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“MORINGA OLEIFERA. Have you ever heard of that?” Dr Mehmet Oz asked his TV audience in 2012. “Moringa oleifera comes from the Himalayas! And there’s a tree in the northwest part of India, where this grows, that has been used for many, many centuries there, for the very reason that you feel you’re being sapped, which is that you don’t have enough energy.”
Oz and a guest stand behind a table covered in jars and featuring a sign: reenergise your life. He presents her with a cup of moringa tea. It shimmers yellowish green in the glass cup. She sips and grimaces. She doesn’t look reenergised.
This story is from the May 2019 edition of Men's Health Australia.
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