This Micro Ingredients formula pairs **Berberine** with Ceylon cinnamon and chromium for blood sugar support, with the berberine itself at a clinically studied 1,000mg a day. The "2000 mg" on the label is the combined berberine-plus-cinnamon total across four capsules — berberine itself comes in at 1,000mg, enough to meaningfully activate AMPK, the cellular switch that helps your body pull glucose out of the bloodstream. For blood-sugar and metabolic goals, you're getting a genuinely effective amount.

The other half of that headline is **Ceylon Cinnamon** extract at 1,000mg, sitting at the top of the studied range. Cinnamon's glucose evidence is more modest than berberine's — meta-analyses show small reductions in fasting blood sugar — but Ceylon rather than cassia is the right call here, since it carries far less coumarin, the compound that can stress the liver at high intake. You also get 200mcg of chromium picolinate, the most-researched chromium form, right at the bottom of the effective 200–1,000mcg range for supporting insulin sensitivity.

One thing to plan for: the label says take all four capsules at once, but berberine works best split into 2–3 doses with meals — that's how the trials dosed it, and it eases the digestive upset large single doses can cause. Standard berberine HCl also absorbs at only about 5%, so taking it consistently with food is what makes that 1,000mg actually count.