Japanese researchers showed that vinegar containing 5% acetic acid reduced inappropriate insulin response in seven healthy volunteers. Studies have shown where the use of cider vinegar slows the release of glucose into the system, reducing the demands on insulin. It’s where we have rapid glucose into the system that overloads the pancreas, setting up many blood sugar imbalances.
Dr Jarvis MD, wrote a small book on Virginia folk medicine and expounded on the benefits of cider vinegar from his personal experience with patients. My primary focus, using cider vinegar, has been on digestive help and mineral uptake and balance. This is as limiting as using a smart phone only to make phone calls on, when the applications appear to be endless.
When it comes to promoting the use, and living the good life provided by apple cider vinegar, “ACV”, no one has given more insight than Dr Paul Bragg ND, PhD. He pioneered healthy living, and taught how to live an abundant life to many people. During his long lifespan, the number of people being saved from life threatening conditions is beyond numbering.
Improved digestion is just the tip of the iceberg when using ACV. The potential of reducing the effects of diabetes, as well as the potential of preventing it, can make this awesome nutrient so much more valuable in creating and improving overall health.
Hippocrates, (the father of medicine, and source of the Hippocratic Oath, “Physician Do No Harm”) treated his patients with ACV in 400BC. He found that it was a powerful cleansing and healing elixir; a naturally occurring antibiotic and antiseptic that fights germs, bacteria, mold, and viruses. Why is it that we need to pursue dangerous pharmaceuticals with horrible side effects when we have available this life giving nutrient at a very affordable price.
The versatility of ACV as a powerful cleansing agent and weight reduction agent has been known and used for centuries. It’s traced back to Egyptian urns dating 3000 years ago. The Babylonians used it as a condiment and preservative. Julius Caesar’s army used it as a tonic to stay healthy and fight off disease.
The Greeks and Romans kept vinegar vessels for healing and flavoring. In Paris in the Middle Ages it was sold from barrels by street vendors as a body deodorant, healing tonic, and as a refreshing and delicious drink to maintain health and slow the aging process.
Christopher Columbus carried ACV on his ships to prevent scurvy in 1492, as did Captain James Cook when he sailed the South Seas. It was used to cleanse and disinfect, and heal wounds during the Civil War.
For centuries, the Japanese Samurai warriors drank it for power. The Chinese call it a friend because they have used it for centuries to process herbal medicines. This is one way to extract and preserve many of the active factors within herbs.
With history continually showing us the unwavering benefits of this awesome nutritional medicine, why is it that so few are aware of it’s amazing health benefits? We tend to adhere to those things we’re familiar with. When the media repeatedly tells us to use this or that element to deal with whatever disease process, we, like Pavlov’s dogs just continue to respond the way we have been programed. Today, you are getting information to change how you respond to so many of this world’s challenges.
When selecting a vinegar for both health benefits and taste, consider Dr Paul Bragg’s ACV. This is unfiltered and contains the living enzymes which are responsible for the wonderful benefits noted throughout history.
Besides being used as a salad dressing, Combined with water and honey before meals, aids digestion and is a refreshing beverage. I like to dissolve a tablespoon of honey in warm water, then mix it with the same amount of apple cider vinegar, then add cool water to taste.