Effect of cinnamon extract on relieving diabetes

The International Journal of nutrition research recently published the latest research progress of Chen Yan's research group, Institute of nutrition, Shanghai Institute of life sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Department of Endocrinology, Xuhui Central Hospital, revealing the relieving effect of cinnamon extract on type 2 diabetes In traditional Chinese medicine, cinnamon has been used for a long time in the treatment of "diabetes", but whether it can be verified by means of inquiry medicine has been rarely reported Researchers from the Institute of nutrition and Xuhui Central Hospital conducted a randomized, double-blind clinical trial It was found that the fasting blood glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin levels of the patients were significantly lower than those of the control group In addition, taking low-dose cinnamon extract can significantly reduce the serum triglyceride level of patients This experiment reveals that cinnamon extract can be used as an effective adjuvant therapy in the clinical intervention of type 2 diabetes patients, and provides a successful example for promoting the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine The cinnamon extract used in this clinical experiment was further developed by Shanghai Yitian Biotechnology Co., Ltd on the basis of the research and development work carried out by Dr Qin Ying of the Institute of nutrition It has been approved by the State Food and Drug Administration (gsjz g20110080) The research is supported by projects from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.