These Drinks Help Repair The Body & Fight Disease For Longevity | Dr. William Li

all right grab your favorite mug because today we're going to actually talk about Beverages and I'm going to talk about beverages that can actually help fuel your body for longevity are you ready the first beverage we're going to talk about is green tea green tea is one of my favorites it contains a bioactive called kakin specifically EG CG that's epig Gallo kaken 3 gate uh egcg it's a tongue twister but this uh natur bioactive in tea when we drink it goes into our body and does a lot of amazing things we do know that it lowers inflammation which is critical for long-term Health essential for longevity we also know that it actually protects our teir which are the protective caps at the end of our DNA that start to burn down as we age so green tea slows that cellular aging process down green tea also helps to nurture and and keep healthy our vascular endothelium so vascular is blood vessel endothelium is the delicate lining inside our blood vessel this is actually what allows blood to flow smoothly right through the body the better the blood flow the longer the life when your blood vessels are healthy you have a shot of being healthy when your blood vessels are sick you have no chance of actually having Optimal Health and so green tea actually facilitates uh all of this and green tea has also been shown to be good for your gut microbiome healthy gut healthy life uh we do know that people who reach super centenarian ages uh they actually have very very unique gut microbiomes green tea actually helps to get you there my great uncle by the way lived to 104 years old and he attributed his longevity uh to living at the base of a tea Mountain where every morning at 4:00 a.m. he would actually get up and and walk uh up to a tea Pavilion and sip Cups of Tea he probably had 10 cups of green tea every day so physical activity green tea all these things are quite important for longevity okay next beverage coffee I have a cup of coffee every morning uh I usually have espresso sometimes a double really helps wake me up and I actually love the taste of coffee now coffee has caffeine uh that's the stimulant but coffe coffee also has a bioactive called chlorogenic acid and chlorogenic acid again helps to slow down the process of cellular aging it actually protects your tiir again those protective caps from burning down too quickly so coffee has actually been shown to be associated with uh longevity and more vibrant uh life you want good quality of life and coffee definitely is in there now a couple of little tips about coffee organic coffee coffee has more of this chlorogenic acid this anti-inflammatory cellular aging slowdown um substance the other thing if you want to get the most out of the chlorogenic acid in your coffee you don't want to use dairy milk you can use nut milk almond milk soy milk those are all fine but dairy milk in coffee forms little soap bubbles and those soap bubbles wrap themselves around that chlorogenic acid so when you sip that coffee the soap bubble actually t tumbles down uh your gut and you don't actually absorb all of the chlorogenic acid some of it just tumbles all the way down and you excrete it so you're missing out on some of the good stuff here's the other thing about coffee a lot of people put sugar in their coffee don't uh you want to actually get that pure uh coffee without actually getting a glucose uh your glucose going crazy no added sugar uh is a general good rule of thumb for health and so if you're going to drink coffee every morning I would actually recommend drinking it's straight next beverage we're going to talk about is pomegranate juice now most of you will know what a pomegranate looks like maybe a whole fruit it's kind of a big heavy Apple looking thing red fruit it's got a little Crown at the top and if you cut it open inside are all these seeds and around every seed is this layer of juice really sweet absolutely delicious you can put the pomegranate season salad or what have you but you can also get pomegranate juice and the way they make make pomegranate juice is they cut the um pomegranate in half and they press the seeds out and if it pressed out through the skin you actually get elit tannins now these are natural bioactives that are found inside the pomegranate seed in that juice and a lot of it's also in the Rind so when you press the juice through the Rind you pick up a lot of the um Elija tannins now what do these actually do that uh helpful for longevity well it turns out that the El tannins are not only anti-inflammatory good for healthy aging but the elit tannins also cause your gut okay your lower gut your colon to secrete mucus now this is normal we make mucus in our mouth and we also make it in our lower gut in our colon and the mucus in your colon by the way helps all the stuff slide through so you can actually be regular right not constipated but that mucus also supports the growth of a very very important healthy bacteria called acromania mucin now some people call it muciniphila no it's muop acromania seems to be a guardian bacteria of our health we've got trillions of bacteria we're just beginning to pick through them but we do know that acromania is really important now what does acromania do it actually activates your immune system helps to fight cancer we do know that cancer patients need uh acromania in order to be able to respond to immunotherapy therapy that's not like a nice to have that's a must have can make the difference between life and death uh but acrania also um helps to prevent diabetes looks like it may be helpful for preventing obesity uh dementia we're just starting to pick through this but there's a fragment of acromania called P9 it's a protein fragment uh that it makes that actually helps with longevity as well so acromania is stimulated by colon mucus and that mucus is stimulated by elatat tanins which you can find in pomegranate juice and if you can't find pomegranate juice uh cranberry juice and Conquer grape juice also good but I'm want to talk about pomegranate juice now it's pretty sweet so you don't want to have a ton of it uh what I always tell people is just have eight fluid ounces that's one cup of pomegranate juice and that's it you're not talking about hydrating yourself pomate juice we're talking about getting the the L of tanin in order to be able to get your gut uh to grow uh uh the acrania muop for overall health immune health and also to be able to actually act as a factor for longevity all right next beverage watermelon juice now you might have be surprised that I'm talking about watermelon juice because well if you just have a watermelon during the summertime think about how juicy it is so you don't need to actually squeeze it out into a beverage but I can actually tell you you can buy watermelon juice you can actually press out watermelon juice it's really delicious it's very good for hydration um not too sweet either but watermelon juice contains a natural bioactive called lopine and you might have heard of lopine in the context of tomatoes I talk about tomatoes all the time tomatoes are a great source of lopine but watermelon juices as well lopine makes it tomato red lopine also makes a watermelon uh red and the lopine and watermelon has this incredible remarkable property of being able to be antioxidant and to protect your DNA from the inside out so you eat a watermelon you drink watermelon juice it's actually acting as a shield to protect your DNA from damage for example like from ultraviolet radiation all right so sun damage on your skin can be neutralized to some extent if you actually drink watermelon juice before you go out in the sun how much before couple of hours we'll usually do it you could also have a tomato salad but we're talking about beverages here so make sure it's real watermelon and not watermelon flavoring make sure it's not sugar sweetened you just want uh real watermelon juice great for hydration great for protecting your DNA against uh sun damage it's kind of like sunscreen From the Inside Out in a beverage that's also hydrating if you actually uh want to live a long time you're going to get a lot of accumulated damage of DNA by being outside getting your vitamin D uh enjoying the outdoors uh walking around exercising all these factors come into play so why not protect your DNA from the inside out that's watermelon juice hey if you're enjoying the content in this video then you will love my resource on what I call the grand slammer Foods these are the foods that support and activate all five of your body's Health defense systems androgenesis regeneration microbiome DNA protection and your immune system all at the same time I put together a special guide describing these Grand slamming Foods just for my viewers and you can get it totally free right now at the link in the caption below now back to the video all right the fifth beverage I'm going to talk about is a cocoa drink now cocoa is made uh with cacao which is a dark chocolate and uh you can it can be consumed hot or it can be consumed cool right and uh in fact cocoa beverages used to be kind of nectar of the Gods uh in the Mayan culture and in the Incas they use them ceremonially so you've heard about chocolate um cacao ceremonies well this is actually where it actually comes from really treating the cacao as a valuable substance and the reason is actually so good for longevity is because there are flavanols proanthocyanidin so we're we don't know every bioactive but we we're beginning to know what some of the important ones are in cacao dark chocolate proanthocyanidins in a beverage when you drink it will actually get into your body and they are they call out special cells from your bone marrow so these are called stem cells or progenitor cells and these stem cells which live in our bone marrow come flying out of our bone marrow like bees coming out of a hive and they circulate in our bloodstream and you know what they do they actually regenerate any organ that need that's damaged that needs to be fixed and they can also Wing by our blood vessels looking for areas uh like potholes in a road in order to be able to patch up and fix cocoa drink caca okay dark chocolate as a beverage actually helps us regenerate from the inside out it's a great way to actually um improve blood flow to support great blood vessel Health which is absolutely critical for longevity so here you go let's recap green tea coffee ameg granate juice watermelon juice and cocoa a cocoa drink all good for uh longevity that's what I actually recommend if you wanted to look for um some variety of beverages to actually have and I've given you little tiny tips um on how to actually um handle and drink uh each one now remember the best beverage for hydration is water so you don't want to forget about water water is probably the most important uh beverage to be able to have for longevity you want to stay hydrated okay always stay hydrated but water doesn't have the bioactives all these other uh beverages we talked about today have those bioactives that are good for good long-term Health vitality and Longevity hope you found this useful thanks for watching hi there have you enjoyed watching this video video I know you'll love the next one stay here and check it out and I'll see you there

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Length: 12min 41sec (761 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 15 2024