Acai A Anti Aging

So what anti-aging qualities can Acai deliver?

With so much aggressive marketing on the Internet, it would seem that Acai can help treat anything from weight loss, to extending your life, to preventing cancer to increasing your penis size - far fetched understandably but there are in fact such claims and products out there.

Hopefully most individuals take such marketing with a pinch of salt, but at the same time it's difficult to separate the B.S from what health benefits this ingredient might potentially offer.

So, whilst this Website focuses on both anti-aging serums and creams for men and women as well as longevity products which include Resveratrol based products, the supposed longevity ingredient that has also received a lot of fuss, - let us clarify primarily on what, if any, anti-aging qualities might have to offer.

What are the antioxidant levels of Acai?

There are conflicting reports of Acai's antioxidant capacity as this is exactly how both good and bad products attempt to lure the consumer, by suggesting these these qualities will deliver what ever the specific health benefits are.

A comparative analysis by: - Kuskoski EM, Asuero AG, Morales MT, Fett R (2006). "Wild fruits and pulps of frozen fruits: antioxidant activity, polyphenols and anthocyanins". Cienc Rural 36 (4 (July/Aug)) - published 3 years ago, suggests that acai has an antioxidant potency on par with 11 varieties of frozen juice pulps but lower than mango, strawberries and grapes.

Well this is obviously confusing as most of what you'll read about Acai will display headlines which label it the Number 1 Super-Food, with the highest antioxidant levels ever tested by scientists.

Where do Acai's anti-aging claims originate?

Whilst Oprah and Dr Oz are currently filling law suits against manufacturers and marketers who feel they have been associating their name illegally with these products - Mr Perricone however, who features on Oprah\'s Website does in fact do exactly this:, by labelling it as his Number 1 Superfood: See here

Whilst Mr Perricone does not in farct state it delivers the highest antioxidant ability of any food type, he does suggest: "The fatty acid content in açaí resembles that of olive oil, and is rich in monounsaturated oleic acid. Oleic acid is important for a number of reasons. It helps omega-3 fish oils penetrate the cell membrane; together they help make cell membranes more supple. By keeping the cell membrane supple, all hormones, neurotransmitter and insulin receptors function more efficiently. This is particularly important because high insulin levels create an inflammatory state, and we know, inflammation causes aging".


Describing Acai as "this little berry is one of the most nutritious and powerful foods in the world!", where..."Hidden within its royal purple pigment is the magic that makes it nature's perfect energy fruit. Açaí is packed full of antioxidants, amino acids and essential fatty acids.." he does go someway in recommending if not promoting this product with claims that clearly conflict with the 2006 report by Kuskoski EM, Asuero AG, Morales MT, Fett R.

Acai's anti-aging proof

The source can be seen here with a report by Lichtenthäler R, Rodrigues RB, Maia JG, Papagiannopoulos M, Fabricius H, Marx F (Feb 2005). "Total oxidant scavenging capacities of Euterpe oleracea Mart. (Açaí) fruits". Int J Food Sci Nutr 56 (1): 53–64. doi:10.1080/09637480500082082. PMID 16019315.

Here the white acai species was tested against the purple acai berry, where results demonstrated that the purple variety displayed excellent antioxidant activity against peroxyl radicals, good against peroxynitrite.

Quotations extracted from pubmed, Americas online medical journal, established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, appears to offer credible evidence here that there are antioxidants essential at killing mechanisms of invading pathogens, which cause aging.

Bottom Line:

One the one hand acai offers less antioxidants than a grape and on the other, it is "one of the most nutritious and powerful foods in the world", where they display excellent antioxidant activity against peroxyl radicals, one of the toxic radicals which assists in premature aging.

Acai berry constitutes 48% of food weight consumed per person in northern Brazils, which is a staggering statistic but this bears no weight on whether or not acai delivers anti-aging qualities.

Most of what you will read online is tainted by scammed consumers after a quick fix diet, but there is little to go by in terms of its antioxidant ability to reduce aging on the skin.

Here, the only current ability we have at understanding how we age is through the reduction of collagen product coupled with free-radicals - the speeding up of the oxidation process on your skin.

Antioxidants provides an ability to slow down this oxidation process by returning a free-radical into a harmless cell by supplying it with an electron returning it to it's former state - and Acai as stated in some ways provides through its ORAC ability.