How can cinnamon improve your brain health?

So this got me thinking about cinnamon and our use of it in meals and as a spice. I’d wager that as sugar has been used more and more, cinnamon has fallen out out favor. And this really is a shame, because as we do more and more research into traditional spices, we seem to be finding more beneficial brain health benefits. Cinnamon in particular has some interesting properties, as revealed in a recent research study published in the journal Experimental Neurology. What the researchers found was that an extract of cinnamon prevented some brain swelling associated with neuronal cell death and brain damage. Now, as this point it is unclear what the research could mean for consumption of cinnamon and any long-term beneficial effects, but I always like to see research showing that things we can eat every day can actually have a measurable beneficial effect in the body.

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