers as much as possible. Way before your chef, ayurveda has used cinnamon as a valuable medicine where cinnamon is considered as an all star in ayurveda. While it is considered as an important substance in many herbal preparations, the presence of cinnamon is considered foremost in several famous ayurvedic portions including Mind plus, Deep rest and amrit nectar paste. Ayurvedic uses of cinnamon can be find in our article ************cinnamon in ayurveda***********

These rumors and practices made scientists research on Cinnamon and its effect on health. The results have been astonishing as they found cinnamon has the potential to address a number of serious diseases  humankind is suffering including a range from heart disease to  Alzheimer’s disease. Hidden formula for most of its inbuilt power is cinnamaldehyde. According to explorers cinnamaldehyde is extremely effective in a number of diseases. You may think it’s quite odd to have similar names isn’t it? Actually cinnamaldehyde is named after cinnamon which is a rich source of cinnamaldehyde.

As we always mention there are two varieties of cinnamon and they are no way near to each other. If correctly described they are like two gifts from Almighty and the devil.

 

1. Ceylon Cinnamon (The true cinnamon which gives all health benefits)
2. Cassia Cinnamon(Any variety that is not ceylon are a subtype of cassia)

While true cinnamon strength the health like a divine portion, fake type will drags you to slow death. Read ******fake******* for better understanding.

While thoroughly advising you only to use ceylon cinnamon if you really think about using it, let us dig into the modern findings about ‘how cinnamon can benefit you’.

1. Cardio Protective          – Protect and recover from heart diseases
2. Anti Diabetic                 – Recover from diabetes
3. Anti Inflammatory        – Reduce the risk of diseases
4. Antioxidants                 – Destroy cancer cells
5. Cognition Enhance        – Protect and construct brain
6. Anti Cancer                   – Reduce growth of cancer
7. Anti Microbial               – Fight bacterial and fungal infection
8. Help for HIV                  – One of the most effective treatments for HIV

While high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure , obesity and diabetes are the main causes behind cardiac attacks, it is amazing to see that ceylon cinnamon mitigates all the factors separately making cinnamon one of the best herbal medicines for heart diseases.

• For High blood cholesterol – Cinnamon reduces “bad” LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, while “good” HDL cholesterol remains stable.
• For high blood pressure – Cinnamon reduces blood pressure by relaxing blood vessels
• For diabetes  –  Cinnamon reduces blood sugar levels
• For obesity   –  Cinnamon increases the metabolism and promotes weight loss

You can check more details in our article ************ heartly cinnamon ************

 

Anti Diabetic   – Save from diabetes

All of us are food lovers who really like to witness a tasty dish on and off.  However, the more delicious the meal is, more carbs , sugar and fat absorbed to your body which increases the possibility of catching diabetes the slow devil. While diabetes deactivated most of the main organs including  heart, kidney ,eyes and nerve system , non healing wounds make being a diabetic patient extremely painful. In a situation where 1 out of 10 USA citizen is a diabetic patient any person is highly likely to be be a victim of diabetic.

Healthy diet and regular exercise is the first advice to survive from diabetes. But within a busy schedule  and a chilling life it is truly hard to get into such practices. That’s where cinnamon shines. Same as in heart disease, cinnamon addresses the risk of diabetes in several methods which makes cinnamon the most loved and sacred plant among diabetes patients.  Cinnamon cures or save you from diabetes by

• Insulin is the key hormone to regulate the metabolism and blood sugar levels. But sometimes we get resistant to this hormone so as a result blood sugar levels become uncontrollable. Cinnamon has the potential to increase the sensitivity for insulin.
• Cinnamon connects with digesting enzymes and slows down the breakdown of carbs. Therefore the glucose amount added to the bloodstream is reduced.
•  Cinnamon imitates the insulin and enhances the glucose usage by the body cell, where the blood sugar levels are reduced.

Studies have shown that daily usage of cinnamon can reduce blood sugar levels upto 10-29%. Due to that most of the diabetes patients are consuming cinnamon as a tablet rather than a spice. Moreover, owing to the significance performance of cinnamon in blood sugar control we have seperated ******fdf********  to get a broad understanding about how to unleash the antidiabetic effects of cinnamon.

 

Anti Inflammatory      – Reduce damage from inflammation

Inflammation is the natural process of our body to fight against diseases, gems entering the body through injuries and repair tissue damages. Our body increases the production of white cells and immune cells in such occasions where we can notice this response as swelling, pain and redness.   This is short term inflammation and it’s required for a healthy routine.

However there is another form of inflammation which is long term inflammation and that is unnoticeable. Concisely to short-term inflammation, chronic inflammation is highly dangerous as it can develop multiple irregularities in the body including heart diseases, diabetes, cancers and liver disease.

Cinnamon has anti-inflammatory substances which can regulate the inflammation of the body. Even though chronical inflammation is not observable daily cinnamon users are surely saved from dangerous effects from it.

 

Antioxidants  – Destroy cancer cells

Have you ever wondered why we are getting old? Why does food get spoiled and how do we get cancers? Probably yes, but not together. The reason is free radicals, our body processes a special type of free moving molecule which continuously attacks our healthy cells and damages them. In food this case can be seen as spoiling and in our body as aging and skin degrading. Smoking, UV light and processed foods increased this free radical count exponentially where the result is cancer. You may have heard that smoking, UV light as cause of cancer but free radicals are the actual player behind all of this.

Antioxidants have been recognized as the best solution for this problem with free radicals by scientists. Antioxidants neutralize the free radicals and stop the chain reactions. Therefore antioxidant rich food not only has the capability to save you from cancers but also it has this anti-aging effect especially on the skin. Fruits are known to be quite rich in that and that is why avid fruit eaters seem to be preserved in age.

The best part is cinnamon is considered to be loaded way more than fruits with a number of antioxidants namely cinnamaldehyde, eugenol, and linalool which preserves your youth while  protecting your future. To get a rough estimation ORAC score (which measures antioxidant levels) of cinnamon is 131,420 while one of antioxidant rich  fruit blueberries has a score of 9,621. Due to the higher amount of antioxidant levels ceylon cinnamon can be used for food preservation also. For a deep understanding about the youth preserving secrets of cinnamon dig into *******stay young with cinnamon******

Cognition Enhance – Protect and construct brain

As we all know, the brain is the most significant part of our body. Yes the heart is important too, but as the energy house. Nowadays science has found ways to replace organs of the body, even the heart nevertheless the brain. That is because the brain is created with millions of neurons ( name for the brain cells) which connect to each other in a very complex manner and even modern scientists find it hard to understand the architecture of the brain. Therefore small damage to the brain could result in lifetime impairments or sudden death. So damages from brain diseases including Parkinson and Alzheimer’s are irreversible and could switch off any part of your body.

It is amazing to see that even in this domain , cinnamon shows an outstanding performance. Cinnamon is loaded with a number of phytochemicals ( chemicals developed in plants to resist virus, bacterial and fungus infections) including cinnamaldehyde and epicatechin .  These chemicals develop Sodium benzoate which is highly effective in development of neurons. Cinnamon benefits the brain, and lies in a large range.

• Cinnamon can enhance neuron architectures and increase memory (even smelling cinnamon has a effect on that)
• Cinnamon and stop and reverse brain damages happened from diseases
• Cinnamon is a rich source of Manganese which is an essential metal for brain enzymes to develop neural pathways.
• It’s antioxidants refrains brains from high stress and depression
• Cinnamon protects dopamine cells( a type of cells need to keep us satisfied) from inflammation
• Benefits for Parkinson and Alzheimer’s patients by reversing brain damages
• High blood sugar causes brain damages and cinnamon reduces the sugar and protect the brain

Above details suggest that Cinnamon is a vital plant for brain development specially for the kids. Take your daily cinnamon dose while reading our article ****** cinnamon for brainiacs****** to get a deeper knowledge about cinnamon benefits in the brain.

Anti Microbial  – Fight bacterial and fungal infection

Bacteria and fungi are microbes which grow on the surface. Though they are not deadly their infection rate is high because they have the ability to spread and contaminate through surfaces and food. While fever, Nausea and Diarrhea are the common outcomes of fungi and bacterial infections, fragile people with weak immune systems including pregnant women, patients and elders may witness failures in organs such as heart, lung and liver. One of the most common diseases is oral infections, tooth decays and bad breath due to microbes.

Cinnamon contains cinnamaldehyde which has the potential to buffer the growth of bacteria and fungus. Moreover cinnamon oil is widely used for teeth cavity protection. Also as some of you may know WHO has predicted a world crisis as they found modern bacterias and fungus shows a resistance against antibiotic drugs due to evaluation. However research has shown the cinnamon has the potential to reduce the resistance where the drugs can work properly. Other than that due to the cinnamons performance against microbes, it is widely used in cosmetics and food preservation.

Help for HIV – One of most effective treatment for HIV

HIV/AIDS is  a well known disease globally ,yet no cure has still been formulated for this deadly disease. Each year one million people die due to HIV/AIDS where the count is higher than homicide and drowning. The reason why HIV is deadly because it breaks down our immune system completely where we can get infected by any disease including cancers and organ failures. Therefore the maximum life expectancy of a HIV patient is known as 20 painful years.

Though cinnamon can’t cure HIV,  cinnamon has been significant in controlling the effects of HIV and protecting the immune system. One in 300 HIV-positive patients can survive upto 10-15 years without getting AIDS and they are called controllers. According to scientists cinnamon has the potential to convert normal patients to controllers as cinnamon controls the virus load in the body while developing antibodies to maintain the immune system. Therefore cinnamon is a widely used plants among HIV patients and the people who want to protect from it.

Bottom line

We saw that cinnamon is not a spice or a herbal plant, it is a divine medicine which has the ability to defeat almost all the deadly diseases humankind is trying to fight with. Therefore, the first action of anyone who reads this article would be buying a cinnamon pack but WAIT. As we iteratively say in the blog, there is a true cinnamon and a fake one where a fake one would drag you to slow death. So always make sure you are buying ceylon cinnamon ********c.

As we always say “Take food as medicine, if not you may have to take medicine as food”.