Beauty: Hylauronic Acid (Hyaluronan)- this video from Youtube deserve it’s own post. Connie Chung reports from Yuzuri Hara, Japan. It was first broadcast on November 2, 2000 on ABC.
There is a town in Japan where people live into their 90s and beyond. In this particular small town of Japan, they don’t farm rice due to the terrain. Instead they grow potatoes, the sticky white potato (konyaku) and small taro roots (satoimo). The diet of local root vegetables are rich in Hyaluronic Acid The villagers also eat very little meat and eat mostly starchy food and green veggies. They also continue to do what they do, whether it’s farming or chores despite their old age. That I think is also the key to a long life and happiness.
Other natural sources of HA is also found in chicken and rooster combs. And that is how some cosmetics company get their HA. Although others get theirs from the bio-fermentation of organic plant matter.
Now you can find HA in bottles as well as face cream.
Jarrow Formulas HA (50 mg) supplements available at iherb about $11. Image source iherb.com
Urula HA from Japan, 120 mg (60 tablets $60) purchase here “In 1997, Japanese scientists at a major nutritional research firm Medicaraise succeeded in deriving Hyaluronic Acid (HA) and Dermatan Sulfate (DS) from all natural sources (to avoid using synthetic materials), which can be digested and effectively absorbed by human body.” - Urula
11:42 am on September 5th, 2009
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11:29 pm on September 9th, 2009
Interest finding about HA. I think it must be the diet and low stress lifestyle, I wouldn’t mind living there.
I noticed that stress ages people a lot faster and also contributes to declining in health, one of my co-workers is a prime example, she is my age and has to take pills to calm her nerve now since the cutback. I’m the opposite from her, I work well under stress.
12:09 am on September 11th, 2009
Yes, stress can not be good for your health. My mom’s parent lived in a farm (all their lives) and hardly went to the hospital, they lived well into their late 80s and 90s. But not so on my dad’s side, they were more cosmopolitan people. Sadly I never got to know my paternal grandpa.
Like yourself, I’m pretty calm in most situations.
11:45 pm on December 12th, 2009
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