| Goji (Lycium barbarum - Latin). | | | | They named them Lycium barbarum polysaccharides |
| Through the ages, legends abound about this | | | | (LBP). |
| miraculous fruit, the goji berry. There are festivals | | | | Research suggests that goji's unique polysaccharides |
| held to celebrate its goodness, and a poem was | | | | control and command many of the body's most |
| written in its honor. | | | | important biochemical defense systems. |
| During the Tang Dynasty (around 800 AD), a well | | | | Since its discovery in the Himalayas, those who know |
| had been dug beside a wall near a famous Buddhist | | | | of the remarkable goji berry are awed by its |
| temple that was covered with goji vines. Over the | | | | unmatched health-promoting powers. |
| years, countless berries had fallen into the well. Those | | | | Scientific research from major universities around the |
| who prayed there had the ruddy complexion of good | | | | world has validated the remarkable health benefits of |
| health, and even at the age of eighty they had no | | | | the goji berry claimed by the Himalayan Healers |
| white hair and had lost no teeth, simply because they | | | | thousands of years ago. Over 50 studies have |
| drank the water from the well. | | | | already been published in prestigious health journals, |
| It is said that the Himalayans were the first natural | | | | including: |
| healers, and that they shared their wisdom with the | | | | British Journal of Nutrition, International |
| ancient herbalists of China, Tibet, and India. One of | | | | Immunopharmacology, Journal of Chinese Herbal |
| their most prized secrets was the fruit of the native | | | | Medicine, Journal of Ethno pharmacology China |
| goji vine, which had been flourishing in the Himalayan | | | | Pharmacology and Toxicology, Chinese Herb News |
| valleys since the beginning of time. Those who came | | | | Magazine Research Communications Molecular |
| there to learn took the goji home with them and | | | | Pathology and Pharmacology Chinese Patent Herbs, |
| planted it in their own valleys, thus spreading the | | | | Chinese Herbs, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery |
| legend of this most marvelous and healthful fruit. | | | | Chinese Oncology Magazine, Hygiene Research, |
| The people of Central Asia who love and cherish | | | | Physiology Academic Journal Chinese Stomatology, |
| these goji berries so much that they devote two | | | | And Many More... |
| weeks every year to festivals in their honor. | | | | This tiny fruit revealed itself to be quite possibly the |
| Scientists realized four primary bioactive | | | | most nutritionally dense food on earth! |
| polysaccharides were discovered in Lycium barbarum. | | | | |