Goji Berry - The Amazing Adaptor!
Friday, May 16, 2008
There's no doubt about it - the goji berry is an absolutely amazing plant. Not only can we look at the nutritional and health benefits it offers us to see this, but the way this little berry lives, adapts, and survives is also convincing of just how unique it is.In traditional Chinese medicine the goji berry is revered as one of the most powerful adaptogens in the world. An adaptogen is an agent that helps the body to adapt to problems, allowing it to recognize foreign invaders and dangerous environmental and internal changes to create its own solutions for these problems. The goji berry itself, however, is also amazingly adaptive. The unique polysaccharides found only within this berry give it great flexibility when dealing with problems.
Just how potent are these polysaccharides? Consider this: if a large amount of dangerous bacteria is in the soil of the plant, it will notice this and increase production of these powerful polysaccharides. It then uses them to create a nutritional defense, beefing itself up in order to fight off infection and continue to live in the soil until the bacteria has gone away. Few other plants in the world show such an ability to adapt to a changing environment at such a basic and yet critical level.
Goji's ability to change itself to suit its environments can also be seen by looking at locations and climates in which it can grow. Most plants can only survive in a certain, narrow range of environments in which they are designed to flourish. If they are removed from these environments and placed somewhere else, they very quickly begin to struggle and eventually die, unable to extract nutrition from their environment to continue living. the goji berry, however, can be found in many different environments. From wet, humid areas, steep frigid mountain regions, lush tropical locations or arid plains, the goji berry grows and thrives in nearly any environment it is introduced do.
The goji berry is an amazing plant that is capable of doing things very few other foods can. Its no surprise, then, what it can do for the human body!
If you'd like to read the amazing goji berry poem from the Tang Dynasty, click here!
If you'd like to read a comparison of our Goji Juice as compared to non standardized berries, go here!
posted by Spiffy, the Goji Juice Dog @ 11:08 AM
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