Good morning everyone.

I just came back to Sevilla (Algodonales, a small 5000 people strong village with an average of 40+ celsius degrees at the moment) after 3 blissful weeks spent in Italy with friends, family and a lot of rest.

But mostly sleeping and eating.
I came back with 4 added kilos (vegan gelato and pizza still weight on you).

TikTok just removed one of my posts

If you have been following me for a minute you know that through the years I went through many obsessions, and most of the times it has involved books, courses and private mentoring from people that made it in an area of life I wanted to level up.

In the last 2 years of my life I went down the rabbit hole of nutrition, biohacking, western medicine and lately tapping into Ayurveda, and I found myself being so passionate about the topic that I dove into many medical books, university material, a digital course from a Medical Doctor and few others courses or material from certified professional.

Also, for the last 10 years my background has been professional cooking and I grew up with a nurse mum treating me mostly with homeopathy, herbs and natural ingredients (mountain pine syrup was a frequent ally during childhood winters).

If I had this understanding and passion when I was a teen I would study medicine, not for a degree nor the money, but to have a clear understanding and the ability to help others.

Back then I was naive though.

Helping others as a medical doctor has to be done within certain parameters. If not there are consequences (check The China Study where the Doctor receives a patient scheduled for surgery and advices him to try a plant based diet before a month, which results in the patient not needing surgery anymore, and the Doctor to be fired, or Doctor Di Bella therapy, which son published a book about.).

What you read here is NOT medical advice but it’s the knowledge of Doctors and professionals and disciplines based on proven fundamentals.

Most importantly everything I write and create content about is the fruit of a gargantuan amount of time and money invested in filtering information to provide you with the knowledge to improve your health and lifestyle.

You can always present those information to an holistic Doctor or an Ayurvedic Doctor if in doubt.

What’s the WARNING about?

I created a reel about good old Ginger from a referenced study taken from a medical book about all the studies linking diet to health and sickness.

Each study in the book is backed by randomised trials (either blind, where doctors and/or patients don’t know whether they are taking the real drug/food or a placebo, or controlled) with thousand and thousand of people, some of them followed for years or decades. Yes, decades. Not clickbait.

This STUDY went looking on the effects of ginger vs some popular drugs that give benefits against migraines and dysmenorrhea, aka menstrual cramps.

This is what the studies found out:

Imitrex lost against ginger in a double blind, randomized controlled clinical trial using the drug vs the root, with one eight of a teaspoon of the powdered root showing the same benefits just as fast, minus the side effects of the drug (dizziness, a sedative effect, vertigo, heartburn).

Ibuprofen lost too: 400gm of the drug vs 1/8th of a teaspoon of powdered ginger -> same effects

According to the study ⅛ of a teaspoon of ginger powder 3 times a day will:

- Drop menstrual and migraine pain from 8 to a six on a 1/10 scale, and down to a 3 in the second month.

- Reduce menstrual bleeding from 125ml down to 60 ml per period, with a significant drop in premenstrual mood as well as physical and behavioral symptoms if starting one week before the period starts  

- Decrease the severity of the menstrual cramps pain from a 7 to a 5 and the duration from 19 to 15 hours

Unless you are allergic to Ginger it won’t cost much to try and you won’t have the side effects or the work load for your liver that come from ingesting a pill.

Be aware that TOO MUCH GINGER might result in stomach burns, so just a little teaspoon of the powder or the fresh root will do (I chew mine, I like it strong).

Keep an eye for my socials because a lot of content related to recipes and health will start flowing very soon. I’ll dive very deep into Ayurveda in the next months.

Have a great week and talk soon,
Prometheus.