Basil: The Secret Ingredient to Keeping Your Youth
- Ajit Patel Goldshield
When it comes to
anti-aging products, you may have all kinds of lotions and potions piled up in
your bathroom cabinet and on the nightstand. Anything that claims to look after
the wellness
and wellbeing
of your skin as you get older has got to be worth a try, right? What if we told
you that one simple plant could be the key to the youthful glow you have been
seeking?
Basil is a herb that is commonly used
in cooking. It has a sweet and distinctive smell, and is commonly used in
pesto, where it is mixed with pine nuts and parmesan cheese to make a delicious
accompaniment for pasta.
Basil originally comes from Asia’s
tropical regions, and nit is absolutely packed with nutrients and antioxidants.
For this reason, it has all kinds of different health benefits. Amongst
other things, it is known to have fantastic anti-bacterial properties,
antimicrobial properties and, most importantly of all for you, anti-aging
properties. Not only this, but basil helps to fight against serious health
conditions such as type 2 diabetes and even cancer.
Having been used in Ayurvedic
medicines for several hundreds of years, the effects of basil have been
studied extensively. It is no surprise then, that the latest studies carried
out at the College of Pharmacy in Maharashtra in India prove, once again, that basil
can help stop the body from aging prematurely.
Researchers found that basil worked
by protecting the body
against the effects of free radicals. Basil contains something called flavonoids,
which stopped the free radicals from causing damage to the body. The
study showed quite clearly that the herb helped to keep the cells young and
intact.
As well as the flavonoids, basil
contains volatile oils,
which help to fight against strains of bacteria called Staphylococcus,
Pseudomonas and Enterococcus.
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