Few people know exactly why Acai is so good for them.

Plenty of people know that it’s one of the most healthy things around, and they love to quote the one or two facts that impressed them the most, but sadly they never see the whole picture of Acai’s awesomeness unless they study the science of Acai in depth.

I doubt that I’m going to convince many people to do that here on this blog, so I’ve decided to pass along the next best thing.

A colleague of mine over at the Acai Research Organization has made an incredible film, which you can see below. He just released this film Friday and it is already gaining a lot of popularity over at YouTube… And it’s easy to see why.

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So here’s the dilemma: If it’s produce, then the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to call it a food. If you use it to heal you in some way, then the FDA wants to call it a drug… There is a very fine line in most peoples’ minds, but any line left between the two the Acai berry has just totally erased.

If one plant serves two different needs, such as a root sold as produce that can be used as a healing agent, (Ginseng and Green tea leaves also comes to mind) then we have to be really careful. Naturally we’d want it to be regulated so we don’t accidentally overdose on it… Although I have no idea if a ginseng or green tea overdose would be harmful or not.

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Here’s a quote I hear a lot from new Acai fans: “Acai has the richest Antioxidant of any food in the world.”

Yes, you can truthfully say that, it is a quote by Dr. Strauss, who was the first person to run an ORAC evaluation on Acai berries. However, do people really understand what this means?

It’s not really referring to the ORAC score at all, but the high number of Antioxidant Compounds in Acai, which to me is far more impressive.

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Do you remember Beta Carotene? In the 1980’s, no one but doctors and nutritionists had ever heard that beta carotene even existed, until one day when some technician found that the high BC content in carrots does a lot of good for heart patients.

So in 1992 a major study (18,000 people) was done on the Antioxidant properties of beta carotene by giving it in pill form to cancer patients. It failed miserably.

Reseachers are still scratching their heads over why it was such an utter failure, even though beta carotene is a form of Antioxidant.

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Of course you know that the Acai palm tree (açaí) is a 6-24 meter tall, fruiting palm that grows in Amazonia, mostly in the wetlands of Brazil.

It was named by the native people there as “içá-çai”, which roughly translated is: “the fruit that cries”.

It’s an unusual name, but it has a story. An Acai-obsessed Brazilian told this one to me.
(You’ll have to judge yourself how factual it is.)

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The Acai berry has had so many testimonials in it’s favor in the last few years alone that it’s hard to believe that there’s anything left out there that it can’t cure… But just to keep this interesting, let’s pretend for a moment that it has only been shown to make a few backs feel better and a few joints move more smoothly… And then tack on all the facts and hard evidence we can.

First of all there is the famous 2006 press release by the University of Florida with their Leukemia experiment. (See the previous post)

What I didn’t mention before from that series of experiments is that many scientists have placed other fruits with high concentrations of Antioxidents in the same type of experimental situations with Leukemia and other cancer cells, and in each case the Antioxidents were effective to some varying degree at destroying the cancer, although none so effectively as Acai.

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It’s hardly breaking news now, but in January 2006 the University of Florida released findings about how the Acai berry destroyed 86% of the Leukemia cells in a cell culture model.

What I want to know is why wasn’t this on the front page of the NY Times? Where was the CNN coverage? Why didn’t any of the most respected medical publications do a big story on this?

I realize that thousands of medical press releases are put out each and every month, but this is a matter of priority… Were the stories of Jan 2006 so important that they really deserved to edge out a very realistic cure for cancer?

Instead of worldwide trumpeting, here is the one and only official mention of it:

news.ufl.edu/2006/01/12/berries

One page on the UF website… Out of over 200 releases that month!

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