Disclaimer. I am not a licensed health practitioner. This is
just another post on knowledge and understanding you might wish to acquire in
advance of a disaster in case no higher care is available. As long as our
society is functioning, you should leave anything more substantial than
applying a Band-Aid to the professionals. No medication, including those
available over the counter, should be taken without consulting a
physician. Information shared here is for educational and entertainment
purposes only. It is not medical advice nor a substitute for licensed
medical care.
Honestly, there really aren’t a whole lot of medicinal uses of apple cider vinegar. Limited studies with small groups of people indicate the need for further research, but Big Pharma isn’t going to study anything that they can’t patent. That’s just reality.
These small clinical trials demonstrated that 1-2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar reduced blood sugars and increased insulin sensitivity in individuals with type-2 diabetes or pre-diabetic signs. In our society, with the surging numbers of type-2 diabetes, that’s actually pretty significant.
Animal trials showed that apple cider vinegar also reduced cholesterol and blood pressure. (If that could possibly be true, my husband would be ecstatic. He’s been drinking beet juice to lower his blood pressure. While the beet juice has been incredibly effective, it’s pretty nasty stuff.)
Apple cider vinegar is also reported to ease the pain of
rheumatoid arthritis and to help resolve bone spurs more quickly.
Apple vinegar soaks help reduce the swelling of an ingrown toenail so
that it can be more easily treated. It's also used to help prevent
gallbladder attacks, diverticulitis, and kidney stones.
However, I think the greatest significance to preppers for using apple cider vinegar regularly may lie elsewhere. Clinical trials have shown that apple cider vinegar helps people lose weight. While TEOTWAWKI is not the time to focus on weight loss—that may just come naturally for a lot of people—we might feel the need to reduce our caloric intake to stretch supplies a little further. And apple cider vinegar can help. Apple cider vinegar has been demonstrated to help people feel full, especially after eating high carbohydrate meals (which is what a lot of long-term preparedness food staples are). In fact, it was observed that people who took 1-2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar with a meal early in the day consumed 200-275 fewer calories for the remainder of the day.[1] While it resulted in only a modest weight loss over a period of months, if something as simple as vinegar is going to help people feel fuller, that’s going to help us stretch our supplies significantly. And happily.
Apple cider vinegar is an extremely simple DIY project. You just need apples, water, and time. And actually, you aren’t even using the full apple—you can simply use the peels and cores after you’ve canned or dehydrated your apples this year so that nothing is wasted.
Also, it is important to note that apple cider-flavored vinegar, the cheap stuff, does not work for these purposes. You need real apple cider vinegar.
Links to related posts:
Making Malt Vinegar from Wheat
Gallstones, Cholecystitis, Cholangitis
References:
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/6-proven-health-benefits-of-apple-cider-vinegar#6.-May-boost-skin-health
[1] Carol S. Johnston, et al., “Vinegar Improves Insulin Sensitivity to a High-Carbohydrate Meal in Subjects with Insulin Resistance or Type-2 Diabetes,” American Diabetes Association, January 2004, https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/27/1/281.long (accessed 13 October 2020).
10 november 2020
Do you need to shake the vinegar to distribute the "mother" before you take it, or can you just leave it at the bottom of the bottle and use it to make more vinegar?
ReplyDeleteAlso, the original "energy drink" of colonial farmers.
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Although I doubt folks growing their own food by manual labor had too many weight issues. Seems the middle class butchers, brewers and bankers suffered that "ale ment" (pun intended).