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Health Benefits of Cinnamon? Cinnamon has quite the reputation as a healing agent. The spice has been credited with antibacterial, antimicrobial, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory properties. People use it to treat bug bites, ease the discomfort of urinary tract infections, and soothe rheumatoid arthritis symptoms, as well as a broad spectrum of other maladies. Studies have explored the possibility that cinnamon can help with managing blood sugar, improving high cholesterol, fighting dementia, and even treating multiple sclerosis. But the research so far is preliminary. To counter one of the most widely circulated claims that cinnamon supplements help people with diabetes control their blood sugar the agency points to a 2012 systematic review of 10 randomized, controlled clinical trials in people with type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. The review concluded that cinnamon supplements weren’t shown to help reduce levels of glycosylated hemoglobin A1C (a long-term measure of glucose control), serum insulin, or postprandial glucose (measured two hours after eating a meal).