What's In My Medicine Cabinet? (Hint - you might be surprised!)
What this video covers
A 2016 Food Babe TV episode in which Hari opens her medicine cabinet and reveals what she actually keeps in it — and the answer is ginger. The centerpiece of the video is a simple one-ingredient ginger tea, which she demonstrates making, and which her accompanying post claims “knocks out inflammation & pain better than drugs.”
Hari argues that the typical American diet — loaded with sugar, salt, and additives — leaves the body chronically inflamed, and that this chronic inflammation works against weight loss and is linked, in her telling, to most major diseases including heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. She presents ginger as a “true superfood” she eats almost daily, adding it to fresh-pressed juices and cooking, and offers the tea as the simplest way to get it into one’s diet. These are Hari’s claims about ginger and inflammation, not medical findings presented by this site.
Key points
- Hari reveals her “medicine cabinet” centers on ginger, which she says she eats almost every day.
- She demonstrates a one-ingredient ginger tea and claims it knocks out inflammation and pain better than drugs — her claim, not an established medical finding.
- She argues chronic inflammation from the typical American diet works against weight loss and is linked to major diseases — her framing.
- She calls ginger a “true superfood” and describes adding it to juices and cooking.
- This is a food-demonstration video; nothing here is medical advice, and readers should consult qualified health providers about inflammation or pain.
- A standout travel tip in the video: she says she carries finely chopped ginger in a thermos, gets a coffee shop to fill it with hot water after airport security (tipping the barista), and drinks ginger tea on the plane.