Anyone who’s cracked open a cold ginger ale on a bumpy plane ride knows that ginger has a unique and soothing spiciness to it.
Ginger is a tropical plant that produces an array of large, colorful flowers. For over 5,000 years, people have used its brown, knobby root as both a food and a medicine. Ginger was a highly sought-after and expensive commodity throughout the Roman Empire and Medieval Europe.
The enduring popularity of ginger is, well, rooted, in the wide array of conditions it’s purported to treat, from digestive issues to migraines. Credible studies have found that it may even stave off cancer. We were curious about whether adding a daily ginger shot to your routine for a week would yield any kind of noticeable difference to how you generally felt going about your day. Here's what happened.
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