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I've delayed writing a review for over two months now. I wanted the A1C results from my doctor visit today before stating an opinion. I'm a type II diabetic in my mid 60s. I was first on metformin and switched to glimepiride when I started taking other meds that weren't compatible with metformin. For the past couple of years my A1C has been hovering around 8, give or take a few tenths. Losing 40+ pounds, changing my diet and adding regular exercise several times a week did not change the A1C figure. My doctor tried a few of the really expensive meds (Januvia and Onglyza) but they did not help things to any noticeable degree. I was perilously close to needing insulin. I spent about a year experimenting with various OTC supplements to see if any of them helped. I was quite careful to use them one at a time for several weeks. I wanted to be sure any change I saw was due to the supplement. Most of them did nothing. That was until I tried raw cinnamon. That made a nice dent in my morning blood sugar figures which had been running in the 180s to 200s on getting up, but before breakfast. The cinnamon (4,000 mg a day) brought that number down to the 160s. Then I tried Glucocil. My numbers dropped even more. I now take 1,000 mg cinnamon in the morning and the 2 Glucocil pills with each lunch and dinner. My morning blood sugar figures are now consistently in the 120s to 130s. (I cut back on raw cinnamon since Glucocil also contains it.) This morning's A1C blood test came back at 6.7. I haven't been below 7.0 for at least 5 or 6 years. And this was achieved after being on Glucocil for a bit over 2 months. I believe the A1C is a rolling average based on roughly a 3 month period (if I understand, that's the time it takes for a sugared blood cell to die off and get replaced), so I hoping my next doctor visit in August will come in even lower. (I also brought the box label to my internist this morning and he had no concerns with Glucocil interfering with the other meds I take.) One final observation is that it also dramatically helped my triglycerides. They dropped into the normal range for the first time in years. Anyway, spectacular results for me. I couldn't be happier. Definitely worth a trial run for anyone who has been struggling with high blood sugars.