Ginger today, you need to watch this video.
If you're on it or want to be on it, I'm going to tell you briefly the
benefits, but most importantly, when you should not take it, or if you're
taking it, what you should be mindful of, because it can be dangerous.
Now, a lot of people are on drugs for cholesterol, for blood
pressure, for all these things.
And a lot of times we can take natural sup supplements or natural foods
better, yet organic, natural foods to manage our bodies and our systems.
So we don't have to be on expensive drugs that often do more harm than good.
That's what I'm talking about today, but I do want you to be
aware of the negatives because.
Ginger all is the active ingredient in ginger and it is medicinal in a way.
So we have to respect it and there can be downsides on other systems
or interact with medications.
It is quite powerful.
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Now, what does ginger do?
The medicinal component?
Ginger all has many effects in the body.
Many anti-inflammation.
Inflammation leads aging.
We know that, and we're always trying to prevent chronic inflammation.
And ginger has that effect.
It's an antioxidant clearing free radicals from pollutants,
from the metabolism of our body.
A lot of people know it from when they're on boats or they're traveling
or they're on vacation because of.
And nausea.
And so that properties often use no weight loss.
We have a problem with obesity in many countries, and a lot of people take
ginger for weight loss, but if they're taking, if they using it for weight
loss, they also have problems like often diabetes and high blood pressure.
And I'm going to talk.
Some of the worst times to take it for those today in this video, it
can decrease blood sugars, which is a positive, but could be a negative
for some helps with menstrual pain.
It also has some anti-cancer benefits that many people tell out and use it for.
And this is being more and more studied.
It has, uh, anti-microbial benefits, so it can fight some infections
and it's being studied from.
So with all that.
Good.
What do you need to know if you're going to be taken?
Cause it sure sounds good.
I take it every other day.
Let me tell you why you might not want to take it at certain times.
So what are the things to watch for?
And there are several, the first one.
It helps stimulate bile production.
Now that's a good thing normally, because it helps in digestion and
many people use ginger for that.
There's a couple of problems.
One is if the stomach is empty, that can irritate it because it
increases acid production and the.
You're going to have heartburn, maybe some discomfort, some people get gas with this.
The second thing with the bioproduction is if someone has gallstones or
these are stones in the gallbladder and the gallbladder contracts to get
rid of the bile to help digest the food, um, you can get an obstruct.
Gallstone or just pain because the stones are working around in there.
And depending on the type, the amount and your gallbladder
illness, it can make that worse.
So if you have gallbladder problems, you haven't had your gallbladder out.
It's something to keep in mind.
You're like, oh, that's irritating me more recent.
It could be ginger.
Now it lowers two things.
Number one is sugar.
So it can lower the blood sugar.
And for many people, that's a good thing because people are running
around with slightly high sugar and high blood pressure or metabolic
syndrome, which is a complex constellation of problems with obesity.
Uh, the sugars running rampant, the blood pressure running
rampant affects your sleep.
So on and so forth, but the two things it's lowering, if it's lowering the
sugar and someone is running a low sugar anyway, or they're on medications
to lower the sugar like diabetes medications, the sugar can bottom out.
So hypoglycemia is not good.
It causes a lot of problems, obviously, um, from a jittery.
To even passing out and when the sugar bottoms out, if people don't get
the sugar up, it can be a big issue.
So being mindful in that case in the second one is lowering blood pressure.
Most of you are going to say, that's a great thing.
My blood pressure's running a little high.
Many people have that problem.
The problem comes if someone's running a low blood pressure
to begin with, um, it can be.
Too low, or if someone's on blood pressure medication, common ones or
say calcium channel blockers, beta blockers, diuretics, but particularly
the beta blockers and calcium channel blockers are used for blood pressure.
Now.
If you then take Jew too much, ginger, then you're going to maybe lower.
And especially if you stand up, you feel lightheaded.
As we get older, the arteries can clamp down.
People take falls.
So it might not be just that the blood pressure lowers causing the problem,
but a secondary effect, like fall, some wa watch over for the lowering
of those two items as a side note.
Let's talk about dose because the daily dose is about six grams people.
Uh, on the lower side would say four grams, high side would be eight grams if
pregnant less than one gram or not at all.
So, uh, while we're talking about side effects, some would say,
what would my dose cause it, uh, That would be the accepted dose.
Think four grams to be safe.
If you're one of these people and you like high dose, more of everything's
better, eight grams would be your top.
And what are the other things now to watch for?
If someone is pregnant or breastfeeding, likely they should not take it.
Um, it has been lately associated with miscarriage and other problems.
So that would be something definitely ask your practitioner,
doctor about the next one.
The ending of the blood.
Another one, along with lowering blood pressure, as we talked about
and lowering sugar, we think are good things, sending the blood a little bit.
If you want to think of it that way is often people say, well, that's
great because strokes and heart attacks are often caused by a thrombus
or by clotting versus bleeding.
However, some people are going to be on blood thinners or generally.
Thin blood, adding ginger to that can accentuate it.
And people are therefore at risk for bleeds.
Uh, let's say someone's having an operation.
And in my case, doing facial fillers on people or injecting their platelets
or their blood products back in for rejuvenation, it can lead to a little
more Bruzee situation, not the end of the world for those types of procedures,
but a major surgery, uh, and someone.
Potentially have a problem.
And I remember I was treating an Asian patient about 12 years ago and
she said, oh, I came off my ginger.
And I said, so I never heard that before I hear official and everything else.
And she said, oh, doctor don't, you know, ginger is one of the
worst for thinning the blood.
She knew right away.
And so I learned from her long ago, uh, and I do ask patients out.
They absolutely don't want to bruise consider coming off of ginger.
It does then.
Lastly, it's been associated with irregular heartbeat.
So someone has an arrhythmia or heart rhythm problems or family history
of such of course consult your doctor, but you should be mindful.
Ginger may not help that.
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