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Nourish your peace
Harmony starts with your words and your food, especially whole food. As more nutrition research is being done we are able to better understand the unseen superheroes in these foods, starting with Spermidine.
Logging Spermidine Intake from Foods
What's Spermidine?
No it's not sperm.
The Importance: Spermidine is a molecule that turns on autophagy
What is Autophagy
What's Spermidine?
Spermidine --> AMPK--> Autophagy
Food!!
Recycling! The Greek words Auto means self and phagy means to eat. When the body goes through autophagy, it cleans out and reuses old, damaged cell parts and molecules. It is your body’s cleaning mechanism. Essentially like a recycling system. This is a great thing because it is as if your body is being rebooted (Greger, 2023, pp. 23-24).
AMPK is an enzyme that triggers autophagy. (Greger, 2023, p. 15). There are a few ways to increase AMPK. One way is through fasting, eating lower calories in general may also stimulate AMPK, but another way is through consuming spermidine (Greger, 2023, pp. 24,29).
Spermidine is a polyamine which is a compound with at least two primary amino groups (Neis et al., 2017, 33). Our body naturally produces spermidine, but production decreases as we age (Greger, 2023, p. 29). Spermidine can also be produced by our gut bacteria (Greger, 2023, p. 29).
One the app you will find over 200 foods that contain spermidine. Most noteworthy foods are wheat germ, tempeh, mushrooms, mangos, and more. According to Swedish researchers, noted by Dr. Michael Greger, a healthy diet for women and men includes 25 mg and 30 mg of spermidine per day, respectively (Greger, 2023, p. 32). Note there is no recommended daily allowance currently.
Over 200 foods on the app
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