The benefits of chlorophyll ?!


Question: The benefits of chlorophyll .?
I have hear many great benefits of chlorophyll, but some are hard to believe- like that it helps your pH "down there", or that it freshens breath. What do you know.? Health Question & Answer


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Yes, it DOES help you 'down there' and it does freshen breath. Many breath fresheners contain it. I have used it for many years.

If you want more energy, supplement with chlorophyll. As I always say: what works in nature, surely works in man.

Chlorophyll is the molecule that absorbs sunlight and uses its energy to synthesize carbohydrates from CO2 and water. This process is known as photosynthesis and is the basis for sustaining the life processes of all plants. Since animals and humans obtain their food supply by eating plants, photosynthesis can be said to be the source of our life also.

Supplementing at least five days a week with liquid chlorophyll:

* Enhances energy

* Detoxifies the liver

* Eliminates body odor and bad breath

* Cleans the digestive tract

* Aides in the prevention of liver cancer

* Is beneficial in all cancer therapy

* Helps with anemia

* Aides in the elimination of mold from the body

Without chlorophyll, also known as the "green blood" of plants, life as we know it could not exist. Chlorophyll is the natural plant pigment that lends its color to grass, leaves, and many of the vegetables humans eat. Chlorophyll may indeed play an important role in prevention of certain cancers. Researchers in the early 1980s discovered that chlorophylls and related chemicals could inhibit the ability of certain DNA-damaging chemicals to cause mutations in bacteria.

M.G. Ferruzzi, Ohio State University, was the first researcher to demonstrate the absorption of chlorophyll into the intestinal cells; henceforth, supporting the potential importance of chlorophyll as a health-promoting plant compound.

Improves immune function in colitis and fibromyalgia

In the March 2001 study by Virginia Commonwealth University's R.E. Merchant and C.A. Andre, supplementation with chlorophyll-rich chlorella was shown to reduce high blood pressure, lower LDL ("bad" cholesterol), accelerate wound healing, and improve immune function in colitis and fibromyalgia. They gave supplemental chlorella to 55 fibromyalgia patients, 33 with hypertension, and nine with ulcerative colitis. These results followed a 2000 study by Marchant that showed a 22 percent decrease in pain intensity in patients with moderately severe fibromyalgia after two months of daily chlorella supplementation.

A 1998 study by Brazilian researcher, M.S. Miranda, showed that spirulina, rich in chlorophyll, phenolic acids, alpha-carotene and beta-carotene, all demonstrated powerful free-radical antioxidant protection in test-tube and experimental models.

So, no more excuses for not getting your greens: chlorophyll from chlorella, blue-green algae, spirulina, blue-green algae, kelp, green barley, wheat grass and alfalfa.

An interesting fact: as the chlorophyll in leaves decays in autumn, the green color fades and is replaced by the oranges and reds of carotenoids.

Therapeutic Properties of Chlorophyll :

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It purifies the blood and the organism, cleaning it of toxins.
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Chlorophyll can help prevent cancer and is being used in cancer therapy.
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It detoxifies the liver
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It cleans the intestines
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Helps combat anemia
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It helps to rejuvenate and energize the body
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Immune system stimulator
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Is beneficial against sinusitis, fluid buildup, and skin rashes
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Normalizes blood pressure
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It eliminate molds in the body
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One of the principal function is combating bad odors, bad breath as well as body odor. This is due to the magnesium salts that it contains. Health Question & Answer

It has some GI benefits, possibly including fresh breath, but the actual data is quite out there yet. Most of the effects the other poster claims have only been demonstrated in test tubes, not in actual living humans. The difference is incredibly profound, as many things that work in test tubes don't work at all in a living human with functioning organ systems.

Basically, we don't know. Not a lot of research was done on chlorophyll in the human body specifically until recently. At this point, we don't even know if it's -absorbed- by the body or if it just sits in the GI tract like many substances. It doesn't look too terribly promising. I was at a smoothie place the other day and saw a poster extolling said virtues, being the obsessive freak that I am, I decided to look into it.

Scientific literature says: 'blah, ask in a year or two'. It doesn't look promising though. Whenever something promises such fantastic results, the reality is never quite so spectacular. There's never been association with chlorophyll content of fruits and vegetables in the diet before, so it's pretty.. uhh.. farfetched to attribute so much to it out of the blue. My I'd stand by 'Marketing gimmick' until proven otherwise in some legit science.

Check out the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University. They do some of the best research on micronutrients in human health and don't get caught up in all the nuttiness associated with health foods, or go in for that orthomolecular junk Pauling himself did in his later years: http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/ph...Health Question & Answer

All of the above plus the herb nettle contains a lot of chlorophyll and lots of other good vitamins and minerals and makes an excellent supplement. Health Question & Answer



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