In a recent interview I heard Dr Greger briefly talking about an extraordinary powder we can
put in our smoothies. I wanted to find out more about it so I headed over to nutrition
facts.org to find Dr Greger has made a whole series of videos about it. Links below. It’s
a fruit powder and its one of the most antioxidant-rich foods on earth. Antioxidants are critically
important because reduce the harmful buildup of free radicals and reduce oxidative stress
with in the body. If free radicals are left unchallenged, they can cause a wide range
of illnesses and chronic diseases.This fruit powder may have anticancer properties and
not only appears able to block cancer cell growth, but also cancer cell invasion. This
study found that it may work as well as a leading diabetes drug and it’s also been
found to have significant cholesterol-lowering effects, fights inflammation, aids in digestion,
and may even be able increase your hemoglobin level. So let’s hear as Dr Greger tells
us more links to all the original videos are below….[Dr Greger]I first ran across it
in this famous article, looking at the total antioxidant content of thousands of different
foods. To my surprise, the number 1 most antioxidant-packed single whole food on the planet, on average,
was amla: dried powdered Indian gooseberries, beating out the prior heavyweight champion,
cloves, with, just for comparison’s sake, up to a hundred times or more antioxidants
by weight than blueberries. This is the study that originally bowled me over. The effect
of amla fruit on the blood sugars and cholesterol levels of normal subjects and type 2 diabetic
patients. I talked about the jaw-dropping effects of five cents’ worth of this powdered
fruit— five pennies’ worth—compared to a diabetes drug. But, what about the cholesterol
effects? If you take healthy individuals and give them a placebo sugar pill, nothing much
happens to their cholesterol. Ideally, we want our total cholesterol under 150. The
average cholesterol in the U.S. is over 200, which is where the diabetics started out in
this study. And, when you give them placebo pills, nothing much happens either. But, give
people just about a half-teaspoon of amla powder a day and this is what happens-That’s
like a 35-45% drop in three weeks—absolutely astounding. That’s the kind of thing we
see like six months after putting people on statin drugs. What we care most about is LDL,
though—so-called bad cholesterol..No impact of the placebos, but again, just about a half-teaspoon
of amla, and boom. These results knocked my socks off. I mean, they’re just unbelievable.
Preclinical studies have evidently shown that amla possesses anti-fever properties, anti-pain,
anti-cough, anti-artery-clogging, anti-stress, heart-protective, stomach-protective, anti-anemia,
anti-cholesterol, wound healing, anti-diarrheal as well as protecting the liver, kidneys,
and nerves. They tested amla against six human cancer cell lines: lung cancer, liver cancer,
cervical cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and colon cancer. This is a graph of cell
growth, cancer cell growth, at different amla concentrations. Here’s human breast, liver,
and lung cancer cells starting out powering away at 100% growth. As you drip more amla
on, the cancer cell growth rates cut in half, and then stop completely. And then, amla starts
killing the cancer off; the growth goes negative. By the end, more than half the cancer cells
are dead. Here’s cervical, ovarian, and colorectal. Just decimated by Indian gooseberries.
The best way to include amla in your diet is in a dried powdered form. Now it has a
bitter and mildly tart flavor so it’s advised to start with a ¼ teaspoon, approx 1 gram,
building up gradually to 1 teaspoon. Alternatively, amla powder can be packed into capsules.