Can spices improve your health?

ZOE Science & Nutrition

ZOE

Nutrition, Science, Health & Fitness, Education

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🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Kanchan Koya grew up in a house filled with wonderful fragrances from the spices simmering on her grandmother’s stove. In India, it was a common belief that spices were more than just pleasant tastes. Ancient wisdom said they had medicinal properties, and it was common for household medicine cabinets to store dried spices, not pills. Kanchan grew up to become a molecular biologist, studying in the US at Harvard Medical School. When her lab began to investigate turmeric’s healing properties, the ancient wisdom from her childhood met the scientific inquiry of her adult life - beginning a lifelong obsession with the health benefits of spice. In today’s episode, Kanchan and regular guest Tim Spector help us understand whether there is any scientific evidence to support the health benefits of spices, the easiest way to add spice to our diet, and which ones to choose. Kanchan Koya is the founder of SpiceSpiceBaby and The Radical Vitality Podcast with a Ph.D. in Biomedicine from Harvard University and training from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. Tim Spector is a co-founder at ZOE and one of the top 100 most cited scientists in the world. Download our FREE guide — Top 10 Tips to Live Healthier: https://zoe.com/freeguide Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 00:10 - Topic introduction 01:19 - Quickfire questions 02:17 - What is a spice 04:23 - How did Kanchan’s passion for spices begin? 06:56 - What do we know about how spices affect our health? 12:16 - The latest science on spices 17:07 - Which spices are best? 24:46 - How to start using spices? 27:56 - Hacks to start using spices for the best health benefits possible 30:55 - Quality of spices 35:45 - Storage of spices 36:53 - Summary 37:53 - Goodbyes 38:47 - Outro Episode transcripts are available here. Read ZOE’s PREDICT Studies here. Know more about the 5 spices you should embrace here. Follow Kanchan: https://www.instagram.com/chiefspicemama Follow ZOE on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zoe/ This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Zoe, Science and Nutrition, where world-leading scientists explain how their
0:04.9	research can improve your health.
0:12.8	Kanchan Koyer grew up in a house filled with wonderful fragrances from the spices simmering
0:18.3	on her grandmother's stove.
0:22.8	In India, it was a common belief that spices were more than just pleasant tastes.
0:28.2	Ancient wisdom said they had medicinal properties, and it was common for household medicine cabinets
0:33.6	to store dried spices and not pills.
0:40.1	Kanchan grew up to become a molecular biologist, studying in the US at Harvard Medical School.
0:45.6	When her lab began to investigate turmeric's healing properties, the ancient wisdom from
0:50.2	her childhood met the scientific inquiry of her adult life, beginning a lifelong obsession
0:55.6	with the health benefits of spice.
1:00.9	On today's show, she helps us understand whether there is any scientific evidence to support
1:05.7	the health benefits of spices.
1:08.1	The easiest way to add spice to our diet, and which ones to choose, we're also joined
1:13.8	by regular guest him-spector, one of the world's top 100 most cited scientists and my scientific
1:19.4	co-founder at Zoe, to help understand why spices might be improving our health.
1:26.6	Kanchan and Tim, thank you for joining me today.
1:29.6	Why did we start with our usual quickfire round of questions from our listeners and start
1:34.4	with Kanchan?
1:35.4	Kanchan, are there spices that I can eat to improve my health?
1:40.4	Yes.
1:41.4	Should I be giving spices to my children?
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