the goji berries come from Tibet and southern China, where the popular medicine credited with revitalizing properties. So far everything normal, another Berry of the many that exist in the world herbal medicine (medicine based on the use of herbal medicines) recommended for dealing with exhaustion and tiredness.
Goji juice is possibly one of the most powerful foods against aging discovered to date ”
with these statements the controversial Earl Mindell unleashed the Pandora’s box again. This pharmaceutical has become known for his wild theories on food and micronutrient, came to recommend e.g. foods high in DNA and RNA to prevent aging, when it is well known for the biochemistry that these acids decompose to be absorbed in the intestine and that our body hardly can suffer a deficiency of something so vital to our cells. But despite suffering his thesis in pharmacology and medicine, the news has spread throughout the blogosphere seems nevertheless demonstrated that these berries have a complex of polÃsacarido-protein (glycoprotein, LBP) acts of in vitro antioxidant, i.e. in the laboratory. But they say studies in people? well, to tell the truth, there is only one study. It was made by the University of California and Tufts University School of Medicine, which sought to if the level of antioxidants increased in the blood of 50 patients, 30 days and taking 120 daily ml of juice berries.
The study showed that two enzymes antioxidant main increased by 9.9% and 8.4% (her superoxido dismutase and Glutathione peroxidada), in turn effect of free radicals declined 8.7%. So far there has been more studies to analyze the effectiveness of these berries as antioxidants, if some who study their potential benefits in the immune system, but so far in laboratory and animal phase. In other words, so far, the scientific community does not give good these supposed effects without further studies, studies that should be on people.
Contraindicación:
there are at least two investigations which have been determined to interfere with warfarin, an anticoagulant medication, destabilizing these patient according to the Department of pharmacy of the University of Washington and Department of therapeutic medicine of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Once stopped the consumption of berries clotting levels returned to normal.
Tags: Berries, phytotherapy, goji
