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Why should you eat Fermented & pickled food? – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Transcript:People have enjoyed fermented food for about 10,000 years without knowing the health benefits they provide. In our own parent’s homes, there was always a bottle of pickled onions with chillies on the dining table to serve with rice and curry, but today was more likely replaced by a chilli sauce. People down the ages fermented foods to preserve them. Today other than the homemade pickles, you could start with fermented foods such as Greek yoghurt, kefir, sourdough bread, and drinks like kombucha in the supermarkets. These fermented foods contain specific strains of good bacteria and yeast naturally found, but you could add these cultures to other foods. In your large bowel, there are trillions of good bacteria looking after your health and wellbeing and harmful bacteria that can harm you. Eating fermented and pickled foods as ...

What are Vasodilators and what are they used for? By Dr harold Gunatillake Transcript: Vasodilatation is the basic principle involved in control of high blood pressure. Narrowing of your blood vessels is a normal phenomenon as we get older due to thickening of the vessel walls, narrowing the lumen, and to the action of angiotensin 11 derived from inactive angiotensin 1 due to catalyzing effect by angiotensin converting enzyme, and making the heart pump with more force for the distribution of oxygenated blood with micro-nutrients- resulting in high blood pressure. All antihypertensive medication aims at causing vasodilatation of blood vessels and slowing of the heart rate. Vaso refers relative to blood vessels and dilatation of such vessels is possible due to the smooth muscle content in the vessel wall. Widening of blood vessels do occur that aren’t due to underlying diseases. Examples include warm temperatures such as time spent ...