there's only one reason that quercetin has become so popular and it's because of this right here
before 2020 most people never even heard of corsetin so i'm going to give you a breakdown
of this powerful antioxidant show you how you can find it in the food that you eat every
day and of course how you can use it in order to improve your health
hey wellness warrior as you look to boost your immune system you want to focus on doing
it naturally and it turns out that quercetin is a great way to do that hence it's raising
popularity now you may be wondering what in the world is quercetin well quercetin is a
flavonoid and flavonoids are naturally occurring in both fruits and vegetables
now these flavonoids are so powerful because they're very rich in antioxidants and we look
at antioxidants they have so many benefits to your body whether it's warding off toxins or
maybe even fighting free radicals well it turns out that quercetin is one of the most abundant
antioxidant sources in your diet and is very good at helping you fight off chronic diseases
in your future now these free radicals when they go unchecked what happens is that they start to
affect the proteins in your body the fatty tissue and even your dna and when this goes unchecked for
a long period of time in your body it eventually leads to chronic diseases now let's take a look
at all the amazing benefits that quercetin has to offer and we're going to start with inflammation
now we learned early on that if you got this nasty virus right here one of the things
that would happen is you would get a storm of inflammation that would hit your body go to the
lungs and it could lead to very poor outcomes if you already had an inflammatory problem going on
within your body or some chronic condition maybe you have an autoimmune disease maybe you're obese
maybe you already had some cardiovascular stuff going on it could be very very bad for you now
the good news is is that quercetin has been shown to reduce inflammation we'll look at a study we'll
look how we can apply it to your real life there was a study of 50 women who are suffering from
rheumatoid arthritis what they did is they gave them 500 milligrams of quercetin over
an 8 week period and after they were taking quercetin for a period of time they noticed that
aches and pains started to go away now they had an inflammatory condition that's rheumatoid arthritis
a very nasty one that many people get but when they were taking this their aches and pains went
away in general morning stiffness that kind of thing and also their aches and pains after daily
activity went away as well so let's say that you wake up and you're stiff or maybe you go
for a walk and you come back and your joints are a little achy that is a good sign that you have an
inflammatory problem going on within your body and quercetin has been shown to help with that
now let's take a look at allergies allergies is another huge benefit of quercetin it's actually
the one that i have known best i've helped people with allergies for years using quercetin and it's
very effective and people like it because it does a good job but it doesn't give you the nasty side
effects like some of the over-the-counter medications would for instance maybe some of
these over-the-counter medications are making you fatigued or drowsy throughout the day quercetin
just doesn't do that to people let's take a look now at some more amazing benefits that quercetin
has to offer and we're going to go into the cardiovascular system first we have blood pressure
there was a study that did a review of studies and what they found is on average quercetin would help
people reduce their blood pressure by five points and let me tell you that is a huge win because
reducing high blood pressure is a challenge there is no doubt about it and it's something that can
take a long period of time but quercetin has been shown to be effective in the short term now think
about this for a minute how many people are taking blood pressure medication and are told by their
doctor that they are doomed for life to continue taking blood pressure medication or cholesterol
medication i mean this is an enormous amount of people so if you can take quercetin it's going
to help lower your blood pressure and also it's going to help lower your cholesterol then that
is an enormous win for you being able to improve your health naturally and of course get off those
medications that your doctor said you would be on forever and ever now let's talk about how
it impacts your immune system because this is really important once again we're talking about
this guy right here that everybody learned about quercetin from and quercetin has been shown to
exhibit antiviral activity in the body and that's a really big deal now let me talk to you about
it from a couple perspectives here first of all alone it's been shown to have anti-viral activity
but let me tell you where it also really shines what it does is quercetin acts as an ionophore
to zinc okay when we look at zinc zinc has been shown to stop viral replication in the
body that is why so many people i ask patients all day long what are you taking right now to
boost your immune system and they basically give me the list vitamin d zinc corsetin vitamin c
they go right through that exact order every time now the reason that corsotine is so good
with zinc is because zinc can stop the viral replication but is very poor at getting into
the cell quercetin acts as an ionophore meaning that it acts as a carrier helping zinc get into
the cell to stop the viral replication and that's why quercetin combined with zinc is very powerful
at stopping viral activity within the body so that's how it can help your immune system it's
also been shown to have anti-cancer effects once again we can all raise our hand if i were to ask
who do you know that suffered from cancer and unfortunately many people and many of us know
someone personally that suffered greatly and so cancer is another one once again we're dealing
with a flavonoid an antioxidant something that's killing those free radicals off in the body
so that you don't have inflammation so that you don't have many of these chronic diseases many
people face and when we just put all this together we have to remember that you know when we look
at cancer this is an inflammatory condition so shutting down the inflammation will have
that anti-cancer benefit now let's take a look at neurocognitive effects that the quercetin has on
the body because this is really interesting too according to the research it helps prevent both
alzheimer's and dementia as we look to shutting down that inflammation throwing those antioxidants
in the body we get those neurocognitive benefits as well and we all want to make sure that we're
protecting our brain especially as we age it's very important from a longevity perspective now
that we discussed all the amazing benefits that quercetin has to offer you we have to know where
do you even get this stuff from so we're going to look at the sources and figure out how you get
these same amazing benefits that they found in the research well let's first take a look at the foods
and beverages that are known to be higher in them starting with a few beverages green tea and coffee
are two places that you can look now when we look to food there's going to be foods like onions
apples grapes citrus fruits and also broccoli that are also known to be higher in quercetin now
there's something very big here we have to take into consideration and that is in the research
they were using supplementation because it was the only way to get a high enough dose to actually
give the benefit that they were looking to get from it in the research they were supplementing
with about 500 to 1000 milligrams every day in order to make it happen here's another little
secret about quercetin a little dirty secret that nobody really talks about and that is that
quercetin is known to have what known as a short half-life meaning that it metabolizes quickly in
the body so when it comes to supplementation according to the research the best way to use
it is to take a dose in the morning let's say you take 500 milligrams in the morning and you take
500 milligrams at night so you're taking it twice a day and it helps keep your levels up in the body
all day long now there's another problem with quercetin that we have to discuss and that is
it is not very bioavailable meaning that a lot of supplements that you find out there
they are actually not going to be absorbed well it has a very low bioavailability and it will
just go right through your body and not do a whole lot for you so this is why it's very important to
make sure that when you find a source of quercetin it is one that is more bioavailable so that it is
absorbed well and you're not just paying money for something that's going right through you
i'll take a moment and i will look on the internet and try to find a good source for you and i'll
link it in the description below now a few other things to mention we talked about how quercetin
is very beneficial for your immune system and stopping viruses when you combine it with zinc
however there's a few other things that you can do to help boost your immune system and do it
naturally you can use things like n-acetylcysteine which is a very powerful precursor to glutathione
which is the most powerful antioxidant in the body and acetylcysteine is also very
good at helping you get mucus out of the lungs very commonly we use this with people who have
allergies but specifically when it came to this topic right here that's also something
that many people were looking to and it's a great immune booster we can also look to vitamin d
and let me tell you if you have low vitamin d levels in your body i wouldn't even be
concerned about quercetin or zinc or any of these other things focus on vitamin d first
it's one of the most important immune boosters that you can take so make sure that you have
adequate amounts of vitamin d within your system the other thing that we can look to is vitamin c
and the same thing goes with vitamin c it's just like quercetin where it has a short half-life so
if you want to get the best benefit from it you could take a dose in the morning and also a dose
at night but once again this is if you're really trying to push the extremes of boosting your
immune system to the absolute best of its ability now beyond this it's very important to make sure
you always focus on a healthy lifestyle getting proper sleep at night reducing sugar intake down
to nothing would be ideal eating a low-carb diet these are all things that are very beneficial for
you to improve your health and do it naturally i'll put resources in the description below to
all the things we talked about today other than that it's been a pleasure helping you improve
your health naturally if you like this video i really think that you'll like this video next