Benefits of Black Seed Oil | Mark’s Daily Apple

Black seed oil is the perfect example of a medicinal whole food. It is cold pressed oil of black cumin seeds nigella sativa, grows widely throughout Southern Europe, Western Asia and South Asia, North Africa and the Middle East. In most of those regions, black seed oil is traditionally used extensively as a medicine or “cure”.

In ancient Egypt, black cumin seeds were a primary first-line medicine against a variety of ailments. When archaeologists excavated King Tut’s tomb, they found traces of black seed and black seed oil – ostensibly placed there to protect him as he made his way to the underworld. The Prophet Muhammad is said to have said that “black seeds can cure all diseases except death”. For thousands of years, Ayurvedic medicine of India has prescribed black seed oil to treat hypertension, high blood sugar, eczema, asthma, and general inflammatory conditions.

I’m not saying these are completely accurate statements or beliefs, but they show the reverence these cultures have for black seed oil and its power as a medicine. Fortunately, we don’t have to rely on ancient texts as the only evidence we have. There are hundreds of studies showing the effectiveness of black seed oil in humans for a wide range of health conditions. Taken as a whole, it’s an impressive piece of literature.

This is the Primitive way: pay attention to traditional wisdom and confirm its accuracy with modern science.

Here, we generally prefer whole medicinal foods — herbs, seeds, spices, and the like — over synthetic or isolated pharmacological compounds for a number of reasons:

1. Synergistic compounds that exist in whole food drugs are more likely to enhance the effects and are missing from the synthetic version.
2. Synthetic compounds would be directed towards a specific task, a pony, while whole food drugs would be more likely to include other effects both up and down the causal route.
3. Whole food medicine also food—They contain vitamins and minerals and macronutrients that nourish us. They are not just drugs; they are much more than that. If nothing else, this is a more effective way to get the medicinal effects.

Health benefits of black seed oil

Let’s explore the health benefits of black seed oil. To start, let’s dispel some of the notions and stereotypes we have about “seed oil.” Industrial seed oils, such as corn or canola oil, have been stripped of nutrients that prevent lipid breakdown, undergo chemical and high heat treatment, and do not have the compensating qualities to produce high content of omega-6 linoleic acid in fats. In our Primal eating plan, we eliminate these industrial seed oils.

Black seed oil is another type of seed oil.

• It’s unrefined, so it contains all the protective ingredients that help the delicate fatty acids fight oxidation and prevent rancidity.
• It’s a medical oil, not a dish, so we don’t use it to make salad dressings, to fry potatoes, or to incorporate in ready-to-eat snacks. We don’t eat enough to worry about it as a major source of omega-6 fatty acids in our diets.
• Unlike industrial seed oils, black seed oil has proven benefits for including it in our diets.

Black seed oil for diabetes

In patients with prediabetes — bad blood sugar counts do not qualify for full-blown diabetes — black seed oil works as well or better than metformin, the “gold standard” diabetes drug. While both the metformin and black seed oil groups saw improvements in glucose readings, only black seed oil patients who took 450 mg of black seed oil twice a day (under a teaspoon) saw better lipids. and reduce inflammation.

In patients with newly diagnosed (full-blown) type 2 diabetes, black seed oil 1350 mg/day counteracted but was not as effective as metformin in improving fasting blood glucose or HbA1c. However, once again the patients taking black seed oil experienced a unique improvement in lipid counts, lower fasting insulin and lower markers of inflammation. Furthermore, patients taking metformin had higher liver enzymes and slightly increased creatinine levels, while patients taking black seed oil did not. Both groups saw better body composition, including the all-important and extremely revealing waistline.

Witnessing how metformin has grown in popularity as a comprehensive health-promoting prophylactic for healthy people looking to live longer, black seed oil could be a more effective alternative with additional benefits. fig.

Information about the Authors

Mark Sisson is the founder of Mark’s Daily Apple, godfather of the Primitive food and lifestyle movement, and New York Times best-selling author of Keto Reset Diet. His latest book is Keto for life, where he discusses how he combines the keto diet with the Primal lifestyle for optimal health and longevity. Mark is also the author of many other books, including Preliminary designis credited with driving the growth of the primal/palo movement back in 2009. After spending three decades researching and educating people on why food is the key ingredient to achieving it and maintaining optimal health, Mark founded Primal Kitchen, a food company that creates Primal/pale, keto, and Whole30-friendly kitchen staples.

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