Power of Aloe Vera

Aloe vera has been used for years for its healthGroup 1 was fed a diet without aloe; the other three
benefits. Aloe helps to make the skin smoother, whichgroups were fed different forms of aloe. The results
is why it is being added to various lotions and skin careof the study found that aloe ingestion was shown to
products. Aloe vera has been known to help healextend (~10%) average life span and slow the aging
wounds. By applying aloe vera to a wound, youprocess. This is significant because in human years
decrease healing time and reduce the the appearancethat's about 7 years. Additionally, the groups that were
of scars. More benefits are being discovered from thefed a diet of aloe showed a lower incidence of heart
ingestion of pure aloe vera. It has a negative affect onproblems than Group 1. One group showed a
cancerous cells preventing them from growingsignificantly lower incidence of kidney disease and
scientifically proven by a test performed by Dr. Lee inoccurrence of multiple causes of death compared to
Korea. He injected lab rats with cancerous cells. Thethe group that was not given aloe. All of the groups
aloe was found to stop those cancer cells fromthat ingested aloe showed a slightly lower incidence of
growing. Aloe is being found that it has an affect onfatal cancer. Studies like this one and more have been
the aging process of cells within the body. A studydone to help prove the health benefits of the ingestion
was conducted by Byung Pal Yu, Jeremiah Herlihy andof aloe. Aloe juice has been documented to modulate
Yuji Ikeno from the Department of Physiology at thethe immune system, soothe the digestive tract, and
University of Texas Health Science Center in Sanhelp to ease the inflammation associated with
Antonio. The objective of the study was to test theadvancing age. Topically used or ingested, aloe vera
effects of long-term aloe ingestion on laboratory rats.has been to proven to have many positive affects on
All of the rats were kept in the same environment. Athe human body.
total of 360 male rats were divided into four groups: