Posted on 07/17/2016 5:25:33 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Are pomegranates really the superfood we've been led to believe will counteract the aging process? Up to now, scientific proof has been fairly weak. And some controversial marketing tactics have led to skepticism as well. A team of scientists from EPFL and the company Amazentis wanted to explore the issue by taking a closer look at the secrets of this plump pink fruit. They discovered that a molecule in pomegranates, transformed by microbes in the gut, enables muscle cells to protect themselves against one of the major causes of aging. In nematodes and rodents, the effect is nothing short of amazing. Human clinical trials are currently underway, but these initial findings have already been published in the journal Nature Medicine.
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LOL! I guess it is an acquired taste, then; I had always heard so much about the seeds, but I couldn’t eat them.
-JT
[I love them and the juice. I try to keep Pom juice in my fridge. I was born in MS and a friend of my dads had a few trees.]
Well, do you look like the fountain of youth?
That’s what the Romans used to feed their military.
When a kid in the 40’s-50’s, our back lot had a Victory Garden, as did all of our neighbors’ lots in the WW2 days.
We had a pomegranate tree within our small orchard and vegetable/berry plantings. The fruit was delicious and loaded with seeds, which we discarded like melon seeds.
Mr S. mumbled “that’s my wife”. The nurse apologized profusely as she caught up with me in the waiting room. What made it worse was that Mr S snickered about it. It was a very silent, cold ride home that day!
I don’t go to his dr appointments with him anymore.
Stop gloating. :-))
Ha!!! Hubby is much older than me and has snow on the roof. He is also much bigger than me and I am very petite so I am sure that plays into it.
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