Full Transcript Introducing Momu2019s Garlic Tea Ritual 0:00 My mom is 90 years old and every single night she makes this tea. 0:04 Now I'm not saying it's magical tea, but I am starting to ask this question. 0:09 Is she really Mother Gothel from Tangled? 0:11 You know, the one who retained her vitality with this whole secret ritual? 0:14 So what is my 90 year old mom's nightly tea? 0:17 I' m Dr. 0:17 Columbus Batiste. 0:18 I m an interventional cardiologist and a lifestyle advocate. 0:21 And yes, I open blocked arteries for a living. 0:24 But I'll tell you, I'd much rather teach daily habits that can help keep you out of the cat lab. 0:29 Now, one of things that I found is there is a common kitchen staple with human longevity data behind it. 0:34 There was a 2019 paper published in Nutrients that found that among people 80 years of age and up, those who ate it more often had a lower risk of dying 0:43 during follow-up. 0:44 And when I saw that paper, guess what? 0:46 I immediately followed my mom. 0:47 In about 30 seconds, I'm going to reveal what it is and then I promise I'll try it on camera. 0:54 And guess who I am bringing? 0:55 My 90 year old mom. 0:56 She's going make sure I drink it all just like the old days. 0:59 Now fair warning, once you see this tea, you're going have an opinion. 1:03 You're either going say this is genius or absolutely not. 1:06 What's my mom's nightly tea? 1:08 Brushed garlic tea. 1:10 All right, I told you I was coming to the kitchen. 1:12 And so I'm not coming into the by myself. 1:15 I have to bring in my mother, Jaja. 1:18 Come on over. 1:20 Hey mom, how you doing? 1:21 You look nice. 1:22 Thank you. 1:25 Technology, technology. 1:27 Yeah. 1:28 So what's going on? 1:29 How are you doing? 1:30 Doing good. 1:30 You're doing well? 1:31 Listen, I've been telling everyone about you and first of all, tell them how old are.
Making the Garlic Tea 1:36 I know that's not okay to say, but just tell everyone out there how would you are? 1:40 90 years old. 1:42 90 Years old? 1:43 Until June 1st. 1:44 What happens June first? 1:46 I'll be 91. Oh, love it. 1:49 There is something I have watched you do for a lot of years. 1:53 And I'll tell you, at first I raised my eyebrow, I still do, but there's something you do and you drink this tea. 1:58 Now I just told everyone out there what the tea is. 2:01 Tell us what your night's ritual is? 2:03 I always drink garlic at night. 2:06 Garlic tea? 2:07 Yes, garlic tea. 2:09 Fresh garlic. 2:10 Every night? 2:10 Every Night. 2:11 What? 2:12 Now tell me exactly why do you do that? 2:14 When did you start doing that. 2:15 Oh, years and years ago. 2:17 Besides just liking the taste of garlic, it helps me to rest. 2:21 Wow. 2:22 Okay. 2:22 I don't think I have that one down there for you all about resting. 2:25 All right. 2:25 So we are going to make some garlic Tea for the folks out there today. 2:29 So we have some pre-peeled garlic here for us here today. 2:32 And so there's lots of ways that you can crush the garlic. 2:35 So you obviously take essentially the back of a knife and crush it. 2:38 You can take a garlic crusher. 2:40 One of the ways you do it, especially if you're making large batches, is what? 2:44 You just throw the in here and let it go. 2:47 Then you just go ahead and you turn it on and chop that up, right? 2:50 We actually have garlic that we chopped up already inside the jar here. 2:55 Once you chop it what do you then? 2:57 Do you let sit? 2:58 I usually put at least two or three tablespoons of honey. 3:02 OK, inside of it too as well? 3:03 Yeah, or inside oven. 3:05 Let it sit overnight and before I begin to make tea with it. 3:10 All right, that's a good one. 3:11 That's what we were talking about is letting it set for a little bit and then you add the hot water to it, so let's go and do why don't you go ahead and 3:18 add that to your teacup there. 3:20 Now you're just going to roughly estimate how many cloves that is, huh? 3:22 That seems like a whole lot right there, This is a teaspoonful. 3:27 All right. 3:28 I'm going to drop it into the cup. 3:32 I smell that, I smelled it, okay.
Tasting the Tea and Family Banter 3:34 All right, so next up, we're gonna grab that water next. 3:37 Now we want the water hot, but not scalding hot. 3:40 So now we fill the teacup up. 3:42 It's a mug. 3:43 Alright, alright, mug, a mug. 3:45 And now you're stirring it and then we gonna let it steep for a little bit. 3:49 You've been doing this for awhile. 3:51 We're going to steep it about five to 10 minutes or so, which is great after we add that hot water. 3:56 Some will say that you strain it to get out the garlic. 3:59 Do you do that? 4:00 You don't spray it? 4:01 No. 4:01 What do you do with the garlic that's left inside the cup? 4:03 I chew it. 4:04 Oh, you chew. 4:06 I eat it! 4:08 All right, I see. 4:09 So this might be the actual reason why Brooke started calling you Mother Gothel, all right? 4:16 You remember Mother Gotthels? 4:17 She started called you mother Gothels. 4:18 10 minutes later. 4:20 All I'm going to go ahead and drink this. 4:21 You ready? 4:21 Are you ready. 4:32 Oh, that's real, That's Real. 4:36 Actually, what I learned is that once it becomes tea, when you actually chew this, it doesn't taste as strong because I don't know it has all gone into
Why Garlic May Support Health 4:47 the water. 4:48 Okay. 4:48 Yeah. 4:49 All right. 4:49 But it's a delightful taste. 4:51 I love it. 4:51 It is indeed a taste. 4:53 We'll see if we call it delightful or not, but it is a tastes. 4:56 Mom, listen, I understand that this tea is important and thank you so much for sharing this T with us. 5:02 This is the ritual that you've done. 5:04 I'm a Troyan adopted. 5:05 And I don't know if I can quite do it, Yes, good for digestion too. 5:12 Yeah, sleep, digestion, immune system, heart health. 5:15 All right, stay tuned. 5:16 Let's go back to the desk and talk about this some more. 5:18 Alright, now that you've seen it, let's talk science. 5:21 Four reasons this isn't just a myth. 5:24 Now there are four things happening here that the research actually supports. 5:28 I want to walk you through each one and I promise that fourth one is the reason I think most people should really pay attention. 5:34 Number one, allicin and heart protection. 5:36 Two, immune function. 5:38 Three, blood pressure. 5:40 And number four, the one I saved for last, longevity signal. 5:44 You ready? 5:45 Let's get into this. 5:46 Okay, listen. 5:47 First up, Allicyn and Heart Protection. 5:49 When you crush a raw garlic clove, like we saw, this is why, I want to tell you why crushing matters. 5:55 An enzyme called alanase, it converts alan into allicin. 5:59 Now, allacin is the compound that really gives garlic that unique, sharp smell. 6:04 And it's also what most of the cardiovascular research begins to point to. 6:08 Now one of the earliest steps in plaque formation for coronary artery disease and vascular disease formation is LDL oxidation. 6:15 In allicin, it appears to interfere with that process, stopping it. 6:19 That's not garlic is good for your heart and waving stuff. 6:22 This is a specific mechanism with published data behind it and here's the key detail. 6:27 You have to crush it, you have the leave it before having that heat on. 6:31 Because I'll tell you, if you add the heat too early, it can shut down the enzyme before allicin forms. 6:36 That's exactly what my mom does. 6:38 She crushes it, she leaves it and then she heats it. 6:41 Now she didn't read the study, She just knew. 6:44 Years and years of practice. 6:47 Okay, the second benefit research shows and supports is immune function. 6:50 So there was a randomized trial of over 120 people for 12 weeks. 6:55 It was published in Clinical Nutrition back in 2012. Now the group taking the daily garlic supplement, they reported fewer cold symptoms and had better 7:03 immune-related outcomes during the study period. 7:06 A supplement isn't the same as raw garlic tea. 7:08 We understand that. 7:09 And I want to be honest about it, but the active compounds, they overlap. 7:13 They're similar. 7:14 And the point is this regular garlic intake appears to support immune resilience. 7:19 You understand that our health equals resiliency divided by stress. 7:22 All right. 7:23 Now the third benefit research supports is really important to me, especially it's blood pressure. 7:27 So there was a meta analysis, meaning a study of studies. 7:30 and it found that garlic supplementation, it reduced systolic blood pressure by an average of three to five millimeters of mercury in people with high 7:38 blood pressures. 7:38 Now that might sound small, but I will tell you, on a population level, which means across the United States, that magnitude of reduction is associated 7:46 with meaningful decreases in stroke and heart attack risk. 7:49 That's significant. 7:50 And here's what I want you to understand. 7:52 This isn't a replacement for medication if you need it, if needed. 7:56 It's added risk reduction as part of a daily lifestyle pattern. 7:59 Sleep, movement or exercise, plant rich foods, stress reduction, consistency, it all adds up. 8:06 And when you layer each of those on top of one another, that means that you lower your overall cardiovascular risk. 8:12 My mother, at 90, has been doing this nightly for decades. 8:16 Not as medicine, as your ritual, and as who she is. 8:19 I'll tell you that distinction, It matters much more than what people think. 8:22 Alright, now for the fourth one. 8:24 The longevity signal. 8:25 This is the one that made me really pause. 8:28 Now, in that 2019 nutrients paper, adults 80 years of age and older, the more frequently they consume garlic, they lower their all-cause mortality. 8:37 That's not they feel better, that's they died less often during the study.
How to Make It Safely and Consistently 8:41 And that relationship, it looked dose-related. 8:43 I always tell my patients. 8:45 My soul go, help you feel better, hope you live longer. 8:48 Okay, now that doesn't prove garlic is the magic key. 8:51 It's observational, it's not causation, is correlation, but it is a signal. 8:55 In some mechanistic research it points towards pathways like hydrogen sulfide. 8:59 That's a gas in your body naturally produces that's involved in vascular function and cell protection. 9:05 And it may intersect with biological aging. 9:07 We're early on in this, I wanna be clear. 9:10 But when you look at the human data, and then I look at my 90-year-old mother crushing garlic every night, I don't think it's random. 9:17 I think its a signal worth respecting. 9:19 So if you want to try this, here's how I'd think about it. 9:22 Tier one, starter level, crush one clove. 9:24 Let it sit five minutes and add it to hot water with lemon. 9:28 I need you to steep it, strain it drink it warm, not scalding. 9:31 And this is the version probably most people can stick with. 9:34 Now tier two, when you're committed, the committed level, two cloves. 9:38 It wants you that crush it. 9:39 I want you let sit five to 10 minutes, hot water. 9:41 Maybe you add ginger, no sweetener. 9:43 This is closer to what my mom makes. 9:46 Tier three, this pure Jaja level. 9:48 Raw, crush, it hot, water, nothing else in it and then you chew and eat that garlic afterwards. 9:55 Every night for decades, Now, truth be told, I'm not there yet. 9:59 She looked at me like I was soft. 10:02 And guess what? 10:02 When it comes to that, she's not wrong. 10:04 Now start where you're actually going to be consistent. 10:07 A tier one you do nightly, it beats a tier three that you quit on Thursday. 10:11 Listen, Aristotle had it right. 10:13 We are what we repeatedly do. 10:15 He said excellence isn't an act. 10:17 I must say, help is not an Act. 10:19 It's a habit. 10:20 So here's another point. 10:21 Quick, but important. 10:22 And this part really matters. 10:24 If you're on blood thinners, like Warfarin, Eloquist, Serralto, as always, talk to your doctor. 10:29 Remember, we work for you, you don't work us. 10:31 Do this before adding concentrated garlic to the routine. 10:35 Concentrated garlic can thin the blood slightly. 10:38 Stacking it with blood thinner, it really matter. 10:40 As in addition to this, if you have surgery coming up, talk to your health care team, whether or not you should stop garlic supplements. 10:46 Often it's about two weeks before, but follow their guidance. 10:49 Now here's the thing. 10:50 If you're on blood pressure medication, realize that food is medicine and garlic may add to the effect, which means it may lower your blood And last, 11:00 if raw garlic, it starts to tear up your stomach, don't push through. 11:04 Use cooked garlic. 11:05 Smaller amounts. 11:06 Respect your body's feedback. 11:07 Personalize it to you and where you're at. 11:09 This is about building sustainable habits, not proving something. 11:13 Alright, so the fourth reason, the longevity signal. 11:15 And here's why I think most people should care. 11:18 It's not about garlic alone, it's about what garlic represents. 11:21 A nightly ritual rooted in something real, across decades. 11:24 My mom didn't read the research, she didn' optimize a protocol. 11:28 She just made her tea every night. 11:30 And she's still here, at 90, sharp, strong, even judging my reaction on camera. 11:37 That's consistency meeting biology. 11:39 And yes, of course, a little bit of luck. 11:42 Now, if this helps you, I need you to like and subscribe. 11:44 Tell me in the comments, what's your family's longevity secret? 11:47 And always remember, If you wanna go fast, go alone. 11:49 If want to go far, Go together. 11:52 Let's go Far Together, building healthier hearts and stronger communities. 11:55 So like it, share it send it save a life. 11:58 I'll see you next time.
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