One very important superfood that I add to my everyday smoothies every day is Chlorella.The heavy duty superfood is most known by us who use it as the most practical way to remove Mercury, and other heavy toxic metals from the body.
It's impressive resume of benefits includes cleansing the blood, detoxifying the body, helping with optimal blood pressure, and so forth.
I use a teaspoon daily in my smoothies. When I first tried it, I had an extremely noticeable digestive cleanse, very smooth, very natural, very refreshing (hope that is not 'too much information').
A good source of protein, Chlorellea is available in powder or pill form.
I can't say enough about Chlorella.
If you want to purchase right away, I would recommend the brand I use which is Source Naturals Chlorella in both pills and powder. Source Naturals uses the Yaeyama strain of Chlorella, supposedly prized for it's purity and high quality. If you can't find Source Naturals, then the company Jarrow uses the same Yaeyama Chlorella, is highly recommended also. I think these two are the best value for the money, if you will be using everyday in smoothies.
The best brand I think of them all is Sun Chlorella, but it is super expensive and doesn't come in powder, thus I can't use Sun Chlorella in my smoothies. Another very good brand is Chloressence, from a company called Sequel that makes VERY high quality products. Quite expensive also. You are getting a good prouct with any of the ones I have mentioned on this page.
The way to evaluate quality Chlorella is check the ratio of Chloroyphill and Chlorella Growth Factor (CGF), the active ingredients, per gram. Source Naturals is not as high as Sun or Chloressence, but has very good Chloryphill and CGF per gram numbers, and the price point is right because I use it every day. Be careful, because several brands that I initially tried were poor quality such as the Whole Food brand. The Whole Foods brand, upon inspection, is not that "deep deep" green color. As a general rule, the deeper the green, the better.~dw~
Sun Chlorella is the best of the best (Although I use Source Naturals Yaeyama to save money). However, I will use sun Chlorella pills when traveling and I can't make my smoothies. Saved me from food poisioning a couple of times
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Hi. I am nursing my 4th child right now (Noah is 3 months). I have been pregnant and nursing continuously for the past 7 years. I had taken chlorella before during pregnancy but stopped because I was afraid of mercury detox. Have you heard of chlorella being taken during preg. or nursing??? If so, how much? Thanks.
Molly
I haven’t heard of that one. That may be all little beyond me, so I wouldn’t want to even give a casual comment on that one. You might have to find someone who has been in the same circumstances and see how they approached.
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I took chlorella while i was pregnant and nursing. I get my chlorella from Swanson, the Kyoto brand. I was anemic and chlorella was my everyday friend. I believe it helped me and the baby. I'm now giving 2tablets to my 1yr old son and he likes it. My daugheter 4yr likes them too and she has nice teeth, aside from her other siblings who do not like chlorella…:)
Interesting. I actually used Kyoto for a while until I switched over to Source Nautrals powder. Maybe the other siblings can be tricked into taking it? Perhaps by someone putting it in the cabinet and telling them NOT to touch it? You know, reverse psychology……………..
I love Chorella! I take it everyday as well as spirulina!
Thanks for commenting on my blog. I used to use both when I first started and then decided on just Chlorella to save money.
Dear Doug,
My husband and I have used The Sun brand and have since switched to Kyoto due to price with both of us using it. My question is what differences did you notice between Source Naturals and Kyoto? Also did you notice a difference when you stopped using spiraling? Enjoy your blog…really informative w/o being technical boring. Would love to see you write a post on your average daily food/supplement routine. Brands and dosage would be appreciative as I wonder about the supplements I take are really effective or wasting my money. Than you
Thanks for your comments on my blog. Blogging is such a great way to get out what I have to say, and I have been learning so much from others as well. I remember when I was on Kyoto back when I was trying them all. I remember it being OK, I felt that Source Naturals was a little better, although it is hard to quantify that except for the subtle in tune-ness of your body. I have got so many articles I wanna to and that article on what I eat is one of them. I guess I first wanted to confirm anyone was even looking at the blog first LOL. But since as I said I consume the same thing everyday in general, I can tell you right here.
7 apricot seeds per day
1 or 2 capsules of Curcurmin
experimenting with Tongkat (testosterome booster)
those are my only supplements right now
2 power smoothies, one in the morning, another late afternoon or right after workouts on workout days my recipe is in my blog http://www.gaiahealthblog.com/2011/12/23/dougssmoothie/
Mid Morning meal is Oatmeal and 2,3,or 4 scrambled eggs in coconut oil. I am still addressing going grain free but I am not trying to force it. I have to dive into research it and not do it because it’s the latest craze. But I think there is som validity to not eating a lot of grains.
Evening meal is almost always salmon plus pasta, or salmon plus a banana, or salmon plus French Fries fried in Organic Coconut Oil. I haven’t gone grain free or gluten free yet, I’ll let it evolve.
Throughout the day I am always eating cashews and fruit when a little hunger kicks in.
I will often have Whole Foods Pizza as a treat, or something from the Whole Foods food bar, when I can find something without canola oil. That’s when I eat chicken mostly, other stuff like garlic mashed potatoes or whatever else I have a hankering for.
That’s really about it. I guess I can cut an paste this, add some cool pics, and I have my article!!!!!!
~stay healthy~
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I have read that there's something called mineral substitution whereby you only hold onto toxic minerals if you don't have enough of the essential minerals. For instance if you don't have enough selenium or iron you'll use mercury instead. So if you get enough of the essential minerals you'll start dumping the toxic stuff without the need for chelators etc.
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I think we have something in common. I also add my chlorella every time I make my avocado smoothie. I use avocado so that the color will be the same. We all know that chlorella has this distinct taste. That's why I make sure I won't see any difference between my avocado smoothie and the chlorella powder that I'm adding into it. Plus the fact that avocado and chlorella has this superb benefits that makes my immune system stronger. Besides, detoxification is also one of the chlorella benefits which gives me more reason to truly love this supplement.
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Great article, thx for the info!