Jing Luo, Negative Energy & Nutrients (3)

Though goji or wolfberry has oxygen radical absorbency capacity or ORAC scale of about 25,300 however in order to tap the potent effect of wolfberry, one has therefore to combine it with other appropriate antioxidants so as to produce the synergy effect. As stated early the efficacy of herbs is what it contains in the plant, that is, what types of minerals, vitamins and phytochemicals etc. This indirectly means that right types of herbs and with right combination can help to ease or remove the blockages of meridian in our body. The minerals must be plant based and not from inorganic source such as those derived from soil or petrochemicals. Minerals, vitamins and phytochemicals derived from plants are readily absorbed by our body and hence the word “bio-availability” is often used to describe the readiness of these nutrients being absorbed by our body. Inorganic source is therefore not bio-availbility. Dr. Brian R Clement who is the director of Hippocrates Health Institute wrote a book entitled “Supplements Exposed – The truth they don't want you to know about vitamins, minerals and their effects on your health” stated that there is a difference between the naturally occurred vitamins and those synthesized. Synthetic vitamins normally will not be readily absorbed by our body and at times can pose risk to our health. For instance naturally occurred vitamin C can be readily absorbed by our body whereas the synthetic one cannot be readily absorbed though both may be called as ascorbic acid. The difference is more obvious when polarized light passes through the naturally occurred vitamin C, the light will bend to the right. Thus health supplement will normally label such vitamin as “d” which means “dextro” or right to indicate that it is from natural source whereas when polarized light passes through synthetic vitamin C, the light will split into two; one to the left and the other to the right. Thus the supplement label will often be marked “dl” . “d” means “dextro” ie right and “l” which means “levo” ie to the left. Though structurally synthetic vitamin C and naturally occurred vitamin C may look similar but in fact it is not the case and their respective property is also different. Look therefore can be misleading !