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Dhru Purohit Show

The 7 Anti-Aging Spices You Need To Eat! - Heal The Body & Stop Inflammation with Deanna Minich

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.73.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by Bioptimizers, Momentous, and Air Doctor. We know that spices have healing properties, but we are now learning that they can help us live longer and fight disease. Today’s guest, nutrition researcher Dr. Deanna Minich is giving us a master class on spices. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Dr. Minich to discuss the power of spices. Dr. Minich shares the science behind how spices can reduce the development of advanced glycation end (AGEs) products in our cooked food. She also reveals the top spices to incorporate into our cooking, powerful synergistic combinations, and explains the spice rainbow. Whether you are just starting your cooking journey or looking to expand your spice palate, this episode is for you! Dr. Deanna Minich is a nutrition researcher, educator, and functional medicine-trained clinician with a unique approach to nutrition that combines physiology and psychology. She has served on the Institute of Functional Medicine’s Nutrition Advisory Board and curriculum committee and is a faculty member teaching nutrition for the Advanced Practice Module for Environmental Health. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the American Nutrition Association and is President of the American College of Nutrition. In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Minich dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): Preventing AGE’s (00:0016 / 00:0016) The power of spices in meat preparation (1:04 / 1:04) Five spices that should be incorporated into your diet immediately (4:20 / 4:20) How spices can prevent AGEs and their role in the gut microbiome (6:20 / 6:20) The benefits of the spice rainbow (15:00 / 11:30) Incorporating spices into your food and the sensitivities they can cause (18:00 / 14:30) The most researched spices and their anti-inflammatory effects (22:00 / 18:45) What to look for when purchasing spices and where to store your spices (47:00 / 42:25) The healing power of ginger (59:00 / 54:00) Garlic for cardiovascular health (1:05:00 / 59:20) The quality and types of cinnamon for blood sugar control (1:17:00 / 1:11:11) Synergistic combinations (1:26:00 / 1:20:00) Spices to assist with blood pressure regulation (1:28:00 / 1:22:10) The salt inquiry: the sources, microbiome, and minerals (1:32:00 / 1:27:40) Dr. Minich’s passion for eating for diversity and eating the rainbow (1:37:00 / 1:31:00) Also mentioned in this episode: Link to Dr. Minich's Slides A Guide to the Rainbow of Spices Himalayan Crystal Salt Try This-This Supplement Reduces Soft Plaque in the Heart To learn more about Dr. Minich, follow her on Instagram, Twitter, or her website. This episode is brought to you by Bioptimizers, Momentous, and Air Doctor. Go to bioptimizers.com/dhru now and enter promo code DHRU10 to get 10% off any order and up to 2 travel-size bottles of Magnesium Breakthrough for a limited time. Optimize your Omega-3 levels by choosing a quality fish oil made by and used by the best. Go to livemomentous.com and enter promo code DHRU to get 20% off any order. AirDoctor is offering my community $300 off. Just go to dhrupurohit.com/filter/ to clean up your home’s air and feel better today.

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0:00.0

Dan a minute today you're giving a master class on the healing properties of spices

0:08.1

including your top seven that everyone should have in their kitchen.

0:12.6

We're gonna get into that in a second.

0:14.1

But before we go there,

0:16.3

you have a mind-blowing fact that you wanna share

0:19.2

about spices and longevity,

0:21.8

and it's around something called ages. Can you talk about that?

0:25.0

Sure, most of the foods that we're cooking, especially under dry hot heat,

0:30.0

forms these damaging inflammatory compounds. And fact it's been shown that those compounds which are called ages

0:37.6

Advanced glycation and products and even the acronym is age. So these things age you.

0:44.0

Studies are showing that spices can help to overturn

0:48.0

those advanced glycation and products,

0:51.0

that formation in foods when we're cooking them.

0:54.0

That's mind-blowing.

0:55.0

So we're cooking at home and if we're not using spices and you're going to talk about

1:01.0

some of the top ones and the ones that have the most research around them.

1:04.1

If we're not using regularly using spices in our cooking, you have whatever you're cooking,

1:09.7

and in particular if you cook meat, meat is something that can develop a lot of ages, these end products, and you get exposure to these sort of toxins in your body. Is that accurate?

1:20.3

That's right. That's right. So heat catalyzes that reaction. So if you have a food with

1:26.7

carbohydrate and that food also has things like amino acids from the protein or fatty acids from the fat. In the presence of the heat these things can come together and complex.

1:38.0

That is what is called the advanced

1:44.3

and product and product, in the body, those damaged compounds go into the cell and basically upregulate

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