Superfoods For Optimum Health: Chlorella and Spirulina
by Mike Adams, the Consumer Wellness Research Center - page 21 of 39

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Yet the anti-cancer properties of chlorella are hard to argue with. There have been a number of studies demonstrating similar anti-cancer properties for chlorella:

A study on chlorella published in Japan in 1992 showed that chlorella has impressive effects on blood chemistry. It increased red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and albumin. The ability of chlorella to increase albumin is vitally important because so many people with cancer have a decreased level of albumin. This decreased level correlates with a poor prognosis; chlorella is a truly important supplement for anyone whose albumin level is low.

- Herbal Medicine, Healing & Cancer by Donald R. Yance

The healing properties of these micro-algae are, of course, only available from the whole food, not isolated or extracted chemicals:

Animal studies have shown that mixed carotenoids, such as Spirulina and Dunaliella species of algae, have significantly greater tumor-killing ability than beta-carotene alone. No antioxidant vitamin or flavonoid should be taken alone.

- Health And Nutrition Secrets by Russell Blaylock, M.D.

One of those anti-cancer phytochemicals has been mentioned: phycocyanin. This phytochemical found in spirulina is what gives it a dark blue / green hue. It also probably contributes to the unique taste of spirulina, which some people find somewhat pleasant, or at least tolerable.

Interestingly, the pigmentation of phycocyanins makes them ideal for coloring foods, beverages and cosmetics. Instead of using artificial colors derived from coal tars, manufacturers can use plant-derived pigments to add color to their products. What they probably don't realize, however, is that by doing so, they are also adding anti-cancer properties to their products!

Here's an interesting web page on the use of phycocyanins for coloring:

http://www.cftri.com/tech/phyco.html

The name "phycocyanin," by the way, is revealing. The prefix "phy" means "from the plant kingdom" as in "phyto." The root of the word, "cyan," is the technical description of the color blue. So the word means "the blue element of the plant."

Spirulina contains the blue pigment phycocyanin, a biliprotein that has been shown to inhibit cancer colony formation.

- Herbal Medicine, Healing & Cancer by Donald R. Yance

This phycocyanin has been shown to be effective against liver cancer as well:

Spirulina contains concentrations of nutrients unlike any other single grain, herb, or plant. It contains gamma-linolenic acid (GLA), linoleic and arachidonic acids, vitamin B12 (needed, especially by vegetarians, for healthy red blood cells), iron, a high level of protein (60 to 70 percent), essential amino acids, the nucleic acids RNA and DNA, chlorophyll, and phycocyanin, a blue pigment that is found only in blue-green algae and that has increased the survival rate of mice with liver cancer in laboratory experiments.

- A-to-Z Guide To Supplements by James F. Balch, M.D.

In all, the anti-cancer properties of both chlorella and spirulina make these superfoods absolutely necessary dietary supplements for anyone battling cancer or who may be at risk for cancer. And if you eat processed foods or follow the standard American diet, you are definitely "at risk" for cancer, since so many of the foods that make up the American diet are, themselves, promoters of cancer.

Every doctor should be aware of the anti-cancer properties of chlorella and spirulina, and these superfoods should be "prescribed" as both cancer prevention foods and cancer therapy for patients currently battling the disease. In my opinion, any person suffering from cancer should immediately begin introducing both chlorella and spirulina into their diets, even if they choose to undergo "Western" anti-cancer procedures like chemotherapy and radiation.

Furthermore, any person who knows someone with cancer has, I believe, a social responsibility to at least make them aware of this information so that they can make their own informed decisions about how to reverse their cancer, if they so desire.

Chlorella is one of those things that falls into the "can't hurt" category when it comes to battling cancer. No matter what form of therapy you choose to undergo -- radiation, chemotherapy, surgery, or something more holistic -- chlorella can only improve your results. If it were me, I would absolutely not undergo any radical therapy like radiation or chemotherapy. I would ingest large doses of chlorella at every meal and pursue other anti-cancer strategies that have been proven far more effective, such as taking graviola tincture, eating apricot kernels, consuming large quantities of raw broccoli sprouts, eating as much garlic as I could stand, and so on. There are many natural therapies that reverse cancer.

We have way too much cancer in the world, and the answer to many cancers is available right now in the form of these remarkable water plants. It is time that we put nature's gift to work in healing diseases like cancer that are ravaging our population.

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