Japan Abuzz Over Hornet Saliva As High-Tech Sports Drink

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Japan Abuzz Over Hornet Saliva As High-Tech Sports Drink

 

November 3, 2000

 

TOKYO (Boston Globe) - Drinking hornet saliva may not sound particularly

appealing, but it's a $50 million a year business in Japan - and many here

believe the insect fluid helped propel Olympic marathoner Naoko Takahashi to her

gold medal victory at the Sydney Games in September.

 

Amino acids taken from the saliva of baby hornets improve physical endurance in

humans, according to biochemist Takashi Abe, who developed the drink five years

ago. It's sold in Japan by Meiji Milk Products as a high-tech sports drink,

under the brand name Vaam, short for vespa (Latin for wasp) amino acid mixture.

 

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Oh for heaven sakes...! Call me a sceptic, but what IS it with all this hocus

pocus faith in stolen animal parts and potions...??!!

Looks like " Dumbo's feather " syndrome to me.

 

Hey! How about we " discover " an animal-friendly one?

 

Hm. I notice that these " magic potions " or symbols are very difficult, limited

and time consuming to obtain. It seems they require

pain, suffering and/or danger to make them seem sufficiently valuable and

desirable. So, all we have to do is generate some really

arduous circumstances about how the dandelions are grown, gathered and stewed,

and bingo!

 

" Pssst! It's a big secret! DON'T tell ANYONE! This PARTICULAR dandelion

elixir improves potency and performance, better than

ANYTHING else ( except for being between 18 and 29, having favourable genetic

potential, carefully following a healthy lifestyle and

rigorous training)! " ... (our lawns will never have looked so green!)

 

Hm... You see, :-) it's like this... they can only be gathered from lawns north

of the 60th parallel (I mean, everyone KNOWS that

northern dandelions are more robust because of having to endure cold weather,

right??!!!), at the summer solstice, by

virgins?........... no not virgins, by athletic young men, who must work without

pay blind folded (it'll become a whole new

religious Order!), and engage in self denial of all sorts. They have to prove

themselves worthy ( " pure of mind and body " !) for the

project by all sorts of rigorous tests, and only a small number are admitted to

the ranks each year. They are required to carry

heavy lead weights on their backs too while they pick because then all the

energy and power they exert gets TRANSFERRED (really!)

into the dandelions as they pick them! REALLY! Would I kid you? And THEN they

have to stew the dandelions for 3 days and 3 nights

in water melted from a glacier at the dead of night (oops! Can't be the dead of

night AND 3 days and 3 nights. Maybe there are two

qualities of the elixir, the better one is stewed longer probably!) while

standing in their bare feet... or is it on one foot? And

then the potion is DISTILLED (makes it seem scientific!) and bottled in blue

glass sealed with a cute tiny cork, red wax and a piece

of copper foil wrapped around the top; and sold for $100,000 an ounce. Really.

But like I said, it's a SECRET!!

 

Deborah

 

 

Japan Abuzz Over Hornet Saliva As High-Tech Sports Drink

 

November 3, 2000

 

TOKYO (Boston Globe) - Drinking hornet saliva may not sound particularly

appealing, but it's a $50 million a year business in

Japan - and many here believe the insect fluid helped propel Olympic marathoner

Naoko Takahashi to her gold medal victory at the

Sydney Games in September.

 

Amino acids taken from the saliva of baby hornets improve physical endurance in

humans, according to biochemist Takashi Abe, who

developed the drink five years ago. It's sold in Japan by Meiji Milk Products as

a high-tech sports drink, under the brand name

Vaam, short for vespa (Latin for wasp) amino acid mixture.