The Vinegar Shot

Everyone's afraid of vinegar. Put a few drops in my salad, but I'm not drinking it. Few things fit into the digestive tuning as well as apple cider vinegar.

Maybe you haven't had any vinegar other than the 30Kč one from Albert, which is used to clean toilets and pour over cider. Maybe you know good vinegar, but nothing has compelled you to incorporate it into your habits.

Anyway - it's going to hurt, but it's worth it!

Proven to lower blood sugar

When you have high blood sugar for a long time, you are falling into an abyss of interconnected problems that is hard to escape from later in life. Excess sugar builds up on blood vessels and gradually destroys nerve fibres. That's why diabetics can't feel their fingers and their leg dies.

Apart from the classic exercise, living in the mountains and other hard to apply advice, we can get into the habit of reducing sugar with a good fermented vinegar.

Vinegar helps:

1. a little vinegar before a meal increases stomach acid production and thus supports digestion
2. lowers cholesterol and blood pressure, so if you have cholesterol above 5.2mm/l so quickly go for the vinegar and include healthy fatty
3. acid bacteriathe vinegar supports healthy microflora in the digestive tract and thus increases immunity
4. lowers hunger and appetite, which some of us may find useful

Watch out for the enamel

To get the bowel activity going and boost immunity, it's a good idea to drink vinegar on an empty stomach, before rather than after meals. This is for a similar reason to brushing your teeth before breakfast. Vinegar is antimicrobial, so it will kill the bacteria that have multiplied in our mouths overnight.

But for the sake of your enamel, it's important to wash down a shot of vinegar with plain water to wash away the acidity. Or dilute it straight into your water. It's not a sign of sappiness and it will help you anyway.

The basis of drinks

Probably the most fun vinegar drink with a long tradition is the Tinkerbell - 1:1 vinegar with rum and a broken toothpick. An excellent drink for increasing intestinal permeability.

But besides that, there are Shrubs. Vinegar with a fruit component and water. Complex, fun with endless combinations. We have shrubs on tap at the nitro bar at Jungmanak, different every time.

Watch yourself.

If your trunk is still heaving after the tenth try, neither diluting it with water nor smaller doses helped, just don't drink it. The body will eventually tell itself what is a good idea for it and what it can't have right now. Just don't give up on vinegar altogether and try it maybe at a different time of year.

And to all those who are getting used to it, good luck! Old age will thank you.