subject: How Safe Is The Acai Berry? [print this page] There is no doubt that the acai berry is highly potent. To believe this assertion, you just have to look at the promises it comes with (in terms of health benefits), and how efficiently it goes about delivering them. Take something like the weight loss promise it comes with, and it turns out that the berry is in fact more effective than some synthetic formulations that people take in search of weight loss. Take also, something like the skin improvement/wrinkle elimination effect associated with acai, and it turns out to be even more effective than the commercially manufactured synthetic 'anti-aging' creams. As a libido enhancer, we still see the same potency, as acai turns out to be more effective than some synthetic formulations people take in search of sexual enhancement.
Now we happen to be living at a point in time when people have come to expect potency in various substances to come at the expense of safety. It is from such a background that many will appreciate the potency associated with the acai berry, and the efficiency it manifests in delivering the various health benefits associated with it; but where they are very keen to know whether it is actually safe.
So, just how safe is the acai berry?
Well, there are three directions in which we can look for answers to this question.
The first direction in which we can look for an answer to the question as to just how safe acai is would be by examining the berry itself. What does the berry contain, which makes it so potent in the various ways? As it turns out, it is the high antioxidant levels in the acai berry which largely account for its considerable health benefits. And just how safe are these? Well, as far as anyone can tell, high antioxidant levels are healthy and in actual fact, one of the most frequently made nutritional prescriptions by doctors to their patients is for the patients to eat more foods rich in antioxidants. These antioxidants fight other substances known as free radicals, to bring about the various health benefits. Given a food rich in antioxidants like the acai berry, what the body does is simply to take as many of the antioxidants as it needs, while simply letting go of those it doesn't need. There doesn't seem to be anything like an 'antioxidant overdose.'
The other direction in which we can look for an answer to the question as to just how safe the acai berry is would be by listening to people who have had the chance to use it before, and see how it has been for them, safety-wise. And as it turns out, so far, we have not heard any major complaints with regard to safety-related issues to do with the acai berry; the fact that millions of people have used the berry and its products (which include a popular yoghurt) notwithstanding.
The final direction in which we can look for an answer to the question as to just how safe acai is would be in history, especially in the Amazonian regions where it has grown natively for years, and where it was traditionally used like any other fruit. Here too, nobody seems to have suffered any ill from the use of acai berry - which explains why the berry is still in use (as an ordinary food, rather than as a 'supplement').
All indications are that the berry is perfectly safe, provided, of course, that it is a genuine acai berry you get to use.
