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today we're going to talk about the
amazing benefits of ginger and turmeric
for longevity and overall health I love
these two Foods Ginger and turmeric and
you can find them in the fresh produce
section of a grocery store or a Asian
market you'll definitely find them uh or
you can go to the middle aisle of the
grocery store and find them ground up
and dried as spices uh and so don't be
afraid to actually wander into the
middle aisle and go to the the spice
section to find Ginger and turmeric so
let's talk a little bit about Ginger and
turmeric uh individually first of all
turmeric actually comes from uh uh
southeast Asia it is a tiny little root
kind of a nub kind of cigar shape but
tiny smaller and uh it's got a little
skin on it and you peel off the skin or
if you break it in half you'll see that
it's bright orange on the inside now
this is a an edible root that can be
used for cooking and stewing uh you
often see this in Southeast Asian
Cuisine uh you can also find it in
Indian uh cuisine as well uh and
turmeric's actually been used for
traditional healing ayurvedic healing uh
traditional uh medicines for thousands
of years uh I like to think about it as
a colorful uh spice that you can
actually use for cooking uh as well and
what's in turmeric is something called
curcumin
now curcumin is a bioactive that does a
lot of really powerful things curcumin
lowers inflammation in your body it's
sort of the OG one of the original
anti-inflammatory subst substances all
right that's what circumin does um
anti-inflammatory circumin also can um
cut off the blood supply feeding cancer
so it's
anti-angiogenic this is something that I
did work on years ago uh and to help
discover that activity uh curcumin also
so is antioxidant so it actually
protects your DNA look we all have DNA
in our body it's our genetic
instructions they make proteins you
don't want them to be damaged because
when your DNA is damaged it's called a
mutation what does mutation set you up
for cancer so protecting your DNA with
an antioxidant property uh of curcumin
found in turmeric is actually another
benefit the other thing that um turmeric
actually does is it slows down cellular
aging
now this is different than actually
reversing aging like you don't turn into
a baby when you have it but it actually
gets your cells chilled out a little bit
so you're not as uh your cells are not
speeding up uh and going towards a more
aged uh State all right so it slows down
cellular aging and in fact it can
actually help to slow down the burning
down of your tiir these are actually the
kind of like the fuses at the end of
your DNA uh that burn down down as we
age it slows that whole process down so
that's turmeric all right now what about
Ginger another root um really amazing
root uh I love Ginger uh that you can
actually find uh in The Fresh Market of
the grocery store you can find it dried
in the Spice Market uh if you go to an
Asian grocery store you'll actually see
beautiful big chunks of Ginger uh
they're sort of like a like almost like
a cactus a big centerpiece with lots of
little arms thicking out uh and Ginger
is something that's used in uh Asian
cooking of All Sorts um if you've
actually been to the sushi bar you know
that Ginger is sliced really thin and
given as a pile uh next to your sushi uh
absolutely delicious uh Ginger also is
used to flavor uh stir fries uh in
Chinese cooking Ginger is used in Thai
food Vietnamese food used in soups just
a beautiful uh um uh really um delicate
but potent uh type of Flavor now uh
what's uh in ginger ginger has a
bioactive called ginger all now Ginger
all has been studied as
anti-inflammatory it is
anti-oxidant it also cuts off the blood
supply uh to tumors this is something I
worked on uh as well and ginger o also
can actually improve metabolism and help
to lower lipids uh as well and I want to
give you a little Pro tip on Ginger
because uh when I used to buy Ginger uh
I used to take it back you stick it on a
cutting board and you got to take a
knife hopefully a small knife and it's
kind of like scrape off and trim off
that that thin skin layer it took a
while all right then the skin uh was H
you know you don't want to cut too
deeply into the ginger but I actually
found a tip that I'm sharing with you
now if you want to really peel Ginger
like a pro here's what you do take a
tablespoon just one out of your spoon
drawer your silverware drawer all right
and what you do is you hold the spoon in
one hand with the curved side facing the
ginger you hold that Ginger and you just
scrape it with the spoon scrape scrape
scrape scrape scrape your spoon will
take off that skin just at the skin
level and before it just takes a like a
few seconds you've actually skinned the
entire Ginger without wasting it super
easy and it's a great Pro tip for using
Ginger all right now let's talk about
the benefit of turmeric and ginger
together when it comes to uh longevity
and overall health one of the things
that uh this combination of of turmeric
and ginger uh that I think would be
really good for is joint health now
obviously as we get older are joints
suffer from wear and tear you get
inflammation you get pain osto arthritis
and it turns out that Ginger and
turmeric when you combine their
anti-inflammatory properties together
can actually be a BAL for inflammation
your body and where what better tissue
uh uh to actually aim at is to actually
lower inflammation in your joints sure
you can take a pill a non-steroidal uh
but actually taking turmeric and ginger
adding into your food is a wonderful way
to get uh some of this uh uh all the bio
Ives in to be able to help that
vulnerability of Aging which is really
joint pain and Joint compromise okay the
uh other thing that I think that
turmeric and are great for think about
it brain health now when we actually are
aging one of the things that we really
want to avoid is dulling of the brain
cognitive uh deficits you know where's
my keys now I can't remember what did
you just say um what's my name you want
to avoid that so turns out that uh it's
thought that inflammation plays a role
uh brain inflammation plays a role so
both turmeric and ginger have these
wonderful properties that can actually
be anti-inflammatory in nature the other
thing uh that uh occurs we think is that
oxidative stress in the brain um is
Damages neurons the nerves in your brain
and so the antioxidant properties of
both Ginger and turmeric um are uh
really really
great uh to be able to help as part of
an overall lifestyle uh plan to be able
to uh calm down uh your uh uh
inflammation uh and oxidative stress uh
in your brain as we age so for better
cognitive Health all right the other
thing uh that was is tumeric and junor
good for is cardiovascular health all
right now again inflammation uh in your
within your blood vessels your arteries
that's a setup for
atherosclerosis uh which is a building
up of crap on the lining okay this is
sort of lipids and other inflammatory
proteins um it forms a crust on inside
your blood vessels when you hear about
somebody having a heart attack with
blockages that's really because the the
crust that she formed the gunk has
formed inside your blood vessel and
because of damaged blood vessels to that
inter lining the endothelial Ling of
your blood vessels so uh anything that's
anti-inflammatory uh actually can help
counter uh those effects of that that
can that can cause cardiovascular
disease that's the accumulation of of
Gunk material lipids uh that caused by
inflammation that can actually cause
blockages narrowing and blockages
whether it's in a heart uh which sets
you up for heart attack in the brain set
you up for vascular dementia as well as
stroke uh in your neck the cored
arteries and in your legs that because
you can cause Peripheral arterial
disease now this is actually a silent
kind of heart disease except it's not in
your heart it's in your legs and uh your
your the gunk accumulates to the point
where you actually can't even walk 100
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get back to the video well if your blood
vessels are very narrow so the muscles
of your leg aren't getting enough oxygen
so you seize up and cramp and this is
actually when this actually happens you
could be walking down the parking lot
just 100 feet then you got to stop and
rest all right you need to your muscles
need to completely stop their work so
they can actually uh load up again get
rid of the lactic acid and get more
oxygen or walking in a shopping center
or shopping mall you know you just walk
a few storage length and now you cramp
up that is actually Peripheral arterial
disease so so Ginger and turmeric with
their anti-inflammatory effects help to
protect blood vessels but the gingerol
of Ginger and the curcumin of turmeric
also
directly groom the health of the lining
of the blood vessels the
endothelial uh cells that inner lining
okay and so they also directly help uh
uh vascular Health the health of your
blood vessels you get better blood flow
better blood flow better heart function
better blood flow better brain function
and by the way this also applies to your
legs uh applies to all your organs it
applies also to erectile uh function as
well you want good blood flow in every
part of your body so when it comes to U
brain health cardiovascular health when
it comes to joint health uh turmeric and
ginger uh are uh really really useful
foods to be used as part of the tool and
the toolbox the food as medicine
but every bit is importantly I want to
let you know that Ginger and turmeric
are great foods to cook with whether
they're dried form or they're in the
fresh form and look if you don't know
how to use uh these ingredients it's so
simple uh type in ginger and turmeric go
on to Google uh hit search uh recipe hit
search uh punch up video and watch
somebody teach you uh some of the
recipes that they love to make to create
a tasty uh dish uh you created using uh
the healthy ingredients of turmeric and
ginger I hope you found this uh helpful
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