The Goji Berry a Nutritionally Dense Super Food

The Goji berry or wolfberry as it is sometimes called comes from the mountainous regions of Asia.  This little elliptical shaped red berries really pack a nutritional punch.  They have 18 amino acids, 21 minerals, and more beta-carotene than any other food on earth.  A polysaccharide that is found in the Goji berry is one of the same that is used to secrete human growth hormone, with makes the Goji berry truly a gift of youth.  In addition to all this they have exorbitant amounts of vitamin C, and have the most antioxidants of any other food on this planet.

The benefits of this berry are immense, including but not limited to:  weight loss, aiding in eye sight, lowering cholesterol, having a stronger immune system, lowering blood-pressure, and blood sugar, and more.  While many of these claims are anecdotal and have yet to be proved by science, there have been tests with Lycium Barbarum, the scientific name of the Goji Berry, on animals.  These tests found that there may have been some anti-cancer, anti macular degeneration effects, improvement in inflammatory and cardiovascular diseases.  There even is stories about a man from Asia who lived to be 252 years old from the Goji Berry.

So the next time you go to a nutrition store, give Goji berries a try.  There are nature's next super food, and who knows how many more benefits they could have.

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