Simon Mills

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1,403 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard 26 Dec

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We call it coffee.

You ground the coffee into a sludge at the bottom, pour a bit of hot water and drink that straight.

that's bitter.

So if you ever had an espresso without sugar, that's a bitter.

And that was used as a digestive.

In other words, after you're eating, it would help cope with some pretty rough food.

So bitters were always seen to be good for your digestion and appetite.

And in fever, that actually meant lowering your body temperature.

And we can see that happening.

It means that some of the anger out here just gets sublimated into digestion.

So that was where the bitters got their cooling reputation.

We can now laugh at this as all medieval nonsense.

But the point that I keep coming back to when I'm seeing patients, I start with that blank sheet of paper.

It's because the only test of what these do to you is to take it.

And as you notice with your ginger and cinnamon, you don't need long.

You've got it there straight up.

And, you know, if I give a bitter to somebody and someone is really bitter, they will know within an hour or so what effect it's having.

straight for them.

Not straight alternative, but in improving your natural resistance, particularly to viruses and such like.

then there is evidence for both vitamin D and vitamin C, but also zinc as backups in subform, supplement form, that do seem to add vitamin C.

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