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Superfoods: Spirulina and Chlorella

Chlorella and Spirulina: The “Perfect” Superfoods

Chlorella and spirulina are two of the most remarkable superfoods ever discovered. Everyone should include these miracle foods in their diet. For example, pound for pound, spirulina contains twelve times the digestible protein of beef. It’s a far superior protein than beef because of your body’s natural ability to digest it, and incorporates a much more complete balance of minerals such as magnesium.

As another example, a phytochemical in chlorella can actually rebuild nerve damage in the brain and nervous system. Because of this, chlorella is used in the treatment of patients with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Both of these superfoods have been scientifically shown to both prevent and even reverse cancer in humans. These superfoods also contain a high amount of essential fatty acids such as GLA that are lacking in the diets of most people yet are essential for healthy brain function.

Chlorella & Spirulina: What Are They

Food! Chlorella and spirulina are both microscopic plants that grow in fresh water, called micro-algae. They are among the earliest and simplest forms of life. They  incorporate an astonishing spectrum of nutritional ingredients: vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, protein, nucleic acids (RNA and DNA), [...]

Vitamin E Helps Fight Lung Cancer

Great news for you vitamin lovers.

A new study published in the International Journal of Cancer by researchers from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center found that higher levels of the alpha-tocopherol form of Vitamin E resulted in a 53% reduction in lung cancer. Cancer of the lung is the most common and deadliest form, from which more people die than any other type.  Only 25% of people diagnosed with lung cancer live for more than a year.

There are two main groups of vitamin E – tocopherols and tocotreinols – both of which contain the 4 varieties alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta. This study examined the tocopherol group. Unlike alpha-tocoferol, the beta-, gamma- and delta-tocopherol forms of vitamin E failed to show significant benefits when considered by themselves.

This is thought to be the first study of its kind to distinguish between the different forms of Vitamin E with respect to lung cancer.  This is important as most people don’t realize there are so many different forms of vitamins, including natural vs. synthetic. Many studies of vitamin E, for example, may only use one of the sub-optimal or synthetic forms and then generalize the results to all [...]