Chromium: The Mineral Your Diet Drains Faster Than You Can Put It Back
A trace mineral almost nobody can tell you anything about turns out to be a required part of how insulin's message reaches your cells. A Santa Barbara physician explains what it actually does, and why the same foods that push blood sugar up are the ones washing that mineral out of you faster than you can replace it. Almost nobody is told either half.
Chromium is a mineral most people could not tell you one true thing about, and insulin cannot finish its job without it.
Not helped by it. Dependent on it. There is a step in the way your body puts sugar to use that does not happen at all unless this mineral is present, and researchers worked that out in the 1950s. It is not new, and that part is not in dispute.
Here is the part that should bother you.
The foods that send blood sugar climbing are working against your supply of this mineral from two directions at once, and almost nobody is told about either one.
It has been running underneath the whole time, and it is something being done to you rather than by you.
Two facts, then. What this mineral is actually for, and what a modern diet does to your supply of it. In that order, because the second one only lands once you have the first.
The component nobody mentionedWhat insulin is actually waiting on
Insulin is a messenger. It reaches your cells with one instruction, let the sugar in, and when that message lands cleanly the door opens and things settle back down where they belong.
But a message has to be heard. Sending it is only half the job.
Your body builds a small molecule called chromodulin, and its entire purpose is to make insulin's signal land at the cell.24 Here is the part almost nobody has been told: chromodulin has to bind four chromium ions before it can do any of that. Without the mineral, the molecule is a shape with nothing in it. With the mineral, insulin's knock arrives at full volume and the cell answers.
That is chromium's job. It is not a booster, it is not a trend, and it is not something a marketing department invented last year. It is a component.
Researchers worked this out a long time ago, and the name they used tells you how plainly they saw it. Dr. Scott Saunders, M.D., a Santa Barbara physician with decades in integrative and family medicine, has been making the same point to patients for most of his career.
"It is not a bit player. The mineral is built into the process. When researchers first isolated a chromium compound back in the 1950s, they named it glucose tolerance factor, because when the chromium came out of it the thing stopped working. They named it after the job it does. Then the field spent the next several decades talking about insulin, and almost nobody kept talking about what insulin leans on. I find that mildly funny and slightly maddening. It is the kind of detail that falls out of the textbook and nobody notices it is gone."3
Scott Saunders, M.D.
Hold that image, because the next part is what is happening to your supply of it.
The trade running underneathLess coming in. More going out.
Chromium is not abundant in food to begin with. It shows up in small amounts in whole grains, in broccoli, in brewer's yeast. Nobody eats a lot of it on their best day.
Now take that thin supply and run it through a modern plate. Refining strips it. White flour, white rice, the pastry, the cracker, the thing in the bag: much of the natural chromium is removed in processing. So the more refined the food, the less of the mineral comes in with it.
That is the first half. The second half is the part that should make you angry.
Diets high in sugar and refined carbohydrates increase how much chromium your body flushes out in your urine.5 The food does not just fail to deliver the mineral. It raises the rate at which you lose the mineral you already had.
Read that again slowly, because it is the whole thing.
Less coming in. More going out. And both of them are driven by the same foods, at exactly the point in a life when the body has the most use for what is being washed away.
That trade has been running underneath every refined meal anyone has eaten, for as long as the food supply has looked the way it looks. Nobody described it, nobody put it on a label, and nobody at the pharmacy counter brought it up.
Which leaves a question worth asking. What has it been costing, and who has been taking the blame for it?
The arithmetic nobody ranWhat that was costing you while nobody mentioned it
The people it costs most are the ones already working hardest at their eating, which is the ugly part.
If blood sugar is already something you check most mornings, start with the count. Five years of morning readings is more than eighteen hundred numbers. Ten years is closer to four thousand. Every one of them checked, or logged, or braced for.
That is not a health concern. That is a second job nobody applies for, nobody can quit, and nobody gets paid for.
One reading, taken alone in a bathroom at six in the morning, and it sets the temperature of the whole house for the day.
And alongside it, the work. Reading the labels. Cutting the bread back. Standing in an aisle reading the side of a box while other people walk past to get on with their day. Walking after dinner when the knees say sit down. Buying the cinnamon. Buying the chromium off the pharmacy shelf because somebody said those were the two things that were supposed to help.
For a lot of people there is an appointment running underneath all of it, too. A blood draw a few weeks or a few months out, the one that decides whether any of this counted. Not panic. Just the particular tiredness of waiting to be graded.
Years. That is the part of this nobody puts a price on, and it is the part nobody gets back.
Now put what any of that gave back in the other column.
That is what actually grinds people down. Not the number. The arithmetic.
Years of genuine effort on one side and, on the other, a reading that still moves for reasons nobody can trace back to a single thing they did. Eat carefully all week and watch it climb anyway. Slip once and wonder if that was it. There is no feedback, no credit for the work, and no way to tell which of the things you are doing is worth doing.
So eventually people start doing the thing almost everyone in that position starts doing. They explain the results with their own character. They must not be trying hard enough. They must have cheated more than they are admitting. Somewhere in there the whole thing quietly stops being about food and becomes a verdict on a person.
Put that verdict down. Not because it is unkind, though it is. Because it is the wrong explanation, and you have just read the reason why before anybody asked you to believe it.
Every one of those days spent trying, there was a trade running underneath the effort that nobody described and nobody put on a label. If you have been at this a while, that is the sentence to sit with:
You were not weak. You were not sloppy. You were doing hard work against a headwind you were never told existed.
"I have this conversation two or three times a month, and it opens the same way every time. Somebody sits down and starts by apologizing. They tell me they must have cheated and forgotten, or that they are not disciplined enough, and then they hand me a food diary kept better than most of the charts in my own office. I read it looking for the failure they came in to confess, and I do not find one. What I find is a shortfall nobody ever mentioned to them, running underneath a year of honest work. When I say that out loud the room changes, and it is not because I have given them anything. It is because somebody finally told them they were not the problem."
Scott Saunders, M.D.
That is not a promise about anybody's numbers. It is something better and rarer. It is an accurate account of what a person in that position has been up against.
Why the table cannot close the gapYou are not going to eat your way past this one
The obvious move is to fix it at the table. Eat more of the chromium-rich foods and close the gap yourself.
It is a reasonable instinct and it is worth doing anyway, because eating better is good for you for a dozen reasons that have nothing to do with this page. Do it.
But the amounts in food are small, the modern food supply is not generous with it, and if your plate leans refined in any of the ordinary ways that almost everyone's does, you are losing it out the other end faster than a few servings of broccoli are putting it back.
That is not a discipline problem. It is arithmetic, and effort does not change arithmetic. Which is why, for a mineral this specific and this easy to run short on, most people who decide to take it seriously stop trying to win it back at the table and simply make sure it arrives every day.
The honest accountingIf you have tried chromium before and felt nothing
A good share of people reading this already have a bottle of chromium picolinate in a cupboard somewhere, bought at a pharmacy counter after somebody mentioned it, three quarters full and quietly written off. If that is not you, read this part anyway, because the reason those bottles go nowhere is the reason the rest of this matters.
Before any of that, one thing needs saying plainly. Nothing on this page is going to settle your numbers for you. No mineral, no capsule, no page on the internet gets to make that promise, and anyone who makes it is telling you something they cannot possibly know.
Your numbers, and what to do about them, belong to you and your doctor. That is not fine print at the foot of a page. It is sitting here in the middle of one, before anything gets sold to you.
So here is the honest accounting, in full.
Chromium's role in the insulin signal is well described. That part is not in dispute. What is still argued over is how much benefit supplemental chromium delivers on top of that, and to whom.167 Some research is encouraging, some of it is not, the effects reported are generally modest, and the strongest signals show up in people whose blood sugar is already a struggle rather than in people whose is fine. A person could read the same body of evidence we did and come away less impressed than we are.
We are telling you that on purpose, and we are not going to dress it up.
Now look at what it means for a bottle already sitting in a cupboard. We do not get to tell you that the pharmacy chromium failed because it was the wrong brand, or that this one would have worked where that one did not. Nobody honest can tell you that. What we can tell you is what was different about how it was taken, and it usually comes down to three unglamorous things: whether it was taken every single day for long enough to matter, whether the dose was a real one, and whether it arrived alone or alongside the other nutrients that work on the same system.
Most people fail all three without ever knowing it. They take it for eleven days out of thirty, at whatever dose the cheapest bottle happened to carry, by itself, and then conclude the mineral does nothing.
And nobody asks the obvious question of the person holding that bottle. Not what did you do wrong. Just: what was actually being asked of it?
"People bring the bottles in with them. They set them on my desk the way you would hand over evidence, and then they ask me what they did wrong. Usually nothing. They are not wrong about the ingredient. They are wrong about what was happening to it. The people eating the most of what sends those numbers up are usually the ones carrying the least of this mineral, and that has very little to do with what they swallowed at breakfast."
Scott Saunders, M.D.
The rest of the team
Chromium is the center of this story, but blood sugar is a system, and a few other nutrients support that same system from their own angles.
Vanadium is a second trace mineral studied for engaging the insulin signaling pathway. A 10:1 cinnamon bark extract, concentrated rather than the ground spice in your cupboard, has been studied for supporting steadier blood sugar, partly by slowing how quickly carbohydrates break down.
Selenium is there because the everyday work of metabolism generates oxidative stress, and selenium is a cofactor for one of the body's own antioxidant defenses. Vitamin D3 and K2 round it out. Low vitamin D is associated with poorer glucose handling, most adults do not get enough of it, and K2 belongs alongside D3 rather than after it.
None of these stand in for chromium. They surround it. That is the difference between a formula and a single bottle of one thing bought off a shelf.
What Dr. Saunders built
That thinking is what produced CinnaChroma.
It is built on 200 mcg of chromium in the picolinate form, which is the well-absorbed one, and it puts the supporting team around it: 10:1 cinnamon bark extract, vanadium, selenium, vitamin D3 and vitamin K2. Everything is disclosed on the label at its actual dose. There is no proprietary blend hiding how little of anything is in there.
One capsule. Once a day. That is the entire regimen.
That last part is not a small thing, and it is worth pausing on if you have ever tried to keep up with a four-pill, three-times-daily protocol. The single most reliable predictor of whether any daily supplement does anything for anyone is whether the person actually takes it. A routine you can finish on your worst week beats a better one you abandon in month two.
"I did not want a long list. A long list is usually a marketing decision wearing a lab coat. People chase the dramatic sounding ingredients and skip the trace mineral the whole process depends on. I wanted chromium at a real dose, with the handful of nutrients that work on the same system beside it, in one capsule somebody will still be taking a year from now. Anything that was in there to look impressive on a label came out."
Scott Saunders, M.D., formulator of CinnaChroma
What is inside, and why
200 mcgThe mineral at the center of this formula, in the well-absorbed picolinate form. Chromium is a key part of chromodulin, the molecule that amplifies insulin's signal at the cell, which is how your body puts carbohydrates to use.2 Research on the ingredient. Individual results vary.
250 mgA concentrated 10:1 cinnamon bark extract, studied for supporting steadier blood sugar, in part by slowing how quickly carbohydrates break down.
200 mcgAnother insulin-enhancing trace mineral, studied for its role in engaging the insulin signaling pathway alongside chromium.
200 mcgAn antioxidant mineral and a cofactor for glutathione peroxidase, one of your body's own antioxidant enzymes. The everyday work of metabolism produces oxidative stress, and selenium supports the defenses against it.
5,000 IUSupports healthy metabolic and calcium function. Low vitamin D is associated with poorer blood sugar handling, and most adults simply do not get enough of it.
300 mcgThe partner to D3. Together they round out the formula, supporting healthy metabolic and calcium function.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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- Chromium at a real dose, in the well-absorbed picolinate form
- The nutrients that work on the same system, beside it instead of missing
- One capsule, once a day, which is the entire regimen
- Ninety days is a fair trial, and ninety days is what the guarantee covers
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What a fair trial actually looks like
Now the question almost nobody will answer for you, and the one our own customers write in and ask after the first week. What am I supposed to be watching for, and how long before any of it means anything?
That is a fair question and it deserves a straight answer instead of a slogan. So here is ours, including the parts that do not help us.
Do not expect to feel it. Chromium is not caffeine. There is no lift, no warmth, no moment where something switches on. If you are waiting to feel a capsule working, you will wait forever and conclude wrongly. Nothing perceptible happening is the normal experience, not a sign of failure.
Judge it over a season, not a week. This is a daily-habit product and the research that exists points to changes measured over months rather than days. Anyone selling you a two-week verdict on a trace mineral is selling you something else.
What is fair to watch. The observation our customers volunteer most often, unprompted, is about appetite. Whether reaching for the afternoon snack still feels automatic. Whether the evening pull toward something sweet is as loud as it was. Whether eating carefully takes as much white-knuckle effort as it did in month one. Those are things you can actually notice, and they cost you nothing to pay attention to.
Also watch whether you took it. Unglamorous, and the one that matters most. Count the capsules left in the bottle against the days on the calendar. If those two numbers do not match, you have not run the trial yet.
And your readings belong to you and your doctor. If you take readings, keep taking them, and keep whatever record you keep. But this page does not get to tell you what they mean, and it will not try. That conversation belongs in an exam room with someone who knows your history, not on a website that has never met you.
Two more honest notes. Some people take this consistently for months and notice nothing at all, which is why the guarantee below is written the way it is. And if you are going to try it, try it properly: every day, for long enough to have actually asked the question.
Who is behind thisThe doctor at the desk
You should know who is behind this, because that question often has no answer at all.
Scott Saunders took his medical degree at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and finished his family practice residency at Northridge. He has spent the years since at the Integrative Medicine Center of Santa Barbara. He keeps the practice small on purpose, and he is known among his patients for the unfashionable habit of handing out his own phone number.
All of that is checkable, which should not be remarkable and is. You can look this one up.
Plenty of supplements are fronted by a stock photograph with a name attached, or by a real doctor whose actual specialty has nothing to do with what is being sold. This one is neither. He is also not a man who thinks a capsule is the answer to much.
"I am not really a treatment doctor. My whole job is finding out what is actually going on before anybody does anything about it. That is why a nutrient like this one interests me and a miracle does not. It is a component. Either you have enough of it or you are running short, and that is a question with an answer instead of a slogan. Most of what I do all day is telling people the boring thing nobody told them."
Scott Saunders, M.D.
Two things he wants said plainly, and they are not the fine print
The first. If your blood sugar is an ongoing concern, or if you have symptoms like unusual thirst, fatigue or frequent urination, see a doctor and find out what is going on. That is not a disclaimer we are obliged to print at the bottom of a page in small type. It is the first thing he would say to you across the desk. A supplement supports healthy blood sugar. It does not diagnose anything, it does not treat anything, and it is no substitute for a physician who knows your history and can look at the whole picture.
The second. Chromium and the other minerals in this formula can affect blood sugar. If you have diabetes, or you take any medication that lowers blood sugar, talk with your physician before you start, so they can account for it alongside your treatment.
And then do the thing our long-term customers describe doing more often than anything else. Take the bottle to your next appointment. Put it on the desk and hand over the label. Every ingredient is disclosed at its actual dose, with no proprietary blend hiding the amounts, and it is built that way precisely so it survives that moment.
Anything you are asked to swallow that cannot survive being read by your own doctor is worth a second look.
What you are actually deciding
Strip this whole page down to what is actually on the table.
A mineral that insulin's message will not land without. A modern plate that delivers less of it and flushes more of it out, both at once. And, for anyone who has ever bought chromium off a shelf, a bottle almost certainly taken the wrong way, at the wrong dose, on its own, and then judged for it.
So the question in front of you is not whether a capsule fixes your life. Nobody honest is going to tell you that, and this page has spent its whole length refusing to.
The question is narrower and far more answerable. Have you ever actually run this properly? Every day, at a real dose, with the nutrients that work on the same system beside it, for long enough to count.
If the answer is no, then you have never found out. And a verdict handed down on an experiment nobody ever ran is not a verdict. It is a guess that got repeated until it started to feel like one.
No timer, no stock scareThere is no countdown on this page
Nothing here expires at midnight. The price is not doubling on Friday, we are not going to tell you stock is nearly gone, and there is no timer in the corner counting down to a deadline that resets when you reload the page.
Here is the true version of urgency, and it is worse than a countdown. You are already on a clock. It is the one running underneath your plate, it started long before you read this, and it does not stop while you decide.
Ninety days from today is one season. Start today and, ninety days from now, you will have run this properly and you will know what it does and does not do for you. Close this page and ninety days from now still arrives, because it always does. You will just get there the way you got here, with the same question open and the same trade running underneath it.
That is the whole cost, and it is not measured in money. It is one more season spent not knowing.
The guarantee is the runway
Ninety days, and if you decide it did nothing for you, you send back what is left and we refund what you paid. That is the entire mechanism, and it exists for one reason: the fair trial this page has been describing is a long one, so you should be able to run it at our expense rather than yours.
Read that against everything above and you will see why it is ninety days and not thirty. This page told you, in writing, not to expect to feel anything, to judge it over a season rather than a week, and that some people take it faithfully for months and notice nothing at all. A thirty day guarantee would have made all of that a lie. You cannot ask someone to think in months and then hand them a window measured in weeks.
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How the refund actually works, in plain steps. The ninety days run from the day you buy. To start a return, contact customer service and ask for an RMA number: 866-942-3288 in the US and Canada, 1-617-603-0085 from anywhere else, or support@bartonnutrition.com. Send the product back to the address that comes with the RMA, empty bottles are fine, and the refund is processed within 7 to 10 business days of the return arriving. Items returned without an RMA number are not eligible, so make that call or send that email first. You are welcome to tell us why it did not work for you. You are not required to. There is no return interrogation.
What it costs
One capsule a day. Thirty capsules in a bottle, so one bottle is one month.
One bottle. $49, which is about $1.63 a day. Thirty capsules, thirty days. If starting small is what gets you started, start there. One thing to know going in: $49 sits under the $75 mark, so shipping is not free at this tier.
Three bottles. $119, which is about $1.32 a day. Ninety capsules is ninety days, ninety days is exactly the guarantee window, and $119 clears $75, so US shipping is free. The trial this page has been arguing for is the same option that ships free and sits entirely inside the refund window.
Six bottles. $206, which is about $1.14 a day. The lowest price per day on the page, and the right call if you already know you are going to keep going.
Three is the one we would point you at, and not because it is the middle option. Ninety capsules is exactly as long as the trial this page described, and exactly as long as the window that covers it. Six is the better price per day, but six months of product against a ninety day guarantee leaves the back half outside the window, so it is the right buy for someone who has already decided rather than someone still finding out.
Two ways to buy, shown side by side. The product page offers a one time order, which charges you once and never again, and a Subscribe and Save order, which repeats on a schedule you pick, every 4, 8 or 12 weeks, and costs less per shipment. Pick whichever suits you. If you take the subscription and later want it stopped, you call or email customer service and it stops.
We are spelling that out this plainly for a specific reason. The worst reviews this product has ever received were not about the product. They were about somebody being surprised by a charge they did not expect, and being surprised is the one thing we can prevent right here, before you buy anything.
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A last word from the physician who formulated it
"A web page cannot settle anything for you, and neither can a capsule. So I will tell you what I tell the person who sits down in my office and opens by apologizing. The work you have been doing counts. It was never the character problem you decided it was somewhere along the way. Go and find out what you are actually working with. Take the bottle to your doctor, put it on the desk, and then give it long enough to answer the question properly instead of guessing at it for another year. That is the whole of what I would ask of anybody."
Scott Saunders, M.D., Integrative Medicine Center of Santa Barbara
P.S. If you take one thing from this page, do not let it be the bottle. Let it be this. If you have put real effort into this, the effort was real and so was the headwind, and nobody ever told you the headwind was there. Whatever you decide about CinnaChroma, put down any verdict you have been carrying about yourself. It was the wrong explanation the entire time.
P.P.S. And if you do decide to run this properly, you have ninety days to find out. Two reminders he would want repeated: see your doctor about ongoing blood sugar concerns or symptoms, and if you take any medication that lowers blood sugar, talk with your physician before you start.
Questions people actually ask before ordering
Think in months, not weeks. The first month is you building the habit. Across the second and third you have enough of a run behind you to see a pattern rather than a single odd Tuesday. That is why the guarantee is ninety days: it is exactly as long as a fair trial takes.
Honestly, possibly nothing you can feel, and that is the normal experience rather than a sign of failure. Chromium is not caffeine. There is no lift and no switch flipping on. The thing our customers volunteer most often, unprompted, is about appetite: whether the afternoon snack still feels automatic, whether the evening pull toward something sweet is as loud as it was. Watch that. Also watch whether you actually took it, by counting what is left in the bottle against the days on the calendar.
We are not going to tell you that bottle failed because it was the wrong brand. Nobody honest can tell you that. What we can tell you is what usually differs: whether it was taken every single day for long enough to matter, whether the dose was a real one, and whether it arrived alone or alongside the other nutrients that work on the same system.
One, once a day, with or without food. That is the whole regimen. It is deliberate. The best formula in the world does nothing sitting in a cupboard because its schedule was more than a real person's morning could carry.
CinnaChroma contains 250 mg of a concentrated 10:1 cinnamon bark extract, studied for supporting steadier blood sugar.
Ask them. Take the bottle in and hand over the label, which discloses every ingredient at its actual dose. That is the single most common thing our long-term customers describe doing.
That is a question for your physician, and it needs to be asked before you start rather than after. Chromium and the other minerals here can affect blood sugar, so anyone with diabetes or taking any glucose-lowering medication should speak with their doctor first so it can be accounted for alongside their treatment.
We would rather tell you plainly than oversell it. Chromium's role in helping insulin's message land is well described, and it has been studied since the 1950s. But scientists are still debating how much supplemental chromium helps on top of that, the reported effects are generally modest, and the strongest signals are in people whose blood sugar is already a struggle. The sources we drew on, including the ones that take a more skeptical view, are listed at the foot of this page.
Then you send back what is left and we refund you. That is not a grudging policy we hope you forget about. It is the arrangement this page has been building toward, and some people will use it, because the evidence on supplemental chromium is genuinely mixed and we said so above rather than hoping you would not find out.
That is your choice, and both options sit side by side on the product page. A one time order charges you once and never again. A Subscribe and Save order repeats on a schedule you pick, every 4, 8 or 12 weeks, and costs less per shipment. If you choose the subscription and later want it stopped, call 866-942-3288 or email support@bartonnutrition.com and it stops.
Ninety days from purchase, money back. Contact customer service for an RMA number, send back what is left, empty bottles included, and the refund is processed within 7 to 10 business days of the return arriving. Returns without an RMA number are not eligible. Free US shipping on orders $75+.
- 1Chromium. Linus Pauling Institute Micronutrient Information Center, Oregon State University. Notes that trivalent chromium may potentiate insulin function, and that the nutritional essentiality of chromium has been questioned. lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/minerals/chromium
- 2Chromium: cofactor for chromodulin, insulin signaling, and GLUT-4 glucose transport. Nutrivore. 2026. nutrivore.com/nutrients/chromium
- 3Glucose tolerance factor and the low-molecular-weight chromium-binding substance (chromodulin): relationship and insulin-potentiating activity. researchgate.net/publication/14916582
- 4Chromium and insulin signaling: amplification of insulin receptor activity and regulation of negative modulators of the pathway. nutri.it.com/chromium-mineral-enhances-insulin-signaling-improves-glucose-tolerance
- 5The importance of trace minerals: chromium. Dietary chromium content and increased urinary chromium loss on diets high in refined and simple sugars. agriking.com/the-importance-of-trace-minerals-chromium
- 6Anderson RA. Chromium supplementation and blood sugar markers: meta-analysis. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2002. ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S0002-9165(23)05853-7/fulltext
- 7Chromium: Fact Sheet for Health Professionals. National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements. Concludes the effect of chromium supplementation on glucose measures is slight and of unclear clinical significance, with no clear benefit in people who are not diabetic. ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Chromium-HealthProfessional
* These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Results may vary from person to person. Consult your physician before beginning any supplement, particularly if you take medication, have a medical condition, or are pregnant or nursing.
This article includes clinical commentary from Dr. Scott Saunders, M.D., formulator of CinnaChroma, for informational purposes only. It does not constitute personal medical advice. Persistent high blood sugar, or symptoms such as unusual thirst, fatigue, or frequent urination, should be evaluated by a physician.