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Ironically the first scholarly result searching for heavy metals and spirulina covers the risk of ingesting them because it bioaccumulates. https://www.ncbi.nlm
by sulam 9y ago
Ironically the first scholarly result searching for heavy metals and spirulina covers the risk of ingesting them because it bioaccumulates. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3824145/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3824145/
The article does refer to several studies showing health benefits for spirulina, although none of them discuss using it to remove heavy metals from the body (it’s not even clear to me how such a mechanism could possibly work).
- matte_black 9y agoI am not a doctor, but it’s something to do with Spirulina binding with the metals. Or it could be that I’ve mistaken Spirulina for Chlorella. Because they bind with metals it’s important to get them from clean sources as I mentioned.
- sulam 9y agoHeavy metals accumulate in organs inside your body. Algae and other plants have a mechanism that prevents oxidative metals from damaging them. Does this mean if you eat those plants, they’ll do the same for you? It seems incredibly unlikely since the first thing your body does to these plants is digest them. You are not a plant.