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today we're going to talk about the
remarkable benefits of eating
blueberries and how they can heal your
health eating blueberries can improve
your metabolism how do they do this
blueberries contain bioactives one of
them is called anthocyanin the other
one's called
proanthocyanidin and the ones called
quatin and these actually improve your
metabolism so studies in Turkey have
actually enrolled adults who were
overweight and gave them blueberries to
eat and what do you think they found
well first of all these adults were put
on a reduced calorie diet and a little
bit of exercise just so they weren't
couch potatoes and they were moving and
not eating too much and then after six
weeks they gave them blueberries to eat
how much really just a quarter cup of
frozen blueberries every day for another
six weeks but they gave one group of
blueberries one group of placebos you
know what they found they found the
blueberry eaters lost 8 LBS or 2 1% more
than the group that was eating the
placebos meaning that if you are having
a healthy lifestyle with exercise
reducing your calories adding
blueberries even frozen blueberries
would actually help you lose more weight
now the other thing is that eating the
blueberry eaters also had less visceral
fat that's the kind of harmful
inflammatory fat that you want to get
rid of within the tube of your body the
bber eaters also had better insulin
sensitivity meaning that they had better
overall metabolism as well now here's
the thing About Blueberries they are in
season in the summertime and if you're
going to go out to a farmers market or
grocery store looking at blueberries
here's a little tip of what you actually
want to be able to uh avoid don't go for
any of the berries that are green avoid
those they're not ripe and don't go for
any ones that are really really softened
up you know those sort of on their way
to rotting so just avoid those and if
you can't get Summer blueberries that's
okay frozen blueberries just like that
research study showed are actually just
fine here's something else you might not
know about blueberries they have other
names so for example they've been called
wild Huckleberry or even hortal berries
and in Europe they're known as Bill
berries use the name that you're most
familiar with but you recognize them on
site they're these tiny little dark blue
super sweet uh berries that you can find
during the summer time now here's how I
I like to use blueberries I like to eat
a handful of them in the morning just
rinse them off always rinse off your
blueberries organic as even better and
then dry them off and just pop them into
your mouth all right uh that's a great
way or you can add them to some yogurt I
always you whole fat yogurt you can also
sprinkle them into a salad and if you're
a baker add them to muffins that would
that those are easy ways to actually get
blueberries into your system all right
second incredible point I want to make
is that eating blueberries reduces
inflammation and the reason is that
these bioactives the anth cyanin Pro
anthocyanin and cortin are powerful
reducers of whole body inflammation and
we know that inflammation is responsible
as a root cause of many chronic diseases
so it doesn't matter what you got if you
actually eat blueberries and reduce
inflammation that's actually going to be
beneficial to your health and help you
heal faster Okay the third point I want
to make about eating blueberries is they
actually improve your immune defenses as
well and this is a really interesting
one why do we want good immune defenses
well protects us from infection from the
outside world for example but a really
good immunity also protects us from
cancer because our immune system
conducts surveillance throughout our
body and looks for abnormal cells like
cancer cells and wipes them right out so
it was a clinical study that was
actually done at Louisiana State
University where um they actually
studied blueberries uh in the form of a
smoothie versus a placebo of course
that's how a good clinical study is done
what they did is they enrolled people
who had metabolic syndrome now you may
or may not have metabolic syndrome but a
lot of people have metabolic syndrome
what is that well that's a combination
of high blood pressure high blood lipids
like your cholesterol triglycerides high
LDL bat cholesterol high blood sugars
all right you know we talk about glucose
spikes but actually what it is is that
higher levels generally of your blood
sugar and a big waistline because when
you're waistline is bigger it means
you're more stuffed with visceral
inflammatory fat okay so they enrolled
this one study enrolled people with the
metabolic syndrome and they gave them
blueberries in the form of a smoothie
how much they give just one and 1/2 cups
of blueberry powder in this case um they
put them in yogurt with a little bit of
milk so what they did is they actually
measured in the blood immune cells
before and after um having the blueberry
smoothies and guess what they found they
found drinking the blueberry smoothie
led to an 88% increase increase in
special immune cells called myoid
dendritic cells myoid dritic cells help
protect against
infection in contrast to people who had
the placebo smoothie No Blueberries had
no increases in these special immune
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below now back to the video the other
thing that has been done to look at
blueberries and their effect on immune
system is that they studied the effect
of blueberries on special immune cells
called natural killer cells or enk cells
now here's the thing uh they studied
them in people who uh were exercising
now when you exercise you have a big
surge in your immune cells very very
briefly okay and then when you stop
exercising you have a Plunge in your
immune system all right a Plunge in your
a dip in your immune system so a
clinical study was done looking at
people who are physically fit and they
wanted to see uh what the effect of
eating blueberries were so they gave
these people uh two cups just a little
under two cups 1.7 cups of blueberries a
day to eat every day for six weeks all
right then they put them on an exercise
test a treadmill and then they measured
their blood before the blueberries uh
before exercise and during exercise they
actually had them before just before
exercise they had them eating a little
bit more uh blueberries like almost
three cups so an extra cup let's call it
and then they put them on the exercise
system and they drew their blood
outwards you know what they found they
found that blueberry eaters had an
increase in their natural killer cells
just by eating blueberries so more
defensive natural killing cells um these
are immune cells uh just by eating
blueberries and then after exercise
instead of actually having a plunge of
their natural killer cells blueberry
eaters kept them um level so they
actually did not have a dip in their
immunity so this actually shows that
actually eating blueberry is good for
lowering inflammation raising immunity
good for metabolism shrinking waistline
losing some weight and overall just
making you more fit in every single
sense of the word so hope you enjoyed
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