Ad copy

Please don't buy this cinnamon. I was diagnosed with type 2 six months ago. A1C 7.1. Here's what happened when I took Metabolae for 30 days . I'm Caroline Moore. I've been a diabetes educator for 22 years. I teach type 2 patients how to check their glucose, count their carbs, take their metformin, and accept that they'll be on the meds for the rest of their lives. Six months ago I sat in an exam room and heard my own doctor say the same words I've said to hundreds of patients. Your A1C came back at 7.1. We're going to start you on metformin. This is manageable. She handed me the prescription. I filled it. The bottle has been sitting on my counter, unopened, for six months. I couldn't do it. Not yet. I've spent 22 years watching type 2 patients follow every instruction and watch their numbers climb anyway. Metformin at 40. Blood pressure medication at 44. Statin at 47. By 55 they're on four drugs and their kidneys are starting to slip. I know the trajectory. I teach the trajectory. I wasn't ready to walk it. A colleague at a continuing education conference mentioned Metabolae. She said her mother's A1C dropped a full point in ninety days. Ceylon cinnamon, not Cassia. Concentrated 12:1 and suspended in MCT oil so it actually absorbs. I'd heard the cinnamon claims for years and dismissed them all — because every study I'd read used a specific species, dose, and delivery that no supplement on Amazon was actually shipping. I figured I had nothing to lose. The metformin bottle would still be on the counter if this didn't work. Day 1: One softgel with breakfast. Didn't expect anything. Day 3: I checked my fasting glucose. 156. Not what I wanted but 20 points below my usual morning read of 178. Tested again. 154. I didn't say anything to my husband. Day 5: 148. Three days in a row under 160. That hadn't happened since the diagnosis. Day 7: I slept through the night. First time in months. I'd blamed the diagnosis stress. Turns out it was the 3am cortisol spike from a liver still overproducing glucose. Nobody told me that in any of my training. Day 10: 138. I stopped dreading my morning finger pricks. For 22 years I've told patients the meter is not a report card. This week I finally believed it about my own. Day 14: The afternoon crashes stopped. The 2pm wall I'd been coffee-medicating my way through disappeared. Steady all day. Day 17: My cravings loosened. The bread-and-sugar pull I've been telling patients was normal for insulin resistance — gone. Not managed. Gone. Day 21: Fasting glucose 118. I tested twice. My husband was watching. He didn't say anything. He just put his hand on my shoulder. He's been carrying the diagnosis with me for six months. Day 24: I ate pasta for dinner. Real pasta. With bread. First time since the diagnosis. Tested two hours later expecting the worst. 132. That used to be my fasting. Day 27: Slept through the night again. Every night that week. Day 30: Fasting glucose 108. I sat on the edge of the bed and stared at the meter. Six months ago I was 178. Today I was 108. 108. My husband came in and saw my face. What's wrong? I showed him the meter. He started crying. Six weeks after I started, I went back for bloodwork. A1C came back at 5.6. She pulled up my chart. Looked at me. What did you change? I told her about Metabolae. About the species, the dose, the MCT oil suspension. She made a note. Then she said something I wasn't expecting. Whatever this is, keep doing it. We're going to want to reconsider what we called this at your next appointment. The metformin bottle is still sitting on my counter. Unopened. Six months old. I'm furious. I'm furious because I've spent 22 years teaching patients that type 2 is a management condition. That metformin is for life. That the number is the enemy and the meter is the report card. And nobody at any conference in any of those years told me about the species, the dose, the delivery. Here's what I learned. Most cinnamon supplements aren't Ceylon. They're Cassia — a different species with up to 250 times more coumarin, which can damage the liver at supplement doses. The clinical studies that showed real blood sugar benefits used true Ceylon cinnamon. Cinnamomum verum. Most are underdosed. The studies used concentrated extract equivalent to 6,000-7,200mg daily. Most capsules have 500-1,500mg of powder. Most use dry powder that doesn't absorb. Cinnamon's active compounds are fat-soluble. Without a fat carrier they pass right through you. That's why Metabolae is suspended in MCT oil. True Ceylon. 7,200mg equivalent. MCT oil suspension. Third-party tested. GMP certified. 90-day money-back guarantee. If your numbers don't move, you pay nothing. No hassle. No paperwork. One softgel with breakfast. That's all I did. So don't buy it. There will be more for me. Hopefully they don't sell out again — the buy two get one free deal is what got me here, and I'd like it to still be there when I reorder. If your A1C just crossed the line. If your doctor just handed you a prescription. If the bottle is sitting on your counter and you're not ready to open it. If you were told this is manageable and something in you refuses to accept that management is the whole story. Try this. Track your fasting glucose every morning. Give it 30 days. I went from 7.1 to 5.6. From newly diagnosed to my doctor asking to reconsider the diagnosis. The metformin bottle is still unopened. ~ Caroline Moore