Superfoods Part 2: Extracts | Healthy Mind | Alternative Health | Life Enthusiast Podcast | Podcast #236

Published: July 5, 2011, 3 p.m.


 

Our civilization is starving for nutrients that are lacking in our food chain. Now more than ever, supplementation is crucial for health, because nutrients have been depleted from our soils, and destroyed in the processing & cooking of almost all the foods we eat.

This type of malnutrition can be the cause of pain and chronic degenerative diseases. Even though caloric intake is abundant, many bodies lack proper nourishment. Superfoods provide the building blocks that are missing in a typical diet. They are an excellent way to provide natural, living energy for your body.

The components contained within our products are dried with utmost care, to preserve the inherent life giving enzymatic activity.

Ashwagandha Extract

Ashwagandha is also known as Withania somnifera, Indian ginseng, Winter cherry, Ajagandha, Kanaje Hindi, Amukkuram in Malayalam and Samm Al Ferakh. It is a plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family and grows as a shrub. It bears yellow flowers and yellow-orange to red berry-type fruit in size and shape. Ashwagandha grows prolifically in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

It is commercially cultivated in Madhya Pradesh (a state in India). Historically ashwagandha root has also been noted to have sex-enhancing properties.

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Mangosteen Extract

The Caribbeans make a concoction made from the mangosteen fruit that is effective in curing fatigue.

Strengthens your immunity, to fight diseases and infections.

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Tribulus Terrestris Saponins

Tribulus Terrestris Saponins increases the body’s ability to produce testosterone, and has long been used in traditional Asian medicines to treat sexual problems in men.

North Americans involved in body building, know it to be a testosterone booster, used to help build muscle, gain weight, increase libido and benefit overall male sexuality.

Tribulus Terrestris Saponins has been used in traditional medicine throughout China and India for centuries.

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Turmeric Extract

Our Turmeric is dried, then ground into a deep orange-yellow powder commonly used as a spice in curries and other South Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine. Its also used for dyeing, and to impart color to mustard condiments.

Its active ingredient is curcumin and it has a distinctly earthy, slightly bitter, slightly hot peppery flavor and a mustardy smell. Although usually used in its dried, powdered form, turmeric is also used fresh, much like ginger. Our Turmeric has a 95% curcumin value.

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Valerian

Valerian is best known for its calming effect, making it popular for sleep troubles and anxiety.

Benefits of Valerian Extract

  • natural sleep aid
  • stress and anxiety
  • menstrual cramps
  • headaches
  • muscle spasms
  • nervous restlessness
  • stress-related digestive disorders.

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Mucuna Pruriens

Mucuna Pruriens can enhance your libido and sexuality by improving your testosterone production, mood and energy.

  • Improve your mood and feeling of well-being
  • May help fertility issues including protecting sperm from oxidative damage
  • Sharper mental functions
  • Better sleep
  • Increase muscle and decrease fat
  • Increase bone density to help reverse osteoporosis
  • Smoother skin
  • Stronger immune system
  • Healthier cholesterol
  • Supplement for use with Parkinson's disease
  • Antioxidant properties too.

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Shilajit Powder

Taken alone, Shilajit will strengthen your immune system, fortify cells and muscles, and can be used as an antioxidant, an anti-stressor, an anti-allergen, and an anti-asthmatic.

It contains at least 85 minerals in Ionic form, as well as humic and fulvic acid.

It's composed of humus and organic plant material that has been compressed by layers of rock and mixed with microbial metabolites. This humus and organic plant matter then oozes from the rocks of the Himalayas as they become warm in the summer months. It is said to carry the healing power of the great mountains from where it is sourced.

Shilajit is an important herb of the ancient Hindu material medica and is currently used extensively by the Hindu physicians for a variety of diseases. Traditional uses primarily focus on diabetes and diseases of the urinary tract, but also include edema, tumors, wasting, epilepsy and even insanity.

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Green Coffee Bean Extract

Strong antioxidant properties similar to green tea and grape seed extract.
While most people can benefit from Green Coffee Bean Extract, specific groups have already found benefits, such as:

  • Diabetes - reduces the risk for developing type II diabetes
  • Lowers blood pressure
  • Fights muscle fatigue
  • Suppress appetite
  • Migraine sufferers - the extract increases effectiveness of pain killers
  • Lowers the risk of liver disease

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