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Can I take BioPure Chlorella and Truflora Probiotic & Digestive Enzymes together before I go to bed?
Also can I take serrapeptase at the same time or should I take it after the Chlorella?
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Tincup
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Welcome to LN!
I do not know the answers to your questions. I reviewed some literature (not a lot, but I did make an effort) and still could not find anything that might help you.
When I took chlorella briefly many years ago I was under the impression I should not take it at the same time as taking other things (meds, supplements), but I can't remember where I heard that and/or why I shouldn't.
I did find this. See section on Tips. No direct answer, but might give some insights until someone who knows more about it gets up and replies.
Brussels
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I don't see any trouble to take probiotics, enzymes and chlorella together. Nor minerals.
Chlorella is just a plant. I see it like a lettuce.
Can you take lettuce with probiotics? Yep. With enzymes? Yep.
Chlorella is not a drug, that is what I mean.
Like with food, if you take each food SEPARATE, you get a better absorption (in general, I'm talking).
I don't know if enzymes though will help you digest chlorella better or not.
Chlorella is food, but some people cannot tolerate it or even have allergy to it. Anyone can have allergy to anything.
As chlorella stirs metals before it binds to them, the body may think chlorella is like heavy metal and react with an allergy or with violence (that is my theory).
That is one reason why some people react violently to chlorella. Very violently, sometimes.
So if you are new on chlorella, first buy the VULGARIS not the PYRENOIDOSA. And start with it INDIVIDUALLY, just to see how your body reacts to it.
If you start taking 3 things at the same time and react to them, you'll never know what's wrong. That is what I do with anything new I take.
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Brussels, hi, I was having a similar question
I think you described chlorella as a binder before and I was wondering how you would take it and if it would bind up good stuff if taken with that
for example in a smoothie
how do you take yours? do you take it several times a day? how?
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Brussels
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Good point.
The thing is that a plant is NOT a drug. Not a single chemical drug.
A plant (e.g. lettuce) will have many chemical components that act individually and in combination.
That is why you can't say cats claw is a killer of Borrelia. It isn't. It has HUNDREDS of chemicals, and chemical content varies from plant to plant.
Whatever cats claw does, it doesn't do ONE THING only. It is not only a killer, like an antibiotic.
It will do probably HUNDREDS of things SIMULTANEOUSLY. How to describe then cats claw's actions to people? In fact, no one really knows all functions of cats claw, nor all functions of ANY single plant that is used as food.
No one knows, because it is just impossible to do all possible BILLIONS of combinations and see how they act in vitro then in vivo, in different doses etc.
Even LETTUCE can be a binder, due to contents of negative hydrogen (antioxidant) AND chlorophyll. Can you imagine that? Lettuce as binder? If you eat lots of lettuce, you'll probably have some similar results as with bits of chlorella.
Same with GREEN TEAS. They can also be seen as binders. But people drink them for pleasure or for its antioxidant properties. Even coffee, probably!
When I say chlorella is a binder, it is just ONE of the HUNDREDS of other functions of it.
It is hard for our brains to process that, because we are used to think about SINGLE chemicals.
A plant is NEVER a single chemical. Thanks God.
Same for any food: never ever you are eating only gluten, or only Vitamin B1, or only Selenium.
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Brussels
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I basically think of chlorella as food. As with any food, I do not take it every day.
When I feel like taking it, I do.
During lyme, I took it EVERY DAY, MANY TIMES A DAY, for YEARS literally. I lived on chlorella, basically. As soon as I felt herxy, I took it.
With the years and experience, I didn't wait until I got herxy. I took it before that bad feeling came so that my day could go on without too many ups and downs.
So did my daughter, who was just 2 when she started. I gave it to her at least 2x day, at that early age, since she got lyme. We took it first thing in the morning, then certainly before bedtime, and then added one or 2 intakes during the day, any time.
best is 30 min before a meal. But we didn't really care: if we forgot, we took it any time. -----------------------
Now we both have no lyme. So we take it on and off, but when my chlorella stock finishes, my limit to live without it is about 3-4 months. After that, I feel I NEED urgent chlorella again.
I feel tummy pain (gastritis) if I do not take it for long. My daughter too. Some more fatigue, or our brains are not so sharp anymore... That's when we start taking it again.
But during lyme, we took it ANY time of the day. -----------------
I took chlorella (many pills) in one go, with bear garlic tincture in the water (about a dropperful). About 3x to 5x day, 365 days a year, when my lyme was active. That gives you an idea.
Without chlorella, I felt sick the whole time.
With chlorella, my days were pulsed: 30 minutes after chlorella I felt okay, alive, normal.
About 2-3 hours after that, I felt herxy again. So I took it again, and again, depending on herxes, basically.
My daughter (age 2) took chlorella in powder (about a small teaspoon) + flaxseed oil (one teaspoon) + bear garlic (few drops) + drops of Rechtsregulat (many enzymes, some drops) + honey (for the taste). That was her basic smoothy.
Anything I wanted to give her, I would just add to that smoothy green paste (example, cardamon in powder, magnesium, probiotics,...). She liked it and got totally used to it, no problem at all.
Without that, she wouldn't have had a normal life due to herxes. With that, she somehow could have a normal childhood, in spite of lyme.
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For the enzymes to go systemic i would take on an empty stomach..have some killers on board as it may break up biofilm ...
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quote:Originally posted by bluelyme: For the enzymes to go systemic i would take on an empty stomach..have some killers on board as it may break up biofilm ...
- That's what I was going to say about serrapeptase.
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