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Glucosamine and Chondroitin are two well-known nutritional supplements. Now, science shows evidence that Glucosamine and Chondroitin may have the ability to shield us from several cancers and do it to a fairly good degree.
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tart cherry
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The National Institute on Aging recommends following a healthy diet, staying physically active, being mentally active, socializing, and looking after your health in general, like controlling your blood pressure and blood sugar, for you to maintain cognitive health and memory functions well into old age. Tart cherries have recently entered that mix. They really should be part of a healthful diet.
Some research on the benefits of tart cherry
The journal Food and Function published a very recent study from various departments and schools at the University of Delaware. They wanted to test the effects of tart cherry on brain health and memory functions in adults between the ages 65 to 80. They had normal cognitive function. They did not have memory loss. The researchers gave the subjects Montmorency tart cherry twice a day for 12 weeks. Then, they tested subjective memory and objective cognitive performances and they found a difference. They found a difference from baseline results, before they were given the tart cherry, and the end of the study. By the end of the study, the people in their 60s, 70s and 80s were more content and more calm and also did better on memory scores and on memory function tests, as well as performing better on learning tasks, retaining memory, working memory and visual sustained attention. Across the board, there were many improvements with the tart cherry. After 12 weeks, the University of Delaware found better memory, better contentment and more calmness in their subjects. They also responded more quickly to information. They had a 23% reduction in errors in episodic visual memory, a 3% improvement in visual sustained attention and an 18% reduction in errors during spatial memory working tasks, which includes doing math and things like that. These are really good results.†
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The tart cherry is loaded with flavonoids called anthocyanins that are good for circulation. They’re very powerful antioxidants, which is interesting because antioxidant levels in the eyes and brain decline with age and anthocyanins are very good for both your eyes and brain.†
If you look at the data on tart cherries in general, there are studies out of Texas A&M where they gave their NCAA athletes the skins of Montmorency tart cherries, called CherryPUREⓇ, and they performed better physically, recovered faster and had fewer injuries. There’s a number of studies that they published.†
There are other studies about tart cherry helping to improve blood flow, blood pressure and nighttime sleep. You’re taking tart cherry in the daytime for brain power, but at night, you’re sleeping better. There’s several studies on that, too. In fact, we’ve done a podcast episode on tart cherry and other nutrients that can help you sleep better at night.†
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More about tart cherry
Tart cherry is very safe. If you mix tart cherry in with real cocoa or red beets, these combinations help boost circulation in the brain. You can also take tart cherry with resveratrol. Those are good couplings to restore circulation to your aging brain. If you’re over the age of 50, I would recommend that because, if you keep the circulation going, you lose fewer memory cells.†
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Berries are loaded with powerful antioxidants that have been shown to be helpful for vision and overall eye health, especially bilberries.
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Grains of Paradise is from the ginger family. It comes from West Africa. It’s a plant called Aframomum melegueta. The first studies done using this plant in rats are showing that it increases energy levels in the body and induces thermogenesis, which is the burning of fat, so it’s a safe way of helping someone to burn fat.
People have used high doses of caffeine and even dangerous stimulants to burn fat. Naturally, if you get some exercise and you eat a healthy diet, you’re going to burn some fat. But some people need additional help. This Aframomum melegueta has proven that it really can improve fat burning and it does it in a very safe way.
Why fat is dangerous
Baby fat is called brown fat. This is the fat you burn for energy. The fat on your belly is white fat and it’s visceral adipose tissue, which is very dangerous. When you have too much belly fat, it invades your organs. So far, there’s evidence that it can even get into your kidneys, but it’s well-known that it gets into the liver. In some people, this can make them feel inflamed or a little weaker, but in other people, this can lead to liver cancer and liver failure. That same fat can leech into your heart and clog the arteries in your heart. White fat is the fat you have on your belly and it’s not metabolically inactive because it doesn’t give you energy per se since it’s hard to burn. What it does give you is inflammation and that inflammation is connected to things like the onset of diabetes.
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Here’s a study from The British Journal of Nutrition in 2013. In this study, they were looking at brown fat and thermogenesis. The researchers gave chubby men either Grains of Paradise or placebo. They found out that two hours after ingesting Grains of Paradise, it absolutely increased the level of brown fat and energy expenditure, in other words leading to thermogenesis. They said, “These results indicate that oral ingestion of Grains of Paradise extract increases whole-body energy expenditure, burning fat through the use of brown adipose tissue in human subjects.” That’s converting white fat to brown fat.
Another study done by the School of Nursing and Nutrition at Tenshi College, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine and a couple of other academic research institutions in Japan looked at the impacts of Grains of Paradise on both men and women. The researchers gave the Grains of Paradise to men and women for four weeks. They found that even in thinner people, the Grains of Paradise was preventing the buildup of fat in their bodies.
These studies show that Grains of Paradise is a safe way to improve energy-burning without using a stimulant because stimulants can raise your blood pressure. In fact, if you use enough stimulants, it’ll make you hyper, it’ll raise your blood pressure and it can even trigger a stroke.
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