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Got Goji? February 2006
By Deborah Doc Watson
If you had a choice how long would you choose to live? You probably think this is a silly question since we know we can’t live forever, but, what I am referring to here is living not only a long life but a healthy one as well. Around the world people of other cultures have longer life spans than we do here in the United States. In fact, only 3.3 percent of the US population will live to blow out the candles on their 80th birthday cake.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, most of us can expect an average lifespan of approximately 77 years and since I am almost at the three quarter mark (56 years of age) that doesn’t sound very reassuring. Of those people who live to at least 55, a full 20 percent will have some degree of impairment. By the ages of 65 to 74, fully one-third of us will be impaired in our ability to walk, remember, or perform simple tasks and by the age of 75 nearly half of us will require outside assistance.
In some remote locations around the world, life expectancy of more than 100 years is not uncommon? But it isn’t just the fact that they live a long time, they also enjoy abundant health and happiness, and unlike us they are virtually free from the ravages of disease — diseases that we see in our society like fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety, panic disorder, sexual dysfunction, chronic fatigue syndrome. In fact, their vocabularies have no words for these debilitating conditions and yet these conditions have become all too familiar to us.
Extreme longevity and health are not exclusive to just a few small hamlets but many pockets of longevity around the world. They probably don’t know each other but they have all share some important traits.
· They live in isolated and sometimes inaccessible places, away from the harmful influences of modern Western cilivization. That means they don’t eat processed or “fast foods”.
· Their diet primarily consists of fresh fruits, vegetable and whole grains, with some animal protein but low animal fat.
· Many of the world’s longest living people consume on a regular daily basis a tiny red fruit that is considered to be the world’s most powerful anti-aging food: the goji berry.
If you haven’t heard of the goji berry before you are not alone. In Central Asia the people there love and cherish this berry so much that they devote two weeks every year to festivals in the berry’s honor. Also know as the “happy berry”, goji has a number of health benefits that anyone wanting to extend their lifespan would take on a daily basis. Here are the top benefits of Goji:
1. Extends life, protecting your body from premature aging through its powerful antioxidant action.
2. Increases your energy and strength, especially when fighting disease.
3. Goji stimulates the secretion of hGH (human growth hormone), the “youth hormone”.
4. Strengthens your heart, maintains healthy blood pressure and reduces cholesterol
5. Promotes normal blood sugar in early adult-onset diabetes
6. Enhances sexual function and treats sexual dysfunction
7. Helps you lose weight
8. Relieves insomnia and improves quality of sleep
9. Supports eye health and improves your vision
10. Relieves headaches and dizziness
11. Improves disease resistance
12. Builds strong blood, enhancing production of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets
13. Supports healthy liver function
14. Treats menopausal symptoms
15. Prevents morning sickness in the first trimester of pregnancy
16. Improves fertility
17. Strengthens your muscles and bones
18. Improves your memory and recall ability
19. Supports normal kidney function
20. Helps chronic dry cough
21. Alleviates anxiety & stress and promotes cheerfulness and elevates mood.
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Some of the areas of study are:
· Cancer prevention
· Cancer treatment
· Inhibition of tumor growth
· Reduction of the toxic effects of chemotherapy and radiation
· DNA restoration and repair (preventing mutations that can cause cancer)
· Improvement in immune response
· Treatment of bone marrow deficiency
· Improvement in lymphocyte count
· Activation of anti-inflammatory enzymes
· Inhibition of lipid peroxidation
· Treatment of weakened digestion
· Rejuvenation of blood
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Modern research confirms ancient wisdom that goji berries have health giving properties and we are seeing more and more studies being released supporting the use of goji berries and goji juice. To find the right goji, go to your local health food store and ask or Genesis Today Goji 100 juice. These are the finest Goji products on the market today. If you can’t find these Goji products then give Doc Watson a call at 480.897.1476.
I have always believed the old adage I attribute to Ben Franklin, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” In this case and ounce of Goji a day can be a fine way to get your antioxidants and get you on the road to healthy longevity. Don’t delay, get started on a program today to achieve optimal health instead of chasing symptoms. Take the road less traveled, that can make all the different.
Doc Watson’s Health Stuff is an eclectic health food store that employs naturopathic physicians. We carry a more unusual mix of nutritional supplements, herbs, homeopathic remedies and essential oils. At Doc Watson’s we believe that we should be reducing the body burden so as to maintain better health and to that end we only carry skin care products that contain no chemicals harmful to the body. For more information about our many products or for a free nutritional consultation, give us a call at Doc Watson’s and set up you appointment today. You will be glad you did. Tune in to the Deborah Doc Watson Show every week day between the hours of 5 and 7pm EST and take that first step to a healthier happy more fulfilling existance. And remember, “Let the journey begin”.
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