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50% Scholarship Certificate by Informatics Galleria
30% Discount by our Affiliate Hotels (Kabayan Hotel, Legend Palawan, etc)
50% Discount on Financial Trainings by Chinkee Tan
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Product and Coupon Value: P10,650
Pure Barley Pack - P3,988 (Starter Kit)
Sante International Distributorship
3 boxes of Sante Barley Capsule (worth P2,700 @ SRP)
1 box of Sante Barley Juice (worth P1,950 @ SRP)
50% Scholarship Certificate by Informatics Galleria
30% Discount by our Affiliate Hotels (Kabayan Hotel, Legend Palawan, etc)
50% Discount on Financial Trainings by Chinkee Tan
Marketing Materials (Tarpaulin, DVD and product brochures)
Lifetime discount on Barley Products
Discount coupon - P6,000 worth of discount on some Big League products
Activated SMS business system
Discounted to 300+ kinds of load
1 Online Business Account/Node
Product and Coupon Value: P10,650
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Green Barley Essence
by Yoshihide Hagiwara, M.D.
Nutrition to Help Our Body Heal Itself
Book Review by Michael Dye
When a research pharmacologist who owned Japan’s largest drug manufacturing company became seriously ill, he regained his well-being after finding the key to health is nutrition. From the outset of his extensive research, Yoshihide Hagiwara, M.D. knew the ultimate source of nutrition must be natural rather than synthetic. And he found the young green leaves of early spring contain the most vibrant energy and nutritional density of any life form on Earth. Our spirit is lifted when we see Spring’s new green growth. In addition to reviving our spirit, Dr. Hagiwara believes this fresh green growth is the key to meeting the needs of our physical body. In Green Barley Essence, he reflects upon the “marvelous vitality of the earth, which expresses itself most profoundly in the cycle of the green leaf… I cannot but feel that man has overlooked the power of green in favor of science and technology and modern rationalism… Indeed it is no exaggeration to say that since the beginning of life on earth, no animal has been able to live without green.”
Dr. Hagiwara has found the prevalent lack of health plaguing modern society is due to a shortage and imbalance of minerals, enzymes and vitamins in our artificial diets, along with chemicals, inorganic drugs and other pollutants. He came to realize that despite the increasing numbers of synthetic drugs his profession was mass-marketing, cancer, cardiovascular and other serious diseases are on the rise.
He was the owner of Yamashiro Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., which employed 700 people at its peak and introduced more than 200 health products. In 1963, Dr. Hagiwara fell seriously ill, primarily from the effects of handling organic mercury in his lab work, along with his poor diet. His physical and mental health deteriorated, his teeth decayed and fell out, and he began developing red sores and losing his skin. His fellow research assistants, who had also handled the mercury, developed many of the same symptoms.
He tried all the synthetic vitamins, hormones and drugs he and his company had developed for these problems, but none helped. He writes, “Frankly, I feel deeply disgusted to realize what useless things I was making.” Dr. Hagiwara changed his approach as he was influenced by Hippocrates, the ancient Greek physician known as the Father of Medicine, who said: “A disease is to be cured naturally by man’s own power, and physicians help it.”
“In addition to this change in attitude, I credit my current state of excellent health to a regimen of Chinese herb drugs and a complete transformation of my diet which I at last adopted in desperation. Seeing the success this had, I dedicated the next ten years of my life to the pursuit of health in the pure, natural products of God’s own Earth,” Dr. Hagiwara writes. He then began an exhaustive search to find the best natural source of five essential types of nutrients he felt could provide the nourishment missing in the diet of modern man. These five nutrients include minerals, enzymes, vitamins, proteins and chlorophyll.
He found these nutrients were most abundant in the green juices of vegetables. After narrowing his search from dozens of green vegetable plants, Dr. Hagiwara selected the young, green leaves of barley as the most prolific and balanced source of these nutrients on earth. He then developed a patented, spray-dried powder from the green juice of the young barley plants, which his book calls “Green Barley Essence.”
He refers to the organically-grown Green Barley Essence as “a kind of antidote for the deteriorated nutrition of the fast-food culture because it is a fast food that is totally natural and yet higher than any other natural food in the essential five ingredients… I like to call it the ‘Ideal Fast Food’ and I believe it can help rescue mankind from the poor state he has let himself fall into.”
Although his book focuses on the physical aspects of health, Dr. Hagiwara notes our mental and emotional habits contribute substantially to our condition. Physical, mental and emotional factors can lead to a “vicious cycle” of imbalances in the body that is not aided by modern medicine. “The starting point in breaking this vicious cycle is to make a commitment to mental and physical habits which contribute to good health and the self-healing process.”
He warns that people have put so much faith in medical technology that, “little by little they give up their personal responsibility for the good health of their bodies.” As for the ways in which we are polluting our bodies, Dr. Hagiwara writes: “I hesitate to try to list these fully. I could mention that we drink chemically-sweetened liquids; we eat foods artificially enhanced with vitamins and minerals; we consume substitutes for whipped cream that are 100 percent artificial; we even take chemicals to sleep and stay awake.” He estimates “maybe less than 1 percent” of supermarket floor space is for raw vegetables because the priorities of commodity distribution weigh heavier on commercialism than people’s nutritional needs.
Dr. Hagiwara notes the nutritional superiority of raw foods over cooked food, and he cites the advantage in consuming the green juices of vegetables rather than eating the whole vegetable raw. Despite the importance of fiber in the diet, the fibrous tissues of vegetables make them difficult to eat in the quantity needed to receive the full effect of their nutrients. The juice has the most nutritional value, but it is not stable over a long period of time, meaning the juice would have to be dried to powder form. Green Barley Essence describes the spray-drying process used to dry the barley juice in as little as two to three seconds with no temperature higher than body temperature. Dr. Hagiwara’s patented spray-drying process is used in the U.S. in the production of BarleyGreen, which is distributed by American Image Marketing. (For more information on BarleyGreen, click here.)
Green Barley Essence also describes the lengthy trial-and-error process Dr. Hagiwara went through in testing a large number of sources for green juices before settling on the barley plant. Some plants are high in nutrition, but also have pungent, aromatic compounds — used to prevent decay or insect infestation — that have germicidal effects that can be toxic to some living cells. Such aromatic and spicy foods can sometimes have a positive effect on the body, but because they are toxic to some living cells, he says they should not be taken habitually in large quantities. It has been barley, rice and other cereals lacking in a pungent odor or taste that have been used as the main staples in man’s daily diet throughout history. “This is the wisdom of mankind, and I believe that it is more scientific than modern science,” Dr. Hagiwara comments. It has been the kernels of these cereal grasses — such as barley, wheat and rice — that have been most popular, although the young, fast-growing leaves provide the highest nutritional content.
Dr. Hagiwara’s patented process “makes the essence of young green barley available without causing degeneration or decomposition of the effective components such as proteins, vitamins, enzymes, minerals and chlorophyll.” About 3 grams (1 1/2 teaspoons) of the resulting powder is the equivalent of 100 grams (about two handfuls) of the fresh young barley leaves.
Green Barley Essence contains several tables comparing the nutritional value of this product with other natural foods. In comparing 100 grams of Green Barley Essence to the same weight of other foods, Dr. Hagiwara notes Green Barley Essence is a concentrated food ,and is consumed in much smaller quantities than whole foods. But he notes the nutritional content of these whole foods may be diminished by aging and cooking by the time they are eaten. Spinach is one of the more nutritious foods compared to Green Barley Essence, but by weight, Green Barley Essence has 18.1 times as much potassium, 11.3 times as much calcium, 3.8 times as much magnesium, 4.8 times as much iron, 1.4 times as much phosphorus, 6.5 times as much carotene, 10.8 times as much B1 and 9.2 times as much B2 as spinach. It has 6.6 times as much vitamin C as the same weight of fresh oranges, and 11.1 times as much calcium as milk. By weight, Green Barley Essence has 94 times as much calcium as wheat grain, and 12.9 times as much potassium; it has 59 times as much calcium as polished rice, and 36.5 times as much potassium.
Green Barley Essence contains a sampling of testimonial letters from Japan, where Green Barley Essence has been used for more than 20 years. Relief was found by these letter-writers for asthma, eczema, obesity, pimples, skin problems, anemia, sexual impotency, constipation, stiffness, gastritis, gastroptosis, peptic ulcer, diabetes, hypotension, hypertension, heart disease, nephrosis, hepatitis and cancer. “Thousands of letters from people who used Green Barley Essence have now expanded my estimation of its value,” he writes.
But he does not see this product as a miracle drug or cure-all. “What should be regarded as the cure-all is the human body itself. It is we ourselves who effect the cure of our diseased bodies by the right application of nutrients and by the formation of healthful attitudes . . .” Along with medical and scientific explanations of how Green Barley Essence works, this book also includes very good explanations of how minerals, vitamins, proteins, chlorophyll and enzymes function.
Minerals are described as “the ring of life.” Dr. Hagiwara notes if you burn a plant and an animal, “you will get the same minerals from the ashes.” The maintenance and balance of minerals is the key to health on the cellular level. Our cells are constantly recreating themselves in a delicate process upon which our life depends. Minerals maintain the balance between acid and alkaline, and “should this balance be upset, the cell metabolism suffers, leading to conditions such as fatigue.” Dr. Hagiwara describes potassium as “a source of life activity” as this mineral helps enzymes to function. Potassium is “consumed incessantly within our bodies in the process of energy metabolism.” If our potassium supply falls too low, it is replaced by sodium, which can then increase to an unhealthy limit. This upsets a balance, which will effect the functioning of some enzymes. Experiments are cited that show persons submitted to vigorous exercise, fatigue from tension, mental stress or lack of sleep excrete potassium and store sodium in the cells. Dr. Hagiwara notes the reputation for endurance of cattle and horses; they work to exhaustion and then find renewed energy after feeding on grass, “due presumably to potassium and many other nutrients” in the grass.
A diet in which acidic foods such as meat are dominant will also foster this sodium / potassium imbalance, he adds. “Green Barley Essence is the best food I have found to restore the acid-alkaline balance,” Dr. Hagiwara writes. He notes that spinach, a very popular alkaline food, has an alkalinity of 39.6, while the alkalinity of Green Barley Essence is as high as 66.4.
Vitamins “impart activity to enzymes within the body, thus promoting metabolism,” and “assist the body in maintaining health.” To be effective, vitamins must come from a natural, rather than synthetic source. High doses of chemical-based vitamins “throw off the balance of the body, leading inevitably to side effects,” Dr. Hagiwara writes. He notes the problems caused by high doses of synthetic vitamin B1 and C formulas, and he believes similar problems will be documented with synthetic vitamin E. It has also been reported that excessive vitamin A can have harmful effects by causing hypervitaminosis. Dr. Hagiwara says Green Barley Essence is a good source of vitamin A because its “fairly high quantity” of carotene is called provitamin A since it is converted to vitamin A after it enters the body. Provitamin A cannot cause hypervitaminosis, he writes.
Proteins are provided in high quantity by many vegetables, and Dr. Hagiwara says it is a false assumption that meat is a better protein source. He differentiates between usable protein and crude protein. Meat contains crude protein, whereas green barley contains light-weight protein molecules that are more usable by our bodies.
Chlorophyll is a fascinating nutrient because of its extraordinary similarity with human blood. The structure of chlorophyll and blood “would appear to be twins,” with the only difference being that chlorophyll contains magnesium in the position where hemoglobin contains iron. Chlorophyll attracted medical attention in 1949 following a Reader’s Digest article titled “Mysterious Power of Chlorophyll.” For a while, chlorophyll was added to a variety of products, from medicines to toothpastes. But this proved ineffective because the chlorophyll being used was not natural chlorophyll, which can be obtained only from the leaves of plants.
Enzymes are the catalyst for all chemical changes in the body. This includes digestion of food, sending oxygen from the lungs to our blood and cells, body movement, synthesizing proteins from amino acids to make muscle and even the thinking process. Minerals are essential in the functioning of enzymes.
Certain enzymes from plant leaves are found in large amounts in red and white blood cells, but are extremely low in cancerous cells. Dr. Hagiwara theorizes this is an indication these enzymes are likely to result in the inhibition of cancer. Another enzyme being studied for its potential effects in preventing cancer is superoxide dismutase (SOD). Hazardous radical forms of oxygen are expelled in the process of respiration and metabolism, and the enzyme SOD works to destroy these active oxygen radicals. Large amounts of SOD have been found in the organs of long-living primates, leading to the belief that SOD can retard the aging of cells.
“In summary, minerals, vitamins, proteins, chlorophyll and enzymes are the keys to health. Together, they maintain our cells in a healthy condition and work to correct any abnormal condition that occurs. They do it not like drugs, which are foreign matter within the body, but serve to invigorate natural activities within the body.”
Front-page news was made in two leading Japanese newspapers in 1981 from a lab experiment in which Dr. Hagiwara restored a DNA gene infected by cancer to normal condition by application of the components of the juice from young leaves of barley. But he notes the study of toxins that cause cancer and the elements that prevent it “could still be described as an infant endeavor.”
In the final chapter of Green Barley Essence, Dr. Hagiwara issues a world-wide invitation for research into how the natural power of green plants may help prevent cancer and other diseases. He founded the Association of Green and Health, and he provides an address and phone number for people to join. He also founded the Hagiwara Institute of Health to conduct additional research.
He concludes his book by expressing a concern very similar to the warning of John Robbins in Diet for a New America. Dr. Hagiwara quotes a Japanese dietary ecologist who, like Robbins, warns the only way to avoid a worldwide food crisis will be to improve the efficiency of food production by revamping our meat-based system of agriculture. As a comparison, he notes that one cow requires grass from ten acres of land, and for X amount of time, this one cow will feed 30 people. “The arithmetic of this waste is stunning… During the same time that that cow is sustaining those 30 lives, the protein which could be harvested directly from barley leaves grown on that ten acres of land would sustain 300 lives.”
by Yoshihide Hagiwara, M.D.
Nutrition to Help Our Body Heal Itself
Book Review by Michael Dye
When a research pharmacologist who owned Japan’s largest drug manufacturing company became seriously ill, he regained his well-being after finding the key to health is nutrition. From the outset of his extensive research, Yoshihide Hagiwara, M.D. knew the ultimate source of nutrition must be natural rather than synthetic. And he found the young green leaves of early spring contain the most vibrant energy and nutritional density of any life form on Earth. Our spirit is lifted when we see Spring’s new green growth. In addition to reviving our spirit, Dr. Hagiwara believes this fresh green growth is the key to meeting the needs of our physical body. In Green Barley Essence, he reflects upon the “marvelous vitality of the earth, which expresses itself most profoundly in the cycle of the green leaf… I cannot but feel that man has overlooked the power of green in favor of science and technology and modern rationalism… Indeed it is no exaggeration to say that since the beginning of life on earth, no animal has been able to live without green.”
Dr. Hagiwara has found the prevalent lack of health plaguing modern society is due to a shortage and imbalance of minerals, enzymes and vitamins in our artificial diets, along with chemicals, inorganic drugs and other pollutants. He came to realize that despite the increasing numbers of synthetic drugs his profession was mass-marketing, cancer, cardiovascular and other serious diseases are on the rise.
He was the owner of Yamashiro Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., which employed 700 people at its peak and introduced more than 200 health products. In 1963, Dr. Hagiwara fell seriously ill, primarily from the effects of handling organic mercury in his lab work, along with his poor diet. His physical and mental health deteriorated, his teeth decayed and fell out, and he began developing red sores and losing his skin. His fellow research assistants, who had also handled the mercury, developed many of the same symptoms.
He tried all the synthetic vitamins, hormones and drugs he and his company had developed for these problems, but none helped. He writes, “Frankly, I feel deeply disgusted to realize what useless things I was making.” Dr. Hagiwara changed his approach as he was influenced by Hippocrates, the ancient Greek physician known as the Father of Medicine, who said: “A disease is to be cured naturally by man’s own power, and physicians help it.”
“In addition to this change in attitude, I credit my current state of excellent health to a regimen of Chinese herb drugs and a complete transformation of my diet which I at last adopted in desperation. Seeing the success this had, I dedicated the next ten years of my life to the pursuit of health in the pure, natural products of God’s own Earth,” Dr. Hagiwara writes. He then began an exhaustive search to find the best natural source of five essential types of nutrients he felt could provide the nourishment missing in the diet of modern man. These five nutrients include minerals, enzymes, vitamins, proteins and chlorophyll.
He found these nutrients were most abundant in the green juices of vegetables. After narrowing his search from dozens of green vegetable plants, Dr. Hagiwara selected the young, green leaves of barley as the most prolific and balanced source of these nutrients on earth. He then developed a patented, spray-dried powder from the green juice of the young barley plants, which his book calls “Green Barley Essence.”
He refers to the organically-grown Green Barley Essence as “a kind of antidote for the deteriorated nutrition of the fast-food culture because it is a fast food that is totally natural and yet higher than any other natural food in the essential five ingredients… I like to call it the ‘Ideal Fast Food’ and I believe it can help rescue mankind from the poor state he has let himself fall into.”
Although his book focuses on the physical aspects of health, Dr. Hagiwara notes our mental and emotional habits contribute substantially to our condition. Physical, mental and emotional factors can lead to a “vicious cycle” of imbalances in the body that is not aided by modern medicine. “The starting point in breaking this vicious cycle is to make a commitment to mental and physical habits which contribute to good health and the self-healing process.”
He warns that people have put so much faith in medical technology that, “little by little they give up their personal responsibility for the good health of their bodies.” As for the ways in which we are polluting our bodies, Dr. Hagiwara writes: “I hesitate to try to list these fully. I could mention that we drink chemically-sweetened liquids; we eat foods artificially enhanced with vitamins and minerals; we consume substitutes for whipped cream that are 100 percent artificial; we even take chemicals to sleep and stay awake.” He estimates “maybe less than 1 percent” of supermarket floor space is for raw vegetables because the priorities of commodity distribution weigh heavier on commercialism than people’s nutritional needs.
Dr. Hagiwara notes the nutritional superiority of raw foods over cooked food, and he cites the advantage in consuming the green juices of vegetables rather than eating the whole vegetable raw. Despite the importance of fiber in the diet, the fibrous tissues of vegetables make them difficult to eat in the quantity needed to receive the full effect of their nutrients. The juice has the most nutritional value, but it is not stable over a long period of time, meaning the juice would have to be dried to powder form. Green Barley Essence describes the spray-drying process used to dry the barley juice in as little as two to three seconds with no temperature higher than body temperature. Dr. Hagiwara’s patented spray-drying process is used in the U.S. in the production of BarleyGreen, which is distributed by American Image Marketing. (For more information on BarleyGreen, click here.)
Green Barley Essence also describes the lengthy trial-and-error process Dr. Hagiwara went through in testing a large number of sources for green juices before settling on the barley plant. Some plants are high in nutrition, but also have pungent, aromatic compounds — used to prevent decay or insect infestation — that have germicidal effects that can be toxic to some living cells. Such aromatic and spicy foods can sometimes have a positive effect on the body, but because they are toxic to some living cells, he says they should not be taken habitually in large quantities. It has been barley, rice and other cereals lacking in a pungent odor or taste that have been used as the main staples in man’s daily diet throughout history. “This is the wisdom of mankind, and I believe that it is more scientific than modern science,” Dr. Hagiwara comments. It has been the kernels of these cereal grasses — such as barley, wheat and rice — that have been most popular, although the young, fast-growing leaves provide the highest nutritional content.
Dr. Hagiwara’s patented process “makes the essence of young green barley available without causing degeneration or decomposition of the effective components such as proteins, vitamins, enzymes, minerals and chlorophyll.” About 3 grams (1 1/2 teaspoons) of the resulting powder is the equivalent of 100 grams (about two handfuls) of the fresh young barley leaves.
Green Barley Essence contains several tables comparing the nutritional value of this product with other natural foods. In comparing 100 grams of Green Barley Essence to the same weight of other foods, Dr. Hagiwara notes Green Barley Essence is a concentrated food ,and is consumed in much smaller quantities than whole foods. But he notes the nutritional content of these whole foods may be diminished by aging and cooking by the time they are eaten. Spinach is one of the more nutritious foods compared to Green Barley Essence, but by weight, Green Barley Essence has 18.1 times as much potassium, 11.3 times as much calcium, 3.8 times as much magnesium, 4.8 times as much iron, 1.4 times as much phosphorus, 6.5 times as much carotene, 10.8 times as much B1 and 9.2 times as much B2 as spinach. It has 6.6 times as much vitamin C as the same weight of fresh oranges, and 11.1 times as much calcium as milk. By weight, Green Barley Essence has 94 times as much calcium as wheat grain, and 12.9 times as much potassium; it has 59 times as much calcium as polished rice, and 36.5 times as much potassium.
Green Barley Essence contains a sampling of testimonial letters from Japan, where Green Barley Essence has been used for more than 20 years. Relief was found by these letter-writers for asthma, eczema, obesity, pimples, skin problems, anemia, sexual impotency, constipation, stiffness, gastritis, gastroptosis, peptic ulcer, diabetes, hypotension, hypertension, heart disease, nephrosis, hepatitis and cancer. “Thousands of letters from people who used Green Barley Essence have now expanded my estimation of its value,” he writes.
But he does not see this product as a miracle drug or cure-all. “What should be regarded as the cure-all is the human body itself. It is we ourselves who effect the cure of our diseased bodies by the right application of nutrients and by the formation of healthful attitudes . . .” Along with medical and scientific explanations of how Green Barley Essence works, this book also includes very good explanations of how minerals, vitamins, proteins, chlorophyll and enzymes function.
Minerals are described as “the ring of life.” Dr. Hagiwara notes if you burn a plant and an animal, “you will get the same minerals from the ashes.” The maintenance and balance of minerals is the key to health on the cellular level. Our cells are constantly recreating themselves in a delicate process upon which our life depends. Minerals maintain the balance between acid and alkaline, and “should this balance be upset, the cell metabolism suffers, leading to conditions such as fatigue.” Dr. Hagiwara describes potassium as “a source of life activity” as this mineral helps enzymes to function. Potassium is “consumed incessantly within our bodies in the process of energy metabolism.” If our potassium supply falls too low, it is replaced by sodium, which can then increase to an unhealthy limit. This upsets a balance, which will effect the functioning of some enzymes. Experiments are cited that show persons submitted to vigorous exercise, fatigue from tension, mental stress or lack of sleep excrete potassium and store sodium in the cells. Dr. Hagiwara notes the reputation for endurance of cattle and horses; they work to exhaustion and then find renewed energy after feeding on grass, “due presumably to potassium and many other nutrients” in the grass.
A diet in which acidic foods such as meat are dominant will also foster this sodium / potassium imbalance, he adds. “Green Barley Essence is the best food I have found to restore the acid-alkaline balance,” Dr. Hagiwara writes. He notes that spinach, a very popular alkaline food, has an alkalinity of 39.6, while the alkalinity of Green Barley Essence is as high as 66.4.
Vitamins “impart activity to enzymes within the body, thus promoting metabolism,” and “assist the body in maintaining health.” To be effective, vitamins must come from a natural, rather than synthetic source. High doses of chemical-based vitamins “throw off the balance of the body, leading inevitably to side effects,” Dr. Hagiwara writes. He notes the problems caused by high doses of synthetic vitamin B1 and C formulas, and he believes similar problems will be documented with synthetic vitamin E. It has also been reported that excessive vitamin A can have harmful effects by causing hypervitaminosis. Dr. Hagiwara says Green Barley Essence is a good source of vitamin A because its “fairly high quantity” of carotene is called provitamin A since it is converted to vitamin A after it enters the body. Provitamin A cannot cause hypervitaminosis, he writes.
Proteins are provided in high quantity by many vegetables, and Dr. Hagiwara says it is a false assumption that meat is a better protein source. He differentiates between usable protein and crude protein. Meat contains crude protein, whereas green barley contains light-weight protein molecules that are more usable by our bodies.
Chlorophyll is a fascinating nutrient because of its extraordinary similarity with human blood. The structure of chlorophyll and blood “would appear to be twins,” with the only difference being that chlorophyll contains magnesium in the position where hemoglobin contains iron. Chlorophyll attracted medical attention in 1949 following a Reader’s Digest article titled “Mysterious Power of Chlorophyll.” For a while, chlorophyll was added to a variety of products, from medicines to toothpastes. But this proved ineffective because the chlorophyll being used was not natural chlorophyll, which can be obtained only from the leaves of plants.
Enzymes are the catalyst for all chemical changes in the body. This includes digestion of food, sending oxygen from the lungs to our blood and cells, body movement, synthesizing proteins from amino acids to make muscle and even the thinking process. Minerals are essential in the functioning of enzymes.
Certain enzymes from plant leaves are found in large amounts in red and white blood cells, but are extremely low in cancerous cells. Dr. Hagiwara theorizes this is an indication these enzymes are likely to result in the inhibition of cancer. Another enzyme being studied for its potential effects in preventing cancer is superoxide dismutase (SOD). Hazardous radical forms of oxygen are expelled in the process of respiration and metabolism, and the enzyme SOD works to destroy these active oxygen radicals. Large amounts of SOD have been found in the organs of long-living primates, leading to the belief that SOD can retard the aging of cells.
“In summary, minerals, vitamins, proteins, chlorophyll and enzymes are the keys to health. Together, they maintain our cells in a healthy condition and work to correct any abnormal condition that occurs. They do it not like drugs, which are foreign matter within the body, but serve to invigorate natural activities within the body.”
Front-page news was made in two leading Japanese newspapers in 1981 from a lab experiment in which Dr. Hagiwara restored a DNA gene infected by cancer to normal condition by application of the components of the juice from young leaves of barley. But he notes the study of toxins that cause cancer and the elements that prevent it “could still be described as an infant endeavor.”
In the final chapter of Green Barley Essence, Dr. Hagiwara issues a world-wide invitation for research into how the natural power of green plants may help prevent cancer and other diseases. He founded the Association of Green and Health, and he provides an address and phone number for people to join. He also founded the Hagiwara Institute of Health to conduct additional research.
He concludes his book by expressing a concern very similar to the warning of John Robbins in Diet for a New America. Dr. Hagiwara quotes a Japanese dietary ecologist who, like Robbins, warns the only way to avoid a worldwide food crisis will be to improve the efficiency of food production by revamping our meat-based system of agriculture. As a comparison, he notes that one cow requires grass from ten acres of land, and for X amount of time, this one cow will feed 30 people. “The arithmetic of this waste is stunning… During the same time that that cow is sustaining those 30 lives, the protein which could be harvested directly from barley leaves grown on that ten acres of land would sustain 300 lives.”
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