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It appears you can do the same thing with 3g of cinnamon

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19158209/

Conclusions: Ingestion of 3 g cinnamon reduced postprandial serum insulin and increased GLP-1 concentrations without significantly affecting blood glucose, GIP, the ghrelin concentration, satiety, or GER in healthy subjects.

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If anyone wants to try this, make sure you're NOT using what's usually passed off as cinnamon in America (Cassia), you want the real thing (Ceylon) -- and from a vendor you can trust. That amount of cassia cinnamon is likely to cause liver damage: https://www.consumerlab.com/answers/cinnamon-coumarin-liver-...

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As someone who is from Ceylon (Sri Lanka), I'd say to be careful of the most commercially available cinnamon that are meant to be used with food and tea too, because they may be flavored to dial down the otherwise strong taste/aroma of cinnamon.

I know because one of my friends has a cinnamon farm, and what he makes at his place is nothing compared to the cinnamon I could buy from supermarkets when I was living in the Netherlands. Look for Sri Lankan markets if you are looking for unaltered stuff.

Isn't satiety / ghrelin the mechanism (via GLP-1) for weightloss in semaglutide?

Isn’t that a dangerous amount?

It's about 1/3 of a tablespoon. It's dangerous to the bottom line of drug manufactures trying to sell a $1000 injection that does the same thing.

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