Seaweed helps remineralise our bodies by turning inorganic ocean minerals into organic mineral salts that blend with amino acids giving our bodies useable nutrients to form structural building blocks.
Seaweed is rich in so many nutrients that (especially with today's depleted soils) is almost impossible to find "naturally" anywhere else from one source.
In fact, seaweed is one of nature's richest sources of vegetable protein, and contains solid concentrations of beta carotene, chlorophyll, enzymes, amino acids and fibre, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorous, iron and trace minerals (and that's just the beginning).
There are 9 different types of seaweed that deliver potent health benefits - Fucus Gardneri, Ulva Lactuca, Alaria Valida, Nereocystis, Luetkeana, Laminaria, Gigarina, Costaria, Costata, and Phodymenia Pertusa. These 9 seaweeds together contain more than 121 phytonutrients.
Unlike minerals from the ground, (like those sold in health food stores), nutrients from the sea are recognized by our cell receptors and are allowed access into our cells. And unlike other nutritional supplements on the market, sea vegetation offers ionic minerals, which experts consider to be assimilated better then any other form.
Not only that, because sea vegetables are from the ocean, they also form a great matrix when suspended in a liquid product and they don‘t settle to the bottom. That means they absorb into your body several times faster than anything in tablet form.
Scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bathedsa, MD., have shown that sea vegetation contains a remarkable spectrum of components valuable for human health. David Newman, Ph.D., a chemist with NCI’s Natural Products Branch has a research team currently testing 15,000 compounds of about 6,000 marine species of seaweed for their biological activity.
Many appear to have powerful anti-inflammatory, anti viral, anti microbial, anti fungal, anticancer and immuno-suppressive properties. Newman is particularly intrigued by the powerful anticancer properties of algae which appears to be more potent than taxol, a substance isolated from the bark of yew trees that is used to treat breast and prostate cancer.
Michael Tierra, an herbalist, licensed acupuncturist and author of The Way of Herbs, reveals evidence of sea vegetations ability to help poor circulation, anemia and chronic diseases of the thyroid and pancreas.
“Seaweed’s antioxidant properties make it specific for prevention and treatment of cancer, supporting the immune system in eliminating the proliferation of cancer cells,” says Tierra.
Eram Korngold, a medical doctor in California and licensed acupuncturist, adds that “because seaweed helps decongest swollen or inflamed lymph nodes, it can be consumed as a treatment for auto immune illnesses, including chronic fatigue, HIV, arthritis and chronic allergies.”
Sea vegetation may also be especially important for people in today's society because of its ability to protect people from damage caused by toxic elements in the environment, including heavy metals and some types of radiation byproducts. Rosalie Bertell, M.D., president of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health in Toronto, headed up a research panel that revealed sea vegetation can help pull dangerous heavy metals out of the body.
What's more, research at McGill University in Montreal has shown that sea vegetation is very high in sodium alginate, which binds with radioactive strontium 90 in the body, allowing it to be excreted. Strontium 90 is considered the most dangerous component of atomic fallout.
Ernest J. Sternglass, Ph.D., Professor emeritus in Radiation Physics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, explains how strontium adversely affects health:
“When radioactivity, spread from nuclear waste dumps or fallout from other nuclear facilities, gets into the drinking water, gets into the milk and gets into the vegetables, it lodges in our bone. It goes through the food chain and reeks havoc on all those exposed. As a result, materials like strontium produce an internal radiation throughout or body, (irradiating) the whole bone marrow where the cells of the immune system originate.”
These internal doses of radiation can weaken the immune defenses of the body needed for fighting disease. In fact, many renowned nutritionists recommend adding sea vegetables to the diet for a period of time if you plan on having x-rays taken or if you are in the medical or dental field taking x-rays. Sea vegetables encourage the excretion of any radiation products left by the procedure.
