Pitaya

All varieties of pitaya (dragon fruit) hold valuable properties. Red-fleshed pitaya is most beneficial. Red-fleshed pitaya is one of the fruits rich in hyperantioxidants, an undiscov- ered variety of supercharged antioxidants, amplified to kill bugs such as viruses inside the body. When a hyperantioxidant touches a virus cell, the virus oxidizes as the hyperantioxidant interacts with an enzyme the virus harbors. That interaction causes the virus to rapidly age and lose its vitality. When viruses and bacteria absorb hyperantioxidants through their cell structure, they choke and die. Certain viral strains have learned those compounds are dangerous to the virus, so these viral cells will try to avoid hyperantioxidants and look for other food in someone’s bloodstream and organs.

When you consume antioxidants—those found in red pitaya, wild blueberries, and red apple skins especially, as well as in some other fruits, leafy greens, leafy herbs, and shoots— the liver releases a chemical compound that adheres to the antioxidants. Together, the liver’s chemical formulation and the healing foods’ antioxidants form a hybrid biochemical compound that acts as a softener that performs a rescue operation for hardened, burdened scar tissue and other damaged tissue, membranes, and lobules in the liver and other places in the body. The red pigment in the red-fleshed variety of pitaya is a rejuvenator for your liver, bringing cells back to life. It helps your liver produce cells faster so regeneration of the liver can occur. It’s a fountain of youth fruit for the liver that slows down and stops liver aging by caring for its deep, inner core, which in most cases succumbs to disease if left neglected for too long. Red pitaya is much more liver-healing and blood-building than beets.

Anything that helps the liver improve also improves the skin, so red pitaya is a skin rejuvenator. Red pitaya also helps protect the eyes. The wide variety of nutrients in any given type of pitaya makes it a brain cell food. Pitaya is an amazing food for constipation, too, as all pitaya has a mild laxative effect.

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This item posted: 13-Aug-2026