My brother and I both have been told we are pre-diabetic. His doctor told him to take cinnamon; however, my brother was taking some sort of huge capsule that made him feel he was puffing out cinnamon for the rest of the day! I found Cinnabetic and began taking it about 9 months ago. It is a small capsule and is supposed to be taken twice a day, twelve hours apart on an empty stomach prior to a meal. This sounds sort of intense, but the directions gave me the sense that this actually may be useful. Many supplements give you no direction on relations to meals, etc. I am anxious to see how my blood work turns out at my next physical.