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Super blue green algae is a supplement whose makers claim can help people lose weight by suppressing the appetite, boosting a person’s immunity, and increasing the energy. Instead, not only does this product probably not work, but it might cause but it might cause some to local problems for some people and probably should be avoided.
I well remember taking super blue-green algae in the mid-1990s. I had a friend who had started taking it and lost a lot of weight. She recommended it to us, and we figured if it works for her it would work for us. It came in a capsule form, with what look like green stuff inside the capsule. That turned out to be very significant, because the main thing my wife and I noticed was that our stools were suddenly dark green all the time, and it felt like we always had to continually be going to the bathroom and working hard to keep ourselves feeling clean. We each took these pills for about three weeks, before finally deciding that this wasn’t for us. Four months after my friend had reached her lowest weight, she gained half of it back, which proved to all of us that this super blue-green algae did not work.
Super Blue Green Algae Pills
As it turns out, the original company, K. C. Laboratories, had already been sued and ordered to stop making the product in 1986 when a judge declared that the therapeutic claims that it been made for the product were invalid. What the company did instead was remarket the claim as a supplement instead. However, the Canadian Health Protection Branch in 1999 stated that products containing blue-green algae might be toxic and harmful to the liver. They did some testing and found that as long as the level of microcystin stayed relatively low, that’s a supplement may not be harmful overall, but click on his some gastrointestinal discomfort and general malaise in some people.
The people marketing this super blue-green algae are now claiming that it can help people overcome Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), but independent testing seems to indicate that those claims are false. Overall, it seems that people who take super blue-green algae receive no medicinal benefits and very little of nutrients by taking these pills. Instead, most physicians will still recommend that a balanced diet and exercise will achieve greater benefits than super blue-green algae could ever hope to provide. However, for anyone who decides to still take it, they should make sure not to give it to children because it could cause dire consequences with their systems because of possible contamination by toxic substances in the algae.
See more:
Blue Green Algae Health Risk
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Dr. Michael J. Murphy has been serving the East Valley communities of Mesa, Gilbert, and Chandler at 2 locations since relocating from Wisconsin in the spring of 2006. Dr. Murphy graduated Magna Cum Laude from the prestigious Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport Iowa and practiced for over 20 years in the Madison area.