GAINESVILLE, Fla. --A new startup out of UF's Innovation Hub is using disease- fighting superfood to help boost the body's immune system."We believe that food should be your medicine, medicine should be your food," says Dr. Wayne Garland, founder.
Doctor wayne garland is the founder of PaleoGanic. He says his
company harnesses the secrets of superfood that helped save his life
three decades ago."32 years ago I came down with cancer and I was
diagnosed with cancer and I was given a six month prognosis that I
wouldn't survive and chemotherapy and radiation wasn't a route I could
take because it wouldn't cure what I had," says Garland.
At that time, he left everything behind: his job as a research
analyst and consultant in Sydney, Australia, and took off to southeast
Asia seeking answers Hoping within that six month period, he would find
answers before the cancer in his spine killed him. "The threat of
execution concentrates the mind wonderfully.And my mind concentrated
with my research on methodologies to treat all disease," says Dr.
Garland
Dr. Garland made a drastic change to his diet, seeking foods that
might help fight potentially deadly diseases. Now he says he's cancer
free and owes a lot of his progress to the foods he eats."Disease is now
epidemic. The diseases that we thought were all disappeared are now
roaring back.I have the answer. And I put it into this company and the
products that we're making," says Garland.
Dr. Garland started paleoganic which now makes three soups: all of
which he says contain active disease fighting ingredients including
bladderwrack, a type of seaweed used for thyroid disorders, and lion's
mane - a medicinal mushroom."There are superfoods now and these
superfoods are what have this enormous immune system capacity," says
Garland.
The soups cost about twelve dollars apiece, and are now sold
online, and at local farmer's markets, including ward's here in
Gainesville.
And Ward's customer and health food enthusiast Maria Derrick-Mescua
agrees. "I think my favorite is the lion's mane mushroom because there
are all kinds of mushrooms in it. I've been buying mushrooms at the
farmer's market and this has a great selection," says Derrick-Mescua.
Dr. Garland says the soups he creates are not an alternative to
antibiotics but provide benefits to help strengthen the immune
system.One of his many mottos: every spoonful you eat should be healing
not harming. "When I was in Okinawa, I didn't hear anyone have an
argument, I didn't hear anyone have an argument, raise their voice,
have road rage, everyone was enjoying their life happy until 100 years
of age,"says Garland.
Dr. Garland says he hopes his products will create a revolution and
lead the way for medicinal food innovation here in Gainesville. To
order Dr. Garland's soup, visit his website.
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