Medicinal Benefits of Turmeric Curcumin and Garlic

“Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.”

~ Hippocrates, Greek physician

Benefits of Turmeric:

Turmeric is the spice that gives curry its yellow color. It contains bio-active compounds with powerful medicinal properties. Turmeric may be the most effective nutritional supplement in existence. Many studies show that it has major benefits for your body and brain.

Turmeric has a long history as a healing herb and culinary spice in India. Interestingly, India, which has a high per capita consumption of turmeric, also has a remarkably low incidence of cognitive decline (cognitive impairment is when a person has trouble remembering, learning new things, concentrating, or making decisions that affect their everyday life).

Here are the top 3 evidence-based health benefits of turmeric.

1. Recently, science has started to back up what the Indians have known for a long time… it really does contain compounds with medicinal properties. These compounds are called curcuminoids, the most important of which is curcumin. Curcumin is the main active ingredient in turmeric. It has powerful anti-inflammatory effects and is a very strong antioxidant.
2. Natural Anti-Inflammatory Compound: Inflammation is incredibly important. It helps the body fight foreign invaders and also has a role in repairing damage. Without inflammation, pathogens like bacteria could easily take over our bodies and kill us.
3. Dramatically Increases The Antioxidant Capacity of the Body: Oxidative damage is believed to be one of the mechanisms behind aging and many diseases.

More Benefits:

• Supports Cognitive Function: Curcumin supports healthy brain cells and optimal overall cognitive function.
• Supports Joint and Muscle Health: Curcumin promotes a healthy inflammatory response and eases aches and pains.
• Supports a Healthy Inflammatory Response: Curcumin has been scientifically shown to promote a proper inflammatory response.
• Promotes Healthy Mood Balance: Studies have shown that curcumin may support a healthy mood.
• Supports Cardiovascular Function: Curcumin supports heart health by promoting a healthy inflammatory response.
• Promotes Youthful, Radiant Skin: Curcumin promotes soft, smooth, glowing skin and fights fine lines and wrinkles.

9 Proven Health Benefits of Garlic by Joe Leech, Dietitian

Throughout ancient history, the main use of garlic was for its health and medicinal properties. Its use was well documented by all the major civilizations… including the Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans and the Chinese.

The “head” is called a garlic bulb, while each segment is called a clove. There are about 10-20 cloves in a single bulb, give or take. We now know that most of the health effects are caused by one of the sulfur compounds formed when a garlic clove is chopped, crushed or chewed. This compound is known as allicin, and is also responsible for the distinct garlic smell. Allicin enters the body from the digestive tract and travels all over the body, where it exerts its potent biological effects.

1. Garlic contains Allicin (see above).
2. Garlic is highly nutritious, with very few calories.
3. Garlic can combat sickness, including the common Cold. Garlic supplementation is known to boost the function of the immune system.
4. The active compounds in Garlic can reduce blood pressure. Cardiovascular diseases like heart attacks and strokes are the world’s biggest killers. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is one of the most important drivers of these diseases. Human studies have found garlic supplementation to have a significant impact on reducing blood pressure in people with high blood pressure.
5. Garlic improves cholesterol levels, which may lower the risk of Heart Disease. Garlic can lower total and LDL cholesterol. For those with high cholesterol, garlic supplementation appears to reduce total and/or LDL cholesterol by about 10-15%.
6. Garlic contains antioxidants that may help prevent Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia.
7. Garlic may increase your life span. Effects on longevity are basically impossible to prove in humans. However, given the beneficial effects on important risk factors like blood pressure, it makes sense that garlic could help you live longer.
8. Garlic was one of the earliest “performance enhancing” substances. It was traditionally used in ancient cultures to reduce fatigue and enhance the work capacity of laborers. Most notably, it was administered to Olympic athletes in ancient Greece
9. At high doses, the sulfur compounds in garlic have been shown to protect against organ damage from heavy metal toxicity. A four week study in employees of a car battery plant (excessive exposure to lead) found that garlic reduced lead levels in the blood by 19%. It also reduced many clinical signs of toxicity, including headaches and blood pressure.

Source: Authority Nutrition

Source Energy and Donald Trump

We came into our bodies from a non-physical perspective. At our demise, we withdraw consciousness from this physical experience and re-emerge into the non-physical reality from whence we came. 

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At the point of your physical demise, you feel yourself as the culmination of all that you have become. It is an exhilarating experience to, at one moment, leave behind all doubt, fear, worry, self-denial and become the full recognized Being that you truly are. 

We are all a part of Source Energy. Like a drop of water is part of the ocean (we benightedly call Divine Intelligence, God, Jehovah or Allah, but those epithet's were created and defined by humankind). We make the decision to come into a physical body to experience, to learn, for the maturation of the soul/spirit/energy. Unfortunately, most of us forget who we really are; as Mufasa tells his son Simba, in 'The Lion King', "You are more than what you have become." 

We are Source Energy, experiencing as a human species. This inner guide is always there to guide us in the right direction. The compass, if you will, is our emotions, how we feel. When dealing with challenges, most people turn their boats upstream and paddle against the current instead of going with the flow. There is a positive progression to everyone's life that flows toward Source. Find that flow, let go of the oars and Divine Intelligence will carry you.

The law of attraction is responding to our thoughts on a collective basis as well. The fear, hurt, harm, Wars and hate, are all a culmination of an extremely negative collective energy.

Our dysfunctional problem is, we're always looking for a scapegoat, always looking to blame rather than come up with a resolution. War is most certainly not the answer; as Marvin Gaye crooned, "only love can conquer hate." 

When we move toward Source Energy, we feel better, when we move away, we feel worse and negative things occur.

In the 21st century, to our peril, society is moving at a rapid rate away from Source Energy, but there is a way to return and it's not through antediluvian evangelical mythology.

Barack Obama was the United States president for 8 years. During his time in office, hate based on his race and fear of losing this pseudo power from some members of the Caucasoid race, is what has produced the emergence of a despotic American commander-in-chief in 2017. Essentially, our abhorrent collective consciousness (our odious thoughts) asked for it and that is what we have been given. 

It's not just those people who despised Obama because of his race, but some African Americans are culpable as well. Those who participated in the deleterious rhetoric in forums, news feeds and chat-rooms prevalent throughout the Internet, have contributed to the negative energy that permeates our global culture. 

As a result, we have created this very tumultuous situation based on the fact that "energy flows where attention goes." Our attention in the U.S., specifically from the past two presidencies: 8 years of Bush and 8 years of Obama, because of our emotions, fears and mutual disrespect, has landed our planet on the precipice of global destruction.

But there's a way out and that way is through love. We must put away the labels. Source Energy is not concerned with one's religious denominations, race, or political affiliations. It is a universal energy predicated on unconditional love and if we don't start collectively walking toward that light, we will continue on the path of self-annihilation. 

Find and focus on things that make you smile, that make you laugh, that make you feel good. Take a walk with a close friend or walk in nature.

Listen to smooth jazz or to your favorite g-rated music, or Mozart (even if Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is not necessarily your music genre of choice, you'll be surprised how soothing and inspirational the great composer's music can be).

Whatever you do, stay on the high road because that is where Source Energy resides.

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