(http://www NULL.mygreenhealth NULL.com)The Moringa Leaves
There is a new superfood which is steadily gaining popularity because of its amazing properties as well as inexpensiveness. Introducing moringa. As a superfood, moringa holds several thousand times more of the potent age-controlling nutrient called zeatin compared with any other known plant. Additionally, moringa has two compounds having anti-cancer and anti-tumor activities.
So where is this moringa plant coming from? The moringa is specie of trees native to the areas of Southern India and Northern Africa. Characteristically, it is a petite, lean, deciduous, lasting tree that grows to about 40 feet tall. Moringa was originally grown exclusively in India, Africa and the Himalayas. But now its cultivation spread far and wide to Central and South America, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and the Philippines.
The leaves, flowers, bark, wood and roots of the moringa tree are used all over the world for a wide diversity of medicinal, pharmacological and nutritional purposes. But it’s the leaves of the particular species called moringa oleifera which have become distinguished in recent years as being very valuable to human health.
Compared to other green superfoods like spirulina, wheat grass and chlorella, moringa oleifera has been comparatively unheard of until recent years when reports appeared in conventional scientific journals describing its medicinal and nutritional properties.
Now called as the “Miracle Tree” in many indigenous cultures, it has more than 90 essential nutrients. Folk medicine practitioners and anecdotal reports suggest moringa’s great worth in sinking tumors or retarding their growth.
Studies show that two compounds that are present in moringa cause a spectacular decrease of skin tumors — even inhibit tumors in lab mice that are bred to be vulnerable to tumors. This has earned moringa the status of being a cancer preventative plant.
Over the past 35 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been researching and studying the use of the moringa plant as an economical health-enhancing food for poverty stricken countries where malnutrition and famine are prevalent.
India’s natural Ayurvedic medicine uses moringa leaves to put off and treat more than 300 diseases. The leaves contain whole proteins, which is rare to find in the plant kingdom. This must be the good news vegetarians have been waiting for. Those who are trying to constrict their meat and dairy consumption without compromising their protein intake can find moringa to be very helpful.
On a gram per gram basis, moringa leaves contain: twice the protein you can get in an 8 ounces of milk (plus 4 times the calcium); the Vitamin C equivalent of 7 oranges; the potassium content of 3 bananas; 3 times the iron of spinach; and 4 times the Vitamin A of carrots.
Moringa leaves’ loaded combination of nutrients, amino acids, antioxidants, as well as anti-inflammatory and antibiotic properties could easily fill an entire book for discussion and exploration.
However, the most mesmerizing discovery about moringa leaves is that they are excellent source of zeatin. What is zeatin then? Zeatin belongs to the plant hormone family called as cytokinins. Cytokinins stimulate cell division and growth as well as delay cell aging. A study released through the Rejuvenation Research shows the irrefutable youth-preserving effects of zeatin on aging human skin.
Just recently, Zeatin has become increasingly sought after because of its great anti-aging properties. It safeguards cells against the onslaught of free radical damage, defends healthy cells from the damaging effects of stress, aids the body in replacing dying cells quickly and reinforces living cells … thereby significantly deliberately slowing the normal aging process.
There is no other source possessing greater abundance of zeatin than the moringa plant. As a matter of fact, moringa contains several thousand times more zeatin than any other known plant.
The human body has about 19 million skin cells at any given time. However, 30,000 to 40,000 skin cells die every minute. New skin cells make their way to the upper skin layers as old skin cells flake off and die. With the zeatin contained in moringa, new skin cells grow at a quicker rate than old skin cells die. This results in a marked drop of wrinkles on the face and other parts of the body and makes the appearance of youthful skin possible.
You can now find different types of moringa dietary supplements. Now in the market are moringa leaf powder, moringa leaf capsules and moringa condensed powder tea. According to nutrition experts, a mere 25 grams of moringa leaf powder could supply these astonishing percentages of recommended daily allowances:
Protein: 42%
Calcium: 125%
Magnesium: 61%
Potassium: 41%
Iron: 71%
Vitamin A: 272%
Vitamin C: 22%
Moringa powder and capsules are marketed by various online retailers such as World’s Choice Products (brand: Supreme Moringa), as well as several health food stores. Type any of the following keywords in any search engine: moringa leaf powder, moringa tea, or moringa capsules.
Let moringa do wonders for you!