| While you may not have heard of it, goji berry | | | | themselves. |
| juice is probably one of the best fruits for | | | | Today, you can find several types of goji berries |
| anti-aging that is available today. Known as lyceum | | | | that grow throughout the world. Now that the |
| barbarum, the goji berry is rapidly becoming a | | | | goji berries are more available, more people are |
| popular new herbal remedy. | | | | discovering their healthful properties. Even so, it is |
| The goji berry has been used in traditional Asian | | | | the Himalayan variety of goji berry that are so |
| medicine for a long time. In fact, it has probably | | | | potent. People that buy goji berries should |
| been used for several millennia. Among | | | | consider what they are purchasing when they are |
| non-Asians, the berry is not commonly used. | | | | picking out their goji berry product. |
| In Asian medicine, it has been noted that the | | | | Scientists have found four different |
| more goji berry a person consumes, the longer | | | | polysaccharides, also called phytonutrients, in the |
| they live. While scientists don't know much about | | | | pulp and skin of goji berries. These |
| goji berries yet, it is believed to have a strong | | | | polysaccharides carry out the function of directing |
| impact on aging. | | | | and carrying messages from one cell to another |
| It was probably somewhere in the Himalayas that | | | | inside of the human body. Some herbal |
| the very first traditional healers discovered the | | | | researchers call these polysaccharides "master |
| amazing abilities of goji berries. These were the | | | | molecules" because they appear to have the |
| first people to share what they knew about goji | | | | ability to control a lot of different bodily functions, |
| berries and their potential to maximize a persons | | | | including those of the immune system. |
| life expectancy with the other herbalists in India, | | | | When you buy goji berries from the Himalayas, |
| China and Tibet. It was felt by the herbalists that | | | | they have very even levels of the different |
| the fruit of the goji vine imparted anti-aging | | | | polysaccharides and are more dense in nutrients |
| properties. Herbalists from other areas of Asia | | | | than the berries that are grown elsewhere in the |
| took the vine home and grew the berries | | | | world. |