DHEA (short for dehydroepiandrosterone) is a hormone produced in the adrenal gland, which is thought to play the role of a so-called buffer hormone which affects other hormones. Furthermore, DHEA is the precursor for both male and female sex hormones. As recent studies suggest, however, it is much more than ‘just’ a prohormone, because it is clearly a natural substance with completely independent, diverse effects in both humans and animals.

Turmeric (Curcumin) is known to many cooking enthusiasts as part of curry powder under the synonym ‘Indian saffron’ and in addition to taste, gives the dish its yellow colour, which is why turmeric is known as ‘Gelbwurz’ (‘yellow root’) in German. Whether in curry or Worcester sauce, you can be sure to find turmeric playing its part.

Things to know in advance about Colostrum

Colostrum is more than a wonderful gift from Mother Nature. It is nature’s greatest possible reassurance of newborn babies’ survival chances, to ensure the survival of both the human and the animal race.

Beta-carotene is just one of more than 400 carotenoids which naturally occur in plants and fruits and give them their colour. The special thing about it, however, is that it is most common of all.

As with all traditional Chinese remedies, it is the perfect interplay of Mother Nature's miraculously balanced ingredients that produces the amazing effects we have discussed in the section on the ingredients of Astralagus.

While most promises of health benefits are reserved for southern hemisphere fruits and vegetables which have such exotic names as ‘noni’ or ‘aloe vera’, a rather timid, native crop causes quite a stir with the simple name ‘aronia berry’ (also called ‘apple berry’ or ‘black mountain ash’).

Pineapple certainly enjoys great popularity, especially because of its fruity, refreshing, tropical taste – however, few suspect that pineapple actually contains bona fide natural remedy!

Most scientists and researchers now agree that ageing and most civilisation diseases – such as atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease and stroke (one in two people dies as a result of these!), cancer (one in four dies as a result of cancer; taking bitter apricot kernels could prevent the disease!), diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer's, respiratory diseases, blood vessel diseases, cystic fibrosis, inflammation, hepatitis, Down’s syndrome and many others – are largely due to cell oxidation, that is, the destruction of our body cells by so-called ‘free radicals’.