SHILAJIT

Sacred Soma of the Alchemists

by Dr. Michael Hartman

Ancient Sanskrit holy texts, over 3,000 years old, make reference to a mysterious
substance called shilajit, which they describe as the "destroyer of weakness." The texts
list its powerful health and spiritual benefits and the positive changes that shilajit brought
in the lives of those who used it. The sacred substance was prescribed for thousands of
years for many different health problems and became a powerful tool in Ayurvedic
medicine. There is some indication that shilajit may have been the priceless soma of the
Eastern alchemists.

The rediscovery of the power of shilajit is said to have been made by Himalayan villagers
observing large white monkeys migrate to the mountains in the warm summer months.
The monkeys were seen to be chewing a semi-soft substance that flowed from between
layers of rock. The villagers attributed the monkey’s great strength, longevity and
wisdom to the strange substance. They began to consume it themselves and reported a
broad spectrum of improvements in health. It seemed to give them more energy, relieve
digestive problems, Increase sex drive, improve memory and cognition, improve
diabetes, reduce allergies, improve the quality and quantity of life and it seemed to cure
all diseases.

The ancient Vedic text Rig Veda states that soma "has mountains and stones for its
body" and "dwells within the mountainous rock where it grows." Mountainous rocks are
the "abode of soma," and it is "plucked from between the rocks by mountain dwellers
and brought to the priests-alchemists who prepared the soma by washing and grinding
and cooking." Soma was considered the elixir of immortality, the secret substance used
by alchemists to perfect both body and mind.

Shilajit must be harvested from sacred cliff sides high in the Himalayan Mountains of
Nepal. Millions of years ago, before the Himalayas were formed, a lush garden flourished
in a vast fertile valley. The vegetation in that primeval garden became trapped and
preserved as the movement of the continents caused that valley to become the tallest
mountain range in the world. Today, millions of years later the monsoon rains and
extreme freeze and thaw conditions work together to crack large rock formations,
exposing the precious shilajit. Because of its ancient nature, the vegetation was never
exposed to any type of fertilizer, pesticide, herbicide, or pollution. The native Nepali
people collect and carry this gift of nature down the mountain, where it is alchemically
processed into a potent, high-quality extract.

This ancient wisdom was passed from generation to generation among the Indian and
Nepali alchemists and holy men, but it escaped the notice of the Western medical
establishment until the last days of the twentieth century, when explorer John Anderson
heard of the amazing benefits of this substance and refused to give up the search until
he found its source. He journeyed throughout India and Nepal until he learned of the
perilous harvesting the raw shilajit from the cliffs. He also documented the reams of
Sanskrit studies showing the rare plant's benefits. He spoke firsthand with more than
fifty Indian and Nepalese researchers that have been studying the wonderful effects of
shilajit and perfecting the processes for delivering the purest, most concentrated shilajit
ever know to man.
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Summary of Scientific Studies of Shilajit

Over sixty years of clinical research have shown that shilajit has positive effects on
humans. It increases longevity, improves memory and cognitive ability, reduces allergies
and respiratory problems, reduces stress, and relieves digestive troubles. It is anti-
inflammatory, antioxidant, and eliminates free radicals. The research proves that shilajit
increases immunity, strength, and endurance, and lives up to its ancient reputation as
the "destroyer of weakness."

Technically, shilajit is an exudate that is pressed out from layers of rock in the most
sacred and highest mountains in Nepal and other areas. It is composed of humus and
organic plant material that has been compressed by layers of rock. Humus is formed
when soil microorganisms decompose animal and plant material into elements usable by
plants. Plants are the source of all our food and humus is the source of plant food. Unlike
other soil humus, shilajit humus consists of 60-80% organic mass.

About 200 million years ago, India was a large island off the Australian coast separated
from the Eurasian continent by the Tethys Sea. The Indian continent drifted north at a
rate of about 9 meters a century. This movement lead to the eventual disappearance of
the Tethys sea. Fifty million years ago, the Indian continent collided with the Asian
continent. This caused the sea bed of the Tethys sea to be pushed up and keep moving
up to eventually form the Himalayan mountains. The Himalayan mountains continue to
rise more than 1 Centimeter a year. During this transition the mineral rich and fertile soil
of the sea bed gave rise to a lush and dense tropical jungle. As the ground continued to
be pushed up to become mountains a lot of the plants became trapped by layers of rock
and soil and remained preserved for thousands of years. These plants had never been
exposed to any chemicals, fertilizers or pesticides. They are gradually transformed into
humus, a rich organic mass that is food for new plant life.

What are humic substances? They are the sum total of all once living organisms, mostly
plants, disassembled by nature’s brilliant decomposition and recycling processes, then
highly refined by millions of species of beneficial soil-based microorganisms. Ultimately,
microscopic plants such as yeast, algae, mold, fungi, etc., finish up the process. These
tiny beneficial plants refine, purify, combine, and re-refine, until tons of once-living
matter are converted to pounds and ounces. Yet miraculously, when it is all said and
done, the end product is not inert basic "dead" mineral elements, but is transformed into
the world’s most complex and ultra-compact molecules. Even the nucleic acids, RNA and
DNA, of the earlier life-forms remains intact. The molecules are ultra-condensed and
highly functional, rolled up into tight little balls that are supercharged biochemical and
phytochemical powerplants, similar to storage batteries or fuel cells. Where did this
supercharged power come from? It is sunshine light energy captured during plant
photosynthesis, and through decomposition it is converted and stored within the interior
of the world’s most refined and complex molecules.

Humic substances are considered nature's own best medicine for plants, animals,
humans, and the Earth itself. This lowly soil substance has the ability to clean up the
Earth’s environment, neutralize radiation and deadly toxins, heal the agricultural lands,
fuel the spark of life in living organisms, disarm and kill infectious pathogens, destroy the
deadliest viruses, prevent most, if not all diseases, and even cure and restore diseased
and damaged tissues and organs in plants, animals, and man.

Buckminster Fuller, one of America’s best known thinkers of the twentieth century, helps
us to understand plant energy accumulation from photosynthesis. Visualize if you will, a
log burning in the fireplace. When asked "what is fire" Buckminster explained, in a rather
lengthy discourse, that fire is the Sun’s radiation unwinding, each growth-ring of the
tree’s log representing a year. He explained that many years of the Sun’s flame winding
through the sky, absorbed by the tree through photosynthesis, is now unwinding in the
burning log. With a log of firewood, lump of coal, oil, natural gas, or gasoline, all of which
are remnants of once living plants, it is easy to see and understand solar energy storage
and release. With the humic substances, it is not so clear to see because they don’t
readily burn.

Humic substances are found in rich humus soil in trace amounts. They are also found in
massive ancient plant deposits, never truly fossilized, still remaining completely organic.
What makes their stored solar energy so different? The key is found in nature’s
decomposition and refining process. The energy is converted into a different form. Coal,
oil, tar, natural gas, and uranium deposits, all are "dead" inorganic remnants of ancient
plants. Uranium mines, just like coal mines and tar pits, also have fossilized trees,
leaves, and dinosaur bones, all remnants of ancient life turned to rock.

Uranium ore is rock, and doesn’t burn, or does it? Ponder how a few pounds of seemingly
inert refined uranium ore has the power to fuel the reactor in a nuclear power plant, or
become an atomic bomb. Where is all of that energy stored? The power is deep within
complex molecules, and is released through nuclear fission, the splitting of the atom’s
nucleus. Could there be a similarity to the seemingly inert humic substances? Humic
substances are not radioactive, but quickly and effectively neutralize radiation. This is
well established and extensively documented. Where does that nuclear energy go? Could
it be that controlled nuclear fusion is taking place, the joining of atoms’ nuclei?

It is certain that a different form of equally intense latent solar light energy is found deep
within the humic substance molecules. The many rare earth superconductor elements
that humic substances contain may provide some clues. Humic substances have the
amazing power to molecularly bond with, and transform, other molecules and
substances, liquefying them, making them smaller, more condensed, and energizing
them. A tremendous, well controlled fusion or fusing power certainly exists.

With Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) analysis, scientists can see and untangle
complex organic molecules, categorizing similar portions of the highly complex molecules
into functional groups, which relate to more commonly known substances. This allows us
to discover the many valuable components hidden in the complex humic molecular
structures. The varieties of smaller, more recognizable, molecules found within the highly
complex humic molecules, read like the "who’s who" of the many pharmaceutical and
nutritional breakthroughs of the last century. Many of the substances are the current
focus of the most promising ongoing medical and health research studies.

In a nutshell, humic substances consist of an immense arsenal and array of powerful

phytochemicals, biochemicals, supercharged antioxidants, free-radical scavengers, super
oxide dismutases, nutrients, enzymes, hormones, amino acids, antibiotics, antivirals,
antifungals, etc. Many of the substances that make up humic matter have yet to be
discovered and catalogued among the known and documented organic chemicals.

Due to microbial action and the tremendous pressure from the weight of the Himalayan
mountains, the ancient humus was transformed into a dense, viscous, mineral rich mass.
This is shilajit. The trapped layers of shilajit become exposed due to the freezing winters,
hot summer sun and erosion from monsoon rains. Shilajit will “flow” out from between
the cracks in the layers of rock during the summer when the temperature of the
mountains gets warm enough and the shilajit becomes less viscous. The native Nepali
people them climb the mountains, repel down cliffs to collect the magical substance.

The therapeutic actions of the raw material vary by the region it is harvested from.
There are other substances that contain humic and fulvic acids, but true shilajit has a
very important therapeutic, bioactive ingredient that is not present in other "shilajit-like"
substances. The authenticity and therapeutic quality of shilajit is identified by the
inclusion of oxygenated di-benzo alpha pyrones. While there are several areas from
which the raw material is collected, the highest levels of therapeutic ingredients come
from specific areas in the Himalayan mountains in Nepal at 10,000-12,000 feet above
sea level. Historic records report that these “sacred” mountains produce the best shilajit.
The processing of the raw Shilajit is very important as it contains free radicals and may
also contain mycotoxins and fungal toxins. The processing removes these free radicals,
polymeric quinone radicals, toxins, mycotoxins, and other inactive ingredients.

The producers of Shalagen use a patented oxygen/nitrogen displacement extraction

process that ensures the proper pH and increases the active ingredients by
approximately 800%. They are also use a standardized extract, so the same high levels
of active ingredients are in each bottle. Instead of using a sawdust filler as do other
producers, Shalagen includes proven healing compounds such as ashwagandha, ginkgo
biloba, bacopin and trace minerals to aid in the absorption and synergy of the primary
shilajit ingredient.

It should be noted that statements and studies on this page have not been evaluated by
the Food and Drug Administration, and this product is not intended to diagnose, treat,
cure, or prevent any disease. You must use Schalagen as a nutrition supplement and
determine its effectiveness yourself.

SHILAJIT: SACRED SOMA OF THE ALCHEMISTS

Ancient Sanskrit holy texts, over 3,000 years old, make reference to a
mysterious substance called shilajit, which they describe as the
"destroyer of weakness." The texts list its powerful health and spiritual
benefits and the positive changes that shilajit brought in the lives of
those who used it. The sacred substance was prescribed for thousands
of years for many different health problems and became a powerful tool
in Ayurvedic medicine. In Ayurvedic alchemy, Shilajit is considered to
be a rejuvenative and memory enhancer and pacifies all the Vata, Pitta,
and Kapha doshas. One tablet contains 300 mg extract of 100% pure,
raw standardized Shilajit. Suggested initial use: Two tablets twice a
day, with meals. 90 tablets. 300 mg. Item# 2101. $18.95

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