Welcome to the Dr. Berg, healthy keto and intermittent fasting podcast. Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level. Dr. Eric Berg.

Hey, I'm back. And, you know, I've talked a lot about herbs recently. Now I want to talk about a slightly different effect that certain herbs and spices

have. Antiglication. What does anti-glication mean? Glication is a word used to describe a situation

where you have glucose combining with a protein or glucose combining with a fat in a certain way

that makes that protein unavailable. If you think about

it, you have all these different proteins in the body that are doing millions of different functions.

And if you have this glucose molecule that locks in there and morphs with it and makes that

protein unavailable, and then that dysfunctional protein

or the dysfunctional fat creates all sorts of problems in the body. So we call that term advanced

glycation and products. And there's several concepts out that they talk about aging being the

accumulation of the advanced glycation end products. So that's a

simplicity of glycation. You're morphing this sugar with a protein or fat, and you're creating

irreversible damage. And also massive free radical damage that then ends up in the cascade of

effects that can occur. There are several potent spices and herbs

that are very strong inhibitors of advanced glycation

and products.

And these are the most potent.

So we have anise, we have cinnamon,

so you can sprinkle this on your cinnamon toast.

I'm being very sarcastic. Allspice, which is actually

one word, it's not two words. And another name for all spice is Jamaican pepper. It's a very specific

type of spice. Very potent to give off anti-glication properties. A clove is very, very high,

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