Centenarians' longevity secret: eat cistanche

Contact: Audrey Hu audrey.hu@wecistanche.com

As long as you talk about Xinjiang, you can directly think of grasslands, deserts, horses, and so on. But that’s not what I’m going to say today. The protagonist of today’s story is a group of people, but this group of men and women are talking about the same theme-longevity.

Xinjiang is a well-known longevity area in our country, and only one county in Zepu has more than one hundred elderly people who have reached the age of one hundred. And these long-lived centenarians are mostly distributed in southern Xinjiang. The natural environment in southern Xinjiang is very harsh, with boundless wasteland and Gobi everywhere. Such an environment forms a huge contrast with a warm and humid and pleasant climate, and it should not be suitable for people to live and survive for a long time. What is the reason why the Uyghurs here have lived here for generations? What is the reason for the Uyghurs here to live so long?

First, let's talk about the eating habits of these long-lived elderly. These long-lived old people mostly rely on pasta, their diets are close to nature, and the combination of meals is very scientific and nutritious. There is a famous ingredient in their daily food that is Cistanche.

Cistanche is a parasitic plant parasitic on the roots of the desert trees Haloxylon ammodendron, drawing nutrients and water from the Haloxylon ammodendron host. Known as the "desert ginseng". Cistanche has extremely high medicinal value and is a precious traditional Chinese medicinal material. Cistanche is a medicinal material with thousands of years of edible history. It is not only a precious daily food for the local people but also a good nourishing Chinese medicinal material.

In history, Cistanche was a tribute exclusively for the royal family. Since modern times, the research on Cistanche has been abundant, and the planting technology of Cistanche has been relatively mature. Therefore, the production and supply of Cistanche tend to be stable, and it is no longer a delicious and precious nourishing medicinal material exclusively enjoyed by the royal family but also for the local people. Eat Cistanche on a daily basis is one of the main factors of the longevity of the centenarians in Xinjiang.