The $0.11 Ancient Roman Leg Food That Kept Soldiers Marching 25 Miles per Day After 50

Roman legionaries covered twenty five miles in a day under a forced march, carrying armour, a shield, a stake and three days of rations across ground that had no roads on it. Men in their fifties were still doing it. They had no protein powder and there was no supplement shop anywhere near that road. Their advantage was four field rations that together cost less than one modern vitamin tablet. This video takes all four apart, gives you the exact preparation for each, and tells you what it costs per serving. The first is a seed you soak in cold water overnight and swallow whole in the morning. It carries a rare amino acid found almost nowhere else in the food supply, one that pushes glucose into muscle without waiting for a full insulin response. That is aimed directly at what exercise physiologists call the early wall, the burning that arrives in the first ten or fifteen minutes of a walk before your circulation catches up with what you are asking of it. That wall is not weakness and it is not your age. It is a delivery failure, which is why being told to push through it has never worked for anybody. There is nothing to push through. The fuel is not arriving. The second is garlic, but almost certainly not the garlic you are thinking of. Raw garlic is the form most people reach for and it is the wrong one. The compound that does the work on your circulation barely exists in a raw bulb, and the sharp compound that does is largely destroyed by your own stomach acid before it gets anywhere near your blood. That is the quiet mistake being made by everybody chewing raw cloves for their legs. The third is a broth, and there is one instruction in it that decides whether it works at all. Most people throw that part away. And the fourth is not really a food. It is a pairing, and the reason it is number one is that it does not only fuel today's walk. A single bowl is still regulating what your legs have available to burn twelve hours later. SOURCES REFERENCED IN THIS VIDEO The garlic trial. Ried and colleagues, Integrated Blood Pressure Control, 2016. Eighty eight adults with an average age of sixty two took one point two grams of aged garlic extract daily for twelve weeks. Systolic blood pressure fell by five points on average and by eleven and a half points in those who responded. One honest note, which the video also says out loud. Most of the arterial stiffness measurements in that trial did not reach statistical significance. The one that did was pulse wave velocity, and only in the participants who began with the stiffest arteries. And the trial used a concentrated extract rather than cloves, so treat the cloves as the food version of the same compound and not as the same dose. The second meal effect. The body of work on low glycemic legume meals improving glucose tolerance at the following meal comes largely from the nutrition group at Lund University in Sweden. Magnesium intake in older adults. National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements. The historical record. Fenugreek along Roman supply routes is recorded by the agricultural writer Columella. Garlic issued to soldiers against exhaustion is recorded by Pliny the Elder. Puls, the lentil based field staple, is confirmed through recovered supply records and excavated legionary fort deposits across western Europe. #seniorhealth #healthyaging #legstrength #ancientwisdom #walkingafter60 #romanhistory -------------------- MEDICAL DISCLAIMER. This channel is not a medical provider. Everything here is general educational information only and never a substitute for professional diagnosis, advice or treatment. Always speak to your doctor about your own situation, and never ignore professional advice because of something you watched here. CAUTIONS FOR THIS VIDEO, AND PLEASE READ THEM. Fenugreek lowers blood sugar. If you take anything for diabetes, including metformin, insulin or a sulfonylurea, speak to your doctor first, because the combination can take you too low. Fenugreek is also a legume, so avoid it if you react to chickpeas or peanuts. Garlic in any concentrated form thins the blood. If you take warfarin or any other anticoagulant, or you have surgery coming up, tell your doctor before you start. Both garlic and fenugreek can lower blood pressure, which matters if you already take medication for it. And lentils are high in potassium, so if you have any kidney condition, or you take an ACE inhibitor, an angiotensin receptor blocker or a potassium sparing diuretic, ask your doctor before making lentil broth a daily habit. None of this is a reason not to do it. It is a reason to mention it at your next appointment first. COPYRIGHT. All footage, images and music are licensed, originally produced, or in the public domain. All trademarks and third party rights remain with their owners.