CHLORELLA (pyrenoidosa or vulgaris)

HEALING BENEFITS:

Chlorella has multiple health inducing effects. Below are just a few of the published effects that have been demonstrated.

Antiviral (especially effective against the cytomegaly virus and herpes)

Toxin binding (mucopolysaccaride membrane) for all known toxic metals, environmental toxins, such as dioxin and others

Repairs and activates the body's detoxification functions

Dramatically increases reduced glutathion

Sporopollein is as effective as choestyramin in binding neurotoxins and more effective in binding toxic metals than any other natural substance

Various chlorella peptides restore coeruloplasmin and metallothionin

Lipids (12.4%) alpha and gamma linoleic acid help to balance the increased intake of fish oil during detoxification programs and are necessary for many functions, including formation of their peroxisomes.

Methylcobalamin is food for the nervous system. It restores damaged neurons and has its own detoxifying effect.

Chlorella Growth Factor - helps the body detoxify itself in a yet not understood and profound way. It appears that over millins of years chlorella has developed specific detoxifying proteins and peptides for every existing toxic metal.

The porphyrins in chlorophyll have their own strong metal-binding effect. Chlorophyll also activates the PPAR-receptor on the nucleus of the cell which is responsible for the transcription of DNA and coding the formation of the peroxisomes (see fish oil), opening of the cell wall (unknown mechanism) which is necessary for all detoxification procedures.

Super nutrient - with a 50-60% amino acid content it is an ideal nutrient for vegetarians. Methylcobalamin - the most easily absorbed and utilized form of B12, B6, minerals, chlorophyll, beta carotene, etc.

Immune system strengthening

Restores Bowel flora

Digestive aid (bulking agent)

Alkalinizing agent (important for patients with malignancies)

RECOMMENDED DOSAGE:

Start the standard adult maintenance dosage for the 6-24 months active detox:
1 gram (approx. 4 tablets) 3-4 times a day

Incorporate a more active detox by increasing the Chlorella dose to 3 grams (approximately 12 tablets) whenever Cilantro is being taken. This must be taken one week intermittently, followed by 2-3 weeks on the above adult maintenance dose (i.e. 1 week on, 2-3 weeks on the standard maintenance program).

Chlorella must be taken 30 minutes before the main meals and at bedtime.

This way chlorella is exactly in that portion of the small intestine where the bile squirts into the gut at the beginning of the meal, carrying with it toxic metals and other toxic waste. These are bound by the chlorella cell wall and carried out via the digestive tract.

When amalgam fillings are removed, the higher dose should be given for 2 days before and 2-5 days after the procedure (the more fillings are removed, the longer the higher dose should be given).

If you take Vitamin C during your detox program, take it as far away from Chlorella as possible. Vitamin C is the only substance known so far that can knock mercury off its tight bind in the chlorella membrane.

SIDE EFFECTS:

Most side effects reflect the toxic effect of the mobilized metals which are shuttled through the organism. This problem is instantly avoided by significantly increasing the chlorella dosage, - not by reducing it. Small chlorella doses mobilize more metals than are bound in the gut; large chlorella doses bind more toxins than are mobilized.

Some people have problems digesting the cell membrane of chlorella. It is hard and sophisticated. The industry has developed several ways by cracking the membrane. However, mechanical destruction of the membrane leads to subsequent oxidative damage to some of the most precious ingredients (such as chlorella's fatti acids).

Biopure uses a patented process by which stiff structural elements of the cell wall are cracked by using sound waves (similar to the process called lithotripsy), keeps the extra cellular chlorella barrier intact, thus protecting all of the cell's organelles.

Chlorella can also be made bio-available by dissolving the cell wall enzymatically. Biopure produces are proprietary mix of sound cracked chlorella with specific enzymes, which kick into action once chlorella has arrived in the alkaline section of the small intestine. This product is availabe as BioPure Enzyme Potentiated Chlorella or EPC.

Another solution for people with digestive problems is Chlorella vulgaris. Chlorella vulgaris has a thinner cell wall and is therefore better tolerated by people with digestive problems.

Some manufacturers have created cell wall free chlorella extracts (NDF or Nanonized Detox Factors; PCA or Peptide Clathrating Agent) which are quite costly, but easily absorbed. NDF is availabe as NDF and NDF Plus. It contains micronized and nanonized chlorella and cilantro as the primary ingredients. It is recommended cycling NDF Plus into the program: 3 weeks on, 3 weeks off.

You can order the different forms of Chlorella from BioPure (800-801-6187).
I am not sure they have the NDF, but ask.
NDF and NDF Plus is made by Healthydetox.org.

Take care.

Cilantro Salsa, here we come!

I just started taking it at 3 grams per day and am doing fine with it. It really gets the bowels moving for me, but gently. I'm glad it restores the flora too. Gigi, thank you for telling me the best time to take it. I wasn't sure. The stuff I have just said to take it between meals.

I've never tested positive for heavy metals, but I have a lot of toxins in me and I hope it will help with that. If anything, I'm sure to gain from its nutritional properties.

If you are using the NDF or NDF Plus (I also mentioned it above), that detoxes via the kidney mainly. So you really have to watch that very carefully. The Biopure and I am pretty sure the Chlorella Growth Factor detoxes via the bowel, etc.

That's why it is recommended to alternate between the two Biopure and NDF Plus. The NDF Plus is the better ones for Lymies than the NDF. You can go to www.healthydetox.org and read about the difference between the two.

But do be careful with the NDF. I really prefer the Biopure tablets, because you get all the other factors with it.

You might read what I posted above a couple of times. There is a lot of very pertinent info in it. I never get all of it the first time around when I read something like that.

Since you detox some metals even when on antibiotics and candida meds, it is wise to always take the chlorella. Many herxes are not really just die-off of Lyme bacteria as dead proteins, but also the release of metals that the cell walls were holding. You do want to catch the stuff with the chlorella before it recirculates again. Its called "reverse metal toxicity".

If you are taking the liquid NDF or NDF Plus, the schedule for taking it is different. Your ND should instruct you on that. You take it so many drops in 10 oz. of distilled water, not regular water, first thing in the morning before you do anything else. You can get the schedule on the Healthydetox.org website. But really that's your doctor's job to tell you when to take it.

Cilantro and all other agents, no matter what they are, DMPS, DMSA, etc. do not take the metals all the way out. They just stir them up, mobilize them, and if the chlorella is at the place at the right time
(see my detailed timing description above), it will pick them up and move them out the rest of the way.

There is more misinformation out there - and you need to really pay attention to this if you want to do it right.

Take care.

I hope you see this post..

Did you ever hear of Kyo-Green from Wakunaga ..

It is a powdered drink mix ..with organic barley and wheat grasses blended with absorbable Chlorella and kelp..

Do you think this is a sufficient route to go?

Any input would be appreciated..thanks

What is the recommended dose for a child? My daughter is 8 and I want her to start on chlorella.

sorry that you got gas! I haven't had that problem..only with abx..