i take astragulus every night before i go to bed. my only question is why is a bottle of 100 only $7.99? if its such a great protector, then why is it so inexpensive??
i take astragulus every night before i go to bed. my only question is why is a bottle of 100 only $7.99? if its such a great protector, then why is it so inexpensive??
the bulk herb store was not open on sunday when i saw your video. I went a got a 12:1 extract in capsule. Wow. You are not kidding about the energy. Proved to me I do have a spleen chi deficiency and now I understand what that means. Thank you.
@jjonas222 That combination in the right proportion helps to generate new blood. It was traditionally boiled with a black chicken to aid in these effects.
Hey dude, this is a nice video, its really interesting how you mentioned about the blood being responsible for delivering nutrients and so we should pay attention to it, i never considered it before. Do you think alot of people have trouble with their blood? i.e its not delivering the nutrients properly? thanks!
@methos1022 i think that many have poor circulation and low levels of chi, so even tho they may eat healthy, their body really does not absorb or utilize the nutrients as effectively as it good. chi tonics like astragalus are a great way to improve this.
@tekkenjam thanks for watching. i recommend a 10:1 concentrated extract. start with 1 tsp 2x per day in hot water or an elixir. otherwise buy the herb and in bulk and make your teas and tinctures.
hey herbgardner, would you be interested in bodybuilding for just 5 weeks? I'm starting this challenge to see who can build the most muscle in just five weeks on my blog and I'd like to see some natural ppl I'm following do this. I've never bodybuilded, only strength trained so I'm going to see where this takes me, U in?
@RawAthlete hey thanks for the invite, this sounds like a really cool idea. right now i dont think i can swing it as im already in the middle of my own work out challenge :)
@RawAthlete i was doing some running, but the past few months my focus has been on Ba Gua Chang...i will do a vid on this subject to explain in a bit more detail what my program consists of.
yawn, you obviously have something to prove to yourself. I choose to believe in the scientists I saw on this program and not in you. It was NOT about protein only, I think it was more about carbs. How do you explain that the mice had better performance after being fed cooked sweet potatoe instead of raw?
You obviously do not understand that there is a difference between heat and stomach acid unfolding in biochemistry in relation to protein. I'd like to see the exact diet also. Studies can easily be falsified/manipulated. There are studies that show meat is unhealthy and others that show the direct opposite, etc. There are studies that show animals having better health on raw food too, such as Dr. Pottengers studies, etc.
Glad to see you are embracing a high protein diet. You should be getting at least 20 grams of protein 6 times a day, in meals of low calorie count ( roughly 250 each of the six meals)
Combine this with 'power lifting' that encourages testosterone. You will gain power inside and out.
And there is a lot of happiness value in being able to fill the stereotypical male role of 'Strong protector'. You will gain this as your muscle mass increases. No reason not to do this. Vegan or otherwise.
Just wanted to mention that I watched a tv-show about the difference in cooked vs. uncooked or raw food in terms of energy and performance in humans etc. And it was pretty interesting. Rats given cooked sweet potatoes were able to run much further than the ones eating raw sweet potatoes. The cooking increases the amount of energy in the food and takes a fourth less energy to digest, just something to consider.When humans started to cook their food, our brains got bigger and our guts got smaller.
Not entirely true. While there are benefits to cooking, the negatives far outweigh them. Yes, in certain foods, cooking does make the nutrients more bioavailable, but the large number of newly created cooked food-related toxins such as AGE's are also formed, so at the cost of increased bioavailability of CERTAIN nutrients in certain foods, you also have the increased bioavailability of newly formed toxins which have been linked to premature againg and disease.
Astragalus really is a great herb. Made a really good chi elixir yesterday and had a great experience. I agree with what you said about raw food veganism, but anyone who follows a healthy raw food diet (which includes animal products) can easily make things like warm chocolate drink/elixirs - especially with a blender like a blendtec, which can make really warm drinks rather than boiling hot ones, etc. I often drink herbal teas and make warm elixirs for dinner throughout the day in fall/winter.
@JackNeedles i agree that one can make warm drinks, but the issue is primarily consuming the majority of your calories from foods that are cold or cooling in nature and energy. there can be a difference between the measurable temperate of a food and the energetic influence it can have in the body. for example, even a warm elixir can create coldness or dampness in the body, even though its temperature is warm. with that being said, we each have different constitutions which must also
Very true....but also remember that it is not natural to eat a lot of food spread throughout the entire day either. For example, the majority of my calories come from really warm foods because I only eat 1-2 times a day. I'll eat all kinds of wild berries in the morning, while my herbs are brewing into a hot tea for an hour or so, then, hours after I consume my fruit and tea, I will eat one big meal in the form of an elixir (for dinner).
Keep in mind that most of my calories are in that elixir, so when I make a 'hot chocolate' elixir with my blendtec, I am able to consume the majority of my calories in the form of a warm meal while keeping it 'raw' at the same time, eventhough I do sometimes lighty toast my maca, etc.
But thats why I don't think even Chinese medicine is spot on when it comes to food being warm vs raw or cold. You can drink something like raw milk and even if it's really cold, it will usually cause your body to "warm up" because protein is the hardest macronutrient for the body to digest. I have also noticed the same thing from raw grass fed meat.....and I too live in an area of the US where the climate gets very cold during fall/winter. But thats what works for me.
Also, many nutrients that were healthier in their natural/raw state are damaged by cooking, so those nutrients themselves become bioavailable toxins rather than anabolic nutrients. For example, look at cholesterol: when oxidized, it becomes toxic rather than building. Our bodies don't have receptors for raw cholesterol, as a defense mechanism, therefore it does not cause harm like oxidized cholesterol does. Same goes for omega 3 & 6 fatty acids.
And just because you have a bigger brain does not necessarily mean you are smarter or use more of it either. Nevertheless, these changes happened because of evolution/natural selection and not cooked foods, which we have not been eating long enough to fully adapt to. Lastly, our bodies also use up more of it'sown enzymes to break down and "recognize" cooked foods and our enzyme levels drecrease with age. The whole thing about raw food enzymes helping digest food however is mostly fictional.
@JackNeedles Hey there mr Science....I did´nt say it was more healthy to eat cooked food or that it had more nutrients. I just said that I watched a tv-program about what happened to food when you cooked it. It is easier for the body to digest and contains more ENERGY not nutrients. A pure rawfood diet isn´t optimal in terms of protein either. We have been eating cooked food for a long time, or ancestors threw things like meat etc. on an open fire.
Not exactly. In the case of cooked animal foods, it is more toxins that = more energy stored because many of those nutrients aren't used properly in the body when damaged by excessive heat. In other words, they become more toxic to the body or catabolic rather than building/anabolic....especially to your cells. Wild animals do better on raw meat diets. As soon as they become zoo animals, disease and early decay is common and ultimately inevitable. And many have packed on muscle eating raw meat.
@JackNeedles Tribal people have figured out that cooking their meat over a fire gives them more energy, to bad you can´t ;) As i said earlier, I DON´T CARE about the health benefits of eating raw...mmmmmmmmkaay? The show was about what happened to humans as cooking food was introduced, it gave us a huge energy surplus compared to earlier habits. please no more comments or your god damn nutrients. Don´t try to mix things up with me, wild animals eat raw meat.....yes yes got that.....duh....
I don't know what you're talking about, but there are plenty of tribes today that still eat raw meat. Go look up the original eskimo diet and they live in a VERY cold climate. There is a video here on Youtube where it shows a tribe in Asia that has been eating raw pig meat since it's existence. I can go on and on.
And you're not right about it giving you more energy either. The energy you get from cooked meat is offset by the enormous amount of toxins that are created by cooking and the toxic tissue that is being consumed. I have been eating raw paleo for many years now and I have more energy than when I ate cooked meat. The meat doesn't sit like a brick in my stomach like cooked meat does. Eat raw paleo for a few months and then go back to cooked food/meat and then tell me there isn't a difference.
@JackNeedles Scientific results show that less energy is used to digest cooked vs raw meat. Of course there are people eating raw meat, but that doesn´t change that fact. Maybe there are some benefits to eating raw meat, I have no idea. This whole thing was about energy and not nutrition or toxins. Heating up food "mushrooms" up the cells of the food so that more energy (read "not nutrients") is released. Tests in the show I saw were done in microscopes and on mice and based on human history.
Not true. Those studies measure the bioavailability of protein as far as it being being broken down to simple amino acids....but then it stops there. They don't measure how well those amino acids are put to use in the body. So yes, the
protein itself is more bioavailable because it is broken down by heat, but once those amino acids are broken down, they become toxic because they are denatured by heat and as a result, the body has a hard time 'recognizing' these amino acids.
Because the body has a hard time recognizing these amino acids, it has to manufacture new enzymes to pull apart the complex chains of amino acids (protein) to be cut into simple pieces. But you may ask that protein being denatrued isn't a bad thing, since your stomach acid already denatures it, right? Wrong. In biochemistry, 'denaturation' should be called 'unfolding', since thats what happens when protein is denatured through heat or stomach acid. So whats the difference?
Well, remember that a protein in a cell is a long chain of amino acids that folds in a very specific 3-dimensional structure in its active form. In stomacal acid environment (pH as low as 1.5), this chain usually unfolds so that it can bind to the digestive enzymes and be cut into its amino acid pieces. This kind of denaturation is just unfolding. This MUST be carefully distinguished from what heat does, which is much much more.
Heat unfolds the protein, sure, BUT it also damages heavily the protein by binding it to other biomolecules such as sugars, damaging the various amino acids by cutting off or pasting to other things, racemizing and isomerizing them (same formula but different atomic arrangement), etc. The result no longer fits well to the enzymes designed for intact protein chain handling on the one hand (impaired digestion)..............
...and once more or less digested the free amino acids are damaged (impaired future utilization in protein synthesis or neoglucogenesis). So, in other words, these amino acids are damaged and the body and has to work hard to not only get rid of them, but to digest them by making different enzymes to digest damaged proteins, rather than just digest natural, intact proteins that it's original enzymes can recognize.
Remember: our bodies natural enzymes cannot recognize damaged proteins because the natural atomic arrangement of the protein chain is now in a different atomic arrangement because of heat damaging it to unfold it. Your stomach acid or fermentation however does not change the natural atomic arrangement, therefore your body is able to 'do more' with the amino acids and they aren't removed by enzymes as toxins, etc.
So, once again, we get a little more 'energy' out of the food, but that energy is much lower quality energy and that extra energy balances out to less energy on the other side because it isn't put to good use in the body. For example, you can put a different and very poor grade of oil in your car because it saves money, but eventually it won't run as good as as it did with high grade oil and will have a shorter life span, which actually won't save you money in the long run (new engine, etc.).
And heating up mushrooms or other herbs is far different because herbs are being extracted for the active chemicals that are medicinal with little to no harm being donw on the macronutrient side because these herbs really don't have any (at least not sufficient) macronutrients that are harmed during the heat extraction process. The remaining fiber/plant bulk that you don't eat is left and the medicine is all you really get. This is about toxins and nutrition because it is POOR energy.
When did I say you said that it was healthier to eat cooked food? And how is a 'pure raw food diet' not optimal in terms of protein? That is not true at all. Raw dairy, for example, has a much higher bioavailability than cooked meat without all the damaged macronutrients and toxins that are created by the cooking process. And raw milk kefir is even more bioavailable, since it is fermented and contains probiotics. Raw dairy alone can supply you with all the protein you need, but is not optimal.
And yes, our ancestors have been eating cooked meat for a long time....but not long enough to adapt to and not as often as we do today. In fact, we may never fully adapt to a cooked food diet because of the VERY large amounts of cooked food-related toxins that are formed due to excessive heat. Our ancestors have also been eating raw meat during the same period they started cooking. Many tribes can be traced back to eating raw meat......especially in the VERY cold climates.
People who take 'longevity herbs' and eat a diet very high in cooked food toxins such as AGE's at the same time are doing something that is counterproductive, IMO, since AGE's have been linked again and again to disease and premature aging. That is one reason why people think a vegetarian diet is healthier, since people have been shown to live longer on a plant based diet....but that is only a partial truth.
The real reason for this is because plant foods, when cooked properly, contain far less cooked food related toxins than animal foods do. Therefore, as a direct result, those who eat a plant-based cooked diet rather than an animal based cooked diet usually live longer. Does this mean that a cooked vegetarian diet is optimal? No, since there is a good amount of AGE's created, etc. A raw paleo/primal-style diet with raw dairy and herbs I think is ideal (doesn't have to be 100% 'raw' either).
@JackNeedles be taken into consideration. some of are more cold natured and some are more warm natured. also, location, time of year, season, etc... :)
What are the ideal jing herbs to combine Astragalus with? Does Astragalus combine well with He Shou Wu and/or Prepared Rehmannia in teas and tinctures? Thanks so much.
@ovan22 If you have astragalus extract, you can just eat it straight or put it in elixirs or other creations. If you have astragalus powder you would want to cook it. In the case of the hyperionherbs astragalus extract, 10 pounds of the herb is cooked down to 1 pound of powder, so it's already prepared for you. Astragalus tastes good too, I usually just eat it straight.
Awww, here's your tribute to Astragalus....
bwlovesgg 2 months ago
I'm a little confused, what is dampening about a raw vegan diet?
revived0103 9 months ago
@revived0103 It's cold by nature, which damages the spleen, which in turn leads to damp accumulation.
liverqiconstraint 4 months ago
Also compare another great herb called Pau D Arco
essy111 9 months ago
Any Chinaman worth his last yen, will tell you that most Chi deficiencies are due to iron-poor blood, now go eat a steak and quit whining!
jackinla8 9 months ago
This Plant food is suposed to extent life too,its a powerful extract.
gladheateher4now 1 year ago
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i take astragulus every night before i go to bed. my only question is why is a bottle of 100 only $7.99? if its such a great protector, then why is it so inexpensive??
lavelle260 1 year ago
i take astragulus every night before i go to bed. my only question is why is a bottle of 100 only $7.99? if its such a great protector, then why is it so inexpensive??
lavelle260 1 year ago
the bulk herb store was not open on sunday when i saw your video. I went a got a 12:1 extract in capsule. Wow. You are not kidding about the energy. Proved to me I do have a spleen chi deficiency and now I understand what that means. Thank you.
jjonas222 1 year ago
@jjonas222 awsome! im glad you are feeling better!
herbgardner00 1 year ago
@herbgardner00 I read that Tang Kuei/Dong quai is a good herb to mix with the astragalus. Have you experimented with that combination?
jjonas222 1 year ago
@jjonas222 That combination in the right proportion helps to generate new blood. It was traditionally boiled with a black chicken to aid in these effects.
liverqiconstraint 4 months ago
Hey dude, this is a nice video, its really interesting how you mentioned about the blood being responsible for delivering nutrients and so we should pay attention to it, i never considered it before. Do you think alot of people have trouble with their blood? i.e its not delivering the nutrients properly? thanks!
methos1022 1 year ago
@methos1022 i think that many have poor circulation and low levels of chi, so even tho they may eat healthy, their body really does not absorb or utilize the nutrients as effectively as it good. chi tonics like astragalus are a great way to improve this.
herbgardner00 1 year ago
@herbgardner00 I read that Gotu Kola also aids the circulation.
germanicelt 4 months ago
so i sat through the whole video and you never once demonstrated or instructed on how to take the herb and how much to dose.
tekkenjam 1 year ago
@tekkenjam thanks for watching. i recommend a 10:1 concentrated extract. start with 1 tsp 2x per day in hot water or an elixir. otherwise buy the herb and in bulk and make your teas and tinctures.
herbgardner00 1 year ago
hey herbgardner, would you be interested in bodybuilding for just 5 weeks? I'm starting this challenge to see who can build the most muscle in just five weeks on my blog and I'd like to see some natural ppl I'm following do this. I've never bodybuilded, only strength trained so I'm going to see where this takes me, U in?
RawAthlete 1 year ago
@RawAthlete hey thanks for the invite, this sounds like a really cool idea. right now i dont think i can swing it as im already in the middle of my own work out challenge :)
herbgardner00 1 year ago
@herbgardner00 Word! I assume you're into endurance type training right? Since you talk about shakes you take before running and what not.
RawAthlete 1 year ago
@RawAthlete i was doing some running, but the past few months my focus has been on Ba Gua Chang...i will do a vid on this subject to explain in a bit more detail what my program consists of.
herbgardner00 1 year ago
yawn, you obviously have something to prove to yourself. I choose to believe in the scientists I saw on this program and not in you. It was NOT about protein only, I think it was more about carbs. How do you explain that the mice had better performance after being fed cooked sweet potatoe instead of raw?
teclo28 1 year ago
You obviously do not understand that there is a difference between heat and stomach acid unfolding in biochemistry in relation to protein. I'd like to see the exact diet also. Studies can easily be falsified/manipulated. There are studies that show meat is unhealthy and others that show the direct opposite, etc. There are studies that show animals having better health on raw food too, such as Dr. Pottengers studies, etc.
JackNeedles 1 year ago
Glad to see you are embracing a high protein diet. You should be getting at least 20 grams of protein 6 times a day, in meals of low calorie count ( roughly 250 each of the six meals)
Combine this with 'power lifting' that encourages testosterone. You will gain power inside and out.
And there is a lot of happiness value in being able to fill the stereotypical male role of 'Strong protector'. You will gain this as your muscle mass increases. No reason not to do this. Vegan or otherwise.
musicman02 1 year ago
@tiatdivad astragalus is delicious :)
herbgardner00 1 year ago
Just wanted to mention that I watched a tv-show about the difference in cooked vs. uncooked or raw food in terms of energy and performance in humans etc. And it was pretty interesting. Rats given cooked sweet potatoes were able to run much further than the ones eating raw sweet potatoes. The cooking increases the amount of energy in the food and takes a fourth less energy to digest, just something to consider.When humans started to cook their food, our brains got bigger and our guts got smaller.
teclo28 1 year ago
@teclo28 i have seen a number of resources that indicate the same conclusion. there's a really good book on the subject as well.
herbgardner00 1 year ago
Not entirely true. While there are benefits to cooking, the negatives far outweigh them. Yes, in certain foods, cooking does make the nutrients more bioavailable, but the large number of newly created cooked food-related toxins such as AGE's are also formed, so at the cost of increased bioavailability of CERTAIN nutrients in certain foods, you also have the increased bioavailability of newly formed toxins which have been linked to premature againg and disease.
JackNeedles 1 year ago
Astragalus really is a great herb. Made a really good chi elixir yesterday and had a great experience. I agree with what you said about raw food veganism, but anyone who follows a healthy raw food diet (which includes animal products) can easily make things like warm chocolate drink/elixirs - especially with a blender like a blendtec, which can make really warm drinks rather than boiling hot ones, etc. I often drink herbal teas and make warm elixirs for dinner throughout the day in fall/winter.
JackNeedles 1 year ago
@JackNeedles i agree that one can make warm drinks, but the issue is primarily consuming the majority of your calories from foods that are cold or cooling in nature and energy. there can be a difference between the measurable temperate of a food and the energetic influence it can have in the body. for example, even a warm elixir can create coldness or dampness in the body, even though its temperature is warm. with that being said, we each have different constitutions which must also
herbgardner00 1 year ago
Very true....but also remember that it is not natural to eat a lot of food spread throughout the entire day either. For example, the majority of my calories come from really warm foods because I only eat 1-2 times a day. I'll eat all kinds of wild berries in the morning, while my herbs are brewing into a hot tea for an hour or so, then, hours after I consume my fruit and tea, I will eat one big meal in the form of an elixir (for dinner).
JackNeedles 1 year ago
Keep in mind that most of my calories are in that elixir, so when I make a 'hot chocolate' elixir with my blendtec, I am able to consume the majority of my calories in the form of a warm meal while keeping it 'raw' at the same time, eventhough I do sometimes lighty toast my maca, etc.
JackNeedles 1 year ago
But thats why I don't think even Chinese medicine is spot on when it comes to food being warm vs raw or cold. You can drink something like raw milk and even if it's really cold, it will usually cause your body to "warm up" because protein is the hardest macronutrient for the body to digest. I have also noticed the same thing from raw grass fed meat.....and I too live in an area of the US where the climate gets very cold during fall/winter. But thats what works for me.
JackNeedles 1 year ago
Also, many nutrients that were healthier in their natural/raw state are damaged by cooking, so those nutrients themselves become bioavailable toxins rather than anabolic nutrients. For example, look at cholesterol: when oxidized, it becomes toxic rather than building. Our bodies don't have receptors for raw cholesterol, as a defense mechanism, therefore it does not cause harm like oxidized cholesterol does. Same goes for omega 3 & 6 fatty acids.
JackNeedles 1 year ago
And just because you have a bigger brain does not necessarily mean you are smarter or use more of it either. Nevertheless, these changes happened because of evolution/natural selection and not cooked foods, which we have not been eating long enough to fully adapt to. Lastly, our bodies also use up more of it'sown enzymes to break down and "recognize" cooked foods and our enzyme levels drecrease with age. The whole thing about raw food enzymes helping digest food however is mostly fictional.
JackNeedles 1 year ago
@JackNeedles Hey there mr Science....I did´nt say it was more healthy to eat cooked food or that it had more nutrients. I just said that I watched a tv-program about what happened to food when you cooked it. It is easier for the body to digest and contains more ENERGY not nutrients. A pure rawfood diet isn´t optimal in terms of protein either. We have been eating cooked food for a long time, or ancestors threw things like meat etc. on an open fire.
teclo28 1 year ago
@teclo28 More energy = More currency for training and packing on muscle.
teclo28 1 year ago
Not exactly. In the case of cooked animal foods, it is more toxins that = more energy stored because many of those nutrients aren't used properly in the body when damaged by excessive heat. In other words, they become more toxic to the body or catabolic rather than building/anabolic....especially to your cells. Wild animals do better on raw meat diets. As soon as they become zoo animals, disease and early decay is common and ultimately inevitable. And many have packed on muscle eating raw meat.
JackNeedles 1 year ago
@JackNeedles Tribal people have figured out that cooking their meat over a fire gives them more energy, to bad you can´t ;) As i said earlier, I DON´T CARE about the health benefits of eating raw...mmmmmmmmkaay? The show was about what happened to humans as cooking food was introduced, it gave us a huge energy surplus compared to earlier habits. please no more comments or your god damn nutrients. Don´t try to mix things up with me, wild animals eat raw meat.....yes yes got that.....duh....
teclo28 1 year ago
I don't know what you're talking about, but there are plenty of tribes today that still eat raw meat. Go look up the original eskimo diet and they live in a VERY cold climate. There is a video here on Youtube where it shows a tribe in Asia that has been eating raw pig meat since it's existence. I can go on and on.
JackNeedles 1 year ago
And you're not right about it giving you more energy either. The energy you get from cooked meat is offset by the enormous amount of toxins that are created by cooking and the toxic tissue that is being consumed. I have been eating raw paleo for many years now and I have more energy than when I ate cooked meat. The meat doesn't sit like a brick in my stomach like cooked meat does. Eat raw paleo for a few months and then go back to cooked food/meat and then tell me there isn't a difference.
JackNeedles 1 year ago
@JackNeedles Scientific results show that less energy is used to digest cooked vs raw meat. Of course there are people eating raw meat, but that doesn´t change that fact. Maybe there are some benefits to eating raw meat, I have no idea. This whole thing was about energy and not nutrition or toxins. Heating up food "mushrooms" up the cells of the food so that more energy (read "not nutrients") is released. Tests in the show I saw were done in microscopes and on mice and based on human history.
teclo28 1 year ago
Not true. Those studies measure the bioavailability of protein as far as it being being broken down to simple amino acids....but then it stops there. They don't measure how well those amino acids are put to use in the body. So yes, the
protein itself is more bioavailable because it is broken down by heat, but once those amino acids are broken down, they become toxic because they are denatured by heat and as a result, the body has a hard time 'recognizing' these amino acids.
JackNeedles 1 year ago
Because the body has a hard time recognizing these amino acids, it has to manufacture new enzymes to pull apart the complex chains of amino acids (protein) to be cut into simple pieces. But you may ask that protein being denatrued isn't a bad thing, since your stomach acid already denatures it, right? Wrong. In biochemistry, 'denaturation' should be called 'unfolding', since thats what happens when protein is denatured through heat or stomach acid. So whats the difference?
JackNeedles 1 year ago
Well, remember that a protein in a cell is a long chain of amino acids that folds in a very specific 3-dimensional structure in its active form. In stomacal acid environment (pH as low as 1.5), this chain usually unfolds so that it can bind to the digestive enzymes and be cut into its amino acid pieces. This kind of denaturation is just unfolding. This MUST be carefully distinguished from what heat does, which is much much more.
JackNeedles 1 year ago
Heat unfolds the protein, sure, BUT it also damages heavily the protein by binding it to other biomolecules such as sugars, damaging the various amino acids by cutting off or pasting to other things, racemizing and isomerizing them (same formula but different atomic arrangement), etc. The result no longer fits well to the enzymes designed for intact protein chain handling on the one hand (impaired digestion)..............
JackNeedles 1 year ago
...and once more or less digested the free amino acids are damaged (impaired future utilization in protein synthesis or neoglucogenesis). So, in other words, these amino acids are damaged and the body and has to work hard to not only get rid of them, but to digest them by making different enzymes to digest damaged proteins, rather than just digest natural, intact proteins that it's original enzymes can recognize.
JackNeedles 1 year ago
Remember: our bodies natural enzymes cannot recognize damaged proteins because the natural atomic arrangement of the protein chain is now in a different atomic arrangement because of heat damaging it to unfold it. Your stomach acid or fermentation however does not change the natural atomic arrangement, therefore your body is able to 'do more' with the amino acids and they aren't removed by enzymes as toxins, etc.
JackNeedles 1 year ago
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JackNeedles 1 year ago
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So, once again, we get a little more 'energy' out of the food, but that energy is much lower quality energy and that extra energy balances out to less energy on the other side because it isn't put to good use in the body. For example, you can put a different and very poor grade of oil in your car because it saves money, but eventually it won't run as good as as it did with high grade oil and will have a shorter life span, which actually won't save you money in the long run (new engine, etc.).
JackNeedles 1 year ago
And heating up mushrooms or other herbs is far different because herbs are being extracted for the active chemicals that are medicinal with little to no harm being donw on the macronutrient side because these herbs really don't have any (at least not sufficient) macronutrients that are harmed during the heat extraction process. The remaining fiber/plant bulk that you don't eat is left and the medicine is all you really get. This is about toxins and nutrition because it is POOR energy.
JackNeedles 1 year ago
When did I say you said that it was healthier to eat cooked food? And how is a 'pure raw food diet' not optimal in terms of protein? That is not true at all. Raw dairy, for example, has a much higher bioavailability than cooked meat without all the damaged macronutrients and toxins that are created by the cooking process. And raw milk kefir is even more bioavailable, since it is fermented and contains probiotics. Raw dairy alone can supply you with all the protein you need, but is not optimal.
JackNeedles 1 year ago
And yes, our ancestors have been eating cooked meat for a long time....but not long enough to adapt to and not as often as we do today. In fact, we may never fully adapt to a cooked food diet because of the VERY large amounts of cooked food-related toxins that are formed due to excessive heat. Our ancestors have also been eating raw meat during the same period they started cooking. Many tribes can be traced back to eating raw meat......especially in the VERY cold climates.
JackNeedles 1 year ago
People who take 'longevity herbs' and eat a diet very high in cooked food toxins such as AGE's at the same time are doing something that is counterproductive, IMO, since AGE's have been linked again and again to disease and premature aging. That is one reason why people think a vegetarian diet is healthier, since people have been shown to live longer on a plant based diet....but that is only a partial truth.
JackNeedles 1 year ago
The real reason for this is because plant foods, when cooked properly, contain far less cooked food related toxins than animal foods do. Therefore, as a direct result, those who eat a plant-based cooked diet rather than an animal based cooked diet usually live longer. Does this mean that a cooked vegetarian diet is optimal? No, since there is a good amount of AGE's created, etc. A raw paleo/primal-style diet with raw dairy and herbs I think is ideal (doesn't have to be 100% 'raw' either).
JackNeedles 1 year ago
@JackNeedles be taken into consideration. some of are more cold natured and some are more warm natured. also, location, time of year, season, etc... :)
herbgardner00 1 year ago
I loooove astragalus!
SecretsOfLongevity 1 year ago
@SecretsOfLongevity you and me both =]
herbgardner00 1 year ago
What are the ideal jing herbs to combine Astragalus with? Does Astragalus combine well with He Shou Wu and/or Prepared Rehmannia in teas and tinctures? Thanks so much.
hooperqi 1 year ago
@hooperqi rehmannia needs to be combined w. a warm spleen chi tonic, so astragalus would likely work in this situation.
herbgardner00 1 year ago
Thanks for great info :))
extraworldly 1 year ago
Great info!
How do you take the powder? Is it ok to eat it straight from the bag or should I cook it?
ovan22 1 year ago
@ovan22 If you have astragalus extract, you can just eat it straight or put it in elixirs or other creations. If you have astragalus powder you would want to cook it. In the case of the hyperionherbs astragalus extract, 10 pounds of the herb is cooked down to 1 pound of powder, so it's already prepared for you. Astragalus tastes good too, I usually just eat it straight.
wonshot4 1 year ago