Eric Bakker: Back at The Naturopath. Thanks
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we'll catch up with you at the end of the video. At Naturopath, how you guys going? Thanks for
coming back. Let's talk about some of the most anti-inflammatory foods you can eat. So these are
anti pizza food, anti Coca-Cola, anti Kentucky fried chicken, anti McDonald's foods. These are
basically the opposite. So the people who eat all that kind of stuff I just mentioned likely don't
eat a lot of this stuff I'm going to mention now. We'll talk about the inflammatory foods later.
McDonald's, Kentucky fried chicken, Taco Bell, Krispy Kreme. I can probably read out a whole
list as long as both arms put together. These are the foods that you want to avoid,
the foods I just mentioned there. These are inflammatory foods. They inflame, okay? It's like
someone poking you with a needle all the time, it hurts. So those are the foods you want to avoid.
So let's look at the antiinflames. Probably one of the best foods you can eat for reduce inflammation
is something I've got right there in the yard at the moment, raspberries and blueberries.
I've got about a 20 meter long stand of raspberries growing. There's just
pounds and pounds hanging there, ready to pick. So we normally picking from now right through
for another four to six weeks, probably even eight weeks. And I normally snap freeze them
and I put them in a big bag, then vacuum pack 'em, but I would eat easily a small bowl every
day of raspberries. Blueberries are coming in in the next few weeks and we've got about 30 blue
bushes and we eat blueberries all the time. So these berries can contain anthocyanins,
they contain very powerful compounds that reduce inflammation in the body. There is no doubt.
All the studies I've looked at show that people eat blueberries long term
have got great vision. They've got nice skin. They've got better circulation. The
person just looks and feels younger. Berries make the biggest difference in your life.
If I can get every person out there eating a small amount of berries every day,
they'd slowly find that their need for all that junk I spoke before will go down, down, down.
You don't go to McDonald's to buy a big serving of rosiness. If you do,
it's probably got about five tablespoons of sugar in with it. So the berries,
I'm just reading off my computer over here. I got a computer here and here now it's crazy.
So the berries contain the antioxidants, anti-inflammatory. I've got a composite of
25 different studies here on longevity showing you how amazing blueberries are. Especially for older
people, my age. Blueberries are one of the best. I've got a problem with one of my eyes,
with my left eye, with the pressure. I've got pressure problems in the family.
But the berries are keeping it at bay without medication, which is a really
good thing. The intraocular pressure can go up. But blueberries are shown to reduce that.
So reduce inflammation. I don't take any medications, so I never will, I'm not a medication
person. So berries really are, in my opinion, one of the pinnacle foods for reducing inflammation.
The second one is fatty fish. Now, how many people out there eat fatty fish?
I like herring that's raw, or that's pickled. So oily fish or fatty fish. So fatty fish contains
two major compounds, EPA and DHA, which are both anti-inflammatory fatty acids.
So eating fatty fish every day or having one or two capsules of a good Omega-3
can make the world of difference for circulation, especially. And again, research has shown this,
that people who eat a lot of fatty acids coming from fish tend to have lower blood pressure.
They tend to suffer less in strokes or heart attacks or sudden heart death. There is no doubt.
There is no doubt. The evidence is overwhelming that fatty fish or fish oil is one of the
top five of all anti-inflammatory foods. So if you want a anti-inflammatory, fish oil or eating fish.
And of course the Brassica, some of my favorite foods. Broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts.
I love Brussels sprouts, lovely steamed with a bit of nutmeg on top. You try that. So the cruciferous
vegetables contain sulforaphanes, which, again, a powerful antioxidant compound that reduce
inflammation throughout the body. So phenomenal. The Brassica are also great for cleansing the
liver and improving bio flavor and bitter food. So these things also help to reduce levels of
inflammatory cytokines in the body or chemicals made by your blood, your white blood cells.
The fourth one, again, another food like grow, avocados. I have two avocado trees at the moment,
we've got several hundred avocados hanging off them. We eat avocados every day.
And so I have one big avocado every single day. When you eat avocados, you've got a
anti pooping problem. You are pooping like a bird. You'll never, ever, ever have a pooping problem if
you eat one avocado per day. Never have a pooping problem. Not only that, your skin will look
almost as good as mine. Now, my skin's not that bad, is it? But avocados contain up to 40% fat or
more plant-based fats that contain it's basically nature's big green vitamin pill. So people who eat
avocados all the time are getting an incredible amount of potassium, magnesium, calcium,
all of these minerals that come from the ground going into the fats of the plant. Carotenoids,
tocopherols and vitamin E. So studies have also shown that people who eat avocados every day have
got a significantly reduced rate of heart problems and circulatory problems. Why do people eat
burgers and fatty crap when they can eat food like avocados? Green fatty stuff. It's just wonderful.
So the other interesting thing I've found studies with avocados is people who eat avocados all the
time don't seem to have weight problems. Okay? They don't. A good size avocado is like eating
probably a two pound steak. You won't want any food for a long time after that.
In one high quality study, 51 adults with excess weight who ate an avocado for 12 weeks
had markedly reduced inflammatory markers of interleukin-1 beta and C reactive protein. So
again, studies can validate all the nonsense I'm coming up with. Okay?
Let's have a look at some other ones. There are so many we could talk about. There's grapes. There's
mushrooms. Turmeric is another one. There are many spices that actually work as anti-inflammatory
agents too. Clove, turmeric, nutmeg. These are all got particular compounds in them that work
on boosting aspects of your immune system and reducing the inflammatory mediators in the body.
So, spices are something I really like people to incorporate in their diet. Western people,
I don't care if you live in New York or LA or Kentucky, wherever you live, you can still have
turmeric in your diet. You don't have to be in Calcutta to have rice and curry and
turmeric. You can live anywhere. So if we look back in the fifties or sixties, probably nobody in
the states really had curry unless they came from another country. Popular in the UK, but all these
spices belong in curies and curries made properly are some of the best dishes you'll ever eat.
Extra virgin olive of oil, another fantastic anti-inflammatory compound. Okay? So this is
the staple of the Mediterranean diet. And again, several studies have shown remarked
droppings in high sensitivity CRP. So try and get used to having olive oil in your diet. One
table spoon a day. And again, if you eat oil every day, you won't have a pooping problem.
Also, you're going to get such an incredibly good result long term with your heart and your blood
pressure with olive oil. So it's a fantastic food. Chocolate, cocoa. We're only talking one or two
small slices a day. So green tea and chocolate are similar in that they've got compounds
that have a similar kind of effect in the body, very powerful anti-inflammatory effects. They've
got flavonols in them. So when you choose to consume a small block of chocolate a day,
you're consuming a small piece of anti-inflammatory compound,
but we're not talking a family block per day. Now, there's a problem again. People go
excess. One glass of wine, good, but a bottle of day, not so good, right? Any food you can eat,
but I would love to see people eat six or eight avocados a day. I don't see it because
you just get sick of eating so much. I mean, one good size avocado is all you can consume.
So if we look at these anti-inflammatory foods, they're all natural foods. Berries, the fish,
avocados, grapes, of course, belong in there. Chocolate, green tea. They all belong in here.
Many different spices. Garlic, I believe also is anti-inflammatory. Turmeric. Many different types
of herbs you can add to your diet like arugula, and thyme and basil. They're all anti-inflammatory
foods. The more you drift towards these type of foods, the less you'll tend to want that stuff
I said at the beginning, the golden arches and all that kind of stuff. So try and consume some
of these foods in your diet regularly and you'll find some big differences. Thanks for tuning in.
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