Cinnamon and Multiple Sclerosis

[knuckle]

Mice with MS seem to love it. Maybe that's all we need, a little cinnamon on our toast every morning. Wouldn't that be nice.

Rush scientist receives NIH grant to research the effects of the common household spice on multiple sclerosis

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-pio062211.php

[Shashi]

I was taking cinnamon capsules for awhile, but they were making my GERD way worse. I do try to eat a bit of cinnamon as much as I can on my oatmeal or other things I make. I hope they find that it does help.

[Sequoia]

I was taking cinnamon capsules for awhile, but they were making my GERD way worse. I do try to eat a bit of cinnamon as much as I can on my oatmeal or other things I make. I hope they find that it does help.

Cinnamon extract tablets, as opposed to cinnamon capsules, are much easier on GERD. At least they are for me. The brand I use is Planetary Herbals, and the tablets are quite small.

The problem with the capsules is that sometimes they start to dissolve before they're completely out of the esophagus, and raw cinnamon powder is...well...RAW!

[Sir-Voor]

I love Penzey’s.com “China Tung Hing Cinnamon” but now I’m wondering if “Ceylon Cinnamon” (AKA: True cinnamon from Sri Lanka) would be healthier.

http://www.penzeys.com/cgi-bin/penze...scinnamon.html

It is just over twice the cost (Ceylon@$33.80 for a 1 lb. bag vs. Tung Hing@$15.60 for a 1 lb. bag)
But if it healthier that would definitely justify getting it, and for the flavor difference I could adjust.
In fact I’d use more Ceylon in recipes because it is not as strong, and for health reasons that would be a good thing.

I think I will also have to try some Ceylon softsicks, they sound good.

Thanks Knuckle for posting this, I’m glade I spotted this thread.

[Sir-Voor]

I found this tread on the same research two-year study at ThisIsMS.com

http://www.thisisms.com/ftopic-17005...orderasc-.html

and according it its posters Ceylon cinnamon is what you want.

Cassia cinnamon unlike Ceylon contains coumarin which can be hard on the liver.

[Shashi]

Cinnamon extract tablets, as opposed to cinnamon capsules, are much easier on GERD. At least they are for me. The brand I use is Planetary Herbals, and the tablets are quite small.

Thanks, Sequoia, I'll have to give the tablets a try.

[Nebbykoo]

I sprinlke it on my coffee in the morning. I like how it tastes.

[Sir-Voor]

Personal I do not trust supplement the makers’ cinnamon capsules a lot, simple because there to high of a chance they are using the cheaper cassia cinnamon, adding other ingredients and that I may be already taking or don’t want, and most likely it is so old it no longer as healthy.

At first I’ll be adding to almond milk or something, but I will likely get burned out on that no matter how good the taste is.

So may I suggest getting a good size bag of Ceylon cinnamon from some place like Penzeys and some empty gelatin capsules from someplace like Amazon, and fill them yourself. Price should be about the same if not cheaper, after the initial cost of getting a capsule filler. Amazon has what looks to be a good one for $16.20. http://www.amazon.com/Capsule-Connec...bxgy_hpc_img_b
(There a good video of it being used in the customer reviews.)

To think of it I think maybe I should do a cinnamon, turmeric, maybe garlic and maybe a little black pepper (like in the video) mix and take one 3 or 4 times daily?

[Sequoia]

I found this tread on the same research two-year study at ThisIsMS.com

http://www.thisisms.com/ftopic-17005...orderasc-.html

and according it its posters Ceylon cinnamon is what you want.

Cassia cinnamon unlike Ceylon contains coumarin which can be hard on the liver.

Thanks for finding & sharing this link, Sir-Voor!

Apparently the study was on mice, and as we know what works in mice often doesn't pan out in humans.

And, from the ThisIsMS discussion:

"I also read through one of Kalipada Pahan's papers last night and skimmed through the other one. Neither are really about cinnamon. They explore the usage of sodium benzoate in treating EAE and also in in vitro cellular assays. The link to cinnamon is by inference only as the papers state that sodium benzoate is a metabolite of cinnamon."

I don't use much cinnamon in cooking, but I'm going to switch to the Ceylon variety just in case.

[knuckle]

Since this thread is spicy...

Curcumin...but make sure to take it with Bioperine to increase absorbtion.

http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuse...ow/pageid/1895

"The results did not surprise Dr. Natarajan. In Asian countries, such as India and China, where people eat more spicy foods and more yellow compounds like curcumin, reports of MS are “very, very rare”."

Cayenne Pepper...it's good for so many things I'm sure if they gave it to mice with MS they'd do well.

http://www.cayennepepper.info/health...ne-pepper.html