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Pomegranate for Prostate, Rheuma, Breast Cancer, Aromatase, Obesity, Diabetes, Inflammation, HIV, Influenza, Herpes, Crohn's, Hepatitis, Infertility ... You Name It!

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Image 1: This drawing from a German 1885 compendium on the flora in Germany, Austria and Switzerland shows that other than Acai & Co, pomegranate is no exotic (expensive and useless) discovery of some fly-by-night supplement vendor. People are always all the rave, when some clever scientist (or should I say business man?) dug up another of those exotic fruit from a godforsaken valley somewhere in the African or South-American primeval forests. With the hype around ACAI & Co they often forget that there have been real Superfoods just around the corner, right in their local grocery store for years. Pomegranate, as it becomes increasingly evident from recent research, is one of these Superfoods - one that has even been mentioned in the Book of Exodus and has been part of the Ayurevedic tradition for centuries, now. While I have been following the research for some months now, the one mind-boggling study result has always been missing so that this is in fact the first blogpos...

Cortisol Lowering Effect of Moderate Intensity Resistance and Aerobic Exercise Training

In the May issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise a group of American scientists ( Jaggers. 2010 ) report on the beneficial effects of participation in a moderate intensity resistance aerobic followed by 30 minutes of walking/jogging/cycling (depend on their fitness level) on the treadmill or bike: The EX group showed a significant decrease in resting CORT at wake (p = 0.04) and +2 hours (p = 0.04) following the 6 week intervention. The area under the curve (AUC) was calculated by applying Simpson's 1/3 rule using the three time points in which saliva was collected (Wake, +1 hr, +2 hr). The EX group showed a significant decrease in AUC (p = 0.04) compared to the CON group which showed no change. Even if you are completely healthy (the individuals in the study were HIV positive), you may well benefit from some moderate exercise by reducing cortisol levels, improving sleep qualities and reap all the positive health effects the former entail.
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