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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 28 health goals

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Detoxification

Recipe Score:96

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Liver

Recipe Score:96

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Anemia

Recipe Score:94

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Immune System

Recipe Score:94

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Cholesterol

Recipe Score:94

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Diabetes (Type 2)

Recipe Score:94

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Anxiety

Recipe Score:92

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Asthma

Recipe Score:92

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Depression

Recipe Score:92

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Memory

Recipe Score:90

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Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Recipe Score:90

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Inflammation

Recipe Score:90

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Fat Loss

Recipe Score:90

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Erectile Dysfunction

Recipe Score:90

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Allergy

Recipe Score:90

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Circulatory System (Cardiovascular)

Recipe Score:90

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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Recipe Score:90

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Cancer

Recipe Score:90

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Breastfeeding

Recipe Score:90

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Athletic Performance

Recipe Score:90

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Thyroid

Recipe Score:90

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Eye Health

Recipe Score:88

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Brain

Recipe Score:88

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Colon Health

Recipe Score:86

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Gastrointestinal

Recipe Score:86

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Arthritis (Osteo)

Recipe Score:86

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Stress - Adrenal

Recipe Score:86

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Look Younger

Recipe Score:82

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The Research

Detoxification

Detoxification: Score 96

Summary:

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

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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Anemia

Anemia: Score 94

Summary:

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

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Immune System

Immune System: Score 94

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Human: It helps the immune system after exercise. It stimulates the immune system, enhancing the NK cell activity.

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Cholesterol

Cholesterol: Score 94

Summary:

Spirulina has positive effects on lipid profiles. Spirulina reduced cholesterol after taking it for 30 and 60 days. It lowers triglyceride levels. It may be useful to control body weight and improve lipid metabolism. It prevents dyslipidemia in animals fed a high fat diet.

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Diabetes (Type 2)

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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Anxiety

Anxiety: Score 92

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It improved anxiety and symptoms of depression.

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Asthma

Asthma: Score 92

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Spirulina is found in the Ancient Greens Superfood Mix.

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Contains magnesium (49% RDA), which reduces hospital admissions and improves lung function in adults with asthma. It also significantly improves severe acute asthma in children. Contains B6 (18% RDA), which significantly improves symptoms of bronchial asthma and reduces the need for bronchodilators and cortisone.

Depression

Depression: Score 92

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

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Memory

Memory: Score 90

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

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Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Score 90

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Human: Serum selenium levels are lowered in patients with colitis and irritable bowel syndrome and may be resolved with spirulina.

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Inflammation

Inflammation: Score 90

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Animal: It provides protection against the development of chronic inflammation due to its antioxidant activity. Spirulina posses protective effects against oxidative stress and inflammation.

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Fat Loss

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

Erectile Dysfunction: Score 90

Summary:

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

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)

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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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Score 90

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Human: It may help to relieve the symptoms of fibromyalgia in some patients.

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Cancer

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

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

Athletic Performance: Score 90

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It helps athletes recover.

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Thyroid

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).

Eye Health

Eye Health: Score 88

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It has antioxidant and anti-cataract effects on animals with diabetes.

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Brain

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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Colon Health

Colon Health: Score 86

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Animal: It has a beneficial effect in experimentally-induced colitis.

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Gastrointestinal

Gastrointestinal: Score 86

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Animal: It prevents stress induced ulcer.

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Arthritis (Osteo)

Arthritis (Osteo): Score 86

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It is able restrain the changes in induced arthritis.

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Stress - Adrenal

Stress - Adrenal: Score 86

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Animal: It prevents stress induced ulcer.

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Look Younger

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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