Himalayan Tartary Buckwheat

One of the things that we discovered is when you mill tartery buckwheat seeds, 25% of the seed is the hull or the husk. And when we started analyzing the makeup of the husks, and when I say analyzing, I mean chemically analyzing, we found out that it has some really interesting phytochemicals that are not found in the endosperm in the flower. Things like isoaryntin vitexin. These are really interesting prebiotic phytochemicals that help nourish the microbiome, as well as interesting prebiotic fibers like decarbo inositol, which is very high in the hull fibers as well. So we thought, my word. People have been using the hulls of the tartary buckwheat to put into beanbag chairs and as filling in pillows. It seems to us that these might have really very powerful effects, favorable effects on the microbiome and microbiome health.

What are you actually taking, like, because I have, I think, two bottles of my pantry that you sent me that. That are labeled the same as the Big Bold health. You know, the label on the. On the flower of the Himalayan tartary buckwheat that you sent me. So what are in those two supplements that you sent? I think one was like an immune support and one was some kind of a microbiome support.

Yeah. The first product that we produced to kind of get people into this whole concept of Himalayan tardy buckwheat, we called HTV Rejuvenate, and it is a concentrate of the flavonoids found in tartery buckwheat. So that if one ate. Took two capsules there, it'd be equivalent to eating about one portion size of the Himalayan Tertiary buckle.

Exactly. What I was wondering, like, how much flour I'd have to eat to get what was in one of these capsules.

Yeah, it's about one portion size of the flower of Himalayan Tertiary buckwheat. We just finished a clinical trial that was clintrial.gov registered with 50 individuals. That was very exciting. At least it was exciting for us. We went back and used this emerging way of assessing how the immune system ages, which is to actually study the epigenetic modification of the immune system using.

A specific gene chip that measures over.

90,000. Excuse me. Specific loci where the genes of the immune system can be modified by diet or lifestyle or environmental exposures. This is actually measuring the methylation patterns of the human genome. We started with a baseline of our 50 individuals before they got into the program. And then for 90 days. They supplemented in this case with four of the capsules per day of the HTV Rejuvenate. And then we measured.

Every month over those 90 days or three months.

Their response to taking the HDB Flavonoids. And it was really very interesting. At the end of the trial, we found those individuals whose immune age were greater than that than their age and birthdays, their chronological age, that they had a very significant reduction in their immune age over the course of 90 days by taking the, what would be considered like two portion sizes of Himalayan Tertiary buckwheat flour through the concentrate. So we, I think we're the first group to actually demonstrate that we can modulate the epigenetic impact on immune cell aging through the taking of these complex mixture of these polyphenols from, from Himalayan Tertiary buckwheat.

That's fast. If I, if I want to test my immune age, how would I do that? Do you guys have that test available?

Yeah, we actually partnered up with a company called True Diagnostic that's in. Oh yeah, in Tennessee.

Yeah, it's Ryan Smith, right?

Yeah. So Ryan was one of our co collaborators in this study with his group, Dr. Dwarker, and that group.

In fact, the reason we got into this initially was I personally started into our Immunity plus program with the HTB and just to see if it had an impact on my immune aging. And it was actually quite amazing to me because at the time I was 75 when I was first tested, my immune age was, was 69. I then went on the program with the Himalayan turtle buckwheat and, and the time restricted feeding and the 10,000 steps a day. The program you really outlined, I went on and we call it Immunity Plus Program. And that was three months. I retested and my immune age at the end of retesting went to 54. Even though I was a year older. I was 76. My immune age went from 69 to 54. So I became kind of a believer and that's what led us into this whole clinical trial.

Okay, so, so is that, that's somebody who would have to order through their doctor or is it one of those ones you can order to your house?

I think you can order it directly from True Diagnostic. Yeah.

Okay, I'll, I'll hunt it down and put it in the show notes again. It's gonna be BenGreenfieldLife.com Dr. Bland. Dr. Bland. You know, I mentioned it briefly, so I'd be remiss not to just ask you directly about it. What do you Think about this whole seeming infatuation in the age reversal industry about low dose rapamycin.

Well, I think there's a lot of exciting things happening on this whole concept of understanding biological aging. And you know, there's been some really great books that have. David Sloan Claire's book, I think, is a really fantastic kind of review of the contemporary research that's ongoing. I think Mark Hyman's new book is a wonderful read for the general consumer on timeless aging and how one can implement many of these lifestyle characteristics. And some of the research that's going on with things like raptomycin and the niacin riboside and some of the other selenic compounds that are being discussed, meaning breaking the aging of cells. But I think we're still early on in the pharmacology of this field. What we're not so early on, as you and I were discussing earlier, is how the things that you can do every day by implementing in your lifestyle fairly simple things that can make dramatic differences. I mean, for me, when I saw that my immune age went from 69 to 54 by implementing and really staying the task, I've always felt that I've been engaged in a healthy lifestyle and really was on the right track. But by really concentrating and tuning it up and the kind of discipline that it takes to make this a daily engagement to see that benefit, to me it exceeds anything you would get from taking a senolinic at this point. And then we look at that and Denosovib with Quercetin, which is the one that's been studied well, that's an anti cancer drug that has antimitotic activity. So how hard do we want to push our body to squeeze out some extra years or what would we like to do things that are pleasurable fun and open up to all sorts of new opportunities of higher function, which is living a good lifestyle. Maybe that's the best principle.

Yeah, my take on it is I'd rather eat some sourdough baked bread and donuts at home with the Himalayan tartary flour than take these capsules on the road with me, which is actually what I started doing with the theory that my immune system needs a little bit of extra support when I travel. And I'm not eating a lot of kind of like the high nutrient dense baked goodies and plants and things like that at home when I'm on the road. And. And you know, my last trip I threw that bottle that you sent me into my bag and I was popping a couple every morning. But Then I also took that it's like a small green capsule, like a microbiome support type of capsule. Is that similar to the Himalayan tartary buckwheat capsule or. Totally different.

Yeah. Well, thank you. As we've gotten deeper into this, this reminds me of how long does it take to become an expert? So I think We've got our 10,000 hours at least now of trying to understand.

This tartery buckwheat. Because one of the things that we discovered is when you mill tartery buckwheat seeds.

That 25% of the seed is the hull or the husk. And when we started analyzing the makeup of the hus, and when I say analyzing, I mean chemically analyzing, we found out that it has some really interesting phytochemicals that are not found in the endosperm in the flower. Things like isoaryntin and vitexin. These are really interesting prebiotic phytochemicals that help nourish the microbiome as well as interesting prebiotic fibers like decarbonositol, which is very high in the hull fibers as well. So we thought, my word, people have been using the hulls of the tartery buckwheat to put into beanbag chairs and as filling in pillows. It seems to us that these might have really very powerful effects, favorable effects on the microbiome and microbiome health. So we started studying that over the course of the last couple of years. And lo and behold, we were able to demonstrate that this thing that was considered a waste product was actually not a waste product. It had very strong positive benefit on the integrity of our microbiome and the right kind of species of our microbiome that give rise to anti inflammation. So we formulated this product, Microbiome Rejuvenate, to capture that, along with a very interesting probiotic organism.

Lactobacillus rhamnosis 1505, that has probably more studies done on human benefit than any single probiotic strain. In fact, it's used in Argentina in school kids programs to improve their digestive function and reduce days of absenteeism from colds and flu. And we also found this single interesting greens, microgreens, this interesting beta glucan from microgreens that has very strong immune potentiating activities on the microbiome as well. So that became the.

Ingredients that are found in microbiome rejuvenate the Probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosis 1505, the beta glucans from this unicellular microgreens and then our halls Himalayan Tertiary buckwheat. The pre symbiotics that give rise to improved microbiome. So two capsules a day of the microbiome rejuvenate are equivalent to about 10 billion organisms. All of these are all based on human clinical trials and positive outcome in microbiome health.