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And vinegar - start introducing vinegar into your diet
Professor Matt Cooper
So the most important thing is to have a balanced diet and lots of high fibre. But we've also shown that with a lot of the studies we're doing in animals now that supplementing the diet by giving vinegar can actually stop things like asthma.
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Treating asthma with vinegar? It seems remarkable. Unless of course you're into alternative health.
Dr Graham Phillips
The idea of using vinegar medicinally has been around for centuries.
Professor Matt Cooper
Oh, thousands of years, back to the Egyptian times, the Greek times. The beneficial effects of vinegars in society have been known for a long time. Even Italians - a lot of vinegar on salads, a lot of vinaigrette - they have very, very low incidences of inflammatory disease.
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In fact, even the research on eating a good diet has an air of ancient wisdom about it.
Professor Charles Mackay
Hippocrates said 'Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.' And we agree with that entirely.
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The reason vinegar could be a medicine is because it contains acetate - that molecule we met in the first episode, the very one our good bacteria make.
Professor Matt Cooper
So we now know that acetate, which is very small and can get all around the body, can stop the immune system from overreacting.
Professor Matt Cooper
So the most important thing is to have a balanced diet and lots of high fibre. But we've also shown that with a lot of the studies we're doing in animals now that supplementing the diet by giving vinegar can actually stop things like asthma.
NARRATION
Treating asthma with vinegar? It seems remarkable. Unless of course you're into alternative health.
Dr Graham Phillips
The idea of using vinegar medicinally has been around for centuries.
Professor Matt Cooper
Oh, thousands of years, back to the Egyptian times, the Greek times. The beneficial effects of vinegars in society have been known for a long time. Even Italians - a lot of vinegar on salads, a lot of vinaigrette - they have very, very low incidences of inflammatory disease.
NARRATION
In fact, even the research on eating a good diet has an air of ancient wisdom about it.
Professor Charles Mackay
Hippocrates said 'Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.' And we agree with that entirely.
NARRATION
The reason vinegar could be a medicine is because it contains acetate - that molecule we met in the first episode, the very one our good bacteria make.
Professor Matt Cooper
So we now know that acetate, which is very small and can get all around the body, can stop the immune system from overreacting.