It is a proven fact that corn and other grains hold huge health care potential because their proteins and peptides (components of smaller size, but same composition as proteins) contain antioxidant and anticancer properties. In addition, their compounds have a role in preventing and treating chronic degenerative diseases.

Our world contains roughly 400 million hectares of abandoned agricultural land, much of it in the tropics and subtropics. Both Agave tequilana, the source of tequila and Agave fourcroydes, a common source of fiber, grow well on seasonally arid lands and have been proposed as biofuel crops.

Health experts took part in an important multidisciplinary meeting at the ALMA Observatory facilities, where they shared experiences and research on medicine at high geographic altitude, with a particular focus on a condition known as intermittent hypoxia –lack of oxygen– which has only been studied among mountain climbers.