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🗓️ 21 May 2024
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In this video, we’ll discuss some of ginger’s health benefits and when it may not be an appropriate remedy.
For thousands of years, ginger has been used as a powerful remedy for many conditions.
Some of the amazing benefits of ginger include:
• Antimicrobial properties
• Anti-inflammatory properties
• Anti-diabetic properties
• Anti-cancer properties
• Helping with menstrual pain
• Helping with arthritis
• Increasing HDL
• Improving heartburn
One of the most well-known uses of ginger is its ability to relieve nausea. Ginger can help with nausea associated with chemotherapy, pregnancy, menstruation, and surgery.
Ginger has some contraindications, so it may not always be the best remedy for you. Don’t take ginger if you’re on Warfarin or other blood thinners like aspirin. Ginger helps thin the blood, so you also won’t want to take it if you have a bleeding disorder.
Ginger inhibits insulin, so don’t take it if you’re on insulin. Ginger can lower blood pressure, so avoid it if you’re taking blood pressure medication. Ginger also stimulates the gallbladder, so don’t consume it if you have gallstones.
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0:00.0 | So when to take Ginger and when not to take Ginger, that's what we're going to talk about today. |
0:05.8 | Ginger can be a powerful remedy for so many things. |
0:08.7 | It's been around for thousands of years. |
0:10.7 | It's been used on ships to prevent scurvy. Confucius, the Chinese philosopher, not just consumed |
0:17.0 | it every day, but he consumed it every single meal. In the 14th century a pound of ginger cost the same as buying an |
0:26.8 | entire sheep so it was very expensive. Ginger was one of the first spices to be |
0:31.6 | exported from southwest India and ginger has very high |
0:35.7 | antioxidant levels only to be surpassed by pomegranate juice. Now the benefits |
0:41.2 | I'm going to tell you are based on a paper that looked at a |
0:44.8 | hundred and ninety articles on Ginger. From that 43 meant high quality |
0:49.9 | evidence. Ginger has many many effects effects, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, |
0:56.4 | anti-diabetic. There's anti-cancer properties, especially colorectal. |
1:01.2 | It's also great for menstrual pain, arthritis, increasing |
1:04.8 | HDL as well as improving heartburn. But Ginger's biggest effect that it's known |
1:10.1 | for is its ability to get rid of feeling nauseous. |
1:15.0 | So it creates an anti-nause effect when you're pregnant, going through chemo, |
1:21.0 | when you feel nauseous, when you're having a menstrual cycle, as well as after a surgery. |
1:26.1 | I remember when I had my shoulder surgery, I came out of it and I felt very, very nauseous. |
1:31.5 | So anytime you feel nauseous, think Ginger. |
1:35.0 | In fact, they compared Vitamin B6 to Ginger, |
1:39.3 | and Ginger was more effective than Vitamin B6. |
1:41.8 | There's some contrainocations that you need to know about. |
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