Cinnamon's cooling effect on the body

[elte]

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-09-sp...omach.html

 "When pigs feed at room temperature, carbon dioxide (CO2) gas increases in their stomach.
"Cinnamon in their food reduces this gas by decreasing the secretion of gastric acid and pepsin from the stomach walls, which in turn cools the pigs' stomachs during digestion.
"When the pigs are hot, they hyperventilate, which reduces CO2 production. With cinnamon treatment, CO2 decreases even further.
"This not only cools the pigs but leads to a significant improvement in their overall health."
Fellow researcher Dr Jian Zhen Ou said: "Altogether cinnamon cooled the stomach by up to 2C.
"No wonder cinnamon is so popular in warm regions as taking it makes people feel better and gives them a feeling of cooling down."

I still wonder about the pinch of cinnamon that I add to my daily serving of flaxseed meal likely being slightly hepatotoxic since I suspect it is the worse type of the two varieties that I know of.

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My mother took the Chinese cassia variety because she thought it helped control her blood sugar. The 2.25 grams she took a day (6 capsules) didn't seem to have any negative effect. But probably didn't really have a beneficial one, either. Well below the 120 mg to 6 grams daily dosage that some challenged tests purportedly utilized.

[elte]

Just got a thought that might have little or no reflection on reality and so is almost an offhand yet hopefully educated guess.  If the amount of cassia cinnamon she took was tending to overload her liver, it might have interfered with its ability to process fructose, resulting in excretion through the kidneys instead.  Thus her blood sugar could have ended up lower because of basically her body expelling calories.

[scheherazade]

Cinnamon was rather a fad a few years ago and I do not use the spice to excess hence the jar in my cupboard is likely a decade old. I suppose that I should upgrade to the preferred Ceylon cinnamon which is considered safer due to it having almost no Coumarin, which if ingested in large amounts can lead to liver damage according to studies on rodents. We carry the premium spice in our Natural Value aisle and I don't think it will break the budget.

 

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The following article from 2013 indicates that various countries in the European Economic Union were actually contemplating regulation or even banning of the spice.
A cinnamon Danish without cinnamon...now that would have presented a problem.

http://guardianlv.com/2013/12/cinnamon-n...lth-risks/