Ningxia Wolfberry

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Ningxia Wolfberry

• A Fresh Perspective
• HEALTH, ENERGY, LIFE

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Wolfberry History

• Wolfberry legends found in ancient Chinese
  medicine reach back in time 5,000 years.
• The great folklore healer Shen Nung included
  wolfberry in the worlds first pharmacopoeia
  printed about 475 B.C.
• A physicians handbook Ben Zao Gen Mo written
  during the Ming Dynasty documents ancient use of
  wolfberry
• Goji is Chinese for wolfberry
• Botanically called Lycium barbarum L.
• Lycium chinense Miller is very closely related
• The wolfberry remained unknown to Westerners
  because China kept its borders closed to
  foreigners for thousands of years.
• The Great Wall of China symbolizes isolation
• Beijing is known as The Forbidden City

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National Treasure

• Ningxia wolfberry is regarded as a national
  treasure
• 80 different Lycium species worldwide
• Only 10 Chinese Lycium species exist
• 7 species, 3 varieties, and 35 cultivars
  throughout Northern China
• Only the barbarum and chinense species have been
  studied for therapeutic effects
• Chinese Olympic coaches use wolfberries as a
  secret weapon.

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Fertile Soil

• Yellow River originates from Himalayan mountains
  and flows through Ningxia
• Creates a mineral-rich, superfertile siltwater
  flood plain found nowhere else on earth

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Simple Beginnings

• 1993 Gary Young meets Professor Cyrus McKell
• former Dean of the College of Science
• Professor of Botany at Weber State University
• Prof. McKell meets Professor Chao, a visiting
  professor from China on teaching assignment in
  the U.S.
• Prof. Chao introduces the Ningxia wolfberry to
  Gary Young
• Prof. Chaos daughter, Sue Chao, helps Gary get
  the wolfberry admitted into the U.S.

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Organic Wolfberry

• The Ningxia region is called Chinas herbal
  medicine valley and it is known for its Green
  Certificatethe equivalent of the USDAs
  Organic certification.
• The wolfberries that Young Living purchases are
  certified as Green.
• Wolfberries passed FDA pesticide screen when
  Young Living first imported large-scale
  quantities in 1996

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Peculiar Substance

• When Gary Young first attempted to bring Ningxia
  wolfberry in 1996, it was quarantined by the U.S.
  customs as an unknown peculiar substance.
  Customs agents said that it had never before been
  imported into the U.S. in commercial quantities.
• Only three species of Lycium berry are listed in
  World Economic Plants, the most authoritative
  source for plants traded in world commerce
• Lycium barbarum L. (syn Lycium halimifolium
  Mill. or Lycium vulgare)
• Lycium chinense Mill.
• Lycium ferocissimum Miers.

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Nutrients

• Highest antioxidant food known
• Highest levels of immune-stimulating
  polysaccharides.
• More vitamin C than oranges
• More beta carotene than carrots
• More calcium that cauliflower
• One of the highest sources of ellagic acid and
  polyphenols

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Nutrient Content of Ningxia Wolfberry (8 oz.)

• 16-17 protein by weight
• More than 21 essential minerals
• 18 amino acids

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Comparing Antioxidants
mmolTE/100gram. Data from Brunswick Laboratories,
Wareham, MA
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Comparing Antioxidants
mmolTE/100gram. Data from Brunswick Laboratories,
Wareham, MA
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Recent Clinical Research

• A 2003 study by the Institute of Pharmacy,
  Huazhong University of Science and Technology,
  found that Lycium barbarum polysaccharides
  increase interleukin 2 expression, a vital part
  of immunity.
• A 2001 Chinese Academy of Sciences study found
  that Lycium barbarum slowed the oxidation of
  cholesterol. Oxidized cholesterol is linked with
  coronary artery clogging.
• A 2001 study at the Central Drug Research
  Institute, India, found that Lycium berries had
  liver-protecting properties.
• A 2001 study at the Huazhong University of
  Science and Technology, found that Lycium
  barbarum polysaccharide inhibited the growth of
  human leukemia cells.
• A May 2000 study at Zhongshan University
  documented Lycium barbarum and its
  polysaccharides as important advances in
  increasing immunity.
• A 2000 Hubei Medical University study found that
  Lycium barbarum polysaccharide exerted an
  antifatigue effect.
• A 1999 Hubei Medical University found that 5-10
  mg/K doses of Lycium barbarum polysaccharides
  marked increased immunity.
• A 1999 Ningxia Medical College study found that
  Lycium barbarum prevented free radical damage to
  liver cells and red blood cells.

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Cancer Research on Wolfberry

• A study involving 75 advanced cancer patients
  produced the following results
• Using standard cancer therapy alone, researchers
  achieved 16 remission rates.
• When standard cancer therapy was combined with
  wolfberry polysaccharides, the remission rates
  jumped to 41.
• Second Military Medical University, Shanghai,
  China 1994

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Cancer Research on Wolfberry

• Studies testing the effects of Ningxia
  wolfberries on human cancer cells showed
• Wolfberry extract exerted an 88.4 inhibition
  against human gastric cancers and 73.75
  inhibition against cervical carcinomas.
• Other studies showed that wolfberry
  polysaccharide enhanced the ability of radiation
  therapy to inhibit the growth of Lewis lung
  cancer.
• Ningxia Medical College, Yinchuan, China

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Wolfberry Improves Immunity and Inhibits
Multiplication of Cancer Cells

• 50 persons given 50g of wolfberries for 10 days
  showed
• Enhanced phagocytosis.
• Increased lymphocyte transformation by 10.
• Increased white blood cell index by 700 points.

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Antioxidant Properties of Wolfberry

• Tufts University Study
• Ningxia wolfberries have the most powerful
  antioxidant properties of any known food.
• Ningxia Medical College Studies
• Ningxia wolfberries exhibited a powerful
  free-radical scavenging effect.
• Dried wolfberries effectively protect red blood
  cells from lipid peroxidation from damaging free
  radicals.
• Ningxia Medical College, Yinchuan, China
  1995,1998

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Wolfberry Antioxidant Effects

• As people age, lipid peroxide rises, superoxide
  dismutase and hemoglobin drop.
• Persons aged 64-80 were given 50g of wolfberries
  for 10 days.
• Superoxide dismutase increased 48
• Hemoglobin increased 12
• Lipid peroxide decreased 65

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Wolfberry Improves Eyesight

• Improves Eyesight
• Dark adaptation (the ability of the eyes to see
  in low light) deteriorates with age.
• 27 persons aged 18-25, were given 50g of
  wolfberries daily for 34 days.
• The dark adaptation time of the testers was
  improved greatly.
• Vitamin A and carotene content of their blood was
  increased.

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Berry Young Juice

• Ingredients
• Ningxia Wolfberry juice
• Highest antioxidant food
• High in immune-stimulating polysaccharides
• High in ellagic acid, which prevents DNA mutation
• Blueberry juice
• One of the richest foods in proanthocyanidins
• Tufts University studies showed that its protect
  blood cells against free radical oxidation
• University of Mainz studies shows that it
  protects cell DNA
• Pomegranate juice
• Has three times the antioxidant activity as green
  tea
• 2 oz reduces oxidized cholesterol by 40
• Raspberry juice
• High in antioxidants
• Has one of the highest levels of ellagic acid
• Lemon and Orange EO
• High in limonene which combats cell mutation

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Polysaccharides and Polyphenols

• Highest known antioxidant score of liquid
  supplement (ORAC 3,600)
• Highest in polyphenols (3,256 mg per liter)
• Contains pure Ningxia wolfberry juice, extracted
  from only Ningxia-grown berries
• Same Ningxia wolfberries studied in cancer
  patients
• Highest in wolfberry polysaccharides
• Higher ORAC than any other Lycium species

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Antioxidant Power of Ningxia vs. Chinese
Wolfberries
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Comparing Antioxidants
mTE/100gram (1 fluid ounce). Data from Brunswick
Laboratories, Wareham,
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Berry Young Juice vs. Others
HORAC measures Hydroxyl free radicals NORAC
measure Peroxynitrite free radicals
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Berry Young Juice

• Patent pending
• The only wolfberry supplement studied to improve
  immune function in clinical research
• Increased immunity by 81 (as measured by
  increase in phagocytes)
• Only juice to contain ellagic acid, a powerful
  protector of DNA and cellular repair enhancer1
• Only juice to contain essential oils rich in
  orange oil, which prevents cellular mutation2
• Only juice to contain pomegranate juice, with
  cardiovascular benefits3
• 1 Stoner GD et al., Isothiocyanates and
  freeze-dried strawberries as inhibitors of
  esophageal cancer. Toxicol Sci. 1999 Dec52(2
  Suppl)95-100.
• 2 Bodake HB et al., Chemopreventive effect of
  orange oil on the development of hepatic
  preneoplastic lesions induced by
  N-nitrosodiethylamine in rats an ultrastructural
  study. Indian J Exp Biol. 2002 Mar40(3)245-51.
  
• 3 Aviram M et al., Pomegranate juice consumption
  reduces oxidative stress, atherogenic
  modifications to LDL, and platelet aggregation
  studies in humans and in atherosclerotic
  apolipoprotein E-deficient mice. Am J Clin Nutr.
  2000 May71(5)1062-76.

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7 Wolfberry Myths

• 1. Some claim wolfberries originated in Tibet and
  use an invented Tibetan botanical name that
  combines three plants
• Lycium (wolfberry)
• Eleagnus (wild olive)
• Leonurus (Chinese motherwort)
• If this plant even exists, no research has been
  done on it. Yet these people list the health
  benefits of Lycium barbarum and attribute it to
  their Tibetan wolfberry.
• 2. Tibetan wolfberries grown high in the
  Himalayas get more of the suns energy (Shomberg
  effect) so are better.
• Gary Young has hiked all over the foothills of
  the Himalayas and neither heard of nor saw any
  wolfberry species.
• Wolfberries are native to temperate and
  subtropical regions and dont grow over 5,500
  feet in elevation.

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• 4. Tibetan festivals celebrate the wolfberry
• Tibetan materia medicas have no mention of lycium
  berries
• The two-week festival celebrating wolfberries is
  in China not Tibet
• The word goji is not Tibetan but Chinese
• 5. Wolfberry is connected to Dalai Lama
• The Dalai Lama has an institute of Tibetan
  medicine based in India. It make no mention of
  any lycium varieties.
• 6. Misinformation is circulating that wolfberries
  must be harvested by shaking the berries off the
  vine because if they are touched, they will
  oxidize and blacken. This is untrue as the
  Chinese have been picking wolfberries for
  thousands of years.