Can you imagine the simple act of eating a handful of berries could potentially slow down aging, improve circulation, digestion, and vision? Mulberry trees even protect you from bush fires!
Join me, Maniisha Bluntschli, as we dive into the miraculous world of mulberries. I'll share with you the medicinal wonders of this overlooked fruit from my very own garden, revealing how its rich composition - packed with nutrients like iron, riboflavin, vitamin C, vitamin K, potassium, phosphorus, and calcium - can not only nourish your body but also improve various aspects of your health in ways you might not have imagined.
Did you know that mulberries can help build bone tissue, boost your immune system, and even regulate your blood pressure? In this episode, I'll be sharing with you the numerous health benefits these little berries hold, from their ability to aid weight loss and lower cholesterol to their potential to protect your eyes. Learn why consuming them fresh off the tree could offer the best health boost and how their dark, sweet, and juicy appeal can enhance your wellness journey. Join me so you can learn all about the magic of mulberries - their nutritional worth, medicinal properties, and the incredible impact they could have on your health and wellbeing.
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1:56 What are mulberries? 2:36 Growing mulberries 3:41 Overall synopsis of mulberry health benefits 4:23 Different varieties of mulberries 5:49 Berries are low glycaemic fruit 6:30 The nutritional components of mulberries 6:55 Polyphenols in mulberries 7:38 Mulberries help digestion 8:13 Mulberries helping circulation with increase higher oxygen and vitamin K 9:06 Mulberries help regulate blood pressure 9:26 Resveratrol's effects on our circulatory system 9:45 Nitric Oxide 10:46 Mulberries for vision 11:47 Mulberries in TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) 11:57 Anti-inflammatory effect of mulberries 12:34 Mulberries as an immune booster 12:40 Vitamin C in foods versus synthetic powders 13:28 Mulberries & healthy bones 14:13 Mulberries reduce undesirable cholesterol 14:35 Staying younger with mulberries 15:07 Mulberries for skin 15:50 How to eat mulberries
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Maniisha:
Welcome to Limbic Light Podcast, season 3. In this season, we'll be diving deep into the marvels of our subconscious mind light, sound, brainwave, entrainment and so many other natural ways to help you become clearer, calmer and more potent in being. I've titled this season Deep Brain Retrain. I'm Maniisha Bluntschli, your host, with more than 40 years experience in the natural health field, ready to share with you my very best tips. Let's get on with the show. Hello and welcome to another episode of Limbic Light Podcast.
Maniisha:
Today I'm going to be talking to you about a wonderful food which can be used medicinally. Now I am very, very fortunate. Outside on my 5 acre property, I have three trees mulberry trees and this year they're in full production. Sometimes we don't get such a good outcome of lots of berries, but this year we're really blessed. We've got quite a few berries and they're happening. Right now and straight after recording this podcast, I'm going out there and I'm picking a bowl of beautiful mulberries.
Maniisha:
For those of you who don't know what mulberries are, they're grown on a tree and they're a little berry which is dark and quite characteristic, has a purpley burgundy type of juice and a lot of people here in Australia are familiar with it. When we were young. A lot of children like to pick mulberries off a tree and they get the characteristic purple fingers and purple mouths and sometimes even the annoying purple on the clothes which their mothers or someone else has to deal with washing out. So mulberries are fantastic. They're actually quite easy to grow and here in Australia they're one of the top fire retardant trees so they can be beneficial if there is a bush fire or a fire in the area to slow down the fire in your area. So it has multi purposes. In any case, I thought I would just check out and see some of the more medicinal effects the medicinal properties that mulberries have, because I'll be eating a lot of them in the coming weeks while they're in full production, so I was quite surprised to see actually how high they are in certain nutrients and what it's capable of doing. So I thought I would actually make a podcast for you and share this with you, and if you're lucky enough to have a mulberry tree, maybe in the neighbourhood or in your garden, you can be thinking about all those wonderful effects that you're going to be getting from eating these mulberries. So I'm just going to give you a very short synopsis, first of some of the health benefits that mulberries may be able to give you. They improve digestion, they lower cholesterol, they help in weight loss, they increase circulation, it helps to build bone tissues, boost the immune system and they can also help in slowing down the aging process, lower blood pressure, protect the eyes and possibly improve the overall metabolism of the body. So let's have a look and see why they might be doing all these things for our body.
Maniisha:
First of all, I wanted to mention that there are actually a few different varieties. There's a pink or reddish type one, and then there's the dark, purple or even black variety, which is the one that I've got and most commonly seen type in Australia. And then we have a white mulberry. I actually have planted a white mulberry in my garden and it's starting to produce quite well. I think it's a different characteristic taste, in fact quite a bit more sweeter than the red mulberries. Some people don't like the sweetness and they prefer the tartness of the dark, dark red mulberries. But there are a few different varieties and originally they came from China.
Maniisha:
In my mind, the very best way to eat mulberries is to eat them straight off the tree and, of course, once you pick any fruit or any vegetable, it's going to slowly start to degrade its nutritional component. So I'm well known I'm actually not that well known for this, but this is one of my characteristics is to go to my trees I also have fig trees, which I absolutely love, or the mulberry trees, and I will go straight to the tree and have a meal there. I'll pick them and eat them. And berries are fantastic because they're rather low in the glycemic rating. In other words, you're not going to get too much sugar by eating the berries. And of course, we're always a little bit careful about how much fruit we do ingest in one go, because the sugar content may be too much for our body system to handle. However, with berries, you're reasonably safe. You can actually have a decent amount of berries before that spiking of blood sugar levels goes up in your blood. So it's a fantastic food to have. So let's go back to the medicinal effects, the nutritional values.
Maniisha:
So mulberries are filled with nutrients such as iron and, no doubt, because of its color, riboflavin, vitamin C, vitamin K, potassium, phosphorus and also calcium, and there's a reasonable amount of dietary fiber, which is also good for our digestion. And it's chock a block full of the polyphenols. Polyphenols are usually something that are found in colorful fruits and vegetables. The really dark colored vegetables have lots of polyphenols and they're known to be one of the highest nutrients that help our body with anti-aging and works as an antioxidant. So there's a pile of these. There's lutein, anthocyanins, reservatrol, zeosanthins which are all in the tiny little beautiful mulberry. So mulberries help in digestion. The fact that they contain some dietary fiber makes them able to improve your digestion by bulking up the stool. In other words, if your stools are a little bit stark or stagnant, just having a small serving of mulberries will help things flow more easily. And also they can help in reducing occurrence of constipation, bloating and cramping in the bowel. So that's the first one they help digestion.
Maniisha:
The little mulberry can also help increase circulation. So the mulberries act as a booster to produce more red blood cells, and by producing more red blood cells we also increase the amount of oxygen in our body and in our tissues and in our blood. It's not the only reason why mulberries actually help with the circulation. High levels of vitamin K that are found within the mulberries help to keep the blood fairly painted or thin or flowing more smoothly, not clumping up or clotting, which can be a real problem for inflammatory problems, circulatory problems, strokes and heart attacks and arteries that are blocked, so that vitamin K in mulberries is fantastic for our circulation and our circulatory system.
Maniisha:
Mulberries also help to regulate blood pressure. One of the reasons why it does so well for blood pressure is it contains natural resveratrol, which is a really important flavonoid, and it can directly affect certain mechanisms in the blood vessels. So resveratrol is going to help our blood vessels be protected from damage and also the resveratrol is going to help keep our blood vessels nice and open, patent and clear. In fact, resveratrol can actually help with the production of nitric oxide and most of us know that nitric oxide has that effect of dilating, increasing, expanding the insides of the blood vessels, keeping them nice and open. By doing so, it's another mechanism that's going to help to stop too much blood restriction or blood clots or strokes or heart attacks. So you're going to find more resveratrol in the really dark skinned berries, particularly the dark mulberries, but it's also found in grapes and in the beautiful little blueberry, and it's why they say that wine red wine is particularly good for resveratrol because it has a lot of the grape skins in there, gives it that dark, rich color that's full of resveratrol. So think resveratrol and think good blood when you see a really dark berry.
Maniisha:
Next thing that mulberries can do it can help you improve your vision and I do know there are so many people who can benefit from that. There's a lot of carotenoids found in mulberries and one of them is the zeozanthan, which is directly connected to reducing oxidative stress, particularly in the eyes, in the eye cells, particularly in the retinal cells. So eating lots of mulberries is going to be really helpful for preventing damage in your eyes and people who have macular degeneration or cataracts, where there's lots of characteristic free radicals floating around and damaging the eye tissue, are going to really benefit from eating these dark red berries. And if mulberries aren't in season, then there's always other nice dark berries that you can usually access. In fact, in Chinese medicine, the mulberries used as a medicinal herb and the Chinese often used to drink mulberry tea to improve eye sight. Okay, the next one is mulberry is an anti-inflammatory and we all know how important having anti-inflammatory foods in our diet is to help prevent arthritis, muscle pains, all sorts of things, and as well as that, the mulberry leaf can be used as a tea.
Maniisha:
You can brew up a cup of tea with the leaves from your mulberry tree, and it's used to reduce inflammatory pain, and that's great to know. That can be something that's just in your backyard, that you pick and it's your own medicinal. Mulberries also boost immunity Because there's a huge amount of vitamin C in the mulberries. The mulberries can act as a powerful defensive weapon against any illness or foreign pathogens in the body. If you have one single serving of mulberries in a day, you would be getting your full requirement for vitamin C for the day. So that's great to know. Sometimes I think it's much better to get your vitamins and minerals just from foods, particularly fresh foods that are grown without any chemical substances. So if you can do that with mulberries or other berries, then I would highly suggest you do that rather than buying commercial vitamin C powders, which are always a little bit harder to process in our bodies.
Maniisha:
The next one is that mulberries help build healthy bones. There's a lot of vitamin K, calcium and iron and trace amounts of phosphorus and magnesium which are found in the mulberries, and all of these things are used to build healthy bone tissue and, of course, as we get older, it becomes a real issue to keep our bones in strong, healthy condition. So if you can find a food such as mulberries or other berries that are going to help keep your bones very strong, particularly in cases where women a lot of women have troubles with osteoporosis, then you're on a winner. That would be great. Mulberries can also help reduce the undesirable cholesterol in our bodies. They can significantly reduce triglycerides and the LDLs, which are considered the more undesirable cholesterol, so that can help stopping buildup of the arteries and also prevent heart attacks and strokes. And finally, mulberries can actually keep us younger. They have so many antioxidants and as well as at a really high level of vitamin A and vitamin E, and there's a pile of carotenoids like lutein, beta carotene, zeosanthin and alpha carotene, and all of those act to help the skin, the tissue, the hair and all the other areas in the body where free radicals like to strike. So mulberries can actually help in skincare, keep our skin nice and young and supple, can also help to reduce blemishes on our skin and age spots, and it may even keep the hair shiny and healthy by preventing the oxidative actions of the free radicals on our hair as well. So fancy that in this one little berry we have so many powerful things that can be going on in our body as a result of eating them. And aren't I blessed to have three trees in my garden? I'm going to go out there soon, all right, so just a quick word Mulberries how do you eat them?
Maniisha:
There's so many different ways you can eat mulberries. A lot of people like to make smoothies these days, so you can actually put your mulberries or, if you're using other berries in a smoothie and you can put yogurt and honey, maybe even some vanilla powder or essence in there, blend that up and you've got a super duper wonderful tonic smoothie and delicious. You can actually have mulberry juice. If you like juicing, you can put a few mulberries into your juice and add that. It'll make the juice go a really beautiful, deep, rich, burgundy, reddish color. Some people like to bake tarts, pies or crumbles with them.
Maniisha:
Personally, I probably wouldn't do that because I'm so aware of how much heat can destroy many of these very fragile nutrients. But if you have a surplus supply of mulberries and you're after the taste and the deliciousness, then yes, why not? But my highest recommendation would be to have them direct from the tree, fresh as they can be, so all those nutrients are bouncing around in your body without any deterioration from heat or time at all. And, of course, one way that I have my mulberries is I will go out and pick a bowl, and I like to sometimes have nuts and fruit and yogurt for my breakfast. I might put a bit of bee pollen or more ringa powder or some other little superfoods, maybe some macaroon powder, in there, and then I sprinkle it with lots and lots of mulberries or blueberries, whatever I've got on hand. So that's what I do I pick them and then I put them in my breakfast and I eat them straight away.
Maniisha:
Alright, I just had to bring this out to you. I'm hoping this podcast will be released at a time when mulberry trees are still producing the fruit, so that you can make the most of this information and, if not, keep it stored in the background of your memory so that when you do come across a tree when they are fruiting, make the most of it. The simple mulberry is a powerhouse of help and health for you. Okay, that's it. I hope you've enjoyed this short episode of Limbic Light Podcast and I look forward to speaking to you in another podcast very soon. All the best, take care. Bye, for now You've been listening to Min S on Limbic Light Podcasts. If you liked this show, subscribe in the link below in the show notes so that you can be informed every time a new episode is released and also know about my upcoming courses and more. Thanks so much for listening and being here. Bye for now. D.