Black Pepper is the cooked and dried unripe fruit of the flowering vine Piper nigrum. The healing spice is packed with antioxidants that reduce inflammation and increase nutrient bioavailability and absorption. Piperine, Black Pepper’s anti-inflammatory constituent, reduces oxidative stress and the risk of chronic diseases. Piperine improves blood sugar metabolism, which is why NutraTea herbalists included it in the tea NutraTrim. NutraTrim helps support weight management, stimulates metabolic rate and removal of toxins, and helps control blood sugar levels and cravings.
Piperine and anti-inflammatory antioxidants reduce pain and swelling caused by inflammation, especially in the joints. NutraTea herbalists crafted NutraJoint with piperine extract for a resilient blend that helps deliver relief from painful inflammation and promotes overall joint wellbeing. Another healing tea that incorporates piperine extract is NutraUric, an alleviating blend of natural diuretics that help ease the swelling surrounding joints, flush out uric acid, and minimize uncomfortable inflammation. Read on to discover why Black Pepper was once called black gold!
Black Pepper contains:
- Vitamin K, Vitamin E, Vitamin A, Thiamine (B1), Riboflavin (B2), Pantothenic Acid (B5), and Vitamin B6.
- Manganese, Copper, Iron, Calcium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Selenium, Zinc, and Chromium
- Piperine
Fights Inflammation
The five classic signs of inflammation are pain, heat, swelling, redness, and loss of function. Your body experiences harmful stimulation, and so it sends a bunch of plasma and leukocytes from the blood to the injured tissue. Inflammation is your body’s innate response to injury, infection, or irritation. Your body uses inflammation to clear out damaged cells and begin tissue repair. Acute inflammation is how your body mends an injury like a sprained ankle over a relatively short period of time. However, too much inflammation over too long a period of time, known as chronic inflammation, causes oxidative damage, often leading to diseases like inflammatory arthritis. inflammatory arthritis causes pain, swelling, and stiffness in the joints that prevent normal use of the affected joints.
Black pepper is composed of 5-9% piperine, a white crystalline alkaloid that gives pepper its unique spiciness. Piperine protects your body from the pain and damage of chronic inflammation. It is particularly effective at improving inflammatory symptoms of arthritis and osteoarthritis. Nociception is the process of nociceptors in the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system being activated by harmful stimuli like tissue injury and extreme temperature. Nociceptors activating is where the feeling of pain comes from. Piperine reduces nociceptive pain. It also reduces arthritic pain, particularly of the ankles.
Whether you have inflammatory arthritis or sprained your ankle, NutraJoint tea can help. The NutraJoint blend combines the anti-inflammatory powers of piperine and turmeric’s active constituent curcumin. Piperine helps the body absorb curcumin by up to 2,000% more than if you drank turmeric tea alone. Gout is the most common type of inflammatory arthritis. NutraUric tea can help treat gout, which occurs when urate crystals form in the joints. Thanks to piperine, NutraUric helps ease pain and swelling and flushes out uric acid.
Blood Sugar Metabolism
Piperine has the potential to help manage diabetes; it enhances the blood glucose regulating effect of diabetes medication such as metformin. This could make it possible for people with diabetes to take a smaller amount of diabetes medication. In cases of obesity-induced diabetes, metabolic inflammation causes insulin resistance. Piperine’s anti-inflammatory effects have an immunomodulating influence. It improves glucose intolerance and insulin resistance in obesity-induced diabetes. NutraTrim is a tea blend that harnesses Black Pepper’s blood-sugar regulating effect.
Nutrient Absorption
Black Pepper’s piperine can improve digestion by stimulating hydrochloric acid production in the stomach. It’s a carminative, so it decreases gas buildup in the intestines. It also increases absorption of nutrients like iron and beta-carotene. Black pepper even boosts white blood cells, which fight harmful bacteria and viruses.
Black Gold
Black Pepper was discovered in 1819 by Hans Christian Ørsted, who isolated it from the fruits of Piper nigrum. The trailing vine plant is antive to the tropical forests of southwest India. Both black and white pepper come from Piper nigrum; white peppercorns are simply black peppercorns soaked in water to remove the skins. Black peppercorns are spicier than white peppercorns. Black Pepper was known in ancient times as “black gold” and was an acceptable form of currency.
