As a young doctor studying longevity, one of the first things I looked
for were populations
where the people have an abnormally long life expectancy.
I found two groups of people where
almost everyone
lives
a healthy, vital life well into their 90s and many well beyond 100, the natives of the Pacific Island of Tonga, and the inhabitants
of Okinawa, Japan.
I'd read that when Captain Cook explored the Pacific Island of Tonga in 1777, he had difficulty guessing
ages because the natives looked far younger and stronger than their actual years, many being well over 100 years old.
I also knew that among the inhabitants of Okinawa, Japan, death rate from abnormal cell development and degenerative diseases of aging is almost half what it is in
the rest of Japan or in the U.S. and they too,
tend to enjoy exceptionally long and healthy lives, often
well into
their late 90s.
But it took me years to understand what these two people had in common.
What I discovered after years of study is that these two populations share an appetite
for a certain brown sea weed.
In Okinawa, where the death rate due to abnormal cell development is among the lowest in all of Japan, they consume twice as much
as the rest of Japan's population of a local seaweed
they call mozuka.
In Tongan they call their favorite local "sea vegetable" Limu Moui.
Well guess what else I discovered? The mozuka sea weed favored by
the people of Okinawa and
the Limu Moui eaten by Tongans are closely
related members of the brown seaweed family and both
are super-rich
in our miracle sugar, fucose!
I now know that the brown seaweed that's a staple in the diets of both the
people of Okinawa and Tonga is rich in fucose-bearing nutrient called fucoidan.
Without realizing it, these two seaweed loving peoples hsad discovered what may
be the single
most important nutritional supplement known to medical science.
If you think that's an exaggeration, stop and think -- all of the other nutrients (except vitamin D)
your
body needs for optimal health can be supplied either be ingested by eating plenty of the right
fruits and vegetables or with supplements.
Fucose is the only essential nutrient you can not get from eating enough
earth-grown fruits and
vegetables, meat, fish or dairy products.
How much of this "sea vegetable" do the people of Okinawa and Tonga have to consume
to enjoy such remarkable longevity and good health? Trust me. . .I've eaten the stuff myself
and they eat a whole
lot more than you'd probably like to eat yourself.
Besides, even if you were able to develop a fondness for the taste and texture of sea weed (it's slimy stuff),
you can't trot down to your local health food market and pick up a bushel or two. Nor is that ever
likely to become an option, given the difficulties of harvesting the right sea weed and the cost of
air-delivery of a heavy, slimy, water-logged sea vegetable.
The answer, of course, is to extract fucoidan (and its precious fucose) from the seaweed and make
it
available as a nutritional supplement.
Easier said than done! I know because when I got into my study of fucose. . .started using it myself . . .
and then
giving it to patients. . .
I quickly learned that there really was no source in the U.S. for the kind
of
concentrated, pure, contaminant-free fucoidan that I knew would release a flow of age-reversing fucose.
Yes, there are supplements that contain fucose-rich fucoidan, but my analysis showed they containedlot of other
stuff too because the seaweed used had been harvested from heavily polluted costal waters contaminated with
mercury, lead, arsenic and a witch's cauldron of other toxins.
Even that less-than-ideal fucose has worked miracles with so many of my patients!
These are the kinds of truly remarkable, life-changing results I've seen when I put patients on fucose.
And that is why NOW I am so very enthusiastic about a wonderful NEW super-pure fucose
product that
I am helping to make available for the
first time in the U.S.