Aloe Vera for Digestive and Immune support and brain function

Simple Everyday Life Changes for  Optimal Health.

Since I started studying natural health 6 years ago, I have always been interested in supporting my body with the full range of nutrition with simple everyday foods that are readily available and meets the common pocket book.   This series of blogs will contain highlights of such foods leaving you to do more research if desired.  As some of you know, I own a naturally pure skincare line called Zenjenskin.  Many of the suggestions on what you can take internally works well topically as well supporting my passion that beauty is from the inside out.  Our first topic is about Glyconutrients found in Aloe Vera.

Glyco What?  Well even though you may not have heard of it, we ingest some glyconutrients every day as they are essential to the needs of every cell in our bodies.  Unfortunately, most of us don’t get enough of them leaving our bodies depleted.  For example, today, it would take 53 peaches to give you the nutritive value that a single peach gave you in 1950.  Partly because our soils are depleted and partly because our diet has changed from eating lots of nutritionally based foods to fast food.

What is a Glyconutrient?

Glyconutrients are polysaccharides found in mushrooms, breast milk, some plant gums, sea brown algae, and aloe Vera.  Polysaccharides are involved in the everyday process of cell to cell communication- the thing that happens so our cells will live on.  Um, this is where those of you interested can do some research on your ownJ   Since we are not all mushroom, brown algae, plant gum and breast milk consumers; we are going to focus on ALOE VERA.   

Aloe Vera has been known for centuries for its healing powers of wounds, burns, the prevention of infection, and taken internally, it is a great support for digestion (having prebiotic effects), immune support and optimal brain function.   You only have to slather a bit of aloe Vera on you to know that it is cooling and soothing and will quickly calm a burn.  Hmmm, didn’t know about the brain function.  You can be sure I will be taking more of that.

There are over 150 nutritional ingredients in Aloe Vera working all together in a synergistic way to create healing and health giving benefits. The ten main areas of chemical constituents of Aloe Vera include: amino acids, anthraquinones, enzymes, minerals, vitamins, lignins, monosaccharide, polysaccharides, salicylic acid, saponins, and sterols.   Another mouth full more those who like to do research-anyone?   What is most impressive to me is that it takes 22 amino acids to build protein, our bodies produces all of them except 8 called essential amino acids.  Aloe Vera has those 8 essential Amino Acids.  Kudos to you Aloe!!!

How to apply this to everyday life?

This is what I do.  When I am filling up my water bottle with purified water, I put a tablespoon of aloe Vera in it.   Simple-done.   Told you it would be simple.  Please buy organic, it is reasonably priced.

Topically, Aloe Vera is nutritional, soothing and calming and for those reasons, it is the base of all my skin care products.  You can check out my website at www.zenjenskin.com or follow me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/zenjenskin for more information about the healing powers of plants and food.