Medicinal Properties of Turmeric-Ginger, what you need to know

por Blanca Nieto sept 08, 20220 comentarios

TURMERIC & GINGER

Turmeric is a flowering plant that has an extensive history when it comes to traditional medicine uses. Its preparations have been used for therapeutic applications against various conditions. In Ayurvedic medicine, it has been used in relieving stomach gas, expelling worms, improving digestion, regulating menstruation, treating liver problems, and relieving arthritis. South Asians used it as an antiseptic to treat cuts, burns, and bruises.¹

In recent years, modern medicine has provided scientific basis to a lot of the purported health benefits of turmeric. This is evident by over 3000 publications published around the world on this famous spice.¹ Research-based findings have found that, the most active constituent of turmeric, curcumin, is responsible for most of its medicinal properties. Curcumin, a flavonoid polyphenol, has been found to possess a host of therapeutic properties which includes the ability to act as an anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, analgesic, anticarcinogen, and antiseptic.²

Ginger, another famous spice, is one of the most used dietary condiment in the world. With a lot of history when it comes to therapeutic uses. For thousands of years, it has been used against conditions like cold, arthritis, hypertension, and migraines. Of course, these uses were without scientific basis. Thankfully, modern medicine has extensively studied the medicinal and pharmacological properties of ginger — where it found its main bioactive component, gingerol, to be responsible for a lot of the remarkable therapeutic uses of this spice.³ Recent evidence has shown that ginger could be an effective antioxidant, anti-inflammatory agent, anti-carcinogenic agent, and anti-nausea compound.³

Without doubt, ginger and turmeric are wonderful spices that can boost your overall well-being, as their intake could come with a lot of health benefits. However, these spices may not always be readily available in your daily diet. Therefore, My Balance created and added another supplement, Turmeric and Ginger, to its list of science-backed collections to fill the void. With only three ingredients, this supplement contains turmeric, ginger, and bioperine.

Health benefits of turmeric, ginger, and bioperine

Turmeric

Lowers risk of heart disease

As one of the major cause of death in the world, heart disease may be prevented by the intake of turmeric, with curcumin being thought to play a central role in this cardioprotective effect.⁴ Clinical research has shown that supplementation with curcumin in healthy middle-aged and older adults, may be able to improve endothelial function by increasing the availability of vascular nitric oxide and reducing oxidative stress.⁵ If you are not aware, endothelial dysfunction is one of the major causes of heart disease. It happens when a lack of nitric oxide in blood vessel walls causes the arteries to get narrow, a condition that slows blood flow to the heart, which causes angina and other heart problems.⁶

May help prevent cancer

There’s evidence that the curcumin in turmeric may have some anti-cancer potential. It is believed that it exerts its immunomodulatory property by interacting with several immune mediators.⁷

May help with osteoarthritis

Research has shown that the anti-inflammatory properties of curcumin can help in the treatment of osteoarthritis. The study emphasized the fact that this compound may effectively be used as an alternative treatment or complementary agent for the management of osteoarthritis.⁸

Ginger

Can treat nausea

Anytime you feel nausea, research has found that intake of ginger may effectively help to eliminate it.⁹

May aid weight loss

Research has shown that ginger supplementation could aid weight loss by reducing body weight, hip ratio, and waist-hip ratio in overweight or obese people.¹⁰

May lower blood sugar levels

Research has also found that ginger intake may be able to lower fasting blood sugar level and alleviate the risk for chronic complications in people with diabetes.¹¹

Bioperine

Bioperine is a patented piperine extract. Piperine is a compound found in black pepper. It is responsible for its distinct flavor. Bioperine containing supplements have tons of health benefits, which include increasing nutrients absorption, fighting inflammation, preventing cancerous growths, stabilizing blood sugar levels, and boosting cognitive function.¹²

With My Balance’s Turmeric and Ginger supplement, you are getting some of the most medicinal plants on the planet, which have been proven by scientific research to help against numerous diseases and conditions. Also, its extra ingredient in bioperine, has been shown to possess various therapeutic properties that includes improving cognitive ability and reducing inflammation.

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