Cereal Grasses Juice

People are still looking for a secret of longevity, but they cannot find it. So a new idea came along that instead of finding this secret, you just move to a place where the people live longer. The only interesting thing that I noticed in this video is that the natives had free-range chickens and cows on pastures. And that is something that Westin Price noticed on his travels. Also, there are a lot of volcanos in Costa Rica, which as we know bring a lot of minerals to the soil, so perhaps this combination of volcanos and pastured animals is what sets Costa Rica, and some other places, apart from the rest of the world. In other places, instead of volcanos, you could have spring river floods that enrich the soil.

 
People are still looking for a secret of longevity, but they cannot find it. So a new idea came along that instead of finding this secret, you just move to a place where the people live longer. The only interesting thing that I noticed in this video is that the natives had free-range chickens and cows on pastures. And that is something that Westin Price noticed on his travels. Also, there are a lot of volcanos in Costa Rica, which as we know bring a lot of minerals to the soil, so perhaps this combination of volcanos and pastured animals is what sets Costa Rica, and some other places, apart from the rest of the world. In other places, instead of volcanos, you could have spring river floods that enrich the soil.


I believe in this explanation, but I think there might be more than that based on something I experienced...
I traveled to many cities around Costa Rica. The first time I stayed 2 weeks. The 2nd time, as soon as I set foot in what I later learned was a "blue zone", a city named Montezuma in the Nicoya Peninsula, I felt something different, and I did not want to leave. I ended up quitting my job and staying there 3 months.

The Blue Zone in Costa Rica is located on the Nicoya Peninsula, which includes the cantons of Hojancha, Nandayure, Carrillo, Santa Cruz, and Nicoya. It's one of only five Blue Zones in the world

Nicoyan water has the country’s highest calcium content, perhaps explaining the lower rates of heart disease, as well as stronger bones and fewer hip fractures.



This place is a convergence for many interesting people (circus, yoga, fire spinning, etc), and all the backpackers I talked with told me they felt the "same thing" as I did. You feel good and you don't want to leave. Most of the locals live a "slow" pace lifestyle, and even if they have to work hard, it's not the same type of stress as in a big city. They are very friendly, live almost always outdoors close to the ocean and nature, and even the elementary school is like being outdoors, just aside from the beach.

 
Juan Alvaro Echeverri wrote some interesting articles about the use of vegetable salts in South American tribes. What he describes sounds like these tribes were practicing alchemy.

A transforming, purifying power, Mother-Fire turns everything into ashes, then into pure mineral salt. That is the food a human creature was fed in that other planet, the mother's womb. Then, on this earth, one has to transform plants and animals through `processing' (fire) to keep oneself fed. That `salt' - the purified substance resulting from processing with fire (tobacco, coca, food...) - will keep accumulating in the human body and will constitute the source of its capacity for action.

The image of human capacities and abilities that surfaces throughout the discourse on salt is that of a person who is alert. It is described through several verbs which mean `to be trained and dextrous' (fibide), `to be aware, to be in tune' (fidide), `to hit, to find, to discover' (baite), `to be agile, quick' (iyuirede), `to listen' (kakade), `to know' (onode), `to see' (kiode) and, finally, `to be full of words, to speak' (uairede). These abilities derive from the successful `hardening' of salt in the body, until it forms a kind of a rock, a power, which is called riado, `power rock', or fiokie, `charisma'. It is said that in former times powerful sorcerers who had suficiently `hardened' their rocks could actually pull them out from their foreheads and display them to other sorcerers. These were, it is said, little shiny rocks; some were green, others yellow, yet others red.


 
This is potentially interesting. If the energy increase that people report after drinking raw cereal grass juice is connected to thiamine, then perhaps this could explain why they don't feel such increase after taking the powder form:

We aimed to clarify the mechanisms affecting postmortem thiamine and its phosphoester contents in major edible pork muscles, namely the longissimus lumborum (LL) in addition to vastus intermedius (VI). Metabolomic analysis by capillary electrophoresis-time of flight mass spectrometry revealed that the level of thiamine triphosphate (ThTP), approximately 1.8-fold higher in LL than in VI muscle at 0h postmortem, declined in the first 24h, resulting in an undetectable level at 168h postmortem in both muscles. In contrast, the thiamine content in both muscles increased after 24h postmortem during the aging process. The thiamine accumulation and ThTP decline progressed in parallel with a drastic reduction of the ATP level. The intermuscular differences in pH at 24h, and expression of thiamine transporter and thiamine pyrophosphokinase might result in delayed thiamine generation in LL. These results suggest that postmortem ATP exhaustion forced ThTP hydrolysis and further depyrophosphorylation of thiamine diphosphate in the porcine muscles, which resulted in thiamine accumulation.


Perhaps thiamine triphosphate is what gives people the energy, but that is lost over time as ATP is lost. On the other hand, if we could increase ATP in our bodies, then perhaps we could increase the production of thiamine triphosphate.
 
I think that vitamin D can help us increase the ATP. But I also found another interesting thing:

Light-harvesting chlorophyll pigments enable mammalian mitochondria to capture photonic energy and produce ATP

ABSTRACT

Sunlight is the most abundant energy source on this planet. However, the ability to convert sunlight into biological energy in the form of adenosine-5′-triphosphate (ATP) is thought to be limited to chlorophyll-containing chloroplasts in photosynthetic organisms. Here we show that mammalian mitochondria can also capture light and synthesize ATP when mixed with a light-capturing metabolite of chlorophyll. The same metabolite fed to the worm Caenorhabditis elegans leads to increase in ATP synthesis upon light exposure, along with an increase in life span. We further demonstrate the same potential to convert light into energy exists in mammals, as chlorophyll metabolites accumulate in mice, rats and swine when fed a chlorophyll-rich diet. Results suggest chlorophyll type molecules modulate mitochondrial ATP by catalyzing the reduction of coenzyme Q, a slow step in mitochondrial ATP synthesis. We propose that through consumption of plant chlorophyll pigments, animals, too, are able to derive energy directly from sunlight.

INTRODUCTION

Determining how organisms obtain energy from the environment is fundamental to our understanding of life. In nearly all organisms, energy is stored and transported as adenosine-5′-triphosphate (ATP). In animals, the vast majority of ATP is synthesized in the mitochondria through respiration, a catabolic process. However, plants have co-evolved endosymbiotically to produce chloroplasts, which synthesize light-absorbing chlorophyll molecules that can capture light to use as energy for ATP synthesis. Many animals consume this light-absorbing chlorophyll through their diet. Inside the body, chlorophyll is converted into a variety of metabolites (Ferruzzi and Blakeslee, 2007; Ma and Dolphin, 1999) that retain the ability to absorb light in the visible spectrum at wavelengths that can penetrate into animal tissues. We sought to elucidate the consequences of light absorption by these potential dietary metabolites. We show that dietary metabolites of chlorophyll can enter the circulation, are present in tissues, and can be enriched in the mitochondria. When incubated with a light-capturing metabolite of chlorophyll, isolated mammalian mitochondria and animal-derived tissues, have higher concentrations of ATP when exposed to light, compared with animal tissues not mixed with the metabolite. We demonstrate that the same metabolite increases ATP concentrations, and extends the median life span of Caenorhabditis elegans, upon light exposure; supporting the hypothesis that photonic energy capture through dietary-derived metabolites may be an important means of energy regulation in animals. The presented data are consistent with the hypothesis that metabolites of dietary chlorophyll modulate mitochondrial ATP stores by catalyzing the reduction of coenzyme Q. These findings have implications for our understanding of aging, normal cell function and life on earth.

Conclusion

Both increased sun exposure (Dhar and Lambert, 2013; John et al., 2004; Kent et al., 2013a; Kent et al., 2013b; Levandovski et al., 2013) and the consumption of green vegetables (Block et al., 1992; Ferruzzi and Blakeslee, 2007; van't Veer et al., 2000) are correlated with better overall health outcomes in a variety of diseases of aging. These benefits are commonly attributed to an increase in vitamin D from sunlight exposure and consumption of antioxidants from green vegetables. Our work suggests these explanations might be incomplete. Sunlight is the most abundant energy source on this planet. Throughout mammalian evolution, the internal organs of most animals, including humans, have been bathed in photonic energy from the sun. Do animals have metabolic pathways that enable them to take greater advantage of this abundant energy source? The demonstration that: (1) light-sensitive chlorophyll-type molecules are sequestered into animal tissues; (2) in the presence of the chlorophyll metabolite P-a, there is an increase in ATP in isolated animal mitochondria, tissue homogenates and in C. elegans, upon exposure to light of wavelengths absorbed by P-a; and (3) in the presence of P-a, light alters fundamental biology resulting in up to a 17% extension of life span in C. elegans suggests that, similarly to plants and photosynthetic organisms, animals also possess metabolic pathways to derive energy directly from sunlight. Additional studies should confirm these conclusions.


We already know the benefits of red light, but these scientists say that light therapy would work even better with the consumption of chlorophyll. I wish they also tested infrared and not just red light (670 nm).

This could potentially also have an effect on sungazing or color therapy:

 
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