Spirulina Powder

Smoothies with Spirulina

About Spirulina Powder

Spirulina is a blue-green algae that was a food source of the Aztecs.  It can be found in many freshwater environments (like ponds, lakes, and rivers).

Nutrition Benefits of Spirulina Powder

Spirulina contains protein, iron, vitamins A, K, and B complex.    It also has chlorophyll, and antioxidants, such as beta carotene and yellow xanthophylls.

Benefits linked to spirulina show that is may help with anti-aging, immune support, allergic reaction protector, anti-bacterial, infection, liver, and eye/vision support.

Nutrition Facts

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Spirulina Powder scores well for 17 health goals

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The Research

Detoxification: Score 96

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Human: It decreases dioxin and increases immunoglobulin concentrations in breast milk. It detoxifies heterocyclic amines in young adults. Animal: It reduces endotoxemia, intestinal oxidative stress and bacterial translocation in experimental biliary obstruction. It inhibits dioxin accumulation.

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Liver: Score 96

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Human: It has beneficial effects and improves health related quality of life for patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. It has therapeutic value in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Animal: It improves non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, visceral fat macrophage aggregation and serum leptin in metabolic syndrome. It protects against non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. It has a chemoprotective on liver toxicity and cancer. It has liver protective properties against chemical induced oxidative damage. It reduces chemical induced acute liver injury.

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Diabetes (Type 2): Score 94

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Human: It improves insulin sensitivity in all patients tested. Animal: It has anti-cataract effects on rats with diabetes. It improves insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake in the liver in diabetic rats. It has the ability to improve fructose induced insulin sensitivity.

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Anemia: Score 94

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Chlorella/ Spirulina reduces the risk of anemia. contains magnesium (49% RDA), which may be associated with hemolytic anemia.

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Depression: Score 92

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Human: It improved anxiety, physical and cognitive symptoms of depression.

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Anxiety: Score 92

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It improved anxiety and symptoms of depression.

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Memory: Score 90

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Animal: Spirulina prevents memory dysfunction, reduces oxidative stress damage and augments antioxidant activity.

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Fat Loss: Score 90

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Human: Spirulina improves insulin resistance in 100% of patients tested. It may be useful to control body weight and improve lipid metabolism.

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Erectile Dysfunction: Score 90

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It slows the adverse effects of a bad artery clogging diet. Spirulina is found in the Ancient Greens Superfood Mix.

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Allergy: Score 90

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Consumption significantly improves the symptoms of allergic rhinitis. It reduces IgE production against milk casein. Spirulina is found in the Ancient Greens Superfood Mix.

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Circulatory System (Cardiovascular): Score 90

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It slows the adverse effects of a bad artery clogging diet. Spirulina is found in the Ancient Greens Superfood Mix.

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Cancer: Score 90

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Animal: Spirulina has potent anti-proliferative effects on experimental human pancreatic cancer. It may serve as a natural agent in cancer treatment or chemoprevention. It triggers programmed cell death in liver cancer cells.

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Breastfeeding: Score 90

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Human: It decreases dioxin and increases immunoglobulin concentrations in breast milk. Spirulina diet to lactating mothers protects the antioxidant system and reduces inflammation in post-natal brain after systemic inflammation. Animal: It suppresses methylmercury transfer to the fetus and prevents its accumulation in the mother’s brain.

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Athletic Performance: Score 90

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It helps athletes recover.

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Thyroid: Score 90

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B vitamins have a potential association with thyrotoxicosis. Magnesium prevents exercise induced reduction in thyroid hormone. Spirulina is found in the Ancient Greens Superfood Mix.

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Contains B Vitamins, B2 (216% RDA), B3 (64% RDA), B5 (35% RDA), B6 (18% RDA) and magnesium (49% RDA).

Brain: Score 88

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Spirulina has a potential role in reversing cognitive dysfunctions associated with aging and obesity. It prevents memory dysfunction and reduces oxidative stress damage. Spirulina is found in the Ancient Greens Superfood Mix.

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Look Younger: Score 82

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In Vitro: It exhibits bioprotective properties against experimentally induced DNA damage and telomerase inhibition. It may have advanced glycation end product inhibitory activity.

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How Our Scoring System Works

For each health goal, we assigned a score to each recipe and each ingredient. This helps you better understand the correlation that medical research is suggesting between foods and benefits to various health goals. Our scoring system is based on REAL RESEARCH published on pubmed.gov. This is a website that curates over 25 million different biomedical journals.

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What we consider when creating your scores:

  • 1Type of Study (human, animal, lab, or academic review)
  • 2Amount of Research
  • 3What the Research Says
  • 4How much of the ingredient we use (for the recipes)
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