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Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that occur together, increasing your risk of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes.

These conditions include increased blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist, and abnormal cholesterol or triglyceride levels.

Metabolic syndrome is often linked to & exacerbated by insulin resistance and a state of inflammation in the body.

In a study where 40 subjects all with metabolic syndrome, consumed raw crushed garlic 2 x day for 4 weeks, components of metabolic syndrome were significantly reduced including:

🔵 waist circumference
🔵 systolic and diastolic blood pressure
🔵 triglycerides
🔵 fasting blood glucose
🔵 increased HDL (good) cholesterol

Through lifestyle changes and medications, metabolic syndrome may be able to be reversed, reducing your risk of developing a more serious health condition

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Source: DOI: 10.1080/19390211.2017.1358233

When you consume more of the plants on the gut health food list you keep the good gut bacteria happy. When they’re happy they can support your body in multiple ways. Good gut bacteria

> aid digestion and extract additional nutrients
> strengthen the intestinal wall and offer protection against pathogens
> improve immune function

This is important, because, our GI tract is where we get our nutrients from. We need those nutrients for cell function, repair and growth. No nutrients, no life.

The gut is, much like the skin, a tightly regulated barrier. Its basic function is to keep pathogens out of the body and let beneficial nutrients into the body. When there are more bad bacteria than good ones this barrier function is damaged. This can lead to the barrier getting more “leaky”, letting in pathogens into the blood stream (this is where the term “leaky gut” comes from).

The pathogens then trigger the immune system and from there can affect negatively all systems in your body from nervous to reproductive. You do not want the immune system to be overly active and inflammation running high at all times inside your body.

So, no, to the person who asked, the gut microbiome is definitely not a myth and therefore what we do eat truly matters.

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