Goji Overview and The Tibetan-Himalayan Myth!

Goji berry product overview from California Academy of Health® CAOH® – discussing organic Goji Juice (Goji Fusion® and Absolute Goji®), Goji Berries and Goji Berry Powder. Also discussed is the Tibetan Goji and Himalayan Goji myth!

California Academy of Health proudly offers four extremely high quality açai products, our Goji Fusion™ juice and Absolute Goji Juice™, Absolute Goji Powder™ and our sun dried Goji Berries. All of these products are 100% certified organic and ethically harvested. In fact they are independently verified organic. We even have goji juice in our Mangosteen Elixir™ and our Liquid Power Multi-V™.

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Drinking goji berry juice (like Goji Fusion or Absolute Goji) for 14 days improves well-being, mental performance, and gastrointestinal function compared with placebo in a recent study.* Goji berry (Lycium barbarum) has been used in Asia since ancient times for its benefits against aging and for vision, kidney, and liver function.

Thirty-five healthy adults were randomly assigned to take a standardized preparation of 120 mL/day goji berry juice (17 subjects), equivalent to 150 grams of fresh fruit, or matching placebo drink (18 subjects). Before and after supplementation, subjects rated various symptoms of fatigue, memory, mental acuity, sleep, and physical health.

After two weeks, the supplemented group expressed significantly better energy level, sleep quality, mental focus, mental acuity, calmness, happiness, and overall health, as well as better gastrointestinal function, compared with baseline. They indicated lower levels of fatigue and stress. In the placebo group, the only significant improvements were reduced heartburn and greater happiness.  –Laura J. Ninger, ELS

*Amagase H, Nance DM. A randomized, doubled-blind, placebo-controlled, clinical study of the general effects of a standardized Lycium barbarum (goji) juice, J Altern Complement Med. 2008 May;14 (4):403-12.

December 2008 LIFE EXTENSION

I finally got the video back from our Shanghai to Yinchuan flight. This really wasn’t our flight but if there was a film crew there to film our flight, it would have looked like this. 

Related link to our hazardous flight in search of the perfect goji berry.

Question: Are your goji berries grown in China? If so, are they safe? So much of China’s industry has been proven to be “unsafe.”

Anita

Answer: Anita,

“All” goji berries are grown in China! Our berries come from growers we have contracts with, no chemicals are used. The FDA also requires us to have the berries tested and submit the results when they enter the country, they are perfect.

Sincerely,

Marcus Ettinger DC, BSc.

Reply back:

Thank you so much for your reply. I now feel secure to order your goji berry products.

November 14, 2006

Dear Dr. Ettinger,

It was a pleasure to talk to you personally yesterday. As I told you on the phone, my husband’s results from goji juice have been truly miraculous. Who would have thought that one of God’s natural berries that He created could do so much for a persons health and life. The goji berry did just that for my husband Wayne.

Diagnosed 9 or so years ago with Lyme’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis he could do not much of anything. First he underwent a really severe back surgery that did not seem to work at the time. Next came years of severe pain and the inability to do much of nothing. He could not even walk most of the time. He just sat in a chair and even at this point he started having severe memory problems from the Lyme’s. It affects the short term memory. So anything that was told to him he forgot almost instantly. There were years that he took between 60 and 80 pills per day. I had to lay them out for him because his memory did not let him deal with that. Our children had to watch their father’s health fail rapidly. At this stage his walking became worse since the Lyme’s disease went straight to the joints now. He had to drag his legs to try to walk places. At one point while driving he could not get his leg off the gas pedal to stop our truck and that is when we sought another opinion from a Doctor. This is when it was found out that his hips were destroyed by the arthritis caused from the Lyme’s disease. He underwent bilateral hip replacements within a year’s time. By now he was really getting disgusted with his health. His cholesterol was out of control; his blood pressure was out of control and his body was no longer producing testosterone. Along with that the medicines they had him on were causing all kinds of side effects. By January of 2004 Wayne went off all but 3 of his medicines by himself. It’s funny because he was no worse or no better. At least most of those chemicals were starting to leave his body.

October of 2005 a friend introduced us to goji juice. I bought him a bottle and he took it. He felt it did not do anything but I had seen a slight difference in his energy level. He did not take it again until January of 2006. By this time he started taking 9 ounces a day because of all the reading I was doing on goji. In the summer of 2006, Wayne went off his cholesterol medicine on his own because of side effects of joint pain. When he went to his family Doctor, she was amazed because for the 1st time in all these years his cholesterol levels were great without the pills. She said to him, Wayne short of Divine intervention I can’t figure out hat is going on with your blood. He told her about God’s little goji berry. Next He went to his Rheumatologist and he took his own blood to check Wayne’s RA counts and it showed his RA was in remission. Next step was to go to his Endocrinologist. She reported after her own blood work that his testosterone was good again. How amazing is all of this. His energy level is fabulous and he is now on his way to great health again. I would have never believed that 9 years ago he would be where he is at today and I just thank God for all of this.

Yours truly

D.G.

Q: Dear Doctor; How are you today? I have been reading a lot about the Goji Berry and I think it sounds great. I would like to know , after reading about all the curing powers for cancer and everything else, how it could help my Father-in-law who has had 2 strokes in the past 4 years. Now he cannot speak sentences, just a few words. From what I understand, the electrical part in the brain that sends the message (or Sentence) cannot get through to the speech part of the brain. Therefore he is limited to just single or double word responses . Will this Goji juice have any effect to help him get the messages through the brain and out through his lips into sentences? I await your reply Thank you

Doug

A: Doug, I have to be completely honest with you, I have no idea how or if it will help your father-in-law. My father had a stroke 8 years ago and I loaded him up on every antioxidant I could find and he recovered (I am not 100% sure what caused him to recover completely).

I do know this; our goji juice with 250mg of vitamin C per 30ml is not going to hurt.

I hope this helped.

Sincerely,

Marcus Ettinger DC, BSc.