kill something, live longer

[Guest guest]

"Resveratrol... has antimycotic, antiviral... activities. " PMID: 15329443

Cinnamon is anti-microbial. So are ginger, cloves, red pepper, garlic, onions, chocolate's flavonals, etc etc etc. The plants likely have this ability in order to protect themselves.

Assuming for argument that all health problems like CVD, cancer, etc are not caused by microbes, why would it be that so many beneficial substances are also microbe-killers?

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Ken

[Guest guest]

Hi Ken:

My understanding is that cinnamon is tree bark, and that the tree

developed this kind of bark to deter ants, which would otherwise

climb the tree and destroy its canopy (energy source).

Cinnamon, I can say from personal experience, is a great ant

deterrant. They will not cross a line of cinnamon.

But this does not help explain its medicinal properties, which

someone said here recently included control of blood sugar.

Rodney.

> " Resveratrol... has antimycotic, antiviral... activities. " PMID:

15329443

>

>

> Cinnamon is anti-microbial. So are ginger, cloves, red pepper,

garlic,

> onions, chocolate's flavonals, etc etc etc. The plants likely have

this ability in

> order to protect themselves.

>

> Assuming for argument that all health problems like CVD, cancer,

etc are not

> caused by microbes, why would it be that so many beneficial

substances are

> also microbe-killers?

>

> --

>

> Ken