Ginger

“Starting point for many people, bone broth base. Do you? You can do a galangal, a ginger base. If you want plant-based, you could do a seaweed broth, but predominantly bone broth base with good puree, like soft cooked vegetables, puree them. If you don't digest vegetables very well,”

“They had two groups of people. One, they gave, they each were given a pill. One got a placebo, one got ginger, powdered ginger. They then exposed people to really morally repellent scenarios in writing about incest and just really disgusting scenarios, eating one's dog, things like that.”

“And the people who had taken the ginger were less judgmental because their stomachs were calmed. Ginger calms the stomach. And so the emotion of moral disgust is somehow we are passing it through. We're doing a gut check on it. We're passing it through our digestive organs somehow.”⚑ Under review

“We're passing it through our digestive organs somehow. And that you can manipulate with something as simple as ginger, people's moral judgment. So that says to me this whole system is a lot more integrated than I think we even realize.”

“Yeah. It makes sense. Ginger calms the gut. So, and I know if I have some minor pain, like a backstrain or something, I'm much less patient. Yeah. I look at the world differently. And I think we all become more self-centric when we're in pain.”

“That means that was as valuable as gold. So consume dill and mint are herbs. Cumin's a spice. We know about turmeric and ginger. Spice your food up. That will be really important. But the main revelation that the Lord gave me for the biblio diet is to consume fruit tree leaves in the form of a tea.”

“And when we landed this morning, my wife's like, what the hell are we going to do? I was like, I don't know. Give me some ginger. Guys, these are amazing. Munir, Chloe, thank you so much for the SMOOV collaboration. I gave one of these to all of you guys. It's got trimethylglycine in it and other methylated nutrients.”

“are going to benefit from. Again, turmeric is going to be incredibly high on that list. Ginger is going to be high on that list. Yeah, there's ashwagandha is probably going to be very high on that list. So, those are some herbs, generally, almost everyone can benefit from. But I am very protocol-focused on, hey, let's put together the exact game plan that's going to be the best for you to heal.”

“You studied kefir, menoligosaccharides from coffee. Yeah. And now I'm going to ask you about ginger. When I was a graduate student, I was interested in functional foods and I was interested in those foods that provide health benefits beyond their nutritional value, right?”

“And then for my PhD, studied medium chain triglycerides. And then ginger, that was, that was something that I, that I offered to a grad student. At Columbia, it was interesting because, uh, the McCormick company had an advertisement in, uh, one of the nutrition journals, and they were going to donate, um, spices for research.”

“Things that I do don't come to me with something that's, you know, that I don't study, but, and then he did some research and he came back and he said, I think we should study ginger. And I'm like, okay, to do what?”

“And, uh. What did the study look like? A study where we looked at the thermic effect of food. Like, so people ate ginger root? No. Were they spicing their food? No. We dissolved ginger powder in warm water. And so that was one beverage. And then, uh, in the crossover, again, crossover design.”

“or five hours. And it's significantly elevated. Mm-hmm. With ginger. With ginger. Yeah. Wow. So we think through the capsaicin receptor, there's an increase in the thermic effect of food. So, yeah. So I was interested to see, are there little things that we could do, little changes we can make to our diet to boost energy expenditure relative to intake, you know, just to tip the scale?”

“Not in addition. Correct. Okay. Some ginger. Yeah. Are they additive? Are they synergistic? I think they could probably be additive because I think that the impact is through different mechanisms. Obviously no one's tested that. You know, it's interesting you bring it up this way because it makes me think of David Jenkins and the Portfolio Diet.”