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Mar 1, 2025
Are the apparently amazing benefits of amla—dried indian gooseberries—too good to be true? Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution!
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medicinal plants are said to be Nature's
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gift to human beings to promote a
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disease-free healthy life here in
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reference to amla a fruit the Indian
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Gooseberry described as an ayurvedic
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wonder you hear a lot of that Larger
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than Life talk about amla coming out of
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Indian medical journals who can forget
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amla a wonderberry in the treatment and
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prevention of cancer amet is so revered
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that you find serious scientists at
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serious academic institutions and
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serious peer-reviewed medical journals
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making statements like this every part
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of the Indian Gooseberry plant has its
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unique therapeutic characteristic for
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the remedy of almost all the ailments
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and can be adopted as a bolditalic
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single bullet against
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disease okay
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then I first ran across it in this
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famous article looking at the toal
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antioxidant content of thousands of
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different foods I did a series of videos
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about it ages ago and to my surprise the
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number one most antioxidant packed
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single Whole Food on the planet on
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average was amla dried powdered Indian
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gooseberries beating out the prior
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heavyweight champion cloves with just
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for comparison sake up to 100 times or
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more antioxidants by weight than
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blueberries so here's this fruit that
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has enjoyed a hallowed position in
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ayurveda the ancient system of medicine
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in India so hallowed it was
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mythologically pegged as the first tree
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in the universe so for thousands of
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years before we even knew what an
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antioxidant was they were revering this
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plant that just so happens to turn out
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to be the most antioxidant packed fruit
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on the planet Earth okay you got my
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attention but I still need to see it put
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to the test
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well indigenous tribal healers used amla
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to treat diabetes so researchers decided
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to give it a try this is the study that
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originally bowled me over in fact the
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subject are one of my first nutrition
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facts videos of all time over 5 years
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ago the effect of amla fruit on the
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blood sugars and cholesterol levels of
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normal subjects and type 2 diabetic
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patients in my video I talked about the
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jaw-dropping effects of 5 cents worth of
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this powdered fruit 5 pennies worth
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compared to a diabetes drug but what
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about the cholesterol effects if you
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take healthy individuals and give them a
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placebo sugar pill nothing much happens
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to their cholesterol ideally we want our
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total cholesterol under 150 this is a
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pretty healthy group the average
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cholesterol in the US is over 200 which
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is where the diabetic started out in
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this study and when you give them
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Placebo pills nothing much happens
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either but give people just about a half
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teaspoon of amla powder a day not some
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extract or something just dried Indian
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gooseberries a powdered fruit and this
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is what happens that's like a 35 40%
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drop in 3 weeks absolutely astounding
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that's the kind of thing we see like you
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know 6 months after putting people on
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statin
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drugs what we care about most is DL the
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so-called bad cholesterol shooting for
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under at least 70 ideally no impact of
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the placebos but again just about a half
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teaspoon of amla which would cost you
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about 5 cents a day so like a a buck 50
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a month and
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boom these results knocked my socks off
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I mean they're just
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unbelievable that's why I was so excited
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after all these years to dig back into
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the am literature to see if these
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findings had been confirmed or
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replicated El elsewhere so I typed amla
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into Pub mid and waited through all the
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papers on using amla to decrease methane
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in cow farts and speed the growth of
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chickens or hey what about amla ice
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cream after all AML is packed with fiber
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and phytonutrients in contrast ice cream
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is not
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therefore and indeed Amel Incorporated
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in ice cream increases the antioxidant
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capacity though I would not recommend it
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for for cholesterol
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lowering ah but here we go a comparative
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clinical study of amla head-to-head
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against the cholesterol lowering Statin
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drug Sim the Statin sold as zokor which
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