Bring in the Black Pepper
Bring in the Black Pepper
Wintery chilly feelings can be helped by grinding fresh pepper daily and putting it into meals, herbal teas (or my morning Superfood Plus) for extra warmth. It’s a cheap and useful guard against infections and being hot and pungent, its properties will warm you up and equally help disperse sore throats, blocked breathing and other aspects of cold and flu (and attendant fever). It’s also known that the ‘piperine’ in black pepper increases the bioavailability of nutrients in general, (this fact has been well publicised in connection with turmeric and its ‘curcumin’).
Either buy pre-ground organic pepper or better still freshly grind your own each time. Brave the crunch and drink it down without sieving it (or add to Superfood Plus and you will hardly notice the crunch). You will be glowing with health and circulation for hours!
If adding to food, pop it in at the end because – and this is important – cooked black pepper irritates the gut and yet freshly prepared heals gut inflammation, stops intestinal gas and is an anti-acid.
Finally, some research published in ‘The Journal of Agricultural Food Chemistry’ found that its main chemical constituent piperine blocks or interferes with the formation of new fat cells and earlier research attests to its role in reducing fat levels in the bloodstream.
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