The advice and informational content does not necessarily represent the views of mother's market and kitchen mother's recommends consulting your health professional for your personal medical condition and... No, I'm Kimberly King, and welcome to the mother's market radio show, a show dedicated to the Truth, Beauty and Goodness of the human condition. On today's show, it's time to learn how to spice up your life, yes, get the dust off the spice rack and find out all the great things that spices can do for our health.

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First up, it's time to spice up your life, literally. On today's show, Dr. Susan Smith-Jones is going to talk up how you can use spices to unlock some healing secrets. Susan is an educator, extraordinary, and she's one of the world's foremost experts on using natural remedies, living a balanced life, looking years younger and shedding extra weight and creating high level success and happiness. And author of over 25 books and 2000 magazine articles on these topics. Her latest best-selling books include walking on air, your 30-day inside and out rejuvenation makeover, the joy factor, 10 sacred practices of radiant health and full color recipe book, recipes for helpless, and it's our pleasure to welcome her to the mother's market radio show.

Susan, how aren't you? Oh, Kim, I'm great, I'm so happy to be back with you again. Why don't you fill our audience in a little bit on your mission and your work before we get to the show's topic.

Well, for over 35 years, I've been instructing people and educating them on how to live a healthy, balanced life, how to heal their bodies in a more natural way, and really how to be the very best they can be. I taught at UCLA for 30 years, as you know. And now my mission and my passion is to reach as many people as possible, and to show them that they have a body that is self-healing and self-renewing, and I wanna help give them all the tools. Today we're discussing the power of healing spaces, and I'm guessing most of us don't know the power of those little bottles in the space back...

No, that's right, it's a spicy topic today, you know Kim, I don't know if you're aware, but in biblical times, mustard seeds were thought to cure everything from two ticks to epilepsy and other spices like Saffron, cinnamon, black pepper, henge, cuman, even clothes, and Regina, they were also spices and herbs that were prized for their healing powers, but as it turns out, the ancients had a very uncanny sense of which spices were most likely to be effective, and researchers are now Kim identifying substances and spices that offer many health benefits, including things... I'm sure you use on a daily basis, black pepper, Meg cumin cloves, turmeric, and so I'm excited for the spicy hot topic to talk about some of these different spaces and how you can use them not only to flavor your food, but to help heal your body from head-to-toe, it's important to discover the healing secrets in your spice rack... Well, great, I cannot wait to hear. What's hidden in there?

Well, the question most people wanna know, at least this one, What SPICE helps in the weight boss arena, you know the best spice to help you lose weight, that's showing lots of promise, not only in losing what, but also cutting the cancer risk and reducing inflammation is red hot can pepper. You know, I'm sure, Kim, you've heard this old saying that Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and there's more involved in this little culinary SPICE, it's called Thermo spice, that means it helps boost your immune system, and studies also have found that when you take cin pepper a little bit every day. Not only can it help the circulation throughout your body, but it absolutely can help you win the Battle of the Bulge, because it offers a three-prong attack against obesity, first, when you eat, can pepper and you can sprinkle it on your foods or you can take it... In a capsule form, it helps fight off food cravings, you see, some experts believe that eating sharp tasting foods like hot peppers or cyan Pepper can overwhelm your taste buds, cutting off cravings, and secondly, Kian helps you eat less... There was a study, you and I talked about him once before, it was done in the Netherlands, and they gave a large group of men about 09 grams of cyan pepper, I'm either in the ground pet performed in a capsule or mixed into a tomato juice beverage, and then they waited 30 minutes, and then 30 minutes later they turn, this group of men lucid and all you could eat buffet, and compared with the men who were given the placebo, the men who had cyan reduced their food intake by up to 16%, and then third, it actually requires energy to eat hot peppers, you know that's right, it burns calories to eat them, and that's because the heat you feel when you eat chilli peppers takes energy to produce, and so that's why every single day I take one or two capsules of cyan Piper I usually do this before I work out in the morning, because 30 minutes before a workout, if you take some Kian powder or cyan pepper, it helps you burn more calories during your workout, if I go to a big family meal or out to a big dinner in a restaurant, and I think I might be eating more calories and I know my body needs... I'll take a couple extra capsules of cyan to help me burn those extra calories off... Wow. Well, if you can handle it. Every little bit helps.

Alright, so what... I have had problems with this in the past, what would you suggest for motion sickness whenever you're talking about anything nausea-related. The go-to Arbor spice is always Ginger. Ginger is one of the most widely used dual remedies on the planet. It's literally used by millions of people, and no wonder Kim, this aromatic spice invigorate healthy digestion, boost circulation and is an effective warming digestion and circulatory tonic, and it is my favorite natural REM, and if someone comes to see me in my private practice, and maybe they have morning sickness or maybe they have an upset stomach or maybe when they travel or fly... They get motion sickness. I always recommend ginger, and it used to be that I would make triple strength ginger tea to take on a flight with me, but now they have that three-out rule and you can't take that beverage with you, but you can go to mother's market and kitchen and you can get capsules of ginger and if you have to deal with motion sickness, here's what you want to do, take two capsules, about an hour before you fly, and then take one additional cap, so every hour that you fly or maybe you go on a road trip and you're on a curvy road, I always have that ginger with you. You can also get it in the form of God, you can get Ginger candy, but the most potent and concentrated source would be capsules, so that would be excellent to take. There was a study that I read, I'm thinking probably four to five months ago, and it involved 80 naval cadets, and it revealed that 100 milligrams of ginger powder capsules controlled all of the symptoms, nausea-related like nauseous-ness, vomiting, vertigo and cold sweats. And as I mentioned with you, Kim previously, and one of the shows we did together, every morning, I make a hot beverage of purified water and I put in two to three coins of ginger, and I heat up these 12 cups of water with the ginger, and I make my own tea. And yes, you could buy tea bags at mother's market, but it's a lot cheaper to buy the ginger root, and that way you can have ginger not only in your water in the morning, but put extra in your smoothies or be sate foods with ginger. It's wonderful for your body... Good, and could advise a not to remember that.

Okay, what about getting better sleep, web favorite topic of mine.

You know, gender does help you sleep better, now, here's an herb that's not really a spice, but it's excellent to help you get better sleep, and it's camel or came meal, you take a cup of that about 30 minutes before you go to sleep, Kim, and it will help you sleep like a baby. It's wonderful, it relaxes your body, takes away anxiety, and that also, if anybody listening is depressed, it helps put you in a better mood, lemon balm tea is also a great anti-depressant tea, a good take to help you sleep. And in terms of spices, you don't wanna have a big meal, and especially a big spicy meal before you go to bed, 'cause remember Kim just a moment ago, I told you that cayenne pepper reps up your metabolism, you don't wanna do that right before you go to bed, and I truly... If weight loss is a concern to you, you don't wanna eat three hours before you go to bed, I will always remember that Kemal and the lemming bolt, that sounds relaxing. Right then and there.

Okay, good advice. Once again, are there culinary spices for lowering cholesterol and for heart health... See, one of my favorite spices or seasonings to help lower cholesterol, to help lower blood pressure would be garlic, in fact, in terms of heart health in general, you can't go wrong with garlic.

See, I think papa may have eaten spinach for strength, but in Ancient Egypt, Kim, the slaves who built the Great Pyramids were given garlic to give them endurance, and Ancient Greece and Rome athletes at garlic before competitions, while soldiers consumed it before battle, but today, hundreds actually thousands of studies have proven all the ways that garlic can reinforce your bigger, promote vitality and is beneficial for heart health when it comes to garlic, it's got a triple threat or a triple treat, I like to call it, because it helps lower blood pressure. It helps to decrease platelet aggregation, it helps to reduce the risk of blood clots, and it's excellent for all of your arteries, and it also helps to lower your cholesterol. You see, there's an active ingredient in garlic called Allison, and it's a powerful antibacterial antiviral and anti-fungal capable of killing harmful microbes. In fact, garlic is something you definitely wanna take, even though this isn't about heart health, to help prevent and heal a cold or flu or infections, in fact, it's called a natural antibiotic, so I make sure that I have a little bit of garlic every single day, I love garlic, I especially love roasted garlic, it's great in so many recipes, and you ask him also about heart health, there are at least seven spices that are all good for heart disease to help keep you healthy, and those would be turmeric, Van Greek cloves, red chilli peppers or cyan, cinnamon, garlic and ginger will.

A Healthy Heart is a happy heart, that is for sure. Great advice and very interesting information once again, Susan, right now we need to take a quick break, more information coming your way from Dr. Susan Smith Jones in a minute. Don't go anywhere. We will be right.

And now back to our interview with Dr. Susan Smith-Jones and we're spacing it up on the show today, so Susan, what would you recommend for cold feed in cold hands on even achy muscles and joints? Well, here's a simple remedy, you can make it home for cold hands and cold feet, you can go to a drug store pharmacy and buy an over-the-counter cream that has capetian as its active ingredient, and you've probably seen the commercials with Regis Pillman, he promotes one of those, but you can save money and you can make your own because you can take your favorite lotion, you can sprinkle a little cyan pepper in it, not a lot, just a little, and you rub it on your feet and your feet will stay warm for hours, you can rub it on your hands to keep them warm, and if you have any AC join, you take this wonderful homemade lotion to which you sprinkled a little cyan pepper and it will help take away those aches and pains, 'cause as it goes into the skin, it desensitized the nerves, and then you don't feel the so much and it's actually healing for all the joints of your body or the go-to space above all others came to balance. Your blood sugar level would be cinnamon. Cinnamon improves your body's ability to obey insulin and take up glucose or your blood sugar, but not only does it help you balance your blood sugar levels, but it also cuts heart-threatening triglycerides and bad low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. There's a compound in this spice called method hydroxy Cal on polymer, that's a great phrase right there, isn't it to bring up at a party if it's really boring, but for short, it's called MHP. And this makes yourselves absorb glucose faster and convert it more easily into energy, and in a study I read, they took 30 women and 30 men with type 2 diabetes, and they received either the cinnamon or a placebo, dummy placebo capsule and a dummy pill. And they did this every day for 40 days, and the researchers found that the cinnamon group blood sugar levels had fallen by 18 to 29%, their LDL cholesterol dropped 7 cent, 17%, their triglycerides Phil 23 to 30%, and their good high density lipoprotein, that's the HDL cholesterol rose slightly. And in another study, using one half teaspoon each day could cut your triglycerides in total cholesterol by 12 to 30%, while it boosts your body's ability to store blood sugar, and this is either in powder or capsule form, so you might not always want your foods to taste like cinnamon, and in that case, you can get the capsule form, and I saw that at mother's market in kitchen, they have obviously spices and cinnamon, but they also have a cinnamon and capsule form. Here are some suggestions you can sprinkle cinnamon in your morning coffee, put it on your toast or oat meal, you could use double the amount in your bake good, you could sprinkle it on big sweet potatoes, or you can do what we talked about on a previous... Soka you can put a cinnamon stick in your water for a zero carb flavorful and refreshing drink of... Of course, cinnamon, I should have known. It is the, again, the wonder spice. Well, okay, speaking of wonder, what spices used worldwide that helps reduce inflammation. I have a feeling, I know what the answer is on this one...

Oh, turmeric. I think in terms of spices and any food, there's nothing better on planet to help reduce inflammation and turmeric, it's best known as that aromatic ingredient, the gifts curates fibrin and golden color, but medicinally, it's recognized as a powerful antioxidant, it helps lower cholesterol levels, it's a good source of beta-carotene, so it's great for your eyes, it also helps reduce the risk of colon cancer found in many studies, but if you have a joint or any type type of itis, itis means inflammation. arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, Osteoporosis, even, but especially achy joints and muscles, you wanna add turmeric to your diet, you can get it at mother's market and kitchen in a capsule or a liquid extract, or you can get it in a space form and sprinkle it on your foods. It doesn't matter what form, it just matters that you added to your diet... Well, I was proven wrong on that one, I thought for sure you were gonna say cinnamon, so it's turmeric. So how about the humble space that's proving even more effective than aspirin?

Well, that... Once again, would be ginger. You see, there's a compound in ginger called Ginger, G-I-M-G-E-R-O-L, and it has a chemical structure somewhat similar to aspirin, which is a proven clot-busting drug, and there's also growing evidence that ginger to... Helps Quan inflammation associated with any form of arthritis, so however you can bring ginger into your diet, definitely do it, the Ginger all in the ginger relaxes your blood vessels and helps calm the body, and it also has a long history of easing stomach upset, help easing any kind of nausea, and it also boosts your immunity, so this discussion of spices wouldn't be completed if we didn't talk about Rosemary and Sage.

First of all, Kim, I don't know if you've heard the old saying that Rosemary is for remembrance, and there's an element of truth to it, because Rosemary is full of antioxidants that help keep your memory of shapes attack... Excellent. For overall mental health, now, this is a very pungent or rosemary, and it can enhance your sauces and live in your breads and muffins, but keep this in mind a tiny bit goes a long way, so you wanna start with a minimal amount, you can always add more but it's hard to take it out once you've added it in, and then another one of the spices that's also excellent for your memory stage, to be sage means to possess wisdom, and you'd certainly be deemed wise to incorporate this native Mediterranean spice into your diet.

Research shows that Sage can enhance memory, much like the rosemary and also Kim guard against the development of Alzheimer's disease. In fact, in Chinese medicine, there's a Chinese sage that contains compounds similar to those developed into modern drugs used to treat Alzheimer's, like Rosemary Sage is a source of Ross marine acid and that's an antioxidant known to protect cells from free radical damage and also reduce inflammation. Making Sage beneficial for arthritis suffers, so you can... Brute Sage is a tea, by the way, that's great if you have a sore throat Sage, he's great as a digestive, if you grow it in your garden, pick a few leaves and make your tea that way, Sage helps relieve gas and also sue then a very upset stomach, it's also, I don't know if you've ever done this, but you can take a dried sage and you can burn it to help change the energy in your home, it helps fresh in the air.

Wow, well, that we can all use that. Especially when you have kids and relatives and other things... Animals living in your house, right?

Well, what other kind of natural remedies would you suggest, men from our kitchens... I love this advice.

Well, saffron saffron is one of those prices, spices and seasonings, but their compounds in saffron that they have found, that were placed on human cancer cells, including cells that cause leukemia, and not only did the dangerous cells stop growing, but the compounds appeared to have no effect on normal healthy cells. Safran also is a very good digestive and boost your mood, so find ways to add a little saffron in our lifestyle and your diet, especially if you want a mood booster, and then another one of my favorite spices would be... And you gotta love this word tenure, it contains compounds called spoons, and they bind with cholesterol and cause it to be excreted from the body. In one study I read, Kim, scientists found that animals given Venu Greek had drops in cholesterol of at least 18%, and very simply, you could get in you Greek and you can get in a TE form, or you can get it in a powder form. And you could add it to any of your foods, it's very versatile.

Did you know that human is a natural aphrodisiac, and so is nutmeg, and also Clove is a powerful inflammation fighter like many of the other spices that we've mentioned, and fat clove also is a popular numbing compound, and I don't know if you're aware, but many dentists were gloves that have a close flavor to it, and also many Dennis use a clove compound during root canal surgery, probably three words... We don't wanna say root canal surgery, but Clove is beneficial, and one other SPICE everybody probably uses would be black pepper, scientific studies have found that in the brains of mice, if their given black pepper, it reduces the severity of seizures. Now, if you ever get a minor cut, you can sprinkle some freshly ground black pepper, mix it with a little bit of leverage to make a paste and put it directly on your cut because it helps to stop the bleeding quickly. And I think you'll be really surprised at how quickly and effectively it works, it doesn't sting or burn, it actually reduces the pain, and it even has antibacterial and antiseptic properties, and here's an extra bonus, Kim, and even helps prevent scarring. Well, after hearing all this great advice, and it sounds like I'm in the market for a new spice rack for the New Year, well, thanks so very much for your time, Susan, and we look forward to having you on once again. And in the meantime, you can get more information on Susan and on website Susan Smith Jones dot com, learn more about her and even pick up one of her great books, we look forward to our next visit. Thank you so much. Oh, thanks, Kim, I can't wait to be back with you again. Thanks so much for listening to the mother's market radio show. And for shopping at mother's market, the advice and informational content does not necessarily represent the views of mother's market and kitchen, mother's recommends consulting your health professional for your personal medical condition, EE.