What Would Happen If You Chewed ONE Clove Daily
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 20 December 2024
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Summary
What would happen if you chewed one clove daily for 7 days? I’m sure you’ve heard of the benefits of clove for teeth and gums, but there’s so much more to this fascinating spice. In this video, we’re going to talk about the many health benefits of cloves.
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Clove can act as a natural painkiller, especially for a toothache. Eugenol, the chemical found naturally in clove, can mimic the effects of lidocaine without any side effects. Clove doesn’t just work for toothaches. It may work systematically for many other inflammatory conditions.
Clove can be beneficial for arthritis, swelling, and joint pain. It mimics the effects of NSAIDs, such as ibuprofen.
Cloves also have potent antimicrobial effects, even for antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It’s also beneficial against fungi, viruses, Candida, and parasites like malaria. It’s been shown to mimic the effects of antibiotics without harming good bacteria.
Clove oil can break down biofilms so your immune system can destroy bacteria. Eugenol in clove starves pathogens of energy, preventing them from reproducing.
Clove has also been shown to make insulin more sensitive, producing results similar to a mild form of Metformin.
Here are a few more of the potential benefits of cloves:
•Cancer-fighting properties
•Detoxification of the liver
•Blood-thinning effects
•Boosts your mood
•Eliminates gas and bloating
•Higher ORAC scale (antioxidant scale) than blueberries
•Decreases mucus
•Improves bad breath
For the benefits of cloves, chew one clove daily, use clove oil topically, or grind it and add it to a smoothie.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're going to talk about what would happen if you chewed one clove daily for just seven days. |
| 0:06.5 | Recently, I did a deep dive into the research on clove, and it blew me away. Wait till you hear |
| 0:12.3 | what this spice can do for your body. Everyone has cloves in their pantry, and all you have to do is |
| 0:16.7 | chew it every single day. And I think most people know it's a natural painkiller, especially for a |
| 0:22.2 | toothache. The natural chemical in clove is called eugenol. And the properties of this eugenol, |
| 0:27.2 | which is in cloves, can mimic the effects of lytocaine, but cloves do it without any side effects. |
| 0:34.9 | But it doesn't just work for toothaches. It works systemically on a lot of |
| 0:39.9 | other inflammatory conditions. Arthritis, swelling, joint pain, anythingitis, because it's a very |
| 0:46.3 | potent anti-inflammatory. In certain studies, it mimics the effects of inseds, non-steroidal |
| 0:52.5 | anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen, and without the side effects. |
| 0:58.7 | Certain properties in cloves have potent antimicrobial effects, even with antibiotic-resistant |
| 1:05.6 | bacteria as well, but also with fungus, viruses including herpesymx 1 and 2, candida, and even in certain |
| 1:13.7 | parasites like malaria. It mimics the effects of antibiotics without disturbing the good bacteria. |
| 1:20.8 | Apparently, clove oil breaks open bile films, which is this calcium protective layer around |
| 1:25.4 | bacteria. Clove can actually break that up so your immune system can kill the bacteria. |
| 1:29.9 | And another mechanism of why it works is that Eugenon literally shuts off the energy source |
| 1:35.9 | to a pathogen, starving that pathogen of energy so it can't reproduce. |
| 1:40.1 | Another interesting effect of clove is what it can do for blood sugars. |
| 1:44.5 | Apparently, it can make insulin more sensitive, creating effects like metformin, but in a mild form. |
| 1:50.0 | Clove has cancer-fighting properties as well, working similar to certain chemotherapy. |
| 1:55.5 | The research on this I'll put down below involves several studies. |
| 1:58.4 | One, our lab studies on cancer cells, as well as animal |
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