Ep 21: Doc's Herbal Corner: Black Pepper | Health benefits, Anti-Inflammation, Detox

In this episode of Doc's Herbal Corner, Dr. Stephen Tates discusses the medicinal properties of black pepper. Black pepper is a type of kitchen medicine that has powerful anti-inflammatory effects and works well in combination with turmeric. It helps reduce inflammation, joint pain, and aids in weight loss and detoxification. 

Black pepper also has benefits for the heart, skin, and hair. However, it is important not to overdo the consumption of black pepper as it can cause digestive irritation. It is recommended to get black pepper from trusted sources and store it in glass jars for maximum potency.

Takeaways
Black pepper is a powerful kitchen medicine with anti-inflammatory properties.
It works well in combination with turmeric to reduce inflammation and joint pain.
Black pepper aids in weight loss, detoxification, and improves heart health.
It also has benefits for the skin and hair, but should be consumed in moderation to avoid digestive irritation.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:40 Kitchen Medicine
02:05 Types of Black Pepper
03:21 Anti-Inflammatory Properties
04:44 Joint Pain Relief
06:10 Weight Loss and Cleansing
07:08 Reducing Gas and Bloating
08:05 Detoxification
09:01 Unsubstantiated Claims
10:27 Cleansing and Rebuilding the Body
11:22 Regulating Heart Rate
12:21 Strengthening Red Blood Cells
13:20 Preventing Constipation
14:47 Improving Skin Health
15:47 Hair Health
16:44 Considerations and Dosage
18:12 Conclusion

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Transcript

Hello everyone. Welcome to Doc's Herbal Corner, sponsored by Dr. Tates herbal tinctures and tonics. I can imagine that you have in your kitchen right now, a culinary seasoning called black pepper. It's a common seasoning, but did you know that black pepper is also a powerful kitchen medicine? But having it in your kitchen is one thing.

and understanding what it does and how to use it is quite another. To help us understand Black Pepper, we are joined today by naturalist, herbalist, detox specialist, author, and diplomat of integrative medicine. With over half a century of herbal medicine experience, Dr. Steven Tates. Let's jump right in. Hello, doc. Hello.

Thanks for joining us today. My pleasure. All right, so as we kind of move on over to Doc's Herbal Corner. Yes, move on over. We're moving down over to Doc's Herbal Corner. What are we talking about today? We're talking about black pepper. Black pepper? Black pepper. All right, let's jump right in. Okay, as I mentioned before in previous podcasts, there's a whole category.

of what we call kitchen medicine. Yes. That is used as seasonings, but also have very high medicinal value. We're trying in our podcast, previous ones and future podcasts, highlighting some of these kitchen medicines so that people when they're seasoning their food, even though they're doing other types of things, they know they're putting something in their food that is very therapeutic to them. So there's probably a lot of kitchens.

that have black pepper in the cabinet or in the cupboard. Are we talking about literally the black pepper that people typically would have in their kitchen? Yes. All right. But again.

Not the supermarket version of black pepper. Oh, okay. If we want the bulk kind that you can get in the health food store or you can get online or you can get in a farmer's market. Because the medicinal quality of those is sometimes four to five times stronger than the ones in the little container that you get in the supermarket. Okay, so I just had a really important question just popped into my head.

Can you still use this bulk or slash medicinal type of kitchen herbs? Can you use them also as seasonings? Well, yeah. Okay, so they're still good seasonings. They're still good seasoning. I mean, being a kitchen medicine, what the category means is that they use as a seasoning, but now you need to know that they're not just a seasoning, that they actually have some very powerful

healing quality that most people don't know about. Okay. Or they may hear, but might not believe. And black pepper falls into that category. Now black pepper, outside of maybe turmeric and cayenne, black pepper falls into the third most powerful anti-inflammatory medicine. Wow.

I did not know that. And it works really well in combination with turmeric. So you see turmeric with black pepper. Even black pepper by itself when you sprinkle it on the food, really, really powerful anti-inflammatory. And the reason why it's important because most people with health conditions, one of the problems is inflammation. Inflammation around the heart and the bloodstream and the kidneys and the liver.

in different areas of the body. And inflammation means swelling, which is swelling means the blood's not flowing through that area as well as it could because it's inflamed or it's swollen. So it's like the highway is clogged, you're in a traffic jam. And our arteries and veins and the black pepper helps clear that log jam in your bloodstream. Okay.

One of the things that makes it very good, and like I said earlier, it combines well with the turmeric as a combination, but turmeric's a subject for another time. We're just highlighting and dealing with the black pepper. So we're talking about reducing inflammation. It also helps with joint pains. Is that tied to the inflammation? Exactly, you're learning. Because inflammation,

ends up meaning that things get swollen and they push up against the nerves, especially around the nerves and muscles around the joints, like the elbow and the wrist and the knees and the ankles and stuff. That's where we tend first to feel that pain, but then also in the muscle because it becomes inflamed. So the black pepper reducing the inflammation along with it's anti-inflammatory.

it helps ease pain. It also, as it's reducing inflammation, it has some cleansing qualities for the intestinal system, which helps you in losing weight. Now wait, what type of quality was that? Cleansing. Cleansing, okay. You're fine, okay. That's my Boston accent. All right, that's okay, no problem. Pocket car and Harvard Yard. Well, I used to live in Connecticut.

but not quite Massachusetts. But close enough, you know, close enough. Okay, I kind of got used to that. Okay, so it helps with weight loss. It's not the primary, but if you're taking herbs, you know, like a fat burner or something, and you want to add to it, and we talked about before water consumption and stuff like that, you know, having black pepper in your food when you're cooking and when you're seasoning helps aid.

in helping to drop weight. Because one of the other things it does is as an anti-inflammatory, it reduces gas and bloating. A lot of time when we do weight, it's not just a solid weight, we're bigger because we're holding a lot of gas and fluid in the body, which makes us bigger in size than the actual scale weight. So how much, how do people know how much black pepper they should add to their food?

You, like with all kitchen medicines, you just add small amounts, like you see. Small amounts. You don't wanna have it where your food's like, ooh, all I taste is the black pepper. It can be overwhelming. Can be overwhelming. But you just use it consistently, like some of the other kitchen medicines we talked about, in your food, if it's in your oatmeal, if it's in your salad, if it's in your soups and stews.

heaven forbid if it's on your steak, but that's a story from another time. It still helps with the inflammation. So you're suggesting that adding a little pepper to your steak doesn't change the negative qualities of the steak. No, it doesn't. But it will help with the side effects from the steak when if you eat too much of the red meat and it causes inflammation, black pepper is one of those things that will help reduce the inflammation.

No, so it comes in as a secondary approach. It also helps in detoxifying the body. Helps in the body. Oh, it's a detox. Yeah, it's a detox. So like turmeric and kyanosol, I mean, anything that reduces inflammation and gets things moving and gets the blood circulating is a form of detox. So the black pepper does help the body as a detox. Now I've read

And this is sometimes the thing you have to really think about. I've read where they said that black pepper helps prevent cancer. But when I look at herbs, I look at the properties, and there's nothing in the makeup of the black pepper that denotes preventing cancer. Now, if it's preventing inflammation, it helps decrease

other problems like arthritic problems, stuff like that, which eventually may evolve into it. But some people say, oh, it helps prevent cancer. So if I take this, it might help with the cancer I have. Oh, no, no. No, I mean, it would be wonderful if it did. But I think one of the things in the world of herbs, and one of the reasons that sometimes some people get turned off by herbs, is that some people will,

over promise or make claims that are unsubstantiated. And I think that's one of the reasons why we talk to you, Doc, is from my experience, you don't over sell or make grandiose claims about the herbs that we discuss. And see, and that's one, it's interesting you mention that because that is one of the things that annoys me. When I see...

this overselling of something. And then when it doesn't meet what people say it's supposed to do, it puts a black mark on my profession. So when you say, and I was preventing cancer, there were no properties in there that are anti-cancer. It's just how it helps the body respond. Right. Like with the inflammation, reducing that. It also helps.

This lends our intestines and our stomach. So our digest more intestines or our colon and our stomach. It helps us to move waste and impurities out with consistent use. And if you're removing that waste from the body, then indirectly it may help, you know, with some conditions that could build in the body. Okay, sure. Now, along with that,

Black pepper is high in potassium. So if your body's low in potassium, adding that to your food, along with the potassium supplements, if you end up having to take that, it helps in add more potassium, and that helps in regulating our heart rate. Excellent. So, you know, understand, we're talking black pepper. Okay? So a lot. Just a little old black pepper. Little old black pepper.

Okay, so it helps with the potassium, and I'll repeat that again, that then helps with regulating our heart rate, then when it regulates our heart rate, then it helps with the high blood pressure we might have. Even though you may be on medication, increasing things like black pepper actually helps reduce high blood pressure issues because of the potassium and how it regulates the heart rate and how it reduces the inflammation, helps the body be able to help itself.

in helping it reduce the high blood pressure issues you're having. The body is amazingly resilient. It is. Which we give it a fighting chance. Yeah. If we give it what it needs and try to reduce, you know, what it doesn't need or is harmful, the body, I've always said, and you would always hear me saying, our body has the ability to cleanse, heal, and rebuild itself indefinitely.

provided we give it the right ingredients to help the body be able to help itself. Some of those right ingredients is again, Dr. Black Pepper, and some of the other things we've talked about in previous podcasts. It doesn't cure an issue, but it helps strengthen the body, helps the body remove impurities, then the body can do its thing. That's a God-given gift, its ability to cleanse, heal, and rebuild itself.

That's what's innate in our body. We just do the things that hampers the body's ability to take care of itself. Okay. Okay, now a couple more quick things, okay. It helps strengthen the red blood cells in the body. Ooh, immune building. Well, we need those. Yeah, we need those, okay. And it has a decent amount of vitamins in it, but that's a story for another time. Black pepper.

also prevents constipation or if you're mildly constipated and you use them by pepper, it kind of helps. Now, how does it help? Reduces inflammation and also moves gas out of the system. And we do have an entire podcast on nothing but constipation. Yeah. So anyone who's interested in that topic, just go through our list of podcasts or YouTube channels and you'll see that episode in there. Yeah, and last but not least,

It helps with skin problems. How? Anything that shows on the outside of the skin is our body's unsuccessful attempt, I use the word unsuccessful, in trying to remove impurities, so any rashes, bumps, stuff like that, that's your body saying, help me, help me, help me. I'm gonna help you. It's trying to expel something. Right, but the body and our skin is not designed to expel solid waste. Sweat, yes.

Bad oxygen, yes. Solid waste, no. So it reduces the inflammation, helps the blood flow, and redirects the cleansing out through our urine, out through our kidneys and liver, and out from our body. Okay. All right, well that is good to know. And you want one more thing? Yes. It's good for your hair. Assuming we have hair.

Yeah, I assume. I still have hair. I still have some too. All right, so tell us about, how is it helpful for the hair? Because typically, the problem with loss of hair comes from poor blood circulation and inflammation. And it chokes off the, it shuts down the pores, okay? So the scalp and the ear passages can't breathe. And if it can't breathe,

then the hair on the outside gets disconnected with the roots inside. So it causes premature hair loss. Where the black pepper can help. It's not the only thing, but you know. It's not the only thing, I take it it's not some sort of miracle thing. No, but you know, it's always a combination of stuff that you need to do. Okay. Not like, and that's another thing with advertisement is like.

All you need to do is call 1-900-1-800 and get my formula and it's gonna take care of everything. It's magic. Yeah, right. Scam, runaway, you know, because that's overselling something. Okay. And then it makes my work much harder. So, with Pepper, are there any considerations? I could say considerations.

or just things that people should be aware regarding the pepper? You can't overdo the black pepper. And when you overdo the black pepper, the worst thing would be irritation in your digestive system. I can see that happening to me. Not to make it all about me, but. Yeah, well, it's about us. I sometimes have put too much pepper on a salad or something and then I start to feel it. I get an irritation. Yeah, and that's just your body saying.

You were acting like you were grown and you put too much black pepper in your food. But as far as long term, short or long term health issues, no. It's just your body trying to say, you did too much, slow it down, take a little less. More doesn't mean better. It's that balance we need to have. And that's true in anything you're dealing with in the natural healing realm. So it's best that people get black pepper.

from, you said, farmer's market or an herbal store or a trusted online source. Yeah, where you can get it loose and in bulk form, more than a pre-packaged thing from some of the major companies that a lot of the properties in those seasonings have been stripped in their processing it to fit in those little shake things and stuff. You always want to get it in bulk. And then put it in glass jars.

When you have those seasonings and you put them in glass jars, the seasonings, the kitchen medicine, lasts a whole lot longer than if it sits in a plastic bag. I did not know. Yeah, because glasses are not too preservative. So you can have your cayenne and your turmeric and black pepper and little glass things, you know, and it keeps it strong. All right, Doc. Well, I think this has been a great session of Doc's Herbal Corner.

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I want to learn more. When is your next podcast? What is going to be the next subject? Now I want people like that because that makes my work easier because I said, these people were serious about making changes. All right, doc. Thank you very much for another great session. Thank you. And now a quick word about our sponsor, Dr. Tates Herbal Tinctures and Tonics. Dr. Tates All Natural Herbal Formulas.

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