Cherries absolutely rock! Especially tart cherries… What’s even better than both of them though? Tart cherry juice. While it might not seem that exciting, it really is, seeing as it’s chock-full of amazing antioxidants and nutrients, which all help to improve your sleep quality as well as improving a vast number of other things in your body. It’s one of the absolute best ways you can start the day, tasty, pretty and filled with tons of awesome health benefits.
Among the many healthy things that tart cherry juice has in it are anthocyanins, Melatonin and antioxidants… All vital substances for your body remaining at peak performance levels. Now, onto the health benefits we’ve been talking about.
1. Helps You Sleep
Up first, the sleeping benefit we talked about earlier… Because cherries have so much melatonin in them, especially considering how much they have compared to other foods, it’s unfortunate that people don’t know just how powerful this one antioxidant is at helping one sleep at night, which then let’s you wake up feeling refreshed and energized, ready to tackle the day head-on, instead of waking up feeling groggy, sluggish and without any will to get up or do anything at all.
2. Reduces Joint Pain
The second amazing health benefit on our list is the fact that tart cherries, because of these super-powerful little things called anthocyanins, actually help reduce joint pain in the body. Why? Because the anthocyanins are little compounds that are extremely skilled at inhibiting both Cox-1 and Cox-2, both of which are enzymes that are responsible lot’s of pain and inflammation in the body. What’s more is that when compared many over-the-counter pain relieving drugs (such as aspirin) it can be as much as 10X STRONGER when it comes to reducing joint-pain or inflammation.
3. Regulates Blood Sugar
One of the many metabolic benefits that tart cherries offer is to act as a blood sugar level regulator. The way that it does this is by lowering the body’s insulin levels (if they’re high) and therefore lowering someone’s high blood pressure… They also lower cholesterol, which in turn lowers the risk of a heart attack and other heart ailments by a great deal. They even maintain proper, healthy levels of metabolism while still letting the body work hard on decreasing other unhealthy things in the body.
4. Anti-Aging Benefits
While it’s not exactly a miracle, reverse aging cure for getting older, it certainly possesses the ability help with keeping you feeling and looking younger. This is mainly because the absolutely insane amount of super-duper healthy antioxidants that it contains. A whopping total that comes out to 17… Also, that little thing that we talked about earlier called melatonin, it’s actually been shown to SLOW DOWN the aging process in a natural, healthy way.
5. Hydrates Your Body
We all know that we’re supposed to stay hydrated, but next time you’re feeling thirsty or trying to get your recommended amount of water each day, try drinking some tart cherry juice instead. It possesses the same hydrating properties, but has zingy taste to it, as well as all the benefits we’ve mentioned before. Note: If drinking straight tart cherry juice is too much for you (and we wouldn’t be surprised if it is) try mixing it with a bit of water beforehand in order to cut down on just how strong it is.
