- Ghee is really magical stuff.
Back in my early 20s after years of veganism,
which was certainly good for me
in a certain way for a period of time,
I was raw vegan for a number of years.
And I certainly learned four things from it,
but it's not a long term really great strategy.
But as that period was coming to a close
the first non-vegan, non-raw food
that I came across
that I thought I wanna have,
I think like something in me
was just like calling for it was ghee.
And so first, what is ghee?
This is clarified butter.
So it's butter, which in butter
you still have a little bit of lactose, a little casein,
there's a bit of milk protein still in there.
That's why it is the color that it is and it's not clear.
And then if that is heated,
and you can remove that and it becomes ghee
so when you've completely removed and filtered out
all the milk proteins,
all the casein all the lactose then you have ghee.
And this is great for a lot of reasons.
And one of them is that for people who are hypersensitive
to the lactose and casein,
and to dairy proteins,
this is a way to get some of the benefits of the milk fat
without having any of those problematic proteins in there.
So to touch a little bit
on the traditional approach to ghee,
so in Ayurveda
it is said that the grass which grows
in the sun contains the essence of the sun,
and then the cow eats the grass
and makes the milk
so the milk is the essence of the grass
which is the essence of the sun.
And then the milk is turned into cream
and so they say the cream is the essence of the milk
which is the essence of the grass
which is the essence of the sun,
cream is turned into Butter.
Butter is an essence of the cream
which is the essence of the milk
which is essence of the grass
which is the essence of the sun,
and then butter gets turned into ghee
and you get where this is going right?
So let's see if I can get these all lined up.
Ghee is the essence of the butter,
which is essence of the cream,
which is essence of the milk,
which is essence of the grass,
which is the essence of the sun.
So you've got a lost count
of how many that was,
but you've got the sun, basically, six times refined
into this purest of holy substances
as that was looked at in India,
and still is this day.
And so, it traditionally it's said to nourish
and soften all the organs in the body to help carry in
and drive in nutrients.
And there's a lot going on here.
One is that this is a great source of healthy saturated fat.
And saturated fat is an essential precursor
to formation of healthy hormones.
And definitely, I have felt a hormonal difference
and a difference in this kinda like, deep drive
and vitality and energy,
during times when I've had ghee
as compared to time is when I haven't had it.
I can tell you that you know, firsthand
and it's also very high
in what's called CLA conjugated linoleic acid,
and this is been shown to have a number
of benefits amongst them,
reducing body fat, perhaps preventing
to help prevent certain kinds of cancer formations
and it's anti inflammatory,
you can help lower blood pressure.
And then the other thing that you see here
and you get this in butter as well,
but a little bit higher in ghee is butyrate.
And you can go on a YouTube video channel sorry
you can go on a YouTube channel
to watch a video all about butyrate.
But this is basically
the primary source of energy for cells in the colon
and is plays a huge role
in promoting healthy gut microbiomes.
And then, this as I mentioned before,
it's a great way for people who can't do butter,
can't do any other dairy products
to get some of these interesting benefits here.
And it's gonna have a lot of these fat soluble vitamins
that you're not gonna find elsewhere,
such as vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin K,
and so we talk a lot about how for bone health vitamin K
is very important for driving calcium in the body
into the bones.
And lastly, from a cooking perspective,
it has a significantly higher smoke point than butter.
So it's one of the best oils you can be cooking with,
If you're using ghee.