Superfoods For Optimum Health: Chlorella and Spirulina
by Mike Adams, the Consumer Wellness Research Center - page 26 of 39

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Continuing with the remarkable properties of the chlorella cell wall, it turns out that the mucopolysaccharides also have another fascinating property: they bind with environmental toxins and carry them safely out of the body.

What kind of environmental toxins?

• Heavy metals like aluminum, mercury, cadmium and arsenic.
• Pesticides.
• PCBs (polychlorobiphenyls)

Remarkably, there was considerable research conducted in Japan on the detoxifying effects of chlorella in the decades following the United States' dropping of nuclear bombs on Japanese civilian populations:

Many reports have come from Japanese research studies that followed the nuclear catastrophe resulting from atomic bombs that were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. In a report to the General Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan on an early study in animals, Ichimura (1973) reported that chlorella (8 grams daily) increased elimination of cadmium: threefold in feces and sevenfold in urine. Other researchers from Japan showed that chlorella helped detoxify uranium and lead (Horikoshi et al. 1979). Chlorella has detoxification potential for similar compounds, such as dioxin and polychlorinated biphenyls. (PCBs are chemical compounds used in plastics, insulation, and flame retardants, with potential to cause cancer and liver damage.) Other research indicates that chlorella is useful in detoxification of high levels of mercury in the body caused by removal of mercury amalgam. Some dentists recommend chlorella to patients who are having mercury amalgams replaced (as well as to themselves and staff who can incur accidental exposure from day-to-day exposure to amalgam filling procedures)

- Disease Prevention and Treatment, the Life Extension Foundation

It is well known that the build up of heavy metals in the body leads to disastrous health results and some rather frightening diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. And while chlorella is the primary helper here, due to its cell wall structure, it appears that spirulina may also be a potent detoxifier:

Spirulina may help ADHD by removing aluminum, carbon tetrachloride, and other toxins from the body (Torres-Duran et al. 1998; Vadiraja et al. 1998).

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

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