Moringa/Malunggay is the Super-food of all Super-foods!
Although there is no single food that can give us all the nutrition we need, Moringa oleifera comes closer than anything else. Moringa, with its 90-plus nutritional compounds, is the most nutrient dense plant discovered to date. Moringa possesses an astonishing array of health benefits.
Moringa is jam-packed with vitamins, minerals and amino acids; it is the only plant that contains all the 8 essential amino acids (those the body cannot produce itself). Moringa leaves pack a LOT of protein calcium, potassium, magnesium, zinc, sulfur, Vitamins A,E,K,D,C and the Vitamin B vitamin family.
The Moringa tree’s benefits are so significant it is known as “The Tree of Life” and “The Miracle tree”.
Moringa contains over 90 verifiable nutrients.
Moringa contains significant amounts of Vitamins B, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, D, and E, polyphenols (antioxidants), other minerals, fibre, and is one of the highest, naturally occurring sources of chlorophyll. Chlorophyll, the green pigment of plants is more abundant in Moringa than any other plant, containing 4 times the amount found in wheat-grass. Chlorophyll stimulates healing by rejuvenating the body at the cellular level, strengthening the immune system and naturally cleansing the body of toxins.
Why is Moringa better than a vitamin pill?
Moringa has high bio-availability, so all of it’s complex nutrients go to work in your body very quickly, giving a noticeable boost to energy levels and increasing well-being. Reported Bioavailability of Whole Plant Minerals contained in Moringa leaves and pods: Calcium – Up to 8.79 times more bio-available.
Chromium – Up to 25 times more bio-available.
Copper – 1.85 time more retained in the liver.
Iron – 1.77 times more absorbed into blood.
Magnesium – Up to 2.20 times more bio-available.
Manganese – 1.63 times more retained in the liver.
Molybdenum – 16.49 times more absorbed into blood.
Selenium – Up to 17.60 times the antioxidant effect.
Zinc -6.46 times more absorbed into blood.
How can Moringa Oleifera benefit YOU?
The following effects are consistently observed by those who regularly consume Moringa: Increased physical energy – Tune your body up with naturally occurring nutrients to make your energy last longer
Emotional balance – Moringa oleifera’s amazingly powerful nutrient compounds help restore stability to the chemicals that govern our thoughts and emotions. You have to experience it to appreciate it!
Mental alertness– Moringa, with 10 times more Beta-carotene, than that of carrots and 25 times more iron, than that of spinach and rich in vitamin E, improves the oxygen absorption ability of the blood by increasing the hemoglobin content. As the oxygen supplied to the brain increases, the functionality of the brain is stimulated. Those who take Moringa tablets regularly report enhanced mental clarity.
Faster recovery – the complete amino profile, along with dozens of vitamins and minerals, makes it an ideal recovery food after challenging workouts and physical strain.
Nutrient-dense mother’s milk – Increased iron, potassium, Vitamins A, B, C, E, and dozens of other important nutrients are all readily absorbed from Moringa oleifera and transferred from mother’s milk to the growing newborn. No wonder Moringa is called ‘Mother’s Best Friend’ in cultures across Africa!
Healthy blood sugar levels – antioxidants and unique regulating compounds help control blood sugar and keep the blood free of unhealthy substances.
Helps to eliminate food cravings– By supplying the body with adequate nutrition Moringa can act as an appetite suppressant, useful for weight-loss.
Other benefits of Moringa include increased flexibility, improved sensory perception, better sleep cycles, decreased depression and anxiety, and improved memory.
Moringa has been used to help those with diabetes, to decrease the pain of arthritis and increase joint motility, reduce high blood pressure, and to shrink tumours. The use of Moringa for medicinal purposes may seem to have its roots in folklore and myth, but modern science is now discovering this miracle tree and many claims about Moringa have been validated. Over the past 20 years a great number of reports have appeared in mainstream scientific journals describing the nutritional and medicinal properties of Moringa.
“He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything”-Arabian Proverb.
Why do we need to supplement our diets?
The consumption of chemically laden overly processed foods means that most of us have compromised digestive systems, making it nearly impossible to get all the right nutrients, all the time.
Who needs to supplement their diet? Everyone!
People who do not supplement their diets are at higher risk for degenerative diseases. Without the proper nutrients needed to do their job, our bodies fight a losing battle to keep us healthy, and the resulting pain, sickness and disease is what many have come to believe is a normal part of growing old.
A hundred years ago the leading causes of death were infectious diseases such as influenza, pneumonia, and diphtheria. Today the leading causes of death and disability are heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, arthritis, and other degenerative and often painful diseases. This change is due predominantly to the poor nutritional content and quality of our food supply.
The food we consume today is less nutritious than food grown 60 years ago. This has been shown by studies carried out in Britain in 1991 and more recently by the University of Texas and due in large part to soil depletion through excessive tillage and the use of NPK fertiliser and high yield varieties.
While fertilisers cause plants to grow bigger and faster, they do nothing to increase the plants’ ability to absorb nutrients. Often trace minerals are leached from the soils because ”artificially loaded’ plants are unable to take up these nutrients.
Research has also found that plants have a fixed amount of energy and varieties with high yields may not have the energy to absorb enough nutrients from the soil to fully supply that high yield. Studies now demonstrate that onions have 75% less calcium, potatoes 35% less calcium and 45% less iron, spinach 60% less iron, cabbage 71% less iron, and carrots 75% less magnesium than their counterparts grown in the 1940’s.
The health of your body is determined by the health of your cells.
Cells are constantly being renewed by the body. Our skin is totally replaced every 27 days and our skeleton is renewed every two years. Every day billions of cells replace the ones that came before. Each and every regeneration must be a perfect copy for the body to remain in a state of health over the long term. This process of cell regeneration can be disrupted by a number of things, such as pollution in the air, water, and soil, radiation from the sun, stress, lifestyle choices, poor sleep and especially from consumption of our overly processed foods.
Is inflammation the root of all disease?
Acute inflammation is characterized by the redness, heat, swelling, and pain that is the immune system’s normal response to infection or injury. Immune cells congregate at the site so that they can overwhelm and dispose of infectious organisms or debris from injury. Healing can then take place. But there’s another kind of inflammation—low-grade, chronic, and “systemic.”
This type of low-grade inflammation is now thought by an increasing number of researchers to be associated with many diseases, so much so that some researchers now believe that low-grade inflammation is associated with everything from heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and arthritis. It may even prove be the cause of most chronic diseases.
Independent studies that appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine say inflammation is as potent as cholesterol. An article in Men’s Health (Dec 2004), Bonfires of the Arteries, concurs, reporting that “inflammation is the slow burn that sparks thousands of heart attack and strokes every year”.
“Half of all heart attacks and strokes in the United States each year occur among people with essentially normal cholesterol levels. There is more to heart disease than just lipids. A heart attack occurs when plaque ruptures inside your vessels. Rupturing is not dependent just on how much plaque is present, but also on the level of inflammation”. (Paul Ridker, MD, Harvard Medical School).
The University of South Florida found in 2003 that chronic inflammation due to estrogen deficiency may be linked to increased vulnerability to degenerative conditions such as arthritis, osteoporosis, atherosclerosis, and Alzheimer’s disease in postmenopausal women. There is an easy way to test for inflammation, since it can prompt the liver to produce a protein in the blood known as C-reactive protein (CRP). Elevated levels of CRP often accompany or signal an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. This may help explain why many people who suffer heart attacks have normal blood cholesterol levels and no other identifiable risk factors.
Scientists have been searching for the missing pieces of this puzzle, and inflammation might be one of them.
Moringa contains 36 known anti-inflammatory compounds: Vitamin A, Vitamin B1 (Thiamin), Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Arginine, Beta-sitosterol, Caffeoylquinic Acid, Calcium, Chlorophyll, Copper, Cystine, Omega 3, Omega 6, Omega 9, Fiber, Glutathione, Histidine, Indole Acetic Acid, Indoleacetonitrile, Isoleucine, Kaempferal, Leucine, Magnesium, Oleic-Acid, Phenylalanine, Potassium, Quercetin, Rutin, Selenium, Stigmasterol, Sulfur, Tryptophan, Tyrosine, Zeatin, Zinc.
Helping the body to deal with stress
Stress and tension have become a part of many people’s lives. The pressure of modern life can greatly contribute to the development of many Western diseases. Diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases often have at their foundation a stressful lifestyle. The emotional toll of our competitive world can exacerbate the breakdown of our physical bodies.
Stress is now widely understood by medical researchers to generate the production of free radicals in the body. Free radicals constantly “attack” other cells in the body, trying to steal the extra electron they require from normal healthy cells. The increase in the rate of this oxidative process contributes to the ageing of the body and the creation for the right conditions in which disease can flourish.
Anti-oxidants are elements that provide the body with free atoms it needs to combat the effect of free radicals.
Antioxidants such as vitamins A, C, E and selenium, which are all present in Moringa , will release an electron to a free radical and bind it, transforming it into a relatively harmless molecule fit for excretion This anti-oxidant ability benefits the human body in two ways; by slowing of the ageing process and by also giving protection against many diseases. The high vitamin A and vitamin C content of Moringa, help to explain the reasons for its potent anti-oxidant properties. Moringa Contains 46 Different anti-oxidant compounds Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Vitamin K, Vitamin B (Choline), Vitamin B1 (Thiamin), Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), Vitamin B3 (Niacin), Vitamin B6, Alanine, Alpha-Carotene, Arginine, Beta-Carotene, Beta-sitosterol, Caffeoylquinic Acid, Campesterol, Carotenoids, Chlorophyll, Chromium, Delta-5-Avenasterol, Delta-7-Avenasterol, Glutathione, Histidine, Indole Acetic Acid, Indoleacetonitrile, Kaempferal, Leucine, Lutein, Methionine, Myristic-Acid, Palmitic-Acid, Prolamine, Proline, Quercetin, Rutin, Selenium, Threonine, Tryptophan, Xanthins, Xanthophyll, Zeatin, Zeaxanthin, Zinc Moringa oleifera’s health benefits have long since been well understood and cherished by the people of Asia and Africa. The Moringa tree’s uses as a health and medicinal plant can be traced back centuries.
Moringa Contains 18 Amino Acids, including all 8 essential amino acids.
Amino acids are of great importance to human health. The body requires 20 different amino acids to build all of the proteins needed for cell growth, repair and maintenance. Just as different letters of the alphabet are used to form different words, so are different amino acids used to build different proteins. In the correct ratios they help to keep the body strong.
The human body is capable of manufacturing only 12 of the 20 different amino acids needed to build proteins used to grow, repair, and maintain cells. The other eight are known as essential amino acids because since the body cannot manufacture them, they must be supplied by the diet. This is not always as easy as it sounds. Often, the full range of amino acids a body needs to be healthy, are lacking in our food.
Amino acids play an important role in healthy nutrition. In the right bio-available amounts, they fortify the body against the most common health concerns, and have been shown in studies to combat the aging process.
According to clinical pharmacologist, Dr. Monica G. Marcu, “Amino acids are best absorbed from a complex, naturally occurring food or plant source. Moringa is an extraordinary plant. It’s a plant that has all the nutrients that could be found in a perfect food. Moringa is one of very few plants that contain all eight essential amino acids
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. Aside from the potent combination of anti-oxidants, anti-inflammatories and amino acids, Moringa contains the following key nutrients: Selenium, Superoxide Dismutase, Xanthins, Xanthophyll, Zinc, Lutein, Neoxanthin, Violaxanthin, Fiber, Flavonoids, Folate (Folic Acid), Iodine, Iron, Molybdenum, Phosphorus, Arachidic-Acid, Behenic-Acid, Gadoleic Acid, Lignoceric Acid, Myristic Acid, Palmitic-Acid, Palrnitoleic Acid, Stearic-Acid, 4-(A lpha-L -Rhamnosyloxy)-Benzylglucosinolate, 4-(Alpha -L-Rhamnosyloxy), Senzylisothiocyanate; Niazinin A, Niazinin B, Niaziminins A & B, Niazimicin, 28-Isoavenasterol, Brassicasterol, Campestanol, Campesterol, Cholesterol, Clerosterol, Delta-5-Avenasterol, Delta-7, 14-Stigmastanol, Delta-7-Avenasterol, Ergostadienol… and many others. Moringa is the most nutrient dense plant on the planet, but that’s only the beginning of the remarkable story of this Miracle Tree! It’s also known as the most giving tree on Earth for its wide array of applications in human and animal health.