She Could Barely Walk — Then She Started Eating Onion Every Day. Here’s What Makes This Humble Vegetable So Interesting

For years, she had treated onions as nothing more than the beginning of dinner.

Chop them. Fry them. Add them to soup.

But when stiff, tired-feeling legs and aching joints began making everyday movement less enjoyable, she became interested in the old natural remedies her family had once used—and onion kept appearing again and again.

No food can literally take someone who cannot walk and suddenly make them “run like a teenager.” But onion contains a fascinating collection of sulfur compounds and flavonoids, particularly quercetin, that researchers have investigated in

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