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we're gonna talk about my new favorite
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hack and I brought this to you on
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another video I did about oral health
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and it seems to be a popular top topic
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here on YouTube so I can't wait to dive
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in and show you the science and what I
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think about this but let's just think
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for a moment what would happen if you
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had one clove and you chewed on one
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clove a day you'd kind of think really
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could I chew on one clove a day and
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actually get some health benefit and the
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answer is yes and I'm going to show you
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why
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so let's dive into the science and let
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me help you unpack this because I never
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ever ever want you to lose faith in what
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Nature has provided us and nature has
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given us cloes for some very specific
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reasons so let's see what those are and
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would happen to the body if you chewed
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on one clove a day so the first thing
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what's the superpower of a clove well
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it's really interesting because I my
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brain always thinks of cloves as like
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being um a Prebiotic they're amazing
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Prebiotic in fact they're one of the
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best prebiotics they're so good that
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actually when I started teaching
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prebiotics to my patients um one of my
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really intelligent patients got a bunch
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of clove powder and put them in capsules
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and started taking them in capsules and
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I thought well that's interesting I
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don't know if there's any clove
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supplements out there but that's really
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interesting but we we love prebiotics
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because prebiotics feed the good
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microbes in your gut and if you're not
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familiar with the good microbes in your
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gut uh they are producing
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neurotransmitters like serotonin they're
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improving your immune system they're
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regulating your blood sugar uh I mean
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the list goes on and on they're helping
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you detox they're pulling nutrients out
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of your foods you need a lot of great
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microbes in your gut and the best way to
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feed them is with a Prebiotic powder or
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a Prebiotic anything so cloves falls
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into that category so with that in mind
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cloves have this real superpower when it
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comes to the bacteria in our body the
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number one thing that would happen if
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you Cho chewed on a clove every single
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day is you'd promote really good oral
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health
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yeah so check this out it's actually
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years ago uh my husband used to tell me
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that his mom would always say you don't
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need a breath mint just chew on a clove
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and when he first T told me that I was
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like okay that you know my in-laws if
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you're watching I'm they may be watching
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my in-laws are a couple of hippies and I
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was like really like yeah I don't know
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this is about 30 years ago and then as I
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started to look at ingredients more and
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more and I was really uh trying to to
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mind too much toxic mints too many toxic
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gums uh trying to get away from
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mouthwashes because you don't want to
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kill all the bacteria in your mouth I
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came back to the wisdom of the clove and
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what my mother-in-law taught my husband
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which is Che on a clove a day for great
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oral health so not only is it going to
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freshen your breath but here are some
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interesting studies one was that it
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actually stops the growth of two
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bacteria in your gut in your mou mouth
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that contribute to gum disease so let's
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just talk about this for a minute
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because this is really important when it
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comes to oral health I've done some
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videos on this I'm sure my team will put
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like all kinds of links so you can go
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see these but the first thing I want you
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to know is that your mouth has a whole
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ecosystem in it and it has a whole set
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of bacteria that will break your food
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down you want your food digestion begins
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in your mouth you want your food
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digested in the mouth first otherwise it
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goes onto the gut and it'll start to
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ferment it's harder you'll get a lot
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more bloating you'll get some gas if the
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gut doesn't have that pre-digested food
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so we need good bacteria in our mouth to
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be able to break down our food this is
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really really important so what we know
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is that when we're using mouthwashes
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that are antibacterial or toothpaste
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that's antibacterials we're destroying
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all those microbes and then when we eat
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a meal it's not getting broken down and
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it's going undigested to the to your gut
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causing a whole host of digestive
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problems so okay well I like peppermint
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I like a fresh breath I like you know on
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the go to just pop something in my mouth
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and just makes my breath feel really
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fresh and and ready for the day um so
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what am I going to do if I don't if
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peppermint is is not work isn't great
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and all these other mouthwashes are
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toxic and they're killing all the
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bacteria what I do that's where a clove
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comes in and it is so incredibly easy to
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just plop a clove in your mouth save
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yourself a ton of money and it's going
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to not only create the right bacterial
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profile in your mouth but it will
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freshen your breath believe me my
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mother-in-law was right okay number two
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reason or thing that would happen to you
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if you ate a clove all day long um or
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once a day you can do it all day I don't
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think you can do too much um is that it
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promotes good good digestion now it does
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this in a variety of ways so first we
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talked about it it kills bad bacteria
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specifically two that lead to gum
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challenges it promotes other good
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bacteria which is a really unique
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quality if you think about that that one
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food that nature gave us can actually
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kill two harmful bacterias in the mouth
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and promote the health of the other
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bacteria that will break our food down
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I'm thinking nature is pretty freaking
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and wise that it created something like
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that for us but what we also know if we
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go back to the caveman days they didn't
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have toothpaste they didn't have
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mouthwash um and so they relied on
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things like this and one of the things
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we know is that improves the digestive
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juices in your gut the digestive juices
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are what's going to break down your food
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so an really interesting thought that I
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came up when I was looking at the
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research on this was what if we all had
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a clove and chewed on a clove before
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every meal is it possible that that
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would get the digestive juices going so
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that and get the right bacterial profile
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in the moue so that when we actually
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start to chew then what happens is that
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things are getting digested here and
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we're warming up the digestive system
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getting those juices ready to break your
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food down it could be like the ultimate
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appetizer so anyhow maybe it's even you
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do it when you're you're fasting so it
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also can help with nausea according to
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research and it thickens the mucus of
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your of the intestinal lining of your
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gut and for those of you that and even
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in like the stomach those of you that
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have like ulcer problems specifically
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what they found is chewing one clove a
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day can really help repair that inner
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lining of the gut um so this would be
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great for leaky gut this would be great
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for ulcers for any kind of stomach ulcer
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um really I can't I mean that is amazing
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I'll leave a link for the science on
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that the third reason that you would
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want to Che a clove every day is it's an
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incredible source of antioxidants so
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remember I've done a lot of discussing
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about the cell here and like what the
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cell looks like and how it's like you
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know the cell has requirements um well
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one of the things we know about the cell
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is that when we eat bad fats when all
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the toxins start to attack the cell to
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cell in Flames but if we're eating a lot
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of antioxidants what can happen is it's
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a great way to protect the inside of
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that cell this is why you want your your
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your grandma was right eat your eat your
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vegetables because they're packed in
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antioxidants to protect all of the toxic
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damage that can occur in these cells
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well it turns out that cloves are packed
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with antioxidants this is why I'm
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thinking like we should be eating them a
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couple times a day we shouldn't be
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necessarily one a day especially if
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they're so easy and they create this
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freshness um some of the interesting uh
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nutrients that and antioxidants that
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cloves have in it is is one that I
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haven't talked a lot about and it's
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called manganese and manganese is
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incredible for brain health so um you
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can look at now we're not only working
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on mouth Health we're not all working on
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the gut but now we're giving some
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sources to the brain and we're powering
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you up with antioxidants so again it's a
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small little clove you're going to have
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to eat a little bit maybe a couple of
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them to really get more of the
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antioxidant power out of those okay
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what I want you to know literally by the
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end of this like I researched this and
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by the end I was like I got to go get a
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clove like I didn't forgot how powerful
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cloes were number four is it's
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incredible for your liver so it promotes
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good Liver Health so there's a couple
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interesting studies one of which showed
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that a clove or clove oil primarily not
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one clove so was clove oil helped
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reverse the signs of liver damage
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especially in conjunction with therosis
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so I have a I have a thought on that
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because we tend to think of therosis as
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an alcohol issue which it can be it can
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also be an infection but if it was an
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alcohol issue and if we all know
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hopefully we all know drinking alcohol
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is hard on the liver but every once a
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while it's nice to have a glass of wine
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that's my my preferred alcohol so what
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if we had chew on some cloves before we
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had it as a way of getting ahead and
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creating some protection for the liver
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the other thing that a study that I
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found that was really interesting is
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that it reduced inflammation inside the
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liver so really quite profound I don't
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think one clove day is going to be like
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your liver s savior but clove oils clove
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powder chewing on cloves over time
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remember it's micro does over and over
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and over again I just did a really cool
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podcast interview with Darren oene um
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and we talked about how it's small doses
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of toxins that are the most damaging to
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us we tend to think of toxins as being
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we need like it's got to be some big
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toxin that takes us down but actually
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he's saying it's the small little bit of
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exposure over and over again that takes
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us down and it harms us well the same
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thing can be applied to when we're
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looking at building health I call them
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micro does like small micro does of
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things that will make us healthier over
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time and I would put cloves as a great
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micro do for that I don't know where I
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am I think at number five now um is that
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it can regulate blood sugar this is all
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based off science so there was an animal
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study that found that mice so this was a
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mice a mouse study that mice um W who
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had uh
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diabetes how do the mice have diabetes
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is always a great question uh you know
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lab induced diabetes um they probably
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gave them a bunch of fast food and then
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they got diabetes um so if a mouse has
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with diabetes is fed cloves it can help
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moderate their blood sugar increases so
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it is a blood sugar balancer I then went
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on to find another study that was really
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interesting that showed that cloves
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mixed with a compound kind called
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nurin were found to increase the uptake
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of glucose from the SK cells they
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increased the production and the insulin
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sensitivity and they helped overall with
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the cell being receptive to insulin
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pushing glucose inside for use so let's
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sum this up because I want to put this
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in terms of a fact ing lifestyle because
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when I dove into this I thought wow we
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don't talk about cloes cloves enough we
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need to look at this okay in the fasting
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window is where I would look to put this
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in the fasting window while we are
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seeing changes in the in our gut
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microbiome if we're doing cloves in the
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fasting window we're helping with the
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oral micro microbiome we're helping with
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our D our gut microbiome we're
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supporting our liver we are balancing
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our blood sugar and we are getting
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antioxidants to support good cellular
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Health all from one from a clove in a
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fasted State and it's probably tricks
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the mind a little bit too so the Mind
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probably is like oh it's something new
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and different feels good you might even
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try some cloves in some hot water at
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night when you're if you're trying to do
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like a longer fast like a three-day
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water fast you might try it in that I
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don't see a a potential of a clove
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spiking your blood sugar it says it
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regulates your blood sugar so really
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really interesting fun new way of adding
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a cool little trick into your fasting
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lifestyle with a whole lot of science so
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if you've done anything miraculous with
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cloves put it in the comments I'd love
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to see it if you have a good clove
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recipe if you have any unique way that
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you use cloves outside of chewing on it
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if you have your you know if you put it
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in an oil I don't know I'm just let's
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get clove curious and see what we can
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find out together as a community about
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all the ways we can use cloves to
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improve our fasting lifestyle so put it
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in the comments as always I hope that
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helped so if you love this video you're
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going to want to check out this video
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foods that I used to eat seven of them I
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used to eat them all the time some of
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them are going to shock you and I don't
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eat them anymore now let me tell you
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where you might find conventional fruit
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so apples and bananas are kind of the
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biggies apple a day kept the doctor away
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not anymore
