1. PART 3
Moringa
THE MIRACLE TREE
The Tryptophan Solution
for Restful Sleep and Mental
and Emotional Well-Being
Mark Mandela My uncle Jack had
Clinical Nutritionist many emotional problems
over the years, which we
I
grew up in a family that had
a variety of mental disorders, now have traced to his
including bi-polar, anxiety, sleeping disorder. He
obsessive-compulsive disorder, and would stay up all night and
he tragic passing of Heath Ledger over a
sleep disturbances. Little did I know
that nutrition, especially Tryptophan
cat-nap throughout the
day. He was medically dis- T year ago was caused by an accidental over-
dose of painkillers combined with anti-depres-
and B-complex, would play a critical charged from the Army
and received multiple sants and sleeping pills—one of our greatest
role in reducing many of these
shock treatments because losses of young acting talent in this decade. All
symptoms for my family.
of this condition. He didn’t of these problems could have been addressed
It all started just as I was com- nutritionally. Let’s not allow this to happen to
like taking the medication
pleting my degree in nutrition, when our young people! Let’s teach them what their
the doctors prescribed, so
my uncle Jack was visiting during bodies and brains need to feel and stay well.
he suffered with this
Christmas break and went into a
condition most of his life.
mental breakdown. He started yelling
at us, became incoherent and would- I tried to use nutrition with Tylenol), it would have been
n’t let anyone touch him. He was with my uncle over the years, with back on the market ASAP!
disoriented and went outside in the partial success. But I will say one There are many kinds of pain we
ten-below-zero cold. My mother thing for him, whenever he came all deal with... But those who struggle
started crying and asked me to do down to visit, he would ask for those with the confusion and shame of
something. So I got my Tryptophan Tryptophan and B-complex supple- mental and emotional disorders are
formula and B-complex supplements, ments. If only I had known about the among those who suffer the most—
went outside, and pleaded with him power of the Moringa oleifera back often alone, and with few options for
loudly over and over until he swal- then! I truly believe, with all the real solutions. A friend of mine said
lowed them. Fifteen minutes later, he people I have helped, using the recently, “Overcoming depression
decided to come inside. We all chose Moringa for sleep deprivation, anxi- without the necessary Serotonin in
not to look at him or treat him any ety and depression (and a long list of your system is like trying to start
differently, but were watching him other conditions), that this would your car without any gas!”
from the corner of our eyes... After have changed my uncle’s life and he
I believe the removal of
15 more minutes, he returned to would still be alive today.
Tryptophan from the marketplace has
normal. It was a mira- In 1992, the supplement been one of the greatest injustices
cle! He was laughing Tryptophan was removed from the ever perpetrated on the American
and telling jokes market when a Japanese manufactur- public, causing untold suffering. It
like his old self. er sent a contaminated batch to the still remains against the law even
The funny thing US (see sidebar). It makes me won- after they found it was not the
was that he didn’t der how drug manufacturers could Tryptophan itself, but a mistake by
even remember get away with manipulating a 20- the manufacturer.
going through year-old mistake into a multi-billion-
But now, here comes the Moringa
the break- dollar, profit-making ban on this
oleifera “miracle tree” with the high-
down. natural food supplement. If this had
est known levels of Tryptophan of
been Tylenol (and this did happen
any plant food—to the rescue!
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2. What’s Better— available to the brain by blocking its Zija™ Moringa
Nutrition or Medicine? reuptake with adjoining neurons,
thereby leaving more in the synapse TESTIMONIALS
W hile Tryptophan is the scarcest
of the essential amino acids
(“essential” means that our body
to act as a neurotransmitter. But this
chemical solution involves “rerout- RESTFUL, RESTORATIVE SLEEP
ing” what little Serotonin the body haven’t slept properly in years and
can’t make it and needs to get it
from an outside food source), it is
has in storage, and this tactic can
lead to Serotonin “bankruptcy.”
I have been treated with bio-identical
hormones. I am now off almost everything
the only substance that can be con- According to Breggin’s research, in less then 2 months. Zija has helped me
verted into Serotonin, which in turn, many users have become emotional- sleep, and helped with my digestion as well.
is converted into Melatonin. But ly disturbed and have even commit- My face has gotten tighter and I look ten
which Serotonin route is better— ted suicide or murder while on years younger!
nutritional or medicinal? Let’s take Prozac.2 —Diane Digsby
a look...
But Serotonin’s function in the
Originally developed to treat DAU G H T E R WITH BIPOLAR
brain can be elevated in the way
depression in humans, psychoactive arlier this week, I received a phone call
drugs like Prozac, Zoloft and Praxil
nature intended, namely, by provid-
ing more of Serotonin’s precursor in E from my 49-year-old daughter. She start-
ed the conversation by saying that she had
are now commonly prescribed for a our diet. Tryptophan occurs natural-
variety of mental and emotional something to tell me. I braced myself for
ly in foods like turkey and soy, and what was to come. My daughter was diag-
disorders, plus migraines, sleep dis- again, at higher levels in the nosed as bipolar many years ago and her
turbances, weight loss, PMS, PTSD, Moringa oleifera. Of this tree’s many road in life has been difficult, and a great
obesity, and even back pain. But the blessings, I feel this is one of it’s challenge for me. My daughter continued
FDA approved it only for depression most important contributions for all the conversation by saying that she woke
and obsessive-compulsive disorder. of us who deal with stress daily. up that morning feeling energetic and great!
These drugs all work along the Increasing the Serotonin pathway She said she woke up feeling really good
same principle. Selective yesterday but today she felt even better!
levels through proper eating habits
Serotonin Reuptake She said that her normal morning for a
is a far superior method of balancing very long time was to wake up depressed
Inhibitors (SSRIs) mood and sleep patterns than the with the desire to go back to sleep.
work by increasing the quick fixes, side effects, and hazards What my daughter is experiencing is a
level of Serotonin of drugs.3 major breakthrough in her life. Had her
doctor prescribed a new drug for the bipo-
lar disorder? No, not at all! A month ago, I
T ryptophan is an essential amino acid
that is required for the production of
niacin (vitamin B3) and serotonin (the neuro-
gave her a box of Zija Smart Mix to try. I
kept her supplied with more Zija as she
used it. A week ago, I recommended that
she increase her intake of the Moringa
transmitter involved in relaxation and sleep)
oleifera mix. It was Zija that brought about
among others. Therefore, Tryptophan helps to the major change for my daughter. Zija has
L-TRYPTOPHAN control depression and insomnia, stabilizes given my daughter a new start in life. I con-
emotional moods, eases the perception of sider it miraculous!
pain, and might combat inflammation. It also aids to control hyperac- —Larry
tivity in children and alleviates stress. Since some migraine sufferers
have abnormally low levels of Tryptophan, it is believed that it can also NO MORE SLEEP APNEA ~
ease the pains associated with certain types of migraines. NO MORE SLEEP MEDICATIONS
have several clients using the Moringa and
Although Tryptophan is the rarest of all amino acids to be found in
protein’s composition, it plays an important role in reducing stress-
I showing improved sleep, and in one situa-
tion, the end of sleep apnea. After a week
related mood disorders, in aiding relaxation, and improving the quality of taking one serving per day, one client is
of our sleep. We all need some extra Tryptophan sometimes! now sleeping through the night for the first
time in years, and has ceased taking an
Supplements of Tryptophan are not approved in the US, so we have over-the-counter sleep medication that he
to get it from food. Moringa is an excellent plant source of Tryptophan. required before finding Moringa. A second
Its concentration in the leaves exceeds the concentration found in soy- client, after 3 weeks of consuming Zija, is
beans. (Soy has 13 mg/g protein vs. 21 mg/g protein in Moringa. finding she awakes feeling refreshed and
energized after decades of fitful, non-
Soybeans were, up to now, considered to have the highest levels of
restorative sleep.
Tryptophan.)1 —Monica Marcu, Ph.D., Pharmacologist —Cheryl Laures, RN, Personal Wellness Consultant
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3. rare and potentially fatal
B ehind the Scenes...
RELIEF F RO M MOOD SWINGS ~
ANXIETY, DEPRESSION The essential amino acid disease, Eosinophilia-Myalgia
y daughter called me at 3 am, hysterically Syndrome (EMS). Following
M crying from a medication that had trig-
gered pain on her left leg, stomach cramping,
L-tryptophan is used by the
brain to manufacture the outbreak of EMS, L-tryp-
Serotonin. Since the late tophan was taken off the
mood swings, and panic attacks—all at ounce.
When I got there she was a mess emotionally 1960s, it was used as a market, and then banned by
and physically. She told me she had been trying safe, inexpensive, non- the FDA in 1992. Even
to sleep but was too anxious and could not. prescription alternative to though the problem was
I had one dose of Zija left and gave it to her. eventually traced to a specif-
psychiatric drugs for such
I told her to swish the Zija around in her
disorders as insomnia, ic contaminated batch pro-
mouth with every sip.Within 20 minutes she
was relaxed enough to fall soundly asleep. depression and anxiety. duced in Japan, all L-trypto-
My daughter has been fighting anxiety and When Lilly and other drug phan remains banned.
depression for years.We have decided to keep companies began promoting Those who look critically
her on Zija to see how it does. I have noticed their expensive, dangerous at the FDA and the psycho-
that she is handling her college work well and serotonergic agents, millions pharmaceutical complex
her sleeping patterns are improving, along with
relief of what we thought was irritable bowel
of people had already been have voiced concerns that
syndrome. using L-tryptophan for many the continuation of the L-
I will keep you posted but, so far, this is years. tryptophan ban has forced
looking like the light at the end of years of In 1989, the ingestion of people to use Prozac and
health problems for my daughter and our other SSRIs instead.2
the food supplement L-tryp-
whole family.Thank you, Mark, for introducing
tophan was associated with —Dr. Peter Breggin,
Zija to us!
—Alfredo Rios more than 1500 cases of a Psychiatrist
SENSE OF The Teeter-Totter They push their bodies to the
WELL-BEING max and over-stimulate their
between Cortisol
Zija cured my road adrenals with refined carbohy-
rage! “So, you want to
and Serotonin
drates (sugars, junk food) and
cut me off? Sure, go
ahead! What, you too?
Why not? I’m not in
W hen we were young, we
typically abused our
resilient bodies. We constantly
intense stimulators (coffee,
Red Bull, nicotine and drugs).
Eventually, the early signs of
a hurry any more!” —M. M. “robbed Peter to pay Paul.” We unbalanced Cortisol levels start
stayed up late at night, we ate to appear.
anything we liked, and we did all Cortisol is an adrenal hor-
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Youngsters have little Cortisol, both day and night.
BUTTE regard for the long- Over time, high Cortisol levels,
Kelli Robinson • 4 0 6 - 4 9 8 - 2 8 5 5 term “credit-card and depleted Serotonin levels,
H A M I LT O N effect” (charge cause sleep disruption and brain
Art Andreasen • 4 0 6 - 3 6 0 - 1 8 9 2 now, pay later). dysfunction, which then lead to
mental and emotional problems.
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ance in our bodies today, we are
Denis Ouellette • 4 0 6 - 3 3 3 - 4 1 0 3
seeing more sick people at an
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4. More young people are blindly Nature created it for ready accept- REFERENCES:
turning to drugs to relax, to get ance and uptake into our bodies.4 1. Moringa oleifera:The Miracle Tree,
relief from pain and inflammation, This synergy ensures the rapid Monica Marcu, Ph.D. Pharmacology.
to help them sleep, and to deal with passage of these vital nutrients into 2. Talking Back to Prozac: What Doctors
the anxieties of life, when all they the brain (through the blood-brain Aren’t Telling You About Today’s Most
have to do is take better nutritional barrier) and to all the cells of the Controversial Drug, Dr. Peter R. Breggin,
care of their bodies! body. Psychiatrist. See also his book,
Toxic Psychiatry.
As we pay more attention to So, my challenge to you today is
3. Excerpts adapted from, From
avoiding the lifestyle that constantly to experiment with the Moringa in Tryptophan to Serotonin to Melatonin, by
stimulates the stress hormones, and your diet. Take 15 to 30 grams per Jon Zwayer, CMT,West Baden Springs,
as we increase Serotonin production day for the next ten days, and watch IN, published at http://home.bluemar-
by eating good food sources of the amazing changes that will take ble.net/~heartcom/tryptophantosero-
Tryptophan, we will find a healthy, place. I suspect you’ll be lovin’ life tonintomelatonin.html
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—Dr. Breggin
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