My orange-turmeric herbal iced tea is one of my favorite summer drinks since school days. Enjoy your summer COOL drinks – refreshing and full of ready-to-absorb nutrients. Did I say easy to make? So easy – your road to good health!
It could be herbal ice tea she’s holding? 🥃 Use your imagination!
Orange -Turmeric Ice Tea
One summer, I was working at Ontario Place’s ( Toronto, Ontario, CAN.) beer garden, wearing a traditional Germandirndl. A friend, brought in Celestial Seasonings’ “Constant Comment” tea 😋 when we visit [Today they replaced it with “Mandarine Spice Tea‘]. This was the FIRST TIME I tasted herbal tea in my life! You felt great during and after drinking herbal tea ~ with no caffeine. I think it was the orange zest that raised you to flavour town.
FUN FACT: Beer is made from herbs too called Hops. Hops act as a preservative and stabilizer. Barley and yeast are also in beer. Hops is used for women during menopause; that mimics estrogen.
Herbal teas, also known as HERBAL INFUSIONS
…and less commonly called tisanes are beverages made from the infusion or decoction of herbs, spices, or other plant material in hot water”.….published by wikipedia.org. Tastes best on a hot day!
INGREDIENTS
▢ The rind curls of 2-3 mandarin oranges (approx 1/4 cup)
▢ 2 tablespoon thinly sliced fresh turmeric root or ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
▢ 2 tablespoon thinly sliced fresh ginger root or ½ teaspoon ginger powder
▢ A few (4 or 5) whole black pepper corns or ¼ teaspoon black pepper powder
▢ 2 cloves
▢ 1 star anise (add 2 if you desire)
▢ 1 cinnamon stick (3-4 inches long break in half) or ½ teaspoon cinnamon powder
▢ 4-6 cups water (steep longer with more water) test taste throughout
▢ 2 tsp of tea leaves: green ‘gunpowder’ tea leaves or black tea leaves
▢ 1/2 cup mandarin orange juice (optional -use to taste.) INSTRUCTIONS
peel zest curls from clementines (about 1/4 cup).
Boil 4 (6) cups of water
Turn stove off and stir in sliced fresh turmeric, ginger plus the rest of the ingredients
Place a lid on the mixture and leave for 3-5 hours to steep on your stove top. Taste and adjust
OPTIONAL:Add or leave out the mandarin orange juice. It is a taste preference. start with 1/4 cup, then taste it
Strain mixture into a pitcher and refrigerate. If your herb tea is too strong add water. Too weak? Boil your left over herbs and spices in 1 1/2 cup of water and add to your pitcher of tea.
It is clear that turmeric(anti-inflamatory) and ginger( heart health) have amazing power to boost your health by reducing inflammation and pain. Reduce joint inflammation. Reduce cholesterol. Curcumin in turmeric has also been successfully used in treating rheumatoid arthritis. Give your immune system a boost!
Turmeric Orange Tea
Buy online $38.99 U.S. In my recipe I used clementine or tangerine for an extra Yumm! I wanted to mimic my favorite Celestial Seasoning –>”Constant Comment”< tea. The closest now is their mandarin orange spice tea. There may have been conflict with Bigalow’s version inspired 75 years ago. But, I liked Celestial’s version the best. ..gone…today. It always brings a smile to my face. A memory from school days and still a favorite today.
After holiday feasting..try fasting! I found out that some of my friends knew so little about fasting, it was time to explain it in layman’s terms. What it really means to you and your body.
Fasting really starts after approximately 18 hours when your body begins the ketosis process. Then, fasting forces the brain to feed on body fats. This is called AUTOPHAGY: SELF or auto EATING phagy. Long fasts is proven as an optimal way of healing the body. Autophagy phase lasts longer* the longer you fast. You get energized during your fast and a bit of euphoria kicks in after some time. Your body and brain begin to feel good. Things smell better. Your kidneys and organs are working better. People who get sick, tired and nauseous during a fast sometimes shows that the body was really polluted BEFORE the fast began. (some exceptional cases of course). They should look closer to their diet and not blame the fast for their malcontent. Before a fast, the individual should go into it with a smart attitude and preparation. Preparation is choosing good foods, stop snaking and be mindful of what you are putting in your mouth. Preparing yourself mentally is most important.
Nobel Prize Winner ~ 2016 ~ Regarding Autophagy
Yoshinori Ohsumi is a Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy, the process that cells use to destroy and recycle cellular components. published by wikipedia
Yoshinori Ohsumi’s Nobel Prize was specifically for Mechanisms of Autophagy: From Basic Yeast Biology to Therapeutic Potential. Autophagy has been researched and penned since about 1963 as advancements were being developed from time to time. People were learning more and more about it.
Fasting ~ A Clean Burn 🔥
The fat burn begins as Ketosis sets in. [Stage one]. Ketosis may start in 18 hours or 2 days. It depends on how much you weigh and you metabolism. How do you know when you are in ketosis? You need to perform a litmus test to determine if you are in ketosis. These stick tests are sold online and at Wallmart. Ketosis burns fat in your body like a clean, gas flame. Short 12-18 hour fasts may not prove as efficient as a 24 -to -36 hour fast session. When we are ingesting carbs (bread, pasta) and sugar (danish pastry) and fats (rib eye steak) , the body uses the incoming fuel, primarily the brain burns glucose. The body burns glucose like an old coal stack emitting black smoke. Think of black, cloudy smoke in your body. Your brain is not happy. It does not like this contamination to the brain. FASTING: Now that our body is starving, the liver releases its stored glycogen into glucose to feed the brain. The brain is still hungry. The brain starts to eat ketones found in your stored fatty tissues as a fuel instead of the usual ‘incoming’ glucose. Exercise also burns both glucose and ketones. Remember, the ape man never ate sugar. He survived well. Sugar kills.
Autophagy – Build A Smarter Brain
YOU REALLY want to get into this phase.
Autophagy is the second stage in fasting. Its prime function is to break down old inefficient cells and build new, beautiful cells. Autophagy can help the immune system by cleaning up toxins and infectious agents. The main function of autophagy is to help maintain normal functioning (homeostasis) in the cells. Your body begins to create new health cells and build stem cells. And, at the same time, old, damaged cells are being eliminated from the body.
AUTOPHAGY
AUTOPHAGY Process During A FAST << Left ~ ~ Right >> ORGANELLE cell
FASTING Builds New Cells
Aging and cell death are synonymous. Broken cells are removed from the body. New organelles (mitochondria) are created by the body’s natural process as damaged organelles are disposed. Fasting allows the construction of new cells. Fasting builds good cells throughout your body at the same time as it eliminate broken cells. You may even start looking younger*! As you fast away your belly fat, you will not get saggy skin. No surgery to remove flappy skin for fasting patients that have lost a lot of weight; according to Dr. Jason Fung, M.D. Canadian nephrologist. Fasting carries those dead skin cells away. Losing weight without fasting can give you saggy arms (aka: saggy skin). I have slight bat wings. But no saggy, floppy skin. or anywhere else. You will see the neck tighten as the skin recedes as a result of fasting!
You will always feed your brain with incoming food (glucose). Bad food like processed food is toxic and contaminated. We need to remind ourselves from time to time. However, we do not always act on our best decisions. Ice cream ~ for instance. I can not bypass this luxury. Or – butter. But, we can balance our lives. We can stop a lot of processed foods. I have no problem with that. I slip from time to time. Don’t punish yourself. You just get back up! One day, I may not even see ice cream I may forget all about it. TOO Sweet! Yuck!
Fasting For Cancer Patients
Doctors are talking about prescribing a 3 day fast before starting chemo or radiation treatment. It’s in trials. And, dare I say will be mandatory at some point. This will happen sooner then you think. It will hinge on positive outcomes.
What is ketosis?
Ketosis is the accumulation of ketone bodies or ketones in the blood. Ketosis occurs in healthy people during fasting and during strenuous exercise. In excess, blood ketones can produce a toxic level of acid in the blood, referred to as ketoacidosis.
NOTE: A currently popular diet known as the ketogenic diet, in which 75% of the daily calories come from fat, is believed to induce ketosis and autophagy. There are insufficient studies on the long-term effects of the ketogenic diet.
Russel Wilder
Russel Wilder first used the ketogenic diet to treat epilepsy in 1921. He also coined the term “ketogenic diet.” For almost a decade, the ketogenic diet enjoyed a place in the medical world as a therapeutic diet for pediatric epilepsy and was widely used until its popularity ceased with the introduction of antiepileptic agents. The resurgence of the ketogenic diet as a rapid weight loss formula is a relatively new concept the has shown to be quite effective, at least in the short run. published by wikipedia.com
My understanding is how influential food is to support medical treatment. Even better, as a prevention before anything alarming happens.
* In general: a lot of fructose(sugar) consumption ages you. Eat in moderation.
Mitophagy is a subset of autophagy.
is the dispersement and building of Mitochondria mitochondria and the building of new mitrochondria found in the organelles cell.
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