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Survived the Atomic Bomb. Buried in Every Pharmacy. The Lost "Memory Tree" Secret.

There is a tree growing in every city park in America that survived the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, matches five hundred dollar Alzheimer's drugs in clinical trials, protected Chernobyl workers from radiation damage, and has been used as medicine for two thousand years. Yet most people walk past it every day without knowing what it does. This is the story of Ginkgo biloba, the memory tree that four different industries worked to hide from public knowledge. On August 6, 1945, six Ginkgo trees survived ground zero at Hiroshima. Everything within two kilometers vaporized. Temperatures reached forty times hotter than the sun. Scientists said nothing could survive. But these trees, charred black with every leaf burned to ash, sprouted new growth in spring 1946. The Japanese called them hibakujumoku, survivor trees. What they discovered about why these trees survived would threaten billion dollar industries. Ginkgo biloba is two hundred million years old. It survived five mass extinctions, outlived the dinosaurs, and appeared in Chinese medicine texts two thousand years ago. Traditional Chinese Medicine used both the seeds and leaves for memory, circulation, and longevity. But the tree planted in every American city today is not the same tree used in ancient medicine. In the 1980s, urban planners made a decision that would erase half of Ginkgo's medicinal chemistry. Ginkgo trees are male or female. Females produce seeds with a fleshy coating that smells like rancid butter. Cities complained about the smell. The solution was systematic: plant only male trees. Ban females. Remove existing female specimens. Seoul deploys four hundred forty workers annually to hand pick berries. Iowa City banned females entirely. The problem was solved. Except they eliminated the medicine. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the seeds were the primary remedy, used for two thousand years before anyone focused on leaves. The seeds contain unique compounds like ginkgotoxin and ginkgolic acids that modern research barely studied because urban planning eliminated the source material. They bred the cure out to avoid the smell. 📚 Sources: Alaoui-Youssefi, A., F. Drieu, P. Delaporte, C. Valli, and J. Jadot. "Preventive and Curative Effect of Ginkgo biloba Extract on Clastogenic Factors." Mutation Research 445, no. 1 (1999): 47-53. Del Tredici, Peter. "The Phenology of Sexual Reproduction in Ginkgo biloba: Ecological and Evolutionary Implications." Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 127, no. 4 (2000): 307-315. DeFeudis, Frederick V., and Krieglstein Drieu. "Ginkgo biloba Extract (EGb 761) and CNS Functions: Basic Studies and Clinical Applications." Current Drug Targets 1, no. 1 (2000): 25-58. Ertekin, M. Volkan, Handan Kocer, Irfan Karslioglu, Ayfer Taysi, Mustafa Gepdiremen, Omer Sezen, and Suleyman Balci. "Effects of Oral Ginkgo biloba Supplementation on Cataract Formation and Oxidative Stress Occurring in Lenses of Rats Exposed to Total Cranium Radiotherapy." Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology 48, no. 5 (2004): 499-502. European Medicines Agency, Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products. "Assessment Report on Ginkgo biloba L., folium." EMA/HMPC/321095/2012. London: European Medicines Agency, 2014. Gauthier, Serge, and Sylvia Schlaefke. "Efficacy and Tolerability of Ginkgo biloba Extract EGb 761 in Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials." Clinical Interventions in Aging 9 (2014): 2065-2077. Kang, Kyung Ah, Hyun Sub Cheong, Jung Ok Koo, Hee Sun Kim, Ki Cheon Kim, and Jin Won Hyun. "Protective Effect of Ginkgo biloba Extract against Radiation-Induced Oxidative Stress: An In Vitro Study." Free Radical Research 43, no. 12 (2009): 1252-1262. Kim, Young Hwan, Kyu Song Lee, Sang Don Lee, and Byoung Joon Park. "Management Strategies for Ginkgo biloba Street Trees in Seoul Metropolitan Area." Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 38 (2019): 338-346. Mazza, Marianna, Rossella Capuano, Paolo Bria, and Salvatore Mazza. "Ginkgo biloba and Donepezil: A Comparison in the Treatment of Alzheimer's Dementia in a Randomized Placebo-Controlled Double-Blind Study." European Journal of Neurology 13, no. 9 (2006): 981-985. Napryeyenko, Oleksandr, and Iryna Borzenko. "Ginkgo biloba Special Extract in Dementia with Neuropsychiatric Features: A Randomised, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Clinical Trial." Arzneimittelforschung 57, no. 1 (2007): 4-11. Palevitz, Barry A. "The Resurrection of Hiroshima's Trees." American Scientist 86, no. 5 (1998): 436-439. Rapp, Michael A., Sandra Schnaider-Beeri, Ora Wysocki, Herbert Guerrero-Berroa, Jeremy M. Silverman, Hillel Grossman, and Valentina Heinik. #ForgottenMedicine #DementiaPrevention #HiroshimaSurvivors #RadiationProtection #TraditionalMedicine #HerbalRemedies #BrainHealth #MemoryLoss #PlantMedicine