What I have here is a true natural remedy. And today I am going to teach you how to use the apple to combat five types of diseases. But not just any disease, but diseases that seriously affect your brain, your heart and your kidney.
I'm going to show you the dosage, the amount, when, how and even which one to choose. Let us begin. There is a saying that I love, An apple a day.
I would keep the doctor away. You must have heard it. And it is true.
Look at these five diseases. The first, the apple is one of the most important fruits that exists for losing weight. And there are very important reasons.
The first one, look at this here. A medium apple gives you between 90 to 100 kilocalories. If this doesn't sound like anything to you, it literally is.
Nothing. They are very few calories. It is one of the best snacks that exists.
And I tell you more, it not only gives you 90 to 100 kilocalories, but it also gives you what is here, which is key. Fiber has a special type of fiber that will dilate your stomach and be absorbed more slowly. All of this will tell your intestinal tract that you are full and your brain will also perceive it that way.
I give you an extra tip if you are trying to lose weight, eat between one to two apples a day because they will keep you satisfied. That is, you will be less hungry, but when you eat it, do not chop it finely and much less puree it, eat it whole and in large pieces. And listen to this.
Take the time to chew slowly and for a long time. This will also help you feel more satiated, fuller and end up consuming fewer calories during the day. There are many studies that show this.
Number two Diabetes. You will have heard this many times Diabetics cannot and should not eat fruits because fruits are sugar and they increase sugar and destroy your fake body. Or is it at least half true?
Listen to what the researchers did, because this is fantastic. Did they wonder what happens to your blood sugar when people eat an apple? Come up fast.
And the answer was no. When they investigated and patients ate apples, blood sugar rose very slowly. So your body received them well.
Your pancreas could work and that sugar could be used. But also, the researchers went further and said Ok, slowly raise the sugar. That's very good.
But couldn't it be that it gives us a lot of sugar? And again the answer was NO. An apple provides small amounts of sugar and raises blood sugar little .
In nutritional terms, it means that it has a low glycemic index, has few sugar peaks and a low glycemic load, in addition to having few peaks and rising slowly. It contributes little. And I tell you more, the apple does all this because it has a key substance called pectin.
Pectin is a type of fiber, but a very special type of fiber that is a kind of gel that traps the sugar and therefore slowly raises the sugar. But pectin also has other benefits that I am going to show you, among others, what we just mentioned, keeping you satiated. And here comes the question, doctor.
They told me that green apples are better. I 'm going to tell you one thing, all or most apples, especially organic ones, are good. It is true that some types of green apple have less sugar and generate fewer sugar spikes, but most apples are already very low.
Then it's not necessary. If you don't like consuming green apples. Number Three.
Cholesterol. This is fundamental to our heart, our brain and our kidney. And the rest of the organs are killed by various diseases, obesity, diabetes, and high cholesterol because they dirty our arteries.
The apple has a natural shield for our body and it is called pectin. Do you know where the pectin is? On the block Here, in the apple peel.
That is why many times when you consume apples you do it wrong, because you peel it and leave the peel and you are leaving its natural shield, the pectin. Did you see that I told you that in your intestine it becomes like a net that traps good sugar, it also traps cholesterol and prevents its absorption. So, in conjunction with a healthy life, consuming between one or two apples a day can help you lower cholesterol and this is essential to keep your heart healthy.
and especially your clean arteries. Cleaning of arteries. Number four.
Intestine. More than one of you who are watching me are addicted. They are constipated.
They have abdominal distension, that is, bloating, gas and they have a bad habit. Evacuation. The apple is fantastic to combat all this because it is a kind of natural laxative.
The apple has two types of fibers: soluble fibers, which are those that dissolve in water and transform into a gel, and insoluble fibers, which increase the amount of volume of fecal matter. That is, the fecal matter is a little larger and when it is larger our intestine can push it better. But here I leave you a key.
Many people who have constipation say well, I eat more fiber, I eat more fruits, I eat more vegetables, I include more apples. The problem is that they forget something. Imagine increasing the volume of stool, but being dry.
If you are going to consume more fiber, you have to greatly increase your water consumption. If your intestine has fiber but does not have water, fecal matter will not move forward and your constipation will worsen. So the apple is a natural laxative because it has fiber, but if you don't accompany it with a lot of water it won't be of any use.
And therein lies the secret. And I tell you more, the apple can help your immune system, your mood, how to digest food. You know why?
Because the apple has prebiotics. More bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites live in our body than there are cells in our entire body. Look how incredible.
And we must feed them. So that? So that they produce vitamins, so that they boost our immune system, so that they boost our mental health, so that they help us digest food.
And this is key. The apple has spectacular foods that improve your intestinal microbiota and if your intestinal microbiota improves, your body improves. In general, your inflammation will go down.
And number five Aging, brain and cancer. I put you. Look, apples have a large amount of flavonoids.
Flavonoids are powerful antioxidants that have been linked to decreased unhealthy aging in several research studies . Because remember, there are two ways to grow old. We all age, but there are 50-year-old people whose cells biologically behave as if they were 60 or 70 years old.
And there are 70-year-old people whose cells are 50 or 40 years old. You know why? Because they train, because they sleep well and because they eat well.
Because they add, among other things, flavonoids to the diet. And a medium apple has a large amount of these flavonoids. I tell you more.
Are you worried about mental illnesses, dementias such as Alzheimer's and other diseases? Well, it has been seen that flavonoids can slow brain aging, so it is very important to include apples. And I tell you more, the apple has been studied in several types of cancer, but in general the fibers in foods and in this case the pectin in the apple, can help reduce the risk of having bowel cancer, for example.
Because? Because it improves intestinal inflammation, improves constipation and improves chronic inflammation in your body. All mechanisms related to cancer, with cancer in general.
But the apple doesn't end here. The apple provides you, in addition to very few calories, a large amount of magnesium, more than 10% of what you need throughout the day. Look, we were talking about antioxidants.
A medium apple gives you 10% of the vitamin C you need throughout the day. If there are powerful antioxidants, they are vitamin E and vitamin C and here you have 10% in a medium apple and more than 5% of the potassium you need throughout the day. And now let's get to the practical, the important.
How many apples can I eat? Look at this. It's a rather large apple.
Look at my hand. Look at the markers. I would say between one and one and a half of these or 2 to 3 medium ones per day.
How to choose them? You have to look like this: they can be green, they can be red, they have to be shiny, they don't have to have bumps, they don't have to be soft, because in that case perhaps they are already advanced and their amount of fiber decreases, their amount of sugar increases . So they should be rather shiny, hard, without dents.
And I'll give you a final tip that's fundamental for me. Many times we have talked here about not using sugar, not using stevia, not using sucralose, not using artificial sweeteners. We have given you dates as an option to sweeten your foods .
Now, when me and my brother make green juices to drink, do you know what we use to sweeten half or an apple of these? And when we make our smoothie we do not filter it, because remember that if you filter you lose the fiber and when you lose the fiber you absorb the sugar very quickly, remember. Whole apple with peel and eating it slowly, thinking and taking time.
This will allow you to lose weight, improve your diabetes, improve cholesterol, improve your intestinal function, your aging microbiota, mental health. What more you want? It is a true natural remedy.
I hope you found this talk useful and informative. Bye Bye.
