Amla is a round, yellow, bitter fruit that has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for almost 6,000 years. It is also called the Indian gooseberry. Amla is so sour and bitter that it will give you goosebumps, which makes it a very useful natural medicine.
Since most poisons in the natural world are sour, the human body is very good at recognizing them. Bitter tastes on the tongue make us want to spit out food, and bitter tastes can also be detected by taste receptors in the stomach. Bitterness makes your stomach make more acid to make sure that any food or toxin that is making you feel bad is completely digested.
When amla is completely digested, it makes sure that other foods eaten around the same time are also completely digested. Breaking up potentially allergenic proteins has a “cooling” effect, stopping the slow autoimmune reactions that cause inflammation all over the body.
Not only does amla help with digestion, but it also has other benefits. As was already said, berry pulp can be used to straighten hair. But more and more people are interested in how amla can help fight high cholesterol, osteoporosis, and cancer. Amla is good for lowering cholesterol. Some of the most interesting research on amla is about how to treat metabolic syndrome. This is a group of symptoms that includes slightly high cholesterol, slightly high blood pressure, and pre-diabetes. At least in the lab, the fibers in amla help reverse what happens when you eat a lot of fructose. Amla versus osteoporosis.
Researchers at Italy’s Ferrara University found that amla extracts slow down the work of osteoclasts. Which are the cells that break down bone. Since osteoporosis is caused by osteoclasts (bone breakers) being more active than osteoblasts (bone builders), a small change in the balance of activity stops arthritis from destroying joints without stopping the bone from making normal repairs. Amla against cancer. Most of the research is testing amla as a way to stop lung and liver cancer from getting worse with the least amount of chemotherapy, not as a way to get rid of chemotherapy. But if the doses of chemotherapy can be lowered, so can the side effects.
And amla has a good chance of being proven to stop age-related cataracts. Which are the most common cause of blindness in people over 55.
Don’t count on amla alone to help your health in any way. But you might want to add amla to your regular supplements as a way to protect your health from the effects of getting older.
