Re: Hyaluronic Acid

[Guest guest]

Yuck. My dad use to eat all the morrow out of the steak bones. But, truly, it is good for you. If a person were butchering their own meat today, I have a really good article about how to get the morrow out of bigger long bones (must be kept at a certain temperature) and that this stuff can cure almost any disease when collected and kept correctly. But considering that's where all our blood comes from I suppose it would be healthful. I just remember Dad eating that nasty, greasy stuff. Lol

Samala,

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I swar chicken wings are great for arthritis.

Suck all the meat off the bones and gnaw that little knot of cartilage.

[Guest guest]

Marrow isn't the same as cartilage tho Jane

Re: Hyaluronic Acid

Yuck. My dad use to eat all the morrow out of the steak bones. But, truly, it is good for you. If a person were butchering their own meat today, I have a really good article about how to get the morrow out of bigger long bones (must be kept at a certain temperature) and that this stuff can cure almost any disease when collected and kept correctly. But considering that's where all our blood comes from I suppose it would be healthful. I just remember Dad eating that nasty, greasy stuff. Lol

Samala,

-------Original Message-------

I swar chicken wings are great for arthritis.

Suck all the meat off the bones and gnaw that little knot of cartilage.

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[Guest guest]

> HA is wonderful stuff but expensive. I used it to good effect a couple

> of

> years ago. There is confusion about how good it is considering the

> source it

> came from. Supposedly the good stuff cannot be made from vegetable

> sources.

Sorry, I didn't save the website address for this but some sticky root

vegetables apparently have HA. Anyone know where to get them?

Question: What foods contain hyaluronic acid? "

Answer: I have found very little information on this myself, though I

am aware of two possible sources. The first was mentioned in a segment

from ABC news about a hyaluronic acid consumption in a village in Japan

.. In the 20/20 segment, " The Village of Long Life: Could Hyaluronic

Acid Be an Anti-Aging Remedy? " the town doctor attributed the

villager's long lives to " starchy root vegetables " -- satsumaimo, a type

of sweet potato; satoimo, a sticky white potato; konyaku, a gelatinous

root vegetable concoction; and imoji, a potato root. The doctor

believes " these locally grown starches help stimulate the body’s

natural creation of a substance called hyaluronic acid, or HA, which

aging bodies typically lose. This may ward off the aging process by

helping the cells of the body thrive and retain moisture, keeping

joints lubricated, protecting the retina in eyes and keeping skin

smooth and elastic. 'I have never seen anyone suffer from skin cancer

here, ' he says. 'I have seen a woman in her 90s with spotless skin.' ”

I have never read anything else about these vegetables stimulating

hyaluronic acid per se, but root vegetables do tend to have high

amounts of magnesium, so it would seem plausible that this could be

true. Recent research shows that root vegetable consumptions may also

reduce the risk of certain types of cancer.

The second source of hyaluronic acid I can think of would be to eat

animal parts known to contain a lot of hyaluronic acid. I make broth

for soup from boiled animal parts that contain a lot of skin, tendons

and joints. This is the one food that helped my fibromyalgia more than

anything else. I've also noticed that if I eat too much of this broth

my blood pressure rises, which is interesting because people like me

with connective tissue disorders usually have unusually low blood

pressure. It also seems to improve my breathing. My kids don't like to

eat a lot of soup, so I make a nutritious broth from bones and

vegetables for them and use it instead of water when I make rice, a

food they do like.

[Guest guest]

Yep, but it all tastes nasty. :-)

Samala,

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Marrow isn't the same as cartilage tho

[Guest guest]

I just tried googling the vegetables listed and satsumaimo looks like a

yam, satoimo is a taro root, konnyaku turned out to be konjac or

Glucomannan, and imoji. The first two can be found on a site about

Japanese foods-

http://japanesefood.about.com/cs/vegetables/a/sweetpotato.htm

http://japanesefood.about.com/library/pictures/blsatoimo.htm

And it turns out I just ordered Glucomannan (konnyaku or konjac) from

iherb.com, but after looking at websites I could probably have found it

much cheaper to eat already prepared in an Asian market, provided they

name it something in English I could recognize. I'll have to go look.

The benefits of Glucomannan are impressive.

http://www.shakespeare-w.com/english/konnyaku/whatis.html

Imoji is a place name, I haven't yet found it as a food on google, too

many pages, too little time.

> Answer: I have found very little information on this myself, though I

> am aware of two possible sources. The first was mentioned in a segment

> from ABC news about a hyaluronic acid consumption in a village in Japan

> In the 20/20 segment, " The Village of Long Life: Could Hyaluronic

> Acid Be an Anti-Aging Remedy? " the town doctor attributed the

> villager's long lives to " starchy root vegetables " -- satsumaimo, a type

> of sweet potato; satoimo, a sticky white potato; konyaku, a gelatinous

> root vegetable concoction; and imoji, a potato root. The doctor

> believes " these locally grown starches help stimulate the body’s

> natural creation of a substance called hyaluronic acid, or HA, which

> aging bodies typically lose. This may ward off the aging process by

> helping the cells of the body thrive and retain moisture, keeping

> joints lubricated, protecting the retina in eyes and keeping skin

> smooth and elastic. 'I have never seen anyone suffer from skin cancer

> here, ' he says. 'I have seen a woman in her 90s with spotless skin.' ”

[Guest guest]

And it turns out I just ordered Glucomannan (konnyaku or konjac) from

iherb.com, but after looking at websites I could probably have found itmuch cheaper to eat already prepared in an Asian market, provided theyname it something in English I could recognize. I'll have to go look.

The benefits of Glucomannan are impressive.

Hi i found it sold as Shirataki Noodles from this site http://www.lowcarbmegastore.com/shirataki_noodles_(konnyaku)_details.html

hope this helps.

cheers

kirsteen