cinnamon and insulin

[Reamz]

I've been reading up alot on cinnamon and insulin (just search cinnamon insulin in google), and the basic jist is that cinnamon raises insulin sensitivity, lowers blood sugar and is potentially good for diabetics. But the studies say that is increases insulin activity. So i was wondering, how can an increase in insulin activity be good? wouldn't it cause insulin resistance rather than sensitivity?
Can anyone help me make sense of all of this?

[Gabriel Guzman]

Insulin activity is different than insulin sensitivity. When cells become insulin resistant, even though the hormone is around, there is no activity because to the cells is just as though insulin is not there. When cells become sensitive, that means that insulin does work, which in simple terms means that when it docks to the cell's membrane, the cells respond as they should. The docking of insulin to the cell's membrane initiates a cascade of reactions that are needed for the cell (without insulin those reactions inside the cell don't take place), which translates into more 'activity' of the hormone.