Spirulina Powder: The Nutrient Dense Food That Boost Your Immune System

 

Spirulina Powder: The Nutrient Dense Food That Boost Your Immune System

 

Spirulina is a blue green algae grown wildly in the warm alkaline water in nature. Spirulina powder is a health supplement made from the spray dried powder of algae spirulina cyanobacteria. The technique used to produce the powder is under strict hygiene process which only the water content is being dried up.

 

Spirulina has been used by the Koreans, Japanese and Chad as staple food for thousands of years. The Japanese eat seaweed and the Kanembas of Chad eat the blue green algae daily.

 

The diet of these 3 countries have resulted in significant low level of HIV infections among the population. In fact the composition nutrients of spirulina in powder or in it's nature form has the ability to suppress the viral load of those infected.

 

Spirulina Powder other capabilities:

  • to inhibit replication of other human pathogenic viruses like measles and mumps

  • the unique polysaccharides of spirulina can enhance cell nucleus enzyme activity and other DNA repair synthesis. This has proven to coincide with experimental cancers research on animals that have high level of suppression of several important types of cancer.

  • spirulina has 62% amino acid content

  • is the richest source of Vitamin B12

  • has the whole spectrum of natural mixed carotene including beta carotene and xanthophylls phytopigments.

  • in one study in Kerala India, Spirulina was able to reversed oral cancer in pan tobacco chewers with 45% success rate when the patients were on 1 gram of Spirulina a day for a year. When the patients stop the treat after a year, 45% of the lesions returned.

  • study conducted on natural beta carotene found that Spirulina has greater antioxidant power than synthetic ones for treating heart disease, cancers and strokes involving over 20 thousands patients by the Medical Council of UK and the British Heart Foundation.

Why  natural organically grown and how to process  spirulina powder is important?

  • some of the blue green algae are cultured in contaminated ponds which eventually create contaminated spirulina

  • spirulina has high amino acid content which makes it very delicate. If they are served in tablet and granulation form, their structure and nutrients will be altered

  • if spirulina is liquefied, there will be some forms of preservative which will also damage the nutrients

  • the best form is the spray dried powder that will not effect the quality and texture of the spirulina.

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