Cinnamon

Cinnamon is known to lower blood sugar.  Thus, I also began putting cinnamon on all natural applesauce, liberally and eating this a few days a week. I also sprinkle it in my one cup of morning coffee.

Natural applesauce is sugar free and will seem very bitter and tart at first, but I promise the cinnamon makes it palatable; and once you get used to it, you will find applesauce with sugar, too sweet!

After eating natural applesauce with cinnamon

and taking chromium picolinate as noted above

for just 2 months, my Glucose level dropped to 91! 

Although still not as low as it was prior to chronic pain and

obesity, it is in the normal range and most importantly,

it is improvement gained from NATURAL efforts!

Anytime you can drop your lab numbers by 10%,

whether bad cholesterol, glucose,

or even, your weight, that is great progress!

When you can do it through diet modification

and natural measures,

that is EXCEPTIONAL progress!

I recently found Organic Cinnamon at Sam's Club by Daily Chef. 

Let me tell you, the difference in taste between organic and non is immeasurable! 

It is more expensive in that you pay about the same amount but only get half as much, but it is worth it for those who appreciate such differences. 

Please note: When I lowered my glucose as referenced above, it was NOT with organic cinnamon. Cinnamon can also be taken via supplement form and I buy the  Puritan's Pride CoQ10 with Cinnamon.

KNOW THIS!

YOU are the most important member of your care team! 

After all, your doctors get to go home but at the end of the day, but you are stuck with you!

If you are not living your best quality of life due to chronic pain and/or other chronic health conditions like poorly managed diabetes, it is ultimately UP TO YOU to make the choices that will get you back 2 good! 

I got myself back 2 good by the grace of God and listening to my God-given, Holy Spirit driven instincts. 

NOT ONE DOCTOR ever advised me or told me any of what I have been blessed by God to figure out that has allowed me to vastly reduce and even eliminate 3 of the 10 prescription drugs I had prior to going herbal in early 2012.

As a matter of fact, I began to have doctors be so impressed that I appear as well as I do when I have all the damage and pain issues that I do, ask me what each herb and supplement does?

Thus, I put together an Excel spreadsheet for my dr. visits that lists every supplement I take, its dose, and WHY so that I may educate and motivate them to begin to do their own research and realize that I am not the only person capable of getting off of Rx's and using the ones I still have to take, as the exception and not the rule, and that they would be doing ALL of their patients a world of good if they made this effort!

  IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to do your own research and discuss what I share with your doctor and pharmacist to make safe decisions for your best health.

Before I start any new herb or supplement, I do my research in my two "health bibles"; see "Recommended Reading" page:

recommended_reading

Then I go online and I read about the herb or supplement on WebMD, Mayo Clinic or some other dr. run site, as well as Dr. Mercola's, and then I read about it on 3 non-doc run sites so that I know I have fair, objective, balanced opinions.

I also pay attention to the number of people in studies. 

I have no real respect for studies done with less than a few hundred people; and the more the better just as the fewer the number of participants, the less credibility it has to me. 

You also need to pay attention to WHO is doing the study because far too often, people without integrity will say anything just to make money.

Often, those who scream the loudest against natural health options are paid the most by multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies to do so because they know that those of us who no longer get maintenance Rx's filled every 90 days are taking money out of their pockets; and they are not happy about that, at all.

They don't have your best health in mind; only their bottom line.

Always utilize facts and common sense

when making any health decisions.

I am on a beta blocker for my Hypertension (high blood pressure).  It is the ONE Rx I take every night faithfully. 

I do this because I know that its side effects of depression and lethargy are not as awful as having a heart attack would be. 

Which is why my cardio suggested that I take it at bedtime,

it actually helps me to fall asleep. 

To wrap it up, I am not anti-Rx's or Western medicine

when absolutely necessary

such as emergent or life-threatening situations. 

I am simply anti not giving natural efforts a try first

whenever feasible. 

I can't tell anyone what to do when it comes to health, but I do hope to make people think about their best health and motivate them to get it; and being on multiple pain management pills will NEVER give anyone their best health!

Be Grateful, Be Well

Grace Kelly, CHLC, CPLC

Do an online search of "Photos of gangrene foot due to diabetes" and if that isn't incentive to make you eat right and start a healthy dr. appoved walking routine to well-manage or reverse your diabetes, then your spiritual health is even worse off than your physical health.  READ THE BIBLE TO HEAL!

If you have two healthy feet to walk on, GET UP AND GET OUT!

Try to walk for at least 30 minutes a day. 

If you have to build up to it, then do so. 

Start out with just 5 minutes a day, then when that no longer challenges you, go up to 10 minutes, and when that no longer challenges you, go up to 15 minutes, so on and so forth.

Prior to injuries, I used to power walk 5 miles a day in 50 minutes, five to six days a week.  I loved it!  I felt so good from the endorphins it released!  And health wise? 

I was actually able to STOP taking my blood pressure medicine entirely! 

Considering the lethargy and depression side effects of beta blockers, that was a HUGE HEALTH BLESSING!