Within the past few years, studies have shown that cinnamon is helpful in reducing blood sugar levels! Why does your blood sugar go up and down, anyway? When you eat, the sugars and starches in foods get broken down into glucose, also known as blood sugar. Shortly after you eat, the level of glucose in your blood is high. Insulin (a naturally occurring hormone in your body) takes the glucose and uses it for energy or stores it as fat. So what does cinnamon have to do with it? One of the compounds that makes up cinnamon is called MHCP. … Continue reading →