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📖 The Nature’s Lost Vault Book Is Now Available. Learn more: https://naturelostvault.com/book.htmlThe richest source of omega-3 fatty acids on Earth is not salmon. It is not fish oil. It is a plant that grows freely in almost every climate zone on the planet, self-seeds for generations from a single planting, and has been used as food, medicine, and lamp oil across Asia for over 1,500 years. In America, we spray it with herbicide and call it a weed. That silence did not happen by accident.By the 1930s, Japanese-American farming families in California's Central Valley had become the most productive agricultural force on the West Coast, growing 40 percent of the state's commercial vegetable crop. Among their kitchen gardens, this plant grew every season. Seeds were saved each autumn. Oil was pressed in winter. Then Executive Order 9066 was signed in February 1942, and 120,000 people were removed to concentration camps. The farms were acquired by the same corporate associations that had lobbied for the evacuation. The knowledge went with the farmers. The plant escaped into the roadside ditches and was reclassified as an invasive weed.Today the omega-3 supplement industry is worth $7.68 billion annually. Fish oil commands 61 percent of global market share. PubMed lists over 15,000 studies on fish oil and omega-3. Search for this plant's seed oil and you find 400. Not because fish oil works better. Because fish oil can be patented, processed, encapsulated, and sold. This plant cannot. A family can press a year's supply of omega-3 oil in a single afternoon with a $100 hand press. That arithmetic is the reason the research does not exist.Half a billion people eat this plant every week across Korea, Japan, China, and Southeast Asia. Scientists confirmed its seed oil carries 54 to 64 percent alpha-linolenic acid, the highest omega-3 concentration ever recorded in any plant species, higher than flaxseed, higher than chia, higher than any supplement on a pharmacy shelf. A 2004 clinical trial documented 50 percent fewer allergy symptoms in patients given its extract. A 2017 study showed its omega-3 crossing the blood-brain barrier and protecting neurons. A 2024 study linked it to gut-brain axis benefits in Parkinson's research.The plant is still here. It self-seeds with ferocity. One planting feeds a family for generations. The knowledge is not lost. It is growing in your driveway.📚 Sources:- Tao Hongjing. Mingyi Bielu [Supplementary Records of Renowned Physicians]. China, ca. 500 CE.- Ho, C.T., et al. "Health effects of omega-3,6,9 fatty acids: Perilla frutescens is a good example of plant oils." Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine 11, no. 1 (2011): 51–59. PMC3167467.- Longvah, T., and Y.G. Deosthale. "Composition and nutritive value of perilla (Perilla frutescens) seed." Food Chemistry 59, no. 4 (1997): 509–513.- Osakabe, N., et al. "Rosmarinic acid inhibits epidermal inflammatory responses." Archives of Dermatological Research 296, no. 7 (2004): 314–319.- Takano, H., et al. "Extract of Perilla frutescens enriched for rosmarinic acid, a polyphenolic phytochemical, inhibits seasonal allergic rhinoconjunctivitis." Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology 96, no. 6 (2006): 812–819.- Ito, N., et al. "Perilla frutescens seed oil and cognitive function." Nutrients 9, no. 9 (2017): 1020.- Daniels, Roger. The Decision to Relocate the Japanese Americans. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975.- Densho Encyclopedia. "Japanese American Incarceration: Farming and Property Loss." densho.org, 2019.- Taylor, Frank J. "The People Nobody Wants." Saturday Evening Post, May 9, 1942.- Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Personal Justice Denied. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982.- Krebs, A.V. "Bitter Harvest." Washington Post, 1992.- USDA Agricultural Marketing Service. "Fish Oil Technical Review." Washington, D.C., 2014.- Grand View Research. "Omega-3 Supplement Market Size Report." 2024.#omega3 #ancientwisdom #forgottencrops #forgottenfoods #plantmedicine #forgottenknowledge
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