Alberto Villoldo took his scientific training to the Amazon jungle and returned with the keys to longevity. Now he is one of the world’s most sought after healers.

Villoldo spent 25 years in the Amazon with the plant masters, and by taking the sacred plants back to the lab and studying them, discovered “there are plants that will switch on the genes that create health and longevity, and switch off the ones that create disease. We discovered they work on the NRF2 longevity pathway.”

Once you stop making stress molecules, you begin to make the bliss molecules – serotonin and melatonin. “You get sleep and rest, and then the higher brain methylates serotonin into a tryptamine, adds a couple of bonds to it, and turns it into dimethyltryptamine which is the most powerful psychedelic known to humans. The bliss molecules help you feel communion and oneness. You’re in love with the world. Then you’re creating health.”

Today we have the science for what the shamans knew half a century ago, and Villoldo points specifically to the work of Dean Ornish, Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF, who has discovered that in six months these plants switched on 200 health creating genes, and switched off 500 that create cancer and heart disease.