Pomegranates life-extending and muscle-strengthening?
An article in the Financial Times of June 27, 2016 describes a study on pomegranates. Pomegranates are often referred to as superfoods because they are said to counter muscle weakness later in life.
Swiss scientists who would like to play football for a while have discovered that the substance urolithin A in pomegranates has an “anti-aging” effect… on roundworms. They describe it as amazing. The results have been published in Nature Medicine, a journal for experimental medicine.
Not only did the worms live longer (45%), but mice also lived longer (42%). Whether we should be so happy about the longer life of the worms, I doubt, although they also have beneficial properties, but that is another story altogether.
It will come as no surprise to anyone that the commercial sector (Amazentis) is eager to participate in the investigation.
The substance Urolethin A (UA) is also being tested on humans. The first results are expected next year. UA belongs to the ellagitannins, which occur in high concentrations in pomegranates. These Tannins are converted into UA by intestinal bacteria. UA improves mitochondrial function through repair and renewal.
Amazentis thinks it has found a gold mine. The company already sees billions in profit if UA also works with people.
Unfortunately, according to Amantzentis, eating pomegranates does not work for everyone, because the intestinal flora is not the same for everyone. Fortunately, otherwise they wouldn't be able to sell their future pills. Although they claim to have investigated this, I have my doubts. The pharmaceutical industry is simply not very reliable. This also applies to any industry that deals with your health.
All in all a good reason to eat pomegranates. They are also tasty and the redder the better. Enjoy your meal.
Funny that this is precisely in the Financial Times, in general, there have certainly been things in it lately that even shorten our lives for a lot of us.
It says: The substance Urolethine A (UA) is also being tested on humans. The first results are expected next year.
It's about life extension. Do I have a question how you can determine the effect within 1 year. According to use in science, there are different groups that do or do not receive a substance of UA.
So one can already determine this after 1 year, in humans? It seems to me that you can only determine this after decades of use. Is my sober view.
Do you have the idea that it has fermented with pomegranate extract and used it as a mind-expansion or as a pomegranate beer.
Well Ger, Cells age that process is going on every day. By measuring to what extent aging is accelerated or delayed, you can easily determine in 1 year's time whether something is working or not
The article is adapted from Nature Medicine (11 July 2016). The Financial Times posts something like this to interest investors. I've never tried pomegranate beer. Maybe a nice export product.
After a year of research, it is hoped to be able to see whether something has changed in the mitochondria. Muscle strength can also be measured, but that is a fairly unreliable variable.
Anyway, the pomegranate is tasty. Just ate another one.
There is nothing wrong with regular use of a tasty pomegranate, especially if they are grown with low residue. In my 30-year career as a dietician, however, I have seen so many enthusiastic messages about so-called superfoods that it is surprising that we have not all been super healthy for 100 years and older.
Personally, I have come to the conclusion that only our dietary habits as a whole, in addition to other lifestyle habits, can contribute to healthy ageing. And it's easier than you think: Eat lots of fresh vegetables, fruit and unrefined grain products, supplemented with moderate amounts of nuts, legumes, fish, dairy, olive oil and only occasionally meat, poultry and eggs. Eat little but well. The right combination and variation of the different food components have a much greater positive effect than when looking at the individual components.
The messages often look at traditionally living exotic peoples such as the Okinawans, Hunza, Abkhaziers and Vilcabambas, but Europe also has a history of the effects of nutritional measures on health. For example, the nutritional interventions of the Danes at the end of the First World War. Here's a small summary from a colleague:
In 1917 the Danes ran into problems with food supplies. Professor Mikkel Hindhede became a food adviser to the Danish government. At that time, the Danes ate bread made from refined flour, ham, bacon, dairy products and some fruit and vegetables. Denmark at that time was home to 3.500.000 people and 5.000.000 livestock animals.
Suddenly there was not enough grain for humans and animals. Professor Hindhede came up with the idea of having people eat the pigs' food. Unfortunately, a large part of the animals had to be killed. From the grains that were previously used as animal feed, wholemeal bread was now made using the whole grain (preservation of germ and bran). The flour consisted of 67 percent rye, 21 percent oats and 12 percent bran. So there was little meat, people ate wholemeal porridge, green vegetables and other root vegetables, fruit, milk and butter.
Completely unexpected, this nutritional measure in Denmark resulted in an astonishing 17 percent reduction in mortality in the space of a year.
I always come across the word “refined” when talking about (our modern) food. What is that exactly? Furthermore: whole wheat, consisting of 67% rye, 21% oats and 12% bran, would be super healthy. But bread is now always factory bread (even the 'hot' baker uses all kinds of factory stuff) and undoubtedly does not have a healthy composition; What should I do if I want to eat healthy? No bread is better than bad bread, and apart from the ingredients mentioned, bread contains few (micro) nutrients, such as vitamins, and whatnot (too many to mention). So that 'too much to mention' must come from the sandwich filling? Well, as long as that topping does not contain trans fats. You won't see me making a sandwich. And vegetables, for example, are not suitable for topping your bread. It has become more difficult than ever to eat healthily, and most people don't: look at their fat bellies, know that age-related diseases such as diabetes (type 2) and dementia (also called diabetes type 3) are over. increased. Young people show the same complaints about 10 years earlier than their parents. In America (our fore-country as far as our diet is concerned), the already advanced skills of stretching are no longer an option in America. The escape into 'superfood' (a single fruit, said to be the elixir of life), has often proven to be a straw that broke off, but 'superfoods' do exist, for example: did you know that 'parsley' can be used as a preventive medicine? against prostate cancer? But no representative comes to the doctors with parsley, or cold-water fish (which are rich in the very important omega-3, as a counterpart to the far too much omega-6 that we consume nowadays) but with Big-Pharma products. It is time for a turnaround again. Who, oh who do we entrust to conduct this?
Moderator: The article is about pomegranates and not about bread.