Okra benefits
Okra
Chop up your way to better health by getting some okra in. Yes that slimy stuff that is in gumbo is healthy for you. Our ancestors are always in tune with nature and knew what was healthy for us. This is why if you look at the foods that we typically deal with all of them have health properties.
Strange enough they are over 20,000 different species of edible plants but 20 of them we consume on a normal basis. Which makes up 90% of the foods that we normally consume. So there is literally thousands of foods and that we are not consuming and thousands of more that we don't even know about it. According to the science museum of Virginia 86% of plants are land and 90% of water or undiscovered. Each year over 17,000 new plants are discovered.
This fruit was brought over to this country by the enslaved africans. The south is the region to use oak for the most but can be found across the country.
They contain antioxidants which help reduce free radicals. Free radicals are a natural part of cell metabolism. But too many of them causes of oxidative stress which is damaging. Anytime there is free radicals there is some form of inflammation. Think of free radicals as fire🔥 antioxidants as water 💦.
We are what we consume but we are what's inside of what we are consuming. Typically what we consume is high in calories and low in nutrients. Which forces the body to eat throughout the day searching for nutrients.
Okra has a decent amount of fiber, calcium, vitamin C if it is not cooked for one periods of time, magnesium, copper, manganese, vitamin B1 dining, vitamin B2 riboflavin, vitamin b6 pyridoxine, vitamin B9 folate and vitamin K.
Vitamin K is notorious for helping assist blood clots (prothrombin) But it should be more notorious for helping reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. Because vitamin K helps put calcium in the bone. Otherwise calcium floats freely and becomes lost all over the body especially in the arteries/ heart. Cardiovascular disease is number one is the number one cause of death. Taking a life every 33 seconds then 7 seconds later someone is having a stroke or a heart attacks. Ladies this is great for reducing menstrual flow. Acts as a antioxidant which helps the skin and speeds up wound healing. Promotes bile flow and prevent biliary obstruction (block of where bile ducts)
If you have diabetes or blood sugar issues consuming this everyday can help take those problems away. Vitamin B9 folate helps decrease birth defects in pregnant women. Pray for a bone health and improves kidney functions. Will help increase red blood cell production and speed up wound healing.
Assists with digestion, constipation, bloating, gas, acid reflux, reduces candida overgrowth, fiber aka prebiotics etc. A prebiotic is fiber which one exist in fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices, nuts, seeds etc. Fiber is not found in any form of meat I’m talking about seafood, fried kangaroo pouch, chicken, boiled platypus beak/ tail, beef, snake scales, pork, BBQ turtle back, bison, smoked patrick starfish legs, turkey, stir goose neck, elf, deer etc.
You whole digestive tract from your mouth to your anus has microbiota. Which has bacteria, fungi, viruses etc which have good and bad functions. Whenever the bad functions happen problems will happen. You may have heard of someone having H pyloi or candida. The majority of people have H pyloi and everyone has candida. It's the overgrowth of these bacteria that are the problem.
Prebiotics is what the bacteria mainly feeds on, probiotics are the bacteria and postbiotics are the byproducts of probiotics. Examples of postbiotics byproducts are bacterial lysates (bacteria compounds) , cell wall fragments, cell-free supernatants (bacteria and yeast compounds), exopolysaccharides, lipopolysaccharides, serotonin (90% of the production), short-chain fatty acids ,Vitamin B1 thiamine, Vitamin B5 panthotenic acid, Vitamin B7 biotin, Vitamin B9 folate, Vitamin K etc.
Interesting enough they have build a $50,000,000,000 plus industry mainly based off of people being uneducated or miseducated on their health. This is why education has to become a mandatory it shouldn't be seen as optional.
Fiber is a carbohydrate that has 4 calories. Over 90% of people do not get into fiber in daily. There are 3 forms of fiber soluble, insoluble and resistance starch but we will focus on the first two. Soluble fiber dissolves in water and insoluble doesn’t. Soluble fiber creates a gel when it dissolves also is good for cholesterol and sugar. Insoluble fiber attracts water into your feces that makes it softer and more simple to defecate without stain. Besides not getting enough fiber not getting enough water leads to constipation. Insoluble fiber also helps increase insulin sensitivity.
Plants usually contain a mixture of both types. It’s mixed views on if you should count fiber for or against your total calorie intake. Since soluble fiber feeds the bacteria some say it should be counted towards are total calories. Some say even with that it shouldn’t count towards are total calories but substracted. To keep it safe instead of multiplying 4 calories per gram with fiber multiple by 1.5 or 2.
Manganese assist vitamin K with blood clotting. Needed to metabolize Amino acids, carbohydrates, cholesterol and carbohydrates. Part of Superoxide dismutase (SOD) which helped break down free radicals and speeds up certain chemical reactions. Regulates blood sugars and helps with calcium absorption. Helps make thyroid hormone thyroxine t4.
Okra health benefits sources
https://www.healthline.com/health/diabetes/okra#studies
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221879/
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/lutein-and-zeaxanthin#antioxidants
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10529-013-1382-4
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These posts are for educational information only this is not medical advice. Not approved by the FDA to treat, cure, prevent, or diagnose health issues. The only things that are undeniable is seeing your blood work change and how something make you feel. We only have one life to live our body runs on nutrition so please give it the right ones.