Check telomerase activation with acacia bark extract
"Maasai are intoxicated by the bark and root decoction, said to impart courage, even aphrodisia, and the root is said to cure impotence." - Wikipedia/Acacia nilotica.
Shang-Tzen Chang, Jyh-Horng Wu, Sheng-Yang Wang, Pei-Ling Kang, Ning-Sun Yang, and Lie-Fen Shyur (2001), Antioxidant Activity of Extracts from Acacia confusa Bark and Heartwood, J. Agric. Food Chem., 2001, 49 (7), pp 3420–3424.
"Acacia Bark has been used medicinally for thousands of years throughout the globe, especially in Australia. Today, it is used mostly for digestive problems such as diarrhea. Acacia Bark is also an astringent with a high tannic acid content that helps to check bleeding, discharge and excess mucous. Recent research has discovered that an extract from this highly astringent herb may block the body's pain triggers." Family: Leguminosae (legume) Botanical: Acacia catechu. Other Common Names: Babool, Indian Gum Arabic, Wattle Bark, Black Wattle, Babul. - Viable-Herbal. Sometimes Acacia bark and/or seeds are extracted for psychedelic DMT (dimethyltryptamine) with ethanol.
Acacia Bark Extract contains gallic acid, which is hepatoprotective and an angiogenesis inhibitor. Acacia bark is antimicrobial and an antioxidant. See also Prevention of Cellular Senescence in Mammals by Natural Peptide Complexes, which mentions acacia gum, also known as gum arabic.
