Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Why Eat Natto?


My cousin Gary emailed me the following info on natto. After reading it, I became even more determined to somehow find a way to enjoy eating it, especially after me and my sisters went to Marukai and saw how $$$$ the natto pills were.  Tomorrow, I'll tell you how my Kuromame Natto experience went.

Dr. David Williams has scoured the planet and returned with solutions to virtually every common health problem.
 High cholesterol does not cause heart attacks or stroke and lowering your cholesterol will not give you an ounce  of protection from either one.  Until now, if you had a heart attack or stroke, and if you were fortunate enough to make it to a hospital within a few minutes, the emergency room staff could often help. They could immediately inject you with a very expensive clot-busting super-drug to temporarily alleviate the blockage and hopefully limit the damage.  But at $20,000 per catheterized I.V. dose, this miracle drug isn't in every hospital...and you won't know whether yours has it until it's too late.
Dr. Hiroyuki Sumi of Japan and his team of researchers recently made a ground-breaking discovery: They found that a 100 gram dose of a traditional Japanese food called "natto" exhibits the same clot-busting activity as a $20,000 therapeutic dose of that super-drug. But while the drug is effective for only 4 to 20 minutes, the enzyme in natto maintains its activity for 4 to 8 hours. They have discovered the world's only natural clot buster. And that, my friend, makes natto The Discovery of the Century.
Heart attacks and strokes are caused by blood clots. Plaque plays a huge role, but the most current research shows that plaque leads to blood clots, which are the real heart stopper.
Here's what happens: Despite having the same name, the plaque in your arteries is not at all like the crust your dental hygienist scrapes off your teeth. Arterial plaque is made up of oxidized LDL and other fats that glob together and penetrate the inner lining of your artery wall.
New research also indicates that plaque doesn’t actually coat the artery wall, it resides inside the wall. As it grows it can eventually rupture, causing a blood clot.  If the clot floats downstream and blocks the flow of blood to your heart you have a myocardial infarction, aka a heart attack. If it hits your brain, you have a stroke. Natto stops both cold. Plaque is a toxic mixture of fats that festers and grows beneath a thin layer of cells.  As it grows, it gradually impedes blood flow. When it becomes inflamed it ruptures, causing a blood clot. When a clot gets lodged in a vessel in your heart or your brain it blocks the blood flow and causes a heart attack or stroke.
Natto increases circulation even through restricted arteries, breaks up clots, and keeps this from happening. Historically, the Japanese have had dramatically less heart disease and greater longevity. These statistics have been used to illustrate the benefits of eating more fish. But this recent research on natto shows what is probably an even greater factor in Japanese longevity.  The potent enzyme in natto prevents clots from forming. Not only major clots caused by ruptured plaque, but the thousands of tiny clots and blood-sludge that are the result of a natural, age-related decrease in your body's production of clot-busting enzymes. But what's even more astonishing, it not only prevents future clots, it dissolves existing clots--safely, naturally, and effectively.
 Dr. Sumi's research has given us the "magic bullet" clot buster we've all been praying for. I hope you're beginning to see the staggering implications of this. Never before have you been able to boost your circulation so safely and naturally, restoring it to the healthy pace of an 18-year-old's.
 Now, rather than waiting for an emergency infusion of clot-busting super-drug, a very inexpensive daily amount of natto will keep you out of the emergency room in the first place. Plus, it will help protect you from a host of other problems related to impaired circulation, including macular degeneration, senility, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and others too numerous to name here.
Circulation is the single biggest factor in determine your lifelong health or early demise, and natto is your #1 best method for keeping your blood flowing as strong as the Nile until the day you die of something other than any circulatory disease.

13 comments:

jenny said...

oh my...i think i need to eat a packet of natto every morning. thanks for sharing this jalna!

jalna said...

Really yah, Jenny!!!

jenny said...

i think the final proof we need is to ask all the oldest living folks in japan if they eat natto everyday. hahaha

jalna said...

That would be good proof, Jenny. I like know.

Susan said...

Oh no, I think I should eat natto. Maybe with eyes and nose closed. I want my dad to try this but he doesn't eat beans because of gout.

CT said...

@ Yanagi sushi bar last week, Natto and Uni right in front of me, we ordered both, my friend and I enjoyed both, no smell followed by a shot of Sake of course, friends wife who was in the middle got up and went benjo, she gags easy. I am sure there is health benefits in Sake too.

Anonymous said...

There has to be other factors ...ie healthy lifestyle , good eating habits, exercise...

Nippon Nin said...

See I told you, natto is good for you. Ha ha ha. If you sprinkle some toasted sesame seeds on it, taste much better I think. Good luck!

jalna said...

I know what you mean, Susan. My mom says she eats it because it's good for her, not because she likes it.

Soooo funny, CT! That was nice of her to go benjo instead of gagging. LOL!!!!

For sure, Anon.

Thanks Akemi!

Erick said...

OK, I going try eat that stinky slimey natto. I better not get heart attack.

jalna said...

Erick, get the kuromame one. Not as stink.

Taryn M said...

So i tried eating natto today at Sushi ii... Definitely not a fan... Wish i was so i could get all the healthy benefits from it!

jalna said...

Me too, Taryn. I keep trying and trying, but noooooo.