Why Flaxseed Is Food of the Future?

The first preserved annals, which tell of the miraculous powers of the magic herb flaxseed, are the 650 BC

Father of Medicine Hippocrates recommended it to relieve stomach pains. Ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus did call him in his writings to cure cough.
In ancient Babylon, it was also used for medicinal purposes, and the Egyptians used it for burial.

Interesting Facts about The Benefits of Flaxseed

Omega-3 fatty acids in flaxseed regulate immunity and improve the biochemical processes in the body

In VIII century French King Charlemagne issued a decree impressed by the properties of the plant. He commanded his subjects to consume flax seed every day,
to become more healthy. Besides the royal warrant proponents should learn French and rules for the use of the magic herb. Flax blooms in June with white or blue flowers. Flaxseed is one of the oldest cultivated from human cultures and is the result of year-herb flax. Depending on the climate where it is grown, the seed is different in shape, color and size. There are white, red, yellow or black seeds.
Color of flaxseed
Flaxseed is sweet, oily and with a weak odor. Today India is the largest plantations of flaxseed.
According to Canadian researchers use regular linseed prevent cancer, especially breast, prostate and colon. According to them, the fatty acids it contains not only prevent cancer appear, but do not allow, if any, will increase. A lignans contained in flax seed block the proliferation of tumor cells in the body.

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In cardiovascular problems flaxseed consumption improves heart rate, lowers called excess cholesterol and thus preventing atherosclerosis.
Flaxseed help normalize blood sugar and is extremely useful for people suffering from diabetes. It has been shown that daily consumption of miraculous herb suppresses or completely blocks inflammatory processes occurring in Parkinson’s disease and asthma.
It draws toxins from the body absorbs liquids and insomnia, headache, red eyes and even ear pain, tell the medics.
Magic plant prevents hardening of the arteries and blood clots, thus reducing the risk of heart attack or stroke in diabetics or people with heart problems.
Dried flax seeds
Flaxseed has aphrodisiac properties and because it increases sexual desire. A spoon flaxseed a day helps urination act laxative for constipation, improve bowel and reduces swelling in swelling.i
Not recommended for use during pregnancy because it can  affect development of the reproductive system and fetal health, gynecologists insist and say that consulting a specialist is required.

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It is best to flaxseed ground is covered in a natural state and one teaspoon hour before food, mixed with yogurt or sprinkled on salad.
Wow seed consumption shortens muscle recovery after exercise and is therefore often used by athletes.
Flaxseed has shown positive effects in some mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.
Proof
The healing properties of flaxseed are due to three main ingredients.
Omega-3 fatty acids regulate immunity and improve the biochemical processes in the body. Lignans have antioxidant activity of estrogens, which regulate hormonal balance and stimulate increased production of hormones in the body. Fiber is beneficial for the digestive and excretory system and satiate hunger, tell the medics.

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Cancer-Proofing Your Body

Lifestyle medicine pioneer Nathan Pritikin was an unlikely candidate to spark a nutrition revolution. He wasn’t a doctor or dietician but an engineer. As featured in my 2-min. NutritionFacts.org video Engineering a Cure, he reversed his own heart disease with a plant-based diet and went on to help millions of others. He even saved the life of my own grandmother, which is what inspired me to go into medicine.

Pritikin’s work has continued though his research foundation. Once Dean Ornish proved that Our Number One Killer Can Be Stopped, the focus shifted from heart disease to cancer. In the video I feature above, I describe an elegant series of experiments in which people were placed on different diets and their blood was then dripped on cancer cells in a petri dish to see which diet was more effective at suppressing cancer growth.

As you can see, even the blood of those on a standard American diet (SAD) fights cancer, but the blood of those on vegan diets fights about 8 times better. The blood circulating within the bodies of vegans appears to have nearly 8 times the stopping power when it comes to cancer cell growth. That was after maintaining a plant-based diet for a year though. Subsequent studies against breast cancer showed the power of eating plants for just two weeks. Watch the video above to see the remarkable results.

This dramatic strengthening of cancer defenses was after 14 days of a plant-based diet and exercise—they were out walking 30 to 60 minutes a day. Although Pritikin started out reversing chronic disease through diet alone, later—to his credit—he added an exercise component as well. That’s great for the patients, but scientifically it makes it hard to tease out which intervention is doing what. Maybe the only reason their blood started becoming so effective at suppressing cancer growth was because of the exercise—maybe the diet component had nothing to do with it. This had to be put to the test.

In my 4-min. video Is It the Diet, the Exercise, or Both? I describe the experiment. Three groups were compared: a plant-based diet and exercise group, an exercise only group, and a control group that did neither. The diet and exercise group had been on a plant-based diet for 14 years along with moderate exercise as simple as walking every day. The second group was exercise and hardcore exercise at that: 14 years of daily, strenuous, hour-long exercise like calisthenics, but they ate the standard American diet. Which group was better at fighting cancer?

The researchers took petri dishes brimming full of human prostate cancer cells and dripped blood from each of the three groups on different dishes to see whose blood kicked more cancer butt. Watch the diet vs. exercise video to see actual photomicrographs of the effects on cancer cells. Basically they found that strenuous exercise worked, but good diet with just moderate exercise worked better.

Even though diet appears more powerful than exercise in terms of rallying one’s cancer defenses it doesn’t mean we can’t do both! In fact eating certain plants can improve athletic performance—check out my video series that starts with Doping With Beet Juice and ends with So Should We Drink Beet Juice Or Not?.

In health,
Michael Greger, M.D.

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Image credit: Dr. Raowf Guirguis / National Cancer Institute / Wikimedia Commons

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