A Profile of Barley

A PROFILE OF BARLEY

Organic barley is highly alkaline and is rich in enzymes, especially Superoxide Dismutase (SOD). According to recent research, the life span of humans and many mammals is directly proportional to the SOD content in the heart, brain and liver. Barley contains potassium, calcium and magnesium in large amounts and has abundant beta-carotene and chlorophyll. It is seven times richer in vitamin C than the equivalent weight of oranges, and five times richer in iron than spinach. It also has a purifying effect that enables the body to eliminate many toxins that would otherwise accumulate.

Some Practical Facts about Barley - It is the first grain to ripen in the Spring, wheat is next and takes 4 to 6 weeks longer to mature. - Because it is hardy and thrives in high altitudes and northern climatic conditions it is not attacked by bugs, molds, fungi or worms which abound later and in warmer climates. - Barley is 67 percent carbohydrate and 12.8 percent protein - a "perfect" ratio of the two as claimed by modern scientists. - Barley brought rejuvenation and renewal to the health of the ancient people whose winter diets were meager. It will do the same for us today.

Q: What are enzymes good for?

A: Our bodies use enzymes for everything ranging from digestion to regulating hormone production. Without them our cells could not function and we would die. Even though our bodies contain many enzymes, most foods we eat are processed and cooked which renders them virtually devoid of all enzymes. Our bodies can obtain enzymes from raw, fresh vegetables. Jade GreenZymes is a source of hundreds of live enzymes which our bodies can readily absorb. Green barley leaves contain a multitude of enzymes. Enzymes are essential for the thousands of chemical reactions that occur throughout the body, including the production of energy at the cellular level, the facilitation of digestion, the absorption of digested nutrients, and the rebuilding and replenishing of all that the body requires for metabolism to occur. The enzyme superoxide dismutase (SOD) is a powerful antioxidant thought to slow the rate of cell destruction by providing a defense against free radicals, especially the most prolific free radical, superoxide. Superoxide free radicals are thought to be responsible for the breakdown of synovial fluid that leads to the inflammatory response in joints. Much of the current clinical research on SOD is focused on arthritis, bursitis, and gout. Low levels of SOD are also associated with cataracts and other degenerative diseases. In addition, it is believed to help the body use zinc, copper, and manganese more effectively.

Q: What does the chlorophyll do?

A: The chlorophyll content of Jade GreenZymes is a natural detoxifier and rids the intestines of stored toxins. Because it is a natural detoxifier, it also aids in reducing bad breath. While green foods comprise a wide variety of different types, from single celled algae to flowering plants, they all share one thing in common, chlorophyll. The benefits of various green foods seem related to their chlorophyll content, perhaps as a result of specific beneficial substances, such as carotenoids and flavonoids, that are often found together with chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is known to help cleanse the body, fight infection, help heal wounds, and promote the health of the circulatory, digestive, immune, and detoxification systems. Green barley grass also contains chlorophyll. Chlorophyll has been studied for its potential as a deodorant, in stimulating tissue growth, and in stimulating red blood cells in connection with oxygen supply. Perhaps most remarkable is the similarity between chlorophyll and the red pigment in blood. Research in the 1940s demonstrated that the two pigments react the same during breakdown.

According to an article in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (Jan. 4, 1995), chlorophyll fed to laboratory animals reduces absorption of three dietary carcinogens: heterocyclic amines (found in cooked muscle meats), polycyclic hydrocarbons (found in smoked and barbecued foods), and aflatoxin (a mold on peanuts). The chlorophyll formed complex compounds with the carcinogens while they were still in the digestive tract, limiting their bioavailability.

Chlorophyll also removes carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, the by-products of respiration and pollution, and has been found to reduce fecal, urinary, and body odor in geriatric patients. In addition, it has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and wound-healing properties.

Although chlorophyll is a volatile compound, the chlorophyll in Jade GreenZymes is stabilized by the gentle extraction and spray-drying processes. While the mechanism is unclear, chlorophyll consumption may increase the number of red blood cells and, therefore, increase oxygen utilization by the body. Interestingly, the chlorophyll molecule is similar in structure to the heme molecule of the oxygen-carrying protein, hemoglobin.

Green barley grass also contains chlorophyll. Chlorophyll has been studied for its potential as a deodorant, in stimulating tissue growth, and in stimulating red blood cells in connection with blood supply. Perhaps most remarkable is the similarity between chlorophyll and the red pigment in blood. Research in the 1940s demonstrated that the two pigments react the same during breakdown.

Q: What does a detoxifier do and how might this affect me?

A: A detoxifier "leaches" the toxins or poisons that have been stored within the body by releasing them into the fluid stores of the body (blood, urine, perspiration, etc.). When detoxifying, you should drink plenty of water to dilute the released toxins for elimination. You may experience gas bubbles, skin rash, itchiness, and muscle tightness, which are all signs of poisons exiting the body. After three to four weeks, the system should be cleansed and the skin and internal body should look and feel great!

Q: Why is Jade GreenZymes so green?

A: The "green" is from chlorophyll. Barley grass has one of the highest, natural, rich chlorophyll contents of all the green vegetables. In fact, Barley Grass has 66 times more chlorophyll than spinach.

Q: What are Phytochemicals?

A: Phytochemicals are simply plant chemicals that are thought to be essential to health. They have been associated with the prevention and/or treatment of at least four of the leading causes of death—cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension—and with the prevention and/or treatment of other ailments, including neural tube defects, osteoporosis, abnormal bowel function, and arthritis, as well as numerous chronic conditions.

Q: What are the benefits of taking barley grass?

A: Helps maintain whole body health, a healthy immune system, and provides increased energy. It is a unique and powerful plant antioxidant, contains benefits of live enzymes, including superoxide dismustase ( SOD ), and benefits of complete amino acid profile. The benefits of juicing without the inconvenience.

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, which are the major constituents of every cell and body fluid, and are thus necessary for the continual cell building, cell regeneration, and energy production that we need for life. An added benefit of the green barley leaf proteins is that they are polypeptides—smaller proteins that can be directly absorbed by the blood, where they promote cell metabolism (the chemical changes that we need to live).

Today, reports on the health benefits of fresh vegetables appear in the news every week. That's because fresh vegetables contain health-promoting nutrients not found in any other type of food. They supply our body with the essential nutrients to efficiently run our cellular metabolism, build healthy tissue and protect us from free-radicals and other toxins.

Research has shown that we should consume five or more servings of fresh vegetables and fruits every day to stay healthy but people in industrialized countries find it difficult to do so. Daily consumption of Jade GreenZymes is a convenient and effective way to make sure we get the nutrients found in fresh vegetables. Even diets rich in vegetable and fruits may still be lacking in nutrients since comparative analyses have shown that present day commercially grown produce contains significantly fewer levels of nutrients than produce grown before the wide-spread use of pesticides and herbicides. Although research has identified numerous beneficial phytochemicals in edible plants, scientists predict that there may be thousands of health-promoting compounds yet to be discovered. Cereal grasses like barley grass are considered to be the foundation of our food chain and contain the nutrition necessary to maintain health in both animals and humans.

Q: Why is Alkalinity important to our health?

A: Green barley grass has a high alkalizing effect, which helps keep the ratio between acidity and alkalinity in our body fluids balanced. Our cells cannot adequately function if the pH (which measures acidity and alkalinity) is not in a narrow range. Most processed foods are acidic, and when we consume too many of them, the acidity-alkalinity balance is upset. Green barley grass contains buffer minerals such as sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium. Buffer minerals neutralize acidic materials and can help maintain a healthy acidity-alkalinity balance.

Green barley grass has a high alkalizing effect, which helps keep the ratio between acidity and alkalinity in our body fluids balanced. Our cells cannot adequately function if the pH (which measures acidity and alkalinity) is not in a narrow range. Most processed foods are acidic, and when we consume too many of them, the acidity-alkalinity balance is upset.

Green barley grass contains buffer minerals such as sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium. Buffer minerals neutralize acidic materials and can help people maintain a healthy acidity-alkalinity balance.

Recently, research has unveiled many other possible benefits of green barley leaves. Extracted compounds may have hypocholesteromic, anti-inflammatory, and anti-ulcer properties. A new antioxidant, 2"-0-glycosylisovitexin (2"-0-GIV), has been isolated and reported to have antioxidant activity equal to or superior to vitamin E.

Q: What are Flavonoids?

A: It contains 2½ times the beta carotene found in a an equivalent weight of raw carrots and about 25 times that found in an equivalent weight of raw broccoli. Beta carotene is an important antioxidant known to protect cells. It is implicated in cardiovascular health and is believed to have anti-cancer benefits.

Research has found that green barley extract has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity, immune system support, and cholesterol-lowering effects.

Q: What are Green Grasses?

A: Barley grass is one of the green grasses—the only vegetation on earth that can supply sole nutritional support from birth to old age. Agronomists place this ancient cereal grass as being cultivated as early as 7000 b.c., probably in the dry lands of southwestern Asia. In the West, barley grass was first known for the barley grain it produces; there is written mention of the grain as early as 2800 b.c. in Babylon.

Before green grasses undergo the reproductive cycle that creates the grains, they are in the grass stage, and the grasses contain about the same vitamins and minerals as dark green vegetables. When grasses are harvested at a young age, they have a different chemical makeup from their adult counterparts. For example, wheat grass has 32 g of protein per 100 g, while wheat flour has only 13 g per 100 g. Wheat grass has about 23,000 International Units (IUs) of vitamin A per 100 g, while wheat flour has none. We can see then that the young grasses offer us great nutrition.

Barley grass is considered the most nutritional of the green grasses. After studying green plants for decades, Dr. Yoshihide Hagiwara, the creator of Jade GreenZymes®, said, "It was clear to me, then, that the leaves of the cereal grasses provide the nearest thing this planet offers to the perfect food. For reasons of palatability, higher nutrient content, and favorable harvesting features, green barley stands out as the best among these."

Q: What are Amino acids and Proteins?

A: Barley grass contains eighteen amino acids, including the eight essential ones—that is, the amino acids that we must get from our diet. The body cannot produce them itself.

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, which are the major constituents of every cell and body fluid (except urine and bile) and are thus necessary for the continual cell building, cell regeneration, and energy production that we need for life. An added benefit of the green barley leaf proteins is that they are polypeptides; smaller proteins that can be directly absorbed by the blood, where they promote cell metabolism (the chemical changes that we need to live) and neutralize substances that are bad for our health.

Barley, according to historians, is a well-known grain cultivated from the remotest antiquity. It is mentioned 37 times in the Bible. Barley is the fourth most important cereal according to the 1986 World Book Encyclopedia. The world produces nearly 8 billion bushels a year.

Nutritional Value A concentrated source of nearly three dozen vitamins and minerals barley grass is particularly rich in vitamins A, C, B1, B2, folic acid, and B12; calcium; iron; potassium; and chlorophyll. Unlike most plants, barley grass provides all nine essential amino acids ( those which you body can't produce).

Healing Claims Barley grass is a powerful antioxidant that is believed to help the body kill cancer cells and overcome a variety of ailments, including acne and ulcers.

How It Works An antioxidant called alpha-tocopherol succinate — a potent relative of vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) — may be responsible for much of the plant's anti-tumor action, according to Allen L. Goldstein, Ph.D., head of the biochemistry department at GeorgeWashington University's School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C., who has studied barley grass. Though its mechanism is unknown, alpha-tocopherol succinate seems to inhibit several types of cancer, including leukemia, brain tumors, and prostate cancer.

The Evidence There have been no clinical trials of barley grass. In an experiment at GeorgeWashingtonUniversity, Goldstein and his colleagues exposed leukemic cancer cells to dehydrated barley grass extract. The extract killed virtually all of them. Encouraged, the researches then subjected brain cancer cells to the extract. It eradicated 30 to 50 percent of these cells In a third trial, the extract inhibited the growth of three types of prostate cancer cells by 90 to 100 percent.

In one informal study, a Japanese dermatologist observed a group of 25 patients with skin

diseases ranging from melanosis (darkening of the skin) to eczema. The patients who tookbarley grass extract healed faster than did those who did not They also noticed improvementsin appetite and bowel regularity.

Barley grass is one of the green grasses, the only vegetation on the earth that can supply sole nutritional support from birth to old age. Barley has served as a food staple in most cultures. The use of barley for food and medicinal purposes dates to antiquity. Agronomists place this ancient cereal grass as being cultivated as early as 7000 BC. Roman gladiators ate barley for strength and stamina. In the West, it was first known for the barley grain it produces.

Barley grass contains eighteen amino acids, including the eight essential ones. Amino acids we must get from our diet as the body cannot produce them itself. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, which are the major constituents of every cell and body fluid (except urine and bile) and arethus necessary for the continual cell building, cell regeneration, and energy production that we need for life. An added benefit of the barley grass proteins is that they are polypeptides; smaller proteins that can be directly absorbed by the blood, where they promote cell metabolism and neutralize substances that are bad for our health.