Nopalea Juice, made from the Prickly Pear Cactus, has soared to the top as TriVita’s top selling product. The company announced that it has sold more than 1.7 million bottles of the wonder drink, which it calls a “natural anti-inflammatory drink.”

The company, based in Scottsdale, expects it sales to reach two million in the next three months. TriVita prides itself on being the type of company that offers its customers a chance to find optimal health in three areas: physically, emotionally and spiritually, according to its press release.

TriVita says it developed Nopalea to help with the inflammation and to also help detoxify the body.

Almost a decade ago, a cover story about inflammation ran in Time Magazine letting people know that chronic inflammation might possibly be linked to a host of serious diseases and ailments.

The article explained how inflammation — which is designed to help the body — can go wrong and cause disease.
Although inflammation is the body\’s first reaction to invaders such as bacteria and microbes, it doesn\’t always stop when its job is done.

When it is no longer needed, but sticks around, it begins to attack the body from the inside, instead of removing outside invaders.

When this happens — when the inflammation continues when it is no longer needed — it becomes chronic. The outward attack turns inside. When this happens, it appears that the chronic inflammation might leads to several other serious diseases ranging from diabetes to colon cancer or heart attack.

According to the article, chronic inflammation can be connected to heart attacks because inflammation can loosen bad plaque into the bloodstream. This can go straight to the heart leading to an attack or it can make its way up the brain, damaging cells, which leads to Alzheimer’s as a result. In addition, inflammation might also lead to abnormal cells that turn into cancer and might lead to other diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and multiple sclerosis.

Allergies and asthma might also be linked to chronic inflammation and its side effects. When scientists learned that chronic inflammation might be connected to so many diseases, it sparked a flurry of research. The possibility that simply by curing one symptom — chronic inflammation — they could cure a variety of other serious diseases was enervating. In addition, research turned up the not surprising fact that people who smoke or eat high-fat diets are more likely to suffer negative effects from chronic inflammation than people who don\’t.

It is believed that the prickly pear cactus, has been around for hundreds of years in the Sonoran desert. The plant, as native of Mexico, is believed to have been eaten by the Aztecs.

The plant is turned into a juice when it is squeezed from the pulp of the Prickly Pear Cactus, also known as the Nopal plant, a native of Mexico. The plant\’s pads are traditionally eaten as a vegetable, grilled or boiled and chopped up. It is used in everything from tacos to a side dish.

The Nopal cactus grows all across North American naturally, but has been brought to other countries around the world where it is harvested as food and medicine.

Flowers on the plant bloom into gorgeous red, purple or yellow blossoms that are edible. The plants itself can grow between one foot and 20 feet high. The prickly pear catus is not only an antioxidant rich plant but also contains anti-inflammatory properties. Although only a few native plants contain a special property — or pigment — called betalains — the prickly pear cactus is one of them. Betalains cleans and detoxify the body from impurities. Drinking the juice of the cactus with its special properties, helps lower blood sugar and cholesterol.

Betalains inhibit a special enzyme that would otherwise increase inflammation. You can find betalains in only a few other foods, such as Swiss chard.

Author Bio: Frank Yocanis has been researching and writing about the health benefits of the Nopalea Juice for the past decade. He has even traveled to the Sonoran desert half a dozen times to study Nopalea in the plant’s homeland. He is excited to share how this antioxidant-rich drink can change your life.

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