Welcome to Holistic Health Talk, I'm your host James Pieddinadonna and another week is flown by. This is the first Holistic Health Talk show of 2024 beginning of February and I want to welcome everyone and hopefully everyone is eating healthy, organic, detoxifying, exercising safely and doing well for 2024. Now I don't believe in New Year's resolutions because if you did the right thing for the year passed you wouldn't need New Year's resolutions to join a health club. And here he is, the one and only, my co-host, the Commodore, Jeff Zanbello, let me pipe him aboard our pirate ship, our Holistic Health Pirate Ship, how are you sir? Excellent, it was a good weekend.  Ring my bell, ring my bell, ring my bell, ring my bell, ring my bell, ring my bell, ring my bell, ring my bell. Ryan Terrico, I have no idea of this. Lots of singing going on today. Well, because we're happy. I want to get into sports talk, but you know, I'm waiting for you. It doesn't look like you're coming on. So I'll have to play extra health videos when I sing my song. I can't stand Barry Manilow. I don't like sappy. I don't like sappy music. Well, you know what? I give him a pass. I saw something recently. We all knew way back in the 70s and 80s. But his music was so good, we all had to give him a pass. Because he came out of the closet a few years ago. But he gets a pass. The guy was ultra, ultra, ultra talented.  Well, you're going to give him a pass because many of us in the 80s, 1980s, were on nice dates. Well, Neil Diamond. And nice slow dances to his music. So Neil Diamond was really good at romance. Love on the rocks. Now, on the four notes, the kids said, oh, I mean, how does that song go? That was a great song. The kids. September, March 1. So long. Did your kids say, I can't resist the kids? How does that song go? Finger dots. The whole notes. Your lover's playing scenes on his phone row. Mantic play. Now, from the morning, still can make me feel that way. I can't play the rubber band, man, because I'll get the code. You mean the tambourine, man? No. Tambourine, man. How does that song go? Mr. Tambourine. Tambourine, man. I like what goes up, what's come down. Spitting wheel got to go. Oh, yeah. The fifth dimension. Not that the fifth dimension, is it? Was it? What goes up, must come down. Blood sweat and tears. Man and wheel goes round and round. That was blood, sweat, and tears? Yeah, blood, sweat, and tears. You're right, James. 100%. Sam, the sham. What goes up, boom, must come down. Ba-da-da. Sam, the sham and the pharaohs sang woolly-boolly. Woolly-boolly. Sam, the sham and the pharaohs. Yeah, if I played a rubber band, man, which was a great song, I think I was suspended. The tambourine, man, play a song for me. That goes way back to Tambourine, man. Oh, all right, you know what? The King of Dots says I'm an older, established smartass. Oh, Mr. Tambourine, man, play a song for me. Well, New York City was running well with a young Giuliani and also a Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg that were reported. They cleaned it. Giuliani, one thing we can say positive from him is he cleaned up the streets. Yeah, all the riffraff left 42nd Street and Times Square. They all left, yeah. And yeah, we did. A young Giuliani there had Bill Bratton, police commissioner. Oh, yeah, Bill Bratton from Boston. He was from Boston. From Boston. He was a police commissioner from Boston Police. He was tough. He was. Police commissioner, he was. He wouldn't go up in those sassafas. Yeah, he was responsible for the cleanup. The cleanup. The cleanup. Play a song for me.  Now they're all the Democrats because the inner city folk vote for their people. You know what I'm saying, Jelly Bean?  He's a man of the night. Yeah. In the night. La da da. In the night, yeah, I remember. Yeah, Laura Brannigan. Remember Laura Brannigan? Brannigan, yeah. In the night. Da da da. Da da da. Da da da. You know, Tommy Christmas Carol. He was on last night, you know, but he always throws sarcastic digs at me to get me aggravated. You know, start a political argument. the tambourine man play a song for me. Blood, sweat, tears. That's right. Spinning wheel, got to go around. I collect vinyl. Now, I like the thunderbirds. I'm going to be tough enough. I got to hear the song to know what that is. So you like vinyl?   He had like Al Jolson and the Burgundy Foxtrot, like all music from the 1920s and, you know, and it was one thing about relatives. When a parent dies, you know, a parent dies or a grandparent's die, they're like vultures when it comes to, you know, confiscating the earthly belongings of it. Yeah, and what's worse is then you go to the funeral and all these distant cousins say, oh yeah, let's get together for lunch. Oh yeah, we can, you know what? We gotta stop running into each other. We gotta stop waiting for years before I see you. We gotta get together. Let's get together. It never happens. Never happens. He was completely expunged from YouTube two years ago for my comments on back and snogger than ever. So you were expunged.  The Black Chaleli, good old fashioned nose job. Oh yeah, my Black Thorn Chaleli I have over there. The Cudgel, it's the Cudgel version. They vote for freestyle. I love the, I love this. Michael Hilton and I've got a nicole. Nicole, nicole, nicole, nicole, nicole, nicole. Those that live on a fixed income and those that are low income, you know what? If it's good enough to scan the Navy, it's good enough for me. Free stuff is wonderful. Just let Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos and... The New World Order. Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, let them pay for it.  You said no, yeah, because you know, you had it appraised. It's King of God. My name is Michael, I've got a nicole. That song's in honor of Michael Hilton. My name is Michael, I've got a nicole. Yeah, Michael Hilton's, he's a... My name is Michael Hilton, I live in San Francisco.  Ronnie Simpson. Well, I gotta give Ronnie Simpson a pass because he has a beautiful swimming pool in Florida. So, you know. I don't know where he is. He doesn't tell me he's by the pool. I mean, if I had the choice between looking at some ladies and bikinis at a Florida swimming pool and being with a bunch of guys on a talk show, I'd pick the bikinis any day. So, I gave Ronnie a pass. Well, the thing is, he told me he wanted to be on the show, you know? I don't like people that change their plans, the sperm at a moment. They get the last... The sperm of the moment. Sperm of the moment. Sperm of the moment. Well, one sperm is... Oh, the corn niblets in my poop. One sperm is called a sperm... Sperm of the Zoom. Sperm of the Zoom. That is a good one. Hello. Sperm of the Zoom. Sperm of the Zoom. I got a nickel. I told James I will be on the show.  Motherfucker. You'll be back like herpes. Not if I block you, your right wing, uh, Jabroni. I don't block you because you haven't been that bad. Casey at bat. Your old geezer. Do you remember Casey at bat? Hey, yeah, Casey. Oh, by the way, King of Dots, if you were offered $65,000 for your record collection, and it's worth more than $65,000, why don't you sell it? Because you're not getting any younger. If you're a retired old man, what are you going to take? You're going to take it with you? You're going to take it with you like the pharaohs of Egypt? I mean, what are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? You're always when you're 90 years old, you're going to... Come on, Vesuvius, erupt again. You know what?  So what are you waiting for? He thinks he's going to take it with him like the pharaohs. I think that currently my album, Harry Belafonte, live at Carnegie Hall is the most valuable. Men condition, bro.  Well, well, you can hate me because I'm part of the pinko patrol. That's true. That's too true. Maradona.  I'm right here with one of those waspy guys from the Midwest, but he treats Italian people like they were from Central America, I bet. Yeah, he's one of, yes, he's making fun of my name. These are the real questions that old men ask. I'm only... Well, that reminds me of the comic district when our ancestors came over from the old country and then they were exploited. You must work faster. You must work faster. You must work faster. I bet people that worked for King of Dots were working under sweatshop conditions.  Bet he booked. Like a half hour for lunch and if they had to go to the bathroom, he docked their pay for going to the restroom. I bet that's what he's like. 68 years old? Well, when do you wanna enjoy the money from your albums? When? When do you wanna enjoy? When do you wanna enjoy the money? What the hell's wrong with you? The patrol, the PINKO patrol.     And you're sitting by the pool under the... You got the cabana boy bringing you drinks and the tiki bar outside. He says, I'm here to watch PINKO's. It gives me purpose in life. Well, the Commodore is conservative. Yeah, but you and I are brothers. You and I have an agreement. We have a treaty. We just keep that out of our relationship and it keeps us grounded. Yeah, because if you... Yeah, because... We have an agreement. If people...  I'm saying, you know how many people told me on Facebook that their longtime friends unfriended them because of the difference in political ideology and everything? That's sad. I mean... It is very sad. We have an agreement that we don't discuss religion or politics and that's it. We disagree on everything else. We love the Red Sox. We love the Yankees.  We yes, and we also... We like Volpi, Anthony Volpi. We like the Martian. And we hate the Stingy, greedy motherfucking owners of the Red Sox who put all the blame on Higham Bloom, their former general manager. The poor guy took the heat for the owners that they didn't want to pay Humphrey Bogarts and... Oh, yeah. Mookie... Yeah, Xander Bogarts. Xander Bogarts, Bogarts, and Mookie Betts. They didn't want to pay them what they're worth. La-da-da-da-da, Casablanca. Da-da-da-da-da. Hold on. Da-da-da-da-da-da.  He's hoarding his albums when he could be enjoying that money. He thinks he's gonna take it with him. See, it gives him purpose to watch. Well, you know what? That's it. You keep on... Oh, look at this. My dad voted for George Wallace every time. I'm an outside thinker. And you know George Wallace? Let me tell you about George Wallace of Alabama. He was a Democrat, but they called them Dixie Crats because they were like a lot of people in the South are still fighting the Civil War. And he was very racist and after civil rights took effect, they all became Republican because they left the Democratic Party. The Beatles said that money can't buy you love or championships. Well, a gold digger will pretend she loves the guy when she's actually in it for the money. Like remember Anna Nicole, the late Anna Nicole? Oh, yeah. She married this... Lawyer. This billionaire old geezer in his 90s. Yeah, from Texas, a Texas wellman. Texas, she was a go-go dancer living in a trailer camp. And she was discovered by this rich old geezer in the go-go bar. And he hooked her up with Hugh Hefner in Playboy Centerfold of the Year, Playboy Playmate of the Year. And they asked her, somebody asked her, are you married him for his money? And she goes, no, I loves him. That was her answer. I love him. Well, what? His grandmother was a Jehovah witness. Whose grandmother? Whose grandmother? Who's George Wallace? What? No way! No, whose grandmother?  Jehovah's witness. Yeah, listen, you're not gonna take that money with you.  His worth $65,000. He thinks he's gonna take the money. On the radio, on the radio, on the radio. All right, you know what? I am really fucking... Wait till I tell McFawn Ravens what Ronnie Simpson did. On the radio, on the radio, on the radio. Yeah, whatever. Anyway, you, I'm gonna play some nice health videos. One is on the benefits of garlic and fennel. You think you have to go, James, to the gym pretty soon, yeah? So I might have to better do. Yes, you might have to better do, better bid a do. Let me pipe you away.  So... Oh, you're percolating too. Yeah, so I have to do a do-do. Better do and do a do-do. Do-do because you need... Where's my poo? You need a colonic evacuation.  After you evacuate your colon, then you have to evacuate the office. That was quick. I only need you, Maradona. I can't use money. Well, thank you for coming. Anyway, now I'm going to get on with... Oops. Not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet. I gotta set this up. Go. So this is... Hello and welcome to MedSimplified. In this video, we'll discuss about the five incredible health benefits of garlic. While garlic is a common ingredient in every kitchen, in the ancient times, it was highly valued for its numerous health-benefiting properties, which are still followed in many cultures today. Our ancestors have been using it as a bug repellent, medieval Europe against plague, and Egyptians would even buried along their dead. Garlic is most commonly used for conditions related to the heart and blood system. It contains a number of chemical compounds that can cure conditions, include high blood pressure, high levels of cholesterol in the blood, skin conditions, various infections, and a variety of other ailments. So in this video, we will be looking at the five amazing health benefits of garlic and the science behind it. Garlic is very good for cardiovascular health. Garlic and its preparations have been used as agents for prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases since ancient times. Garlic contains a number of chemical compounds like diallyl tri-sulfide, allicin, et cetera, that have been shown to reduce the levels of LDL cholesterol, which is also known as a bad cholesterol, and leads to atherosclerosis, which is hardening of the blood vessels. Garlic is also very good for people with hypertension or high blood pressure. A study was done in 23 patients, all with high cholesterol. 13 of them also had high blood pressure. They were divided into two groups. The high cholesterol normotensive group, meaning the group which had the normal blood pressure, and the high cholesterol hypertensive group, meaning the group that had high blood pressure. They took garlic extract supplements for four months and were regularly checked for blood lipid parameters, as well as kidney and liver functions. At the end of four months, the researchers concluded that the garlic extract supplementation improves blood lipid profile, strengthens blood antioxidant potential, and causes significant reduction in systolic and diastolic blood pressure. It also leads to decrease in the level of oxidation products in the blood samples, which demonstrates reduced oxidative stress in the body. In other words, garlic extract supplementation reduced high cholesterol levels, and also high blood pressure levels in patients with hypertension. Garlic is good for gut health. As most of you may know, our gut contains billions of good bacteria that help in digestion and are very important for a healthy gut. If we don't take proper diet, or if we are taking certain medications like antibiotics, the levels of these good bacteria in our gut decrease, and they can lead to poor digestion, bloating, and diarrhea. Now, there are certain foods that help in the growth of these good bacteria in our gut, and these foods are majorly divided into two types. Prebiotics and probiotics. Garlic is a very good example of a prebiotic. Prebiotics are compounds in food that induce or grow the activity of beneficial microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi in our gut. Garlic is naturally high in inulin, which is a type of non-digestible carbohydrate or functional fiber that feeds the good bacteria in your digestive system. And it basically acts as a fuel for those bacteria to do their job better, which makes your gut function better overall. And as per a study in food science and human wellness, garlic actually promotes the growth of friendly bacteria like perfidobacterium, especially in the gut, and prevents disease-promoting bacteria from growing at the same time. If you want to know more about prebiotics and probiotics, click the link in the I button above to learn more. Garlic is good for... Environmental stress could include the aging process, smoking, pollution, traumatic brain injury or excessive alcohol consumption. Oxidative damage from free radicals that are produced in our body contributes to the aging process. Garlic has potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, so it promotes brain health. The combined effects of reduced cholesterol and blood pressure, and having significant antioxidant properties, garlic is effective against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Garlic has very good antibiotic properties. Dialycephide, a compound in garlic, has potent antibiotic properties, according to a study published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Allicin, one of the active principles of freshly crushed garlic homogeneates, has a variety of antimicrobial activities. Allicin, in its pure form, was found to exhibit antibacterial activity against a wide range of gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. Also, it demonstrated antibiotic activity against multi-drug-resistant strains of E. coli. Garlic also contains another chemical known as ajoine, which is very helpful in fighting fungal infections like ringworm, jock itch, and athlete's foot. 0.6 to 1% gel of ajoine is available in the market, which seems to be very effective in treatment of fungal infections. Garlic is a good blood purifier. Your blood is responsible for a lot of things, ranging from transporting oxygen, hormones, sugar, fat, and other cells to your immune system, to cleansing your body systems and further keep it moving. Toxins are stored in our body on a daily basis through certain types of foods, pollution, and stress among other factors. Detoxification process boosts the immune system, improves the skin, and regulates healthy changes. Garlic has long been known for its hard benefits. However, garlic is also good at detoxifying the body. Garlic is not only antiviral, antibacterial, and antibiotic, but it also contains a chemical called allicin, which promotes the production of white blood cells and helps to fight against toxins. Evidence also proves that garlic detoxifies the body by protecting the liver from toxic agents. You can also watch our video on top foods to detoxify our body by clicking on the i button above. So these were 5 amazing health benefits of garlic. In the end, I would like to add a note on how you should consume garlic. Freshly crushed or chopped garlic has the most health benefits. Garlic powder and aged garlic extract are also high in healthy compounds. Garlic oil has fewer health properties, but can still be used to add flavor to cooking. The way we prepare garlic affects its strength. Those all-important garlic enzymes are inactivated by heat found is destroyed during cooking. So for getting the maximum health benefits of garlic, it's best to consume raw garlic. Allicin is created when two separate ingredients in garlic connect with each other. One is a protein fragment known as allin, and one is a heat-sensitive enzyme known as allinase. In the intact clove, these substances are isolated in separate compartments and do not co-mingle with each other until we slice, press or chew the garlic and rupture the barriers between them. It has been found that heating garlic immediately after crushing or slicing can destroy the heat-sensitive enzyme which results in allicin not being created. A good way to avoid this is by simply adjusting how we prepare garlic. When we chop, mince, slice or mash garlic, it is best to keep them away for at least 10 minutes before heating them. During this time, the maximum amount of allicin is created and we will get all the medicine we are looking for in garlic even after it is cooked. You can also consider taking garlic supplementation. I have included links to some of the best garlic supplementation in the description box down below. So thank you so much for watching this video. Bad. If you're frequently struggling with urgent toilet trips...  Did you know that fennel is considered one of the oldest medicinal herbs in the world? Fennel has been known to have health benefits for a long time, especially in its native lands. Belonging to the APSE family, the same as carrots, fennel is native to Asia, North America and Europe. This versatile plant is entirely edible, including the green bulb, long stalks, seeds and leaves. Fennel, with its rich history, has been used for various purposes across different cultures and eras. In the Middle Ages, it was believed to scare off evil spirits. Roman warriors chewed on fennel seeds, thinking it would strengthen their bodies. While in ancient Greece, it was commonly used as a weight reduction aid. Each country had its unique use for fennel, leading to our broad understanding today of how and why to utilize it. Fennel, dating back centuries, is considered one of the oldest medicinal herbs worldwide. It is particularly popular in Asia where it is commonly consumed to aid digestion and freshen breath. Fennel is a significant source of potassium, sodium, phosphorus and calcium, all beneficial to health. Research has also suggested that fennel seeds might possess antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties. Discover now seven powerful reasons why you should consume fennel seeds every day. Make sure to watch until the end, because there are some simple tips and recipes for adding more fennel seeds to your diet. One, regulates blood pressure. Fennel, as previously mentioned, is rich in potassium, a key mineral that helps maintain blood pressure within normal ranges. An inadequate intake of potassium can increase the risk of developing high blood pressure. Also, fennel contains other components like calcium and magnesium, all known to aid in decreasing blood pressure. Along with other foods containing dietary nitrates, fennel exhibits vasodilatory and vasoprotective properties, which can contribute to reduced blood pressure and enhanced heart protection. Two, helps clean the blood of toxins. Fennel assists in detoxifying the blood and combating anemia, a common condition often caused by iron deficiency. High in vitamin C, fennel enhances the body's ability to absorb iron when consumed with iron-rich foods. Furthermore, its significant fiber content plays a role in reducing cholesterol levels, thereby decreasing the risk of heart disease. Additionally, fennel contains vitamins B6 and folate, which prevent the buildup of homocysteine, a harmful compound that can damage blood vessels and lead to heart complications. Three, boosts digestive health. Fennel has been aiding digestive health for thousands of years, thanks to its anti-inflammatory components. Its high fiber content not only helps prevent constipation but also promotes regular bowel movements, crucial for a healthy digestive tract. Laboratory research suggests that fennel may positively affect including inflammatory bowel disease. In a particular study, fennel seed extract was found to strengthen the intestinal epithelium, which is the protective outer layer of the intestines. These findings have led researchers to consider fennel as a potential complementary and alternative medicine therapy for IBD. Fennel seeds may not only enhance the flavor of your food, but also help in reducing appetite. In a study with nine healthy women, it was found that participants who drank 3.5 ounces, 250 milliliters, of tea made with two grams of fennel seeds, before lunch felt less hungry and consumed fewer calories during their meal compared to those who had a placebo tea. Four, improve sleep. Fennel seeds contain compounds that can help alleviate sleep issues thanks to their calming properties. Rich in anethol and fenchoni, these seeds are known for their muscle relaxing properties. These components may help in reducing stress and anxiety, thereby promoting a more relaxed state that is conducive to improved sleep. Please note that the content of this video does not replace professional medical consultation. If you're experiencing significant issues with anxiety, insomnia, or other health concerns, it's crucial to consult a doctor. Five, promotes bone health. Fennel contains components that are crucial in increasing and maintaining bone structure and strength. It is rich in essential compounds like phosphate and calcium, pivotal for the development and maintenance of strong bones. Furthermore, iron and zinc in fennel play a crucial role in the production and maturation of collagen, while manganese is necessary for bone matrix formation. Additionally, studies have shown that in insufficient intake of vitamin K, another nutrient found in fennel is linked to an increased risk of bone fractures. To continue, don't forget to hit the like button and subscribe if you're enjoying the video. Be sure to turn on notifications too, so you won't miss any of our upcoming content. This simple five-second method can help control type 2 diabetes. Leading researchers at the University of Harvard have discovered the real root cause of high blood sugar, and it has nothing to do with what you eat, how much you exercise, or your genetics. It's actually due to zombie cells that surround the pancreas. These zombie cells form a toxic blanket around the pancreas. Six, clears the skin from acne. Fresh fennel is a rich source of vitamin C, essential for collagen synthesis, which forms the structural backbone of the skin. Vitamin C functions as an antioxidant, protecting the skin from damage caused by sun exposure, pollution, and smoke. Furthermore, the combination of vitamins in fennel improves skin cell function. This comprehensive approach helps reduce cell damage from environmental factors, leading to smoother, more supple, and clearer skin, effectively aiding in acne prevention and promoting a healthier complexion. Fennels' antiseptic properties act as a barrier against germs and bacteria, while its anti-inflammatory qualities help reduce acne-associated swelling. Compounds like limonene, anethyl, and myrcine, all found in fennel, are potent in treating acne. Additionally, fennel serves as a gentle, yet effective natural exfoliator, removing dead skin cells. Within Ayurvedic practices, fennel seeds are key ingredients in treatments targeting cellulite, ensuring hydrated and smooth skin. The effectiveness of fennel seeds in skincare, especially in aiding the elimination of fat and toxins from tissues, is significant. For those using a fennel scrub as part of their cellulite treatment, adding a fennel tea infusion to their diet can enhance the benefits by stimulating internal metabolism. 7. May Reduce the Risk of Cancer Fennel's diverse range of potent plant compounds may play a role in guarding against chronic diseases, particularly certain types of cancers. Anethyl, a primary active compound in fennel seeds, has shown anti-cancer properties in research, particularly in destroying breast cancer cells and hindering the proliferation of both breast and liver cancer cells. While these studies are still in the laboratory phase, their initial findings offer promising insights into fennel's potential cancer-reducing effects. In specific test tube studies, anethyl, a component of fennel, has been shown to suppress cell growth and trigger apoptosis, programmed cell death, in human breast cancer cells.  Animal studies also suggest that fennel seed extract may offer protective effects against breast and liver cancer. While there haven't been sufficient human studies to validate these findings, or to recommend fennel as an alternative cancer treatment, the existing results are indeed promising. Selenium, another cancer-fighting component found in fennel, further enhances its potential health benefits. Unique among many fruits and vegetables for its selenium content, fennel contributes to liver enzyme function, aids in detoxifying certain cancer-causing compounds, and has properties that prevent inflammation and may reduce tumor growth rates. What factors contribute to the health benefits of fennel seeds? Fennel is rich in nutrients and components that improve your health. Its antioxidants help especially with eyesight, glaucoma, reduce inflammation, and can also prevent cancer and heart disease. The essential oil derived from fennel has been found to contain over 87 volatile compounds, including notable polyphenol antioxidants like rosmarinic acid, chlorogenic acid, quercetin, and apigenin. These antioxidants possess powerful anti-inflammatory properties, significantly impacting overall health and potentially reducing the risk of chronic conditions such as heart disease, obesity, cancer, neurological diseases, and type 2 diabetes. In addition to these benefits, fennel seeds are known to contain more than 28 identified compounds, such as anethyl, fenchone, methyl-chavacol, and limonene, each contributing to its health-promoting properties. How can fennel seeds be used? Fennel is a versatile ingredient widely used in both French and Italian cuisines. Different parts of the fennel plant, including its seeds and leaves, can be incorporated into a variety of dishes. When selecting fennel bulbs, opt for those that are firm, unblemished, and white or pale green in color, with green stalks and straight leaves. Store-dried fennel seeds in an airtight container in a cool, dry area. As a vegetable, fennel can be eaten raw or cooked and is a flavorful addition to salads, stews, soups, and can be grilled alongside fish or chicken. Supplements and Capsules For individuals looking for a more concentrated intake, fennel seed supplements or capsules are commercially available. These capsules are often filled with powdered fennel seeds, capturing its essence without the need for preparation. Fennel seeds can also be consumed as a tea, where the seeds are steeped in hot water to produce what is commonly referred to as fennel seeds tea. How to Prepare Fennel Tea Making tea from fennel seeds is a simple and time-efficient task, and it can be enjoyed daily for optimal effects. Although fennel tea might not be your usual preference for a warm beverage on a chilly day, its potent health benefits, supported by research and nutritionists, might persuade you to give it a try. Ingredients 1 tablespoon freshly crushed fennel seeds 1 cup boiling water Optional Honey or sugar for sweetening Preparation An easy method to prepare fennel tea is by adding 1 teaspoon of crushed fennel seeds to a cup of boiling water. Allow it to steep for 10 minutes. Strain the water and drink it immediately. For best results, consume this infusion regularly on an empty stomach. How Much Fennel Should Be Consumed Fennel seeds are generally safe to consume in moderation, though it's important to be aware that they contain chemicals that may not be safe in large quantities. This is particularly true for oils and supplements derived from fennel. Currently, there is no standardized dosage recommendation for fennel, mainly due to insufficient scientific evidence supporting its efficacy for any specific health condition. Dosages used in human, animal, and laboratory studies have varied widely, ranging from as low as 30 mg per kg to as high as 200 mg per kg. Typically, consuming a teaspoon of fennel seeds daily is unlikely to lead to any significant complications or reactions. What are the potential side effects of fennel seeds? The FDA, Food and Drug Administration, considers fennel to be generally safe, but it can have a few side effects if used excessively as a supplement. These side effects include nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps, and photosensitivity. In conclusion, it's always advisable to consult with your doctor before beginning regular consumption of fennel seeds, especially during pregnancy. If you found this video helpful, give it a thumbs up and consider sharing this information with your loved ones, so they also will know all the fennel seeds benefits. If you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to our channel for additional insights into the powerful world of natural health remedies and much more. Also, hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest content. For more insights on health... Many individuals overlook the fact that certain fruits and vegetables, while generally beneficial, can also have adverse effects. The onion, a prime example, has a rich history of recognized benefits dating back to ancient Greece where it was used for medicinal purposes. Roman warriors consumed onions for strength and courage while athletes in Olympia used them to boost energy for training. Today, onions remain a staple in kitchens worldwide, essential in countless recipes. They also find applications in medicine and beauty treatments. As we explore the health benefits of onions, particularly for heart and vascular health, we discover that they are rich in antioxidants which help reduce inflammation in the intestinal walls. Onions contribute to preventing atherosclerosis by lowering bad cholesterol levels and reducing blood pressure. Recent studies indicate that daily onion consumption can significantly decrease levels of bad cholesterol and triglycerides, reducing the risk of severe cardiovascular incidents. German researchers have even found that consuming onions daily can reduce blood pressure by up to 7%, serving as a preventive measure against arterial hypertension. Onions also offer remedies for various health conditions. For instance, inhaling the scent of finely chopped onions is a time-tested remedy for flu, colds, and runny noses. Onion broth can be helpful for kidney diseases while onion skin broth may provide relief for head vessel problems and cramps. For nail fungus, daily foot soaks in a strong broth made from onion skins can be effective. Baked onion serves as a remedy for cough, particularly in cases of bronchitis. Regular consumption of onions plays a significant role in cancer prevention, reducing the risk of stomach and colorectal cancers. Onions exhibit promising effects on blood glucose levels, contributing to diabetes prevention. They also strengthen bones, enhancing bone mineral density, and play a vital role in men's and women's health. For men, onions can enhance reproductive function and manage prostate adenoma. For women, onions contribute to hormonal balance, preventing malignant breast tumors and supporting overall reproductive health. However, it's essential to know potential harms and contraindications. While onions are packed with beneficial substances, they may not be suitable for everyone. Common side effects include bad breath and excessive consumption can lead to gastrointestinal disturbances. Onions might trigger arrhythmia in individuals with cardiovascular diseases. Pregnant women should carefully consider onion consumption, ensuring a moderate intake for the healthy development of the fetus. In conclusion, moderation is key when it comes to onion consumption. Whether you're aiming to enjoy their health benefits or prevent potential harms, maintaining a balanced approach is crucial. Remember, onions, when consumed appropriately, can be a valuable addition to your diet, providing essential nutrients for the health of your cardiovascular system and bones. Pairing this ingredient with water before bed balances bigger levels and targets type 2. Most people continue to take blood sugar medications because they still believe diabetes is a hereditary condition, even though new studies are... Things like that. You want to germinate those because you want to get rid of certain anti-nutrients, and one being this phytic acid. So what you could do is you simply soak these things in water with one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar and then let that sit for about 7 to 12 hours. Okay, and then you rinse it out and then you can actually bake with it or cook with it, whatever, and that way you'll get rid of a lot of the anti-nutrients because this phytic acid will really block the zinc, selenium, iron, calcium, things like that. Really got to be careful of these grains and consume only grains, if you're going to do grains at all, that have no gluten. And that would be oat, quinoa, millet, teff, buckwheat, and then just like a nut flour, you can use almond flour. And any time you are consuming grains, nuts, or anything else like that, you can use almond flour, and you can use almond flour, and you can also use wheat flour. And you can use almond flour, and you can also use almond flour. And it's great. Even for these things. I think you're going to like this. I think if you're really into this, you're going to want to eat this with a lot of iron, so you could make it with iron, zinc, selenium, iron, calcium, things like that. Really gotta be careful of these grains and consume only grains, if you're gonna do grains at all, that have no gluten. And that would be oat, quinoa, millet, teff, buckwheat. And then just like a nut flour, you can use almond flour.  So what you could do is you simply soak these things in water with one tablespoon, apple cider vinegar, and then let that sit for about seven to 12 hours. Okay, and then you rinse it out, and then you can actually bake with it or cook with it, whatever, and that way you'll get rid of a lot of the anti-nutrients, because this phytic acid will really block the zinc, selenium, iron, calcium, things like that. Really gotta be careful. Audible pays me eight to $10,000 every single month in passive income. I did a video recently on the number one best anti-inflammatory food. Today we're gonna talk about the number one inflammatory food on the planet. So there's a lot of confusion in this area of what causes inflammation. You have the vegans telling you that red meat and other types of animal products cause inflammation, and then you have the carnivores over here saying it's the fiber that's causing inflammation, so they get rid of all the fiber and the plants, and all their inflammation goes away. So this is really confusing in the public, like what do you do? There's many plants and herbs that have natural anti-inflammatories, right? Turmeric and milk thistle and stinging nettle root, and many other plants have anti-inflammatories, but of course they also have anti-nutrients, right? Some people might say plants weren't designed for us to consume because they don't want to be eaten. But someone could say the same thing with animals. Animals don't wanna be eaten too, they wanna survive, right? So there's this big battle on this fiber, right? Fiber, is it good? Is it bad? Should we consume more of it? I know personally for me, when I started getting rid of the grain fibers and start consuming more protein, especially for breakfast, a lot of my inflammation and went away. But I also consume a lot of plants and doesn't create inflammation in my gut. So why is it that some people do well on more meat and maybe other people might do better on plants? Now I'm gonna cover this topic in the relationship to inflammation because you have people that have autoimmune diseases and nearly all the autoimmune diseases start in your gut. You also have a lot of people who have allergies to milk, nuts, eggs, gluten. Now there's two really interesting things I wanna just mention right off the bat. They're basically two things that we can't digest. Humans cannot digest fiber. Okay, it's non-digestible. We don't have the enzymes to digest fiber. And also gluten, the protein in grains is the only protein that we can't digest. And now what about this fiber, right? Do we have a problem with fiber? Well, some people can do well with fiber and other people can't. So what breaks down the fiber? It's your microbes. So if you were just to do some research on your own, just type in Google, fiber, gut health, fiber inflammation, gut inflammation, you're gonna just find fiber is anti-inflammatory. You're gonna find that for so many different research articles, we'll tell you that. But it doesn't really explain when a carnivore cuts out the fiber, man, that they feel better, like their autoimmune diseases clear up, their allergies clear up. So what is going on there? Well, what if you were to type unfermented fiber, okay? Like maybe overloading the gut with so much fiber that you can't digest it in some of its unfermented. It's not broken down because the way that microbes deal with fiber is they ferment it. So if you were to just type on that, you're gonna find something really interesting. You're gonna find that unfermented fiber is inflammatory. So that's probably what's happening. And the reason why that's happening is there's some alteration in the gut micro bio. So you just don't have enough of the right microbes to deal with this fiber. If you were like me in practice, you have a lot of experience working with people one-on-one with fiber, without fiber, and the history of maybe when they start developing inflammation. And there's always a timeframe in their life that all of a sudden they can't digest this or all of a sudden they're starting having inflammation. And so it's really important to do a history on what that person consume before that. Whether they develop an allergy as a child or late in life. For me, I can get away with eating anything until I was in my 20s. So if you start asking questions about someone's past, about what they ate, and what would alter the microbes, you get some really interesting information. We know antibiotics destroy your microbes, right?  So people who have had a lot of antibiotics have a lot of gut inflammation. They have more autoimmune, they have more allergies. And also what an infant is fed. They had breast milk, which is loaded with probiotics from birth and a lot of other things to build the immune system. So I think a lot of these inflammatory problems start early on as a child. And if we look at what kids eat, it's a lot of ultra processed foods, aka junk foods. Could this be the source of that? We have salt, we don't have a lot of fiber. We have sugar. We have different forms of sugar. We have different forms of flour with different oils. Maybe it's a combination of all these right here, right? And it's so funny that they call it ultra processed food because it doesn't even resemble food. But before I go any further, I want to share something about ultra processed food companies. This is a little short story, but I wanted to tell you a little bit about the tobacco industry. These companies got to a point where there was just too much mounting evidence that proves that smoking is bad for you. In December, 1953, the CEOs from five tobacco companies met together at a hotel. And they came up with a strategy to counter this. They formed the Tobacco Industry Research Committee to control the science. And they focused on creating doubt. They said as long as doubt and controversy prevailed, the industry could fight off regulations. Because it is the best means of competing with a body of facts that exists in the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy. But what's even more interesting, between 1988 and 2001, certain tobacco companies owned craft, general foods and Nabisco. So apparently a lot of the ultra processed food companies adopted some of these tactics as well.  Kids are developing diabetes. There's conflict of interest with the scientific academies and advisory committees that form our food pyramid. There was an investigation in 2002 into the dietitian organization and found that they were investing in stocks in Nestle, Pepsi-Cola, Johnson & Johnson. So there's a lot of conflict of interest. But the ultra processed food companies have created a lot of doubt and uncertainty into the public. They blame the individual, not the food. They attack the scientists to speak out. They emphasize and promote physical activity over the diet. They deny the existence of harmful foods, saying there's no bad food. It's just bad choices. And they have an endless call for we need more research because it's inconclusive. So in other words, there's a lot of corruption in this area of ultra processed food. And one thing that's very interesting about ultra processed food is that there's a high level of glyphosate. It's in the corn, it's in the soy, it's in the cotton seed oil, canola oils. It's in the wheat products. It's sprayed on the wheat. Did you know that glyphosate is also classified and even patented as an antibiotic? Glyphosate inhibits lactobacillus and bifidobacteria, two main strains of gut bacteria. And out of all the antibiotics that humans have taken, because the widely promoted and sold glyphosate, this is the main antibiotic that's being put into our food. And very unfortunately, we've been put on an antibiotic without even knowing it. And so out of all the combinations of these ingredients, glyphosate is at the top of the list as far as of what it does to our microbiome. Now in plants, what it does is it kills bacteria in soil and then it allows the unfriendly bacteria to overgrow and kill the plant. In fact, in this one report that I read, if you spray glyphosate in the sterile soil where there's no bacteria, apparently it doesn't kill the plant. In other words, you have to strengthen the pathogens by getting rid of the defense mechanism so it can take over the plant. I wonder if this is happening to our guts right now, especially since autoimmune diseases and many allergies start at the gut. And if we've been on an antibiotic for all these years, what is that doing to our inflammation? So as soon as we create enough damage in the gut, now we can't handle the fiber. Why? Because the microbes aren't correct and we're gonna get unfermented fiber and it's gonna irritate us. And this is why people that go on a carnivore diet do much, much better. And then when you change a child's diet and get them off the ultra-processed foods, right? They start having all sorts of positive outcomes. So the number one most inflammatory food on the planet is this right here, ultra-processed foods, which is more than one, but it's a basic recipe of sugar, flour and seed oils with glyphosate. All right, so now that you know the most inflammatory food, if you haven't seen my video on the most anti-inflammatory food, that's a very interesting one too. I'm gonna put that right here, check it out. There's one very powerful anti-inflammatory food that is going to surprise you and I wish I knew about this a long time ago when I had my inflammation. I had a lot of gut inflammation, but you can apply this to any inflammation. This also applies to people with autoimmune diseases and anyone with a condition that is ITIS, which is inflammation of philoblank. Now there is a huge connection and relationship between inflammation in your joints and inflammation in the gut. Many joint inflammatory processes including many autoimmune diseases originate in the gut. And I'm gonna go through the foods that you should avoid first, okay? And then I'm gonna tell you what you should be eating. But the foods that create the most inflammation would be related to something like which actually is in grains. Most of the grains create inflammation in your gut. Most people with arthritis don't know it, but their grains that they're eating are creating a lot of inflammation. Then you have the obvious like alcohol, sugar, junk foods. Another name for junk food would be ultra processed foods. Did you realize that 83% of all the calories in the grocery store are ultra processed foods?  Now we also have corn, okay? Corn is very inflammatory. It's usually in some type of processed refined corn product or high fructose corn syrup. But I think about like 96% of all corn is genetically modified, which means it could have traces of glyphosate, which is considered an antibiotic. It can actually mess with your gut floor and create other issues. And then we have soy, the same boat. Most soy is genetically modified and soy and corn have lactans which also irritate your, which then can stir up the inflammation. And by the way, corn is not a vegetable. It's a grain, okay? And we eat corn in so many different things. Corn chips, tortillas, it's in a lot of foods, especially at the grocery store. And it's not in a whole form. It's in some type of refined form. There's one simple sugar hack anyone can do to balance glue levels almost overnight. Did you know that type two diabetes? There's even a new type of genetically modified corn that we have not really done the safety test yet. And that's gonna be very interesting when it happens with that one. And then of course how the obvious seed oils too, like canola oil, the soy oil, the corn oil, all the oils that are highly refined, they're Omega-6, they're inflammatory. We also have the A1 milk proteins, okay? You always want to get A2. A very safe way to avoid the A1 is to have like milk products from either goats or sheep as in sheep or goat cheese or sheep or goat kefir. Both of those products are fermented and they have additional benefits. And both of them are the A2 type protein. But I will say that a lot of people have casein allergies and that is the problem. But then again, they also might have a lactose, milk sugar intolerant. That's okay, that creates another issue. The same thing with gluten, you don't necessarily have to have an allergy, it could just be a gluten intolerance. And then we have just fiber in general, not to mention all the new functional fibers that they're coming out with, the soluble corn fiber, the tapioca fiber, all these different fiber products that are supposedly gonna be good for you, but they create more bloating and inflammation. If you have inflammation wherever it is, and if it's especially in the gut, you need to avoid fiber. And that includes all fiber. And especially the so-called healthy like plant proteins and beans and legumes and even vegetables. That's gonna actually irritate your colon. And you should probably do carnivore for a while and you'll probably feel a lot better. But I just listed all of the foods that greatly contribute to inflammation. So now let's talk about the most important food to get rid of your inflammation. This food has a very high level of glutamine. In fact, if you look at all the foods out there with the highest level of glutamine, it would be this food. But let me just explain what glutamine is. It's an amino acid for your colon cells, which is a single layer of cells that line the inside of your colon. This forms the barrier to your immune system deeper inside, but your intestinal cells are very hungry for glutamine. In fact, out of all the glutamine, they hog like 30% of it, okay, for themselves. Glutamine is very important in producing ATP energy. Glutamine fuels the intestinal layer of the cells as well as the mucosal layer where all the good bacteria hang out. And glutamine supports tight junctions. You see, I originally talked about this gut being a source of inflammation, but I didn't describe exactly what's occurring. What's occurring is leaky gut, which is intestinal hyperpermeability. You basically have holes in this single layer cell that goes right in and large molecules of food that are not broken down can get through there. And then your immune system tags them as a foreign entity to be destroyed. And that's when you start developing antibodies and allergies against foods. So this problem really is a bypass of normal immigration. It doesn't get the normal stamp of approval through the immune system, and it gets through and it creates a lot of problems for you. So all of those bad foods I talked about kind of put a hole through your intestine. And glutamine is the solution for that, but now the question is, what food has the most glutamine? And the answer is meat, specifically beef, the thing that they're trying to get rid of right now. They're trying to get rid of cows because of just some ridiculous reason, but beef gives you a super healing protein, glutamine, that can greatly support your gut and other types of inflammatory conditions, whether you have an autoimmune or some other type of non-autoimmune joint problem or whatever. Now you can actually take glutamine as well, but beef is the best anti-inflammatory food that you can possibly eat. In fact, before the ketogenic diet, when I was eating all those carbs and when I switched over to beef, oh my goodness, did I feel better? It was incredible. I no longer had blood. It's really weird because I thought that you needed fiber to kind of push things through. Little did I know that beef really calmed the fire down in my gut and a lot of inflammatory conditions went away. I had arthritis so bad in my hands and my spine, I had no idea it was connected to my diet and primarily all the carbs and grains I was consuming. You just have to try it.  Cabbage, that's right, especially red cabbage, but all cabbage is loaded with glutamine. So those are the two foods that have the most glutamine if you were to look at just the spectrum of a meat and a vegetable. And this is also what I talk about in other videos using cabbage for gastritis or an ulcer or any type of GI inflammatory condition. You can't really do a lot of other vegetables and fiber but that's the one that most people can deal with, especially if you do it in a fermented form, the sauerkraut. Because that way you get all this glutamine from the vegetable but you get the microbes as well. Now there are other things that are loaded with glutamine as well. You have cheese from either a sheep or a goat or the kefir like I mentioned. You also have eggs and fish, especially bone broth, okay? That's loaded with glutamine. So now I kind of simplified how to heal your inflammation and gave you the things that you need to avoid to really turn this thing around.  I would start basically eating beef and cabbage and just watch what happens to your inflammation. I think you'll be quite surprised. Now, because of the censoring and the suppressing of the algorithms on YouTube, it's becoming more difficult to find my content and there's a lot of content that I cannot put on YouTube, unfortunately. So to make sure you have full access of all my information, go to DrBurg.com and subscribe to my newsletter by clicking the link down below in the description. I will see you on the other side. Now, if you have not seen my video- Okay, this is the last video of this week's show. Type 2 Diabetes and Kidney Disease. In 2022, one of the first trials to show that this might be true was published. Go over that and it's coming right up. Diabetic Kidney Disease is the most common form of progressive kidney disease in the United States. And most of diabetes is type 2 diabetes, which is the one that typically happens in adults. And it progresses through a very stereotyped number of stages. First, you develop a stage called microalbuminuria. And this is a stage where there are very, very minute quantities of protein, mostly albumin that can be detected in the urine. The protein itself is not dangerous to the kidney, but it's not supposed to be there. And it's usually one of the first indications you see that the diabetes is starting to affect the kidneys. Think of it this way. The kidney is sort of like a sieve. Imagine you're washing blueberries in the sink. The blueberries go in the sieve. You pour in the water. That holds all the blueberries in and the water goes out. If you start to see blueberries in the sink, well, there's nothing wrong with the blueberries, but it means you have a hole in your sieve. Same thing with the kidneys. The kidneys are supposed to keep all of that protein inside and let all the urine flow out. If you start to see protein in the urine, it's not that you're eating too much or too little protein or the wrong protein. It means that there's little tiny holes in the kidney that really should be there. And it's usually caused by the diabetes. I just wanna stop and say good morning, welcome and good morning to Masumi from Southeastern Japan. It is Monday, late Monday morning in Japan. And I just wanna say good morning to Masumi. This is the last video for the show and I will be closing the show after this health video. After that, you start to see more and more protein in the urine. And this is a stage called macroabineria or frank protein area. And this is protein that's so high level that it's detectable by dipstick. After that, you start to see it in the blood work where you see an increase in a blood test called the catenin. And that measures how your kidneys are working. The higher it is, the worse your kidney disease. And it typically gets worse and worse over time with diabetes until you progress to frank kidney failure which requires transplantation or dialysis. This whole process takes a long time from the development of type two diabetes to microabineria, to protein area, to kidney disease, to dialysis. Each stage takes approximately five years or so. So there's plenty of time if you detect it to intervene. However, there's only a few drugs that have been proven to slow down this progression. There's a drug called an ACE inhibitor or an angiotensin receptor blocker which is a type of high blood pressure medication. And there's another medication called an SGLT2 and these certainly have their use in the treatment of diabetic nephropathy. However, diet is also very important but up until now there really hadn't been any trials. The best we could say was that if you could use a diet to reverse your type two diabetes then it's likely that you're not going to develop worsening diabetic kidney disease because you don't have the diabetes. However, the first trials that suggested that you can actually start to reverse it was published just recently in 2022. It was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and a study was called six month periodic fasting in patients with type two diabetes and diabetic nephropathy, a proof of concept study. And the reason it was called a proof of concept was that this concept had never been shown before. And it used something called the fasting mimicking diet which we covered in a previous video which is a five day period where you have a specially formulated diet which is supposed to preserve a lot of the benefits of fasting without actually true fasting because you are eating certain things. However, they've done a number of studies and this was one of the most interesting studies in the diabetic field because it actually started to show for the first time that you could go from the stage of microabiminuria which is the most common and earliest stage back and reverse it. What they had shown was this fasting mimicking diet can actually reverse a lot of the inflammation and a lot of the oxidative damage that happens with type two diabetes. And this helps support the cellular protection for the kidneys. And by shifting the metabolism from glucose towards fat oxidation, this might have some beneficial effects. Remember, the body really has two types of fuel. It can run on glucose and it can run on fat. And what they wanted to do is shift it to fat and lower the glucose to see what kind of benefits you'd see for the kidneys. So 40 patients at the University of Heidelberg in Germany with type two diabetes and protein in the urine were given this fasting mimicking diet. If you're over 40 and concerned with clogged arteries and notice chest pains near the heart area, I need you to hold your breath for 60 seconds starting now. Hey, it's Joe Barton and I'll tell you how this 60 second breath holding trick works and why this can help your heart and arteries in just a minute. But first, here's two early heart attack warning signs that can help predict heart attacks from home before it's too late. Plus, I'm gonna show you this little simple at home Harvard heart artery tip that can boost your heart's blood for six months. And what they did was they measured the protein in the urine and this diet would be five days per month and these were adults age 50 to 75. They were randomized to either this fasting mimicking diet or a Mediterranean diet. They measured something called the SUPAR, which was the soluble Eurokinase plasminogen activator receptor because this was a more advanced marker of how much injury there was to the kidneys. And at six months, what they found were some very impressive results. First of all, blood glucose improved significantly. For example, in the group that got the fasting mimicking diet, their hemoglobin A1C went from 8.1% to 6.7. A very impressive reduction, as powerful as any medication on the market today. And yet this was achieved with diet alone. In the Mediterranean group, you saw practically no difference in the A1C going from 7.7 to 7.7. Body weight dropped more than 20 pounds in the fasting mimicking diet compared to no weight loss. So even from that standpoint, you could see that there were very highly impressive results coming from fasting and mimicking that. The C-peptide is a measure where you're looking at how much insulin is being produced in the body and there was significantly less, which means that there's a lot less of the hyperinsulinemia. And if you look at a marker of insulin resistance called the HOMA or HOMA, what you found was that the fasting mimicking group went from 6.4 to 2.6. Again, almost double or triple the benefit that you saw with just the Mediterranean diet, which had really no benefits going from 6.1 to 5.7. So I stat in C, which is a very, very sensitive measure of how well the kidneys are working. And it stayed stable on the fasting mimicking diet, but in the Mediterranean diet, it slowly got worse, which is consistent with what we see clinically, which is that over time, kidney function tends to get worse. Overall, when you're looking at the amount of protein in the urine, the overall results were negative, although it does look like on the surface like it should be positive because the amount of protein in the urine, the ACR went from 51 to 25, which is almost half, but because it was a relatively small study, it wasn't statistically significant. But if you just look at the group that had the very early stage, which is the microalbuminaria, you see a different story. That is, you see a 40% drop in the ACR from 43 to 23 compared to the Mediterranean diet where there was really no difference going from 44 to 37.2. Importantly, there was really very few side effects. There was no significant episodes of low or high blood sugars, and there was no episodes of low blood pressure. People seemed to tolerate it just fine. So what we see in this really revolutionary study is that by introducing the period of five days where you have fasting or fasting mimicking diet, you can significantly improve multiple measures both from a metabolic standpoint, that is their blood sugar, the weight, the insulin resistance, but you can actually start to reverse some of the kidney damage if it's at the early stage. Once you've progressed to a more advanced stage, because it takes 10 or 15 years to get to that stage, it may not reverse in six months, but the earliest stages are reversible, which means that we should be looking for it and maybe recommending that to our patients because if you don't, we know that this Mediterranean diet is going to cause continued progression of this disease, which is going to lead to worsening kidney disease and then eventually dialysis or transplantation. Thanks very much. I'll see you next week. Okay. Thank you everyone for joining me for Holistic Health Talk. That wraps it up for this week. Have a pleasant and healthy and safe upcoming week. And I guess it would be the first week, first week and a half actually of February 2024, but have a good one. We'll see you next time, God willing. And I'll be here starting the show with the Commodore Jeff Sambello for the first hour, followed by some Holistic Health information, valuable information and tips. So take care everyone. It's a great having you. It's great being here.


issue in the work program. Thanks for your comments. Commissioner Miller, any additional? No, I'm all done. Thank you. I'm going to vote for this. Great. Commissioner Bryan. I'm also in favor of the work program. But I have a few comments. One of them is about the NPO. I actually think it should be one of your highest priority projects. To me, when the Joint City County Planning Committee votes to approve it so it can move forward, it's really their job to tell you what you might be able to back off on so you can move it forward, to vote for something and then not act on it. To me, it's bad policy and bad procedure. And the other reason I think it's high priority is because, to me, it sort of ties in with the expanded housing options. This group of people, Forest Hills, brought up a problem with the fact that they were really a suburban neighborhood within an urban area. And now we're trying to put more density into the urban area to get expanded housing choices. So I think the two actually sort of relate to each other. And it will be interesting to see what they might come up with to accommodate expanding housing and yet preserve the neighborhood in the way they'd like to have it preserved. And I think there are other suburban neighborhoods within the urban tier that would watch it very closely. The other comment, well, several comments, relates to your future projects list. Because I notice you've got a lot of compact design districts up here as high priority. I really don't think they need to be high priority at this point. And in particular, the Urban Road Compact District, Duke has taken urban road off the table as far as rail transit is concerned. So if you're going to work on the compact neighborhood, you may be wasting staff time and taxpayer money. So I would make these things much lower, even medium priority, and move up some of the other things. And another item is this land use plan update for Birds Creek, Hency 55, South Austin Avenue. I brought this up last year. I see it's still here. If you're going to tell me the reason it's here is because it's something in the Comprehensive Plan, I'm going to tell you that all it shows to me is that the Comprehensive Plan is badly out of date. I think item number eight here, that's also a waste of staff time and taxpayer money. So I would like to see it go away. But in my written comments, I will suggest a different order of priorities for these things. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Commissioner Brian. But how do you really feel? Additional commissioner questions, comments? Ms. Young? If I may, Chair, you are right, Commissioner Brian. This list is basically the leftovers from the projects that are not completed from the current Comprehensive Plan. So that's why it's showing up. Thank you. Are we ready for a motion to approve this plan? I move that we send the proposed work program forward to the governing bodies with a favorable recommendation. Second. Moved by Commissioner Brian, seconded by Commissioner Miller. Let's have a roll call vote. Commissioner Williams. Commissioner Williams. Yes. Commissioner Morgan. Yes. Commissioner Johnson. Yes. Commissioner Brian. Yes. Commissioner Durkin. Yes. Commissioner Alturk. Yes. Chair Busby. Yes. Commissioner Miller. Yes. Commissioner Kessin. Yes. Commissioner Baker. Yes. And Commissioner Gibbs. Yes. Motion passes 11-0. Thank you. Staff, any looks ahead for next month at this point? And we know expanding housing choices is back. Right now, at this moment, I can tell you for sure that the EHC is coming back next month. We're looking at what we might have ready for zoning and thumb amendments. But I can't tell you tonight if they're any ready.  Don't worry. No, no. I love staying here all night. Actually, I really do enjoy this. Commissioner Miller. Enjoy your company, Annus. Commissioner Miller speaks only for himself. With that, I want to thank everyone for their time. This meeting is adjourned.


m. We rely on them and we need to invest on them so they can adapt. I want to show you how land use choices, the right choices can promote communities' food security and community rights and at the same time reduce emissions. Next slide. This is about 30 seconds or less. Sounds good, Tony. I'll go through this quickly. I just wanted to show because, yeah, so let's look at a couple of land-based climate mitigation strategies. Bioenergy, BEX, for instance, a lot of companies, countries might be relying on this. BEX requires huge amounts of land and if you look at, you know, it can capture around 6 gigatons of carbon dioxide per year or even more. But if you look at food security, it can compromise the food security of 150 million people. Same for afforestation and reforestation. Around 100 million people, you know, their food security can be compromised. But there are land use approaches, you know, food first land use approaches that will promote food security. At the same time, capture carbon. We can stop the slides. Thank you so much. So we cannot solve the climate crisis by simply planting trees and reforesting the world. But we believe, you know, that food first land use led by local communities will address the climate crisis, hunger crisis. It will lead to zero emissions, zero hunger. So it's a win-win. Thank you so much. Thanks very much and I've got you and sorry to cut you off and those slides will be made available by the organizers. So we've come to the end of our time, but I think it's fitting that we ask each of our panelists just in a couple of words to share with us their takeaway from the three keynotes, from all of the three panels. What are your takeaways to help us scale up this approach to better land management, better land stewardship, connecting food nature people, using nature as the bridge between food and people. Your takeaway, Satya. Quick takeaway, 20 seconds. Absolutely. I think the examples are staring us on our face. We heard from Vijay Kumar in the other panel, who's pioneered the work in Andhra Pradesh on community-based natural farming. It empowers people by bringing prosperity to the grassroots. It brings back ecosystems, regenerates our water tables, our aquifers, cleans up the water bodies. One could go on and on and most importantly, public health, exponential gains in public health because poor people can finally afford clean food that they are growing. Great three points. Empowerment ecosystems, public health. Thanks very much. Shantal. I think there was quite a lot of consensus around the fact that we need to be linking everything up. So we're talking about agro-ecology, about both protecting the environment and protecting people. And I think that the idea that we can't do it without the local communities, that came out quite clearly. Indigenous peoples, what Navkutia was saying also about Brazil and where we see less deforestation. I think we were all agreeing that local communities needed to be involved, that we have to have a link between the different aspects. We can't do things in isolation, just planting trees for the sake of climate change. There needs to be the food as well. And we need investment. Thank you and thank you to the European Commission for your trigger investments in a lot of these things. Tabi, your 20 second takeaway. Thank you. If ever there was a time for the global community to see the ecosystem as the foundation on which our lives rely and as the natural solutions to climate change, to disaster risk, to human displacement, to migration and to conflict. I did say this is the time. Ecosystem restoration, regeneration is the task we all should be behind. Thank you. Thank you for your succinctness.  Thank you so much. I think every climate solution or our climate solution should focus on a food first approach. And Satya, Shantel, Tabi have said it as well. The solution is with communities. Communities are at the front line of the climate crisis. We have to invest in them so that they can adapt. Fantastic. So really like to thank our four panelists for steering us through the reflections and being an anchor at the end of the three keynotes and the three panels to lead into the next session where they're going to try and distill this to come up with some actionable change going forward. So the challenge for all of us is this concept of weaving together people, nature and food and how with better co-leadership, with rewarded stewardship for those landscape approaches, adaptable innovations and reducing inequalities and equities is going to be the way forward. And we turn that back to the organizers to Iliana and Alexander with a very daunting task to weave this all together into a common thread and help close this on a note of optimism. Thanks very much. Thank you, Tony. Thanks a lot, Tony, for this nice introduction. Welcome to all participants. Good afternoon. Good evening. As you can see on the screen that we are wrapping up and we want to create an alliance for engagement landscapes. Why are we focusing on landscapes, because we know that food, people and nature, they come together on landscapes. And therefore we want to do the following in the next 10 to 15 minutes. My colleague Iliana will try to wrap up what was the essence of the presentations and the discussions today and she will also look into the chats and she will provide an overview over what we have discussed so far.  But before doing this, I would like to inform you that today we had more than 4,200 people who watched this event, 4,200. You can see on Zoom the number of participants, but on the web we had Facebook, we had Twitter, so therefore there were more than 4,200 people who have watched it. And on social media, with your participation, with your activities in tweeting, we reached 1.9 million people on social media. So 4,200 watching, not everybody in the whole time, 1.9 million people reach on social media. So I would like to use this opportunity to first thank the Global Landscape Forum for having organized this, but let me be very clear. The number of people is not an end in itself. We are only successful if we can translate these discussions into real action on the ground. Our participants, our panelists have spoken about the urgency. We have 8 to 10 years. They have informed us about the magnitude of the challenges. And our reaction has to be as strong as the challenges are. And therefore I would like to hand over to Iliana to provide an overview of what has been presented today, what are the challenges, what did you propose. And then I will try to wrap it up in my way to say, how can we join forces in order to make an impact on the ground. And let me be very, very honest. The challenges of climate change and the need to achieve sustainable development is not going to happen in conference rooms, not in real conference rooms, and not in virtual conferences. It will only happen if we translate it to action on the ground, and if we do it as scale. And therefore, Iliana, what did we discuss and what are the consequences. Well, thank you, Alexander. I think that we all agreed that time is of essence, but we can build on the great work experiences and leadership. We have heard here today, and even more that we did not have the opportunity to hear from great examples from the transformations that we need are also coming from all of your conversations. So as we come to the end, let us offer a short and quick recap on the challenges and opportunities that emerge from the discussions presented by our keynote speakers and panelists, but also the reflections coming from our chat and lively Q&A spaces. Thank you to all of you for making this active engagement. So we all agree that our world is facing multiple crisis, a crisis that we have created the extent to the extent of the impacts go beyond what we could have ever imagined COVID-19 pandemic, the spread of diseases are threatening our livelihoods the world around us and our future. We need to add. And we need to act now. Throughout the world, we're witnessing a series of extreme events, heat waves and fires are taking lives and causing a replaceable damage and cost that exists that exceeds over $52 billion a year. The damage from floods alone leave us a $200 billion build. Just last November two hurricanes hit Central American region, displacing over 7 million people, leading to massive migration waves in the middle of the pandemic, and particularly affecting our country. Our efforts appear to be insufficient to avoid the loss, not only of valuable lives but also valuable species at extreme high rates 100 times 1000 times faster than natural than naturally. So particularly worrisome is the loss of pollinators that are necessary for the cultivation of 95% of our food crops or food crops. So despite all of these events seems isolated they are highly interrelated. More importantly is that those of us in the global south and what is worth the poorest and historically marginalized are the least equipped to cope and are often affected first and the hardest. Despite the also sustain our food systems. So during the discussions today we talked about the important role played by women by youth by a small holder farmers indigenous peoples pastoralist and local fishing communities in the production of about one third of the world's food. But we also heard about the key role they play as custodians of the land, the water and biodiversity that benefit us all. And yet these important lands towards our among the world's poorest, often malnourished and lacking secure livelihoods. So strengthening resilience and finding solutions to the problems requires acknowledging the close interconnections between people and nature and doing this together. We also way forward, and we're already seen it on the ground, and we heard it today from the stories on Papa New Guinea on mangalha both by Governor Gary Jufa but also by Prime Minister mannape. We also heard it on India in enterprise by Dr tumor cases from Mexico and all over the world. On the ground, I have also seen it multiple times among communities managing forest, and also as more holder farmers that even in the context in the context of the crisis continue, not only adapting and responding to the crisis collectively, but also acknowledging the key role they play, not only building back better but rather promoting profound transformations, but they cannot and should not do this alone. And these connections to the crisis call for a changing mindset, a changing mindset that requires not only thinking about what to do, but also about how to do it about rethinking the role of policy and science, science, but also of agriculture and the small holder farmers and how to take these issues interconnectedly. By recognizing the important role played by more than a half billion people, depending on a small holder farming, not only as a source of employment and income farming is also an inherent part of their culture, their identity. And for some, it is the only source of livelihood there is available. Not only is sure that we all have put on our tables. They also play a key role as stewards of the land, the ecosystems and the landscape they inhabit their homes, which we call our environments. So finding solutions requires all of our collective action, or social capital, or just unfair transitions processes, as well as new and broader partnership with these stewards, so that we can jointly innovate, adapt, and deliver the resilient and productive landscapes we seek, but also taking into account the diversity of context cultures and needs, we urge to address. So this transformation calls to an invitation to action. So Alexander, please lead us the way. Thanks a lot for your very, for your very good presentation and for this challenging last sentence. I am convinced that without changing and transforming agriculture, we will not achieve the sustainability goals, the SDGs, and we will not achieve the in Paris agreed climate targets. So agriculture is one of the key areas where transformation has to happen. Now, let us be very clear. And this has been mentioned several times. There is a fundamental problem. It's the economics, the current agricultural system, the current system of food production is built on ignoring the externalities created by industrial agriculture, pollution, emissions, this biodiversity loss, and therefore it gives the completely wrong impression. It looks like that industrialized food production creates cheap food. This is not the case. If we would bring in all the externalities, the invisible, the economically invisible impacts, but environmentally visible impacts, we would see that the current agricultural system is very, very expensive, and we pay several times for it. And therefore, we have to work on changing the economic foundation of the food system. If we don't do it, small scale farmers and Tony Simmons mentioned it will always have to face the challenge that their food production should be very cheap. So that poor people in urban areas can buy cheap food. This is not going to work. And therefore, it is a big topic beyond the landscapes where we are working on to reflect on why the economic system is providing the wrong incentives and why it is making the life of especially small scale farmers so miserable. Second, and thanks Ilyana for having highlighted it, we are living in a time of multiple crisis. And these crisis are at international level addressed in silos for very good reasons. I don't want to criticize it. The climate change convention is trying to deal with climate change adaptation and mitigation. The convention against land degradation, tries to achieve land to liquidation neutrality. The convention on biological diversity wants to maintain and protect our biodiversity and the World Health Organization is dealing with the pandemic and health issues. It is very clear all of these challenges are coming together at the landscape level. The landscape level is, let me say it in a maybe strange word, is the battleground for sustainability. And now we know that many of the farmers are very poor. Small scale farmers in the global south are poor and very often they are hungry themselves. How can we expect that small scale farmers as the managers of the landscape can contribute to solutions? They have the potential, they have the ability, but we have to support them. And the whole day, the conference the whole day was about the question, what kind of global coalition do we need to support action on the ground? Action for small scale farmers so that they can improve their own livelihoods, that they can manage the natural resources for all of us. Natural resources are the life support system for all of us. And how can we and have to support them so that small scale farming is a perspective for these people? You mentioned Ilyana, we have 1.5 billion small scale farmers. That's the biggest workforce in the world. The automobile industry employs less than 50 million people, less than 50. So we, when we are talking about small scale farmers, we are talking about the biggest workforce in the world and it's often neglected. By the way, let me also express it here, industrial agriculture has to find its own transformation pathway. We cannot put the burden only on small scale farmers. There are two different types of agriculture, small scale, extensive farming and high input industrial farming. Both have to transform. But what should not happen is that industrial agriculture is putting the pressure on small scale farmers to solve the problems which are created by industrial agriculture. Therefore, different types of agriculture require different types of solutions. So how can we expect small scale farmers to become the manager of our future and of our sustainability? We need to learn the lessons from already existing examples. And I would like to come back to what we have seen and what we have heard from Andra Pradesh. Andra Pradesh is the biggest experiment in the world when it comes to sustainable farming, the biggest. It's not a small scale project which has to be scaled up. We already have hundreds of thousands of farmers being involved in it and Vijay Kumar could present very good results of the work. Natural farming means for the farmers a higher income. For the environment it means higher diversity. And very important because of the water scarcity in India, they are using less water. So the groundwater levels are going up. So if you look at this example in Andra Pradesh, you can see that they are doing well on all four capitals. Not only the produce capital, but also natural capital, social capital and human capital. And I think this is the way forward that we have to measure the success in all four capitals, natural capital, social capital and human capital, additionally to what we are currently measuring in the produce capital. And we want to take the example of Andra Pradesh and other examples as a basis for working together on the ground. Scaling up solutions does not mean to have 100,000 more small scale projects. It is urgent. We have to act at scale and therefore we have to use landscape as the basis of transformation. And what we are proposing today and we will put a website online tomorrow is to join forces, joining forces in order to have engagements at landscape level that can really be transformative. These are the examples we have heard and all the good examples we have heard. They can build the foundation for something we would like to initiate. Some of you might know and some can even remember that 1972 in Stockholm, we had the first international conference on development and the environment. It is 50 years. 50 years after the conference in Stockholm 1972. I would like to see a strong coalition making a proposal of how to implement sustainable agriculture at a landscape level. We are willing to join us under the umbrella of food nature and people to create a coalition where we could showcase. It is possible. Look at Andra Pradesh. Look at what is happening in other parts of the world. Look at the positive results of agro ecology and agroforestry. We can really make a difference. Within one year, it should be possible to create such a strong coalition that is able to tackle the multiple crisis. Again, not in conference rooms, but on the ground. Using the examples, looking at what has worked, sharing the lessons and using digital tools like the Global Landscape Forum to share experiences, but also to discuss problems. Not everything will work very well, but a lot of things we have the evidence they can work, but we have to change our fundamental approach. And I don't know why but the following sentence during the day came very often to my mind. Many people say it's a quote from Albert Einstein. I'm not so sure, but the quote is insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. We know that the conventional agriculture wants to solve the problems with increasing efficiency means doing things again and again, more efficient, but expecting different results. This cannot work. We know it has never worked. But we have the evidence that if you change your approach, you can do things differently. And therefore, this coalition for landscape based engagement, adaptation and resilience with the acronym clear is going to try to form a coalition where all the positive experiences can be brought together where we can develop a big wave, a big step forward in presenting what is needed. So we will have a website, but not a website for only exchanging views but for triggering action on the ground. I have heard someone telling me, thank you, Alexander. This means how it's time to stop. You have talked too much or at least enough and therefore, thanks to all of you for having joined us. But please continue what is needed is action on the ground and we would like to form a coalition that we can do a different type of work at the level of landscapes. Thank you very much. Well, thank you. What an amazing way to close this event with this call to action with those inspiring words and figures and examples that you highlighted just now, Alexandra and Eliana. Thank you so much for that. And please join me in giving a huge thanks to you all, speakers and facilitators as well as the organizing team from C4 and GLF. Thank you so much for setting this event for all of us to hear this amazing examples to find hope again to hear the solutions. For me, the key takeaway message from today is that the kind of change we need is already happening. All we need to do is to join hands to speed it up. We need to not be afraid of new forms of cooperation and partnership. We need to move forward listening to each other, so that our challenges give way to opportunities. And we can bend the curve of history towards a sustainable future for all of us in this small, but magnificent planet we go home. As well, we heard over and over again, the need to revitalize food production. And for that, you need us. You need youth. Not all youth dream of a city lifestyle and many want to stay in the rural towns and villages, but without options for a decent livelihood, they are forced to the cities. And they are forced into the least glamorous city lifestyle. If we want to see youth achieve their small holder land stewardship dream, we need resources, we need sustainable supply chains. We need a society that values the work of small holders that feed us every day. We need training, we need science, and we need land. These are amazing examples of action we're giving today, and I am excited to see these examples being replicated, scaled and contextualized in many new places. As you said, Alexander, today we haven't talked too much about this, we have talked enough, and this conversation needs to continue, and it needs to be translated into action, as we saw many people, institutions, and governments are already doing today. We look forward to seeing you at the upcoming digital and hybrid events from the Global Landscapes Forum. The most upcoming event is GLF Amazonian, the tipping point. This will be a digital conference on the 21st and 23rd of September. And the next event will be alongside the next UNFCCC conference of the parties, or COP26. There we will have a hybrid conference called GLF Climate, Forest Food Finance, Frontiers of Change. This will be from the 5th to the 7th of November. To stay updated on the Coalition on Future Events, please go to the Clear page on the C4iCRAF website. This link is now being shared in the chat box. If you are wondering what Clear is, even though you already heard it by our previous panelists, it is the acronym for the Coalition for Landscape-Based Engagement, Adaptation, and Resilience. In the C4iCRAF website, you will also find a special feature on food systems that will show you research, success stories, videos, and ideas for building a sustainable, resilient food system across the world. So there, you already have two tools at your disposal that you can use. Thank you for all your comments and questions. We look forward to building on this important work with you through the Coalition for Landscape-Based Engagement, Adaptation, and Resilience. And believe me, you will not forget the name of this Coalition because it is very clear, as you heard from the acronym, and it will indeed continue to show us clear examples of scalable solutions we need to implement everywhere. My name is Vania Almoslao. I join you from Mexico City, and it has been my pleasure to host this event today on behalf of the Youth in Landscapes Initiative.  Thank you and goodbye.