ginger has been used in India and China to treat illnesses for thousands of years but they also used mercury so that doesn’t really tell you much that’s what we have science for but when you see titles like this in the medical literature I’m the beneficial effects of ginger on obesity for example you may not be aware they’re talking about the beneficial effects of ginger on fat rats wait why don’t they just do human clinical studies the lack of clinical studies may be attributed to for example ethical issues and limited commercial support limited commercial support I can see him in gingers dirt-cheap who’s gonna pay for the study but ethical issues we’re talking about feeding people some ginger studies like this are relatively cheap and easy to do cross-sectional studies where you take a snapshot in time of ginger consumption and body weight and you do see that people who are obese tend to significantly less ginger so they suggest this demonstrates that the use of ginger could have relevance for weight management but maybe ginger consumption is just a marker of more traditional less westernized junk food diet I mean you don’t know until you put it to the test a randomized controlled trial to assess the effects of a hot ginger beverage by which they just meant two grams of ginger powder in a cup of hot water so about one teaspoon of ground ginger stir it into a tea cup of hot water that’s about five cents worth of ginger and after the ginger the participants reported feeling significantly less hungry and in response to the question how much do you think you could eat described lower prospective food intake now the control was just hot water alone so the participants knew when they were getting the ginger so there could have been a placebo effect they considered just stuffing the ginger into capsules to do a double blinded study but they think part of the effect of ginger may actually be through taste receptors on the tongue so they didn’t want to interfere with that not all the effects were subjective though I mean four hours after drinking the metabolic rate in the ginger group was elevated compared to control though in a previous study when fresh ginger was added to a meal there was no bump in metabolic rate the research suggests that this may be due to the different method of ginger administration giving fresh instead of dried and there are dehydration products that form when you dry ginger that may have unique properties now although satiety and fullness were greater with ginger compared to control the researchers didn’t then follow the participants out to see if they actually ate less for lunch the problem is there’s never been a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study that much ginger and weight-loss until now twelve weeks that same teaspoon of ginger powder of day but this time hidden in capsules and consumption of ginger for 12 weeks significantly reduced body mass index check it out no change in the possible group but a drop in the ginger group though body fat estimates didn’t really change which is kind of the whole point what about using ginger to pull fat out of specific organs like the liver evidently treatment with ginger ameliorates fructose induced fatty liver in rats you know what else would have worked not feeding him so much sugar in the first place but there’s never been a human thought you know where this is going on till now ginger supplementation in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease a randomized double-blind civil controlled study a teaspoon of ginger day or placebo for 12 weeks they were all told to limit their dietary cholesterol intake I’ve got a video on why that’s important and get more fiber and exercise so even the placebo group should improve but did the ginger group do any better yes daily consumption is just that teaspoon of ground ginger day resulted in a significant decrease in inflammatory marker levels and improvements in liver function tests and a drop in liver fat all for five cents worth of ginger powder a day and what are the side effects a few gingery burps I search for downsides and didn’t find any other than of course ginger paralysis what in 1930 thousands of Americans were poisoned by ginger extract first of all who drinks ginger extract Oh 1930 it was prohibition so they bought ginger extract is a legal way to get their hands on alcohol little did he realize that the bootleggers had been taking advantage of the demand swapped in a cheaper ginger substitute a varnish compound in order to make greater profits the moral of the story being don’t drink varnish you

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