Biohack Your Food With Spices: The World's Highest Antioxidant Superfoods, ORAC Scores, Free Radical Damage, And More — #026

Summary: High antioxidant foods are important to everyone, regardless of whether you're a biohacker, or just someone who wants to take better care of their body and eliminate free radical damage as best as possible. And although many of us have been suckered by food marketing to buy certain things like goji berries, blueberries, and everything in between due to their supposedly high antioxidant content, the fact is that these foods are nowhere near as powerful in fighting free radicals as we've been lead to believe. Food marketing aside, in this episode I'm cutting through the crap and teaching you about some of the worlds highest antioxidant superfoods, which in one way or another come in the form of herbs and spices — yes, those dried, ground, powdered flavour enhancers in your cupboard that you hesitantly sprinkle on your food to make them taste a little better, are sometimes hundreds of times more powerful when it comes to antioxidant content than berries or other so-called superfoods. I'll take you through how we rank antioxidant content in foods in terms of their Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) score, a baseline to compare some common foods against herbs and spices in terms of their own ORAC scores, how simple things like black pepper and thyme can be giving your body a significant protective boost, where to find the internet's most comprehensive list of estimated ORAC values, why not all antioxidants are the same, and what are the highest antioxidant foods that we know of today, including sumac, dragon's blood, clove, and many others. I reference a list of ORAC/antioxidant values on Superfoodly, which you can check out below to get some idea of the phenomenal antioxidant values of herbs, spices, and other foods you may not expect, so you can better make choices on how to get more of these free radical destroying compounds in your life.   SUPERFOODLY ORAC LIST: https://www.superfoodly.com/orac-values/    CONNECT Connect with Leon The Alchemist online for more intensive biohacking, longevity, and performance advice daily, with exclusive content you won't find anywhere else: INSTAGRAM: @LeonTheAlchemist | https://www.instagram.com/leonthealchemist  TWITTER: @AlchemistLeon | https://twitter.com/alchemistleon LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/leonthealchemist WEBSITE: http://bioalchemy.co COURSE: http://bio.ax/    LEARN Want to take your biohacking skills to the next level? Wake up feeling better each and every day? Or as Dr Aubrey De Grey has suggested, see if you can implement some of the longevity biohacks that may see you living to 1,000 years or more with advancements in technology? Then my intensive biohacking course The Alchemist's Guide to Biohacking (http://bio.ax/) is something you should consider becoming a student of. Use the code "HALF" during the first month of this podcast being launched to get 50% off lifetime access, with all future updates. Check out this biohacking course at: http://bio.ax/    SUPPORT I spend a ton of time putting together this podcast, and would love your support. Whether as simple as reviewing this podcast, to checking out the products I recommend, or even becoming a student of my intensive biohacking course "The Alchemist's Guide To Biohacking", I appreciate every human who supports me, however large or small the action. ITUNES: https://apple.co/2GQnXH2  SUB ON GOOGLE: https://bit.ly/2SbvJ05  BIOHACKING COURSE: http://bio.ax/