Did you know that Japan has the largest number of centenarians – or people 100 years or older?
That’s right. Average life expectancy in Japan has reached record highs for both men and women. By the most recent counts, one out of every 1,450 person living in Japan is over 100 years old.
One of the world’s five Blue Zones, Japan has a lot of factors working for it for health and vitality. Compared to the U.S., many people living in Japan lead a much different, healthier lifestyle, including eating a fresh-food diet from the land and sea.
There’s another potential factor that may help account for the exceptional health of the Japanese. Japan is one of the biggest producers and consumers of chlorella, a single-cell, freshwater blue-green algae.
With industrial production beginning in Japan shortly after the Second World War, chlorella was one of the first green algae dietary supplements. Today, it’s one of the most popular, if not the most popular, supplements in Japan with more than seven million daily users.
Estimated to be at least 540 million years old, chlorella, or Chlorella vulgaris, is among the oldest forms of plant life on Earth.
Native to Taiwan and Japan, chlorella contains more life-supporting chlorophyll than any other green plant – about 2 to 7%. A true superfood, it also boasts well-balanced ratios of valuable nutritional compounds.
Containing 50 to 60% absorbable protein, this super green food is a complete protein source, meaning it contains all nine essential amino acids.
Chlorella is lower in fat and more digestible than animal-derived protein sources, making it a great protein source for anyone seeking to reduce their consumption of animal protein.
Often referred to as a near-perfect food, chlorella is one of the few plant-based absorbable sources of vitamin B12, making it an ideal supplement for vegans, vegetarians and meat-eaters alike.
How Chlorella Can Potentially Benefit Your Health
Superfood chlorella is rich in many nutrients: chlorophyll (which gives chlorella its rich green color), antioxidants, polysaccharides, phytonutrients and amino acids.
This total package of nutrients allows chlorella to support your health in many important ways:
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Normal detoxification processes.*
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Healthy cellular aging and cell energy production.*
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Healthy inflammatory response and immune health.*
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Blood sugar levels already in the normal range.*
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Healthy cognitive and liver function.*
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Optimal metabolism and digestive health.*
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Blood pressure levels already in the normal range.*
As you can see from this long list, chlorella can play a key role in maintaining your good health.*
Now, let’s take a closer look at what’s inside this fascinating nutrient that’s behind all these potential health benefits…
This Little-Known Complex in Chlorella May Play a Big Role in Supporting Your Health*
One of the most intriguing features about chlorella is its extraordinary rate of growth.
Located in the nucleus of the single-celled chlorella is a unique complex called Chlorella Growth Factor (CGF). It’s rich in nucleic acids RNA and DNA, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, polysaccharides and beta glucans.
This unique complex is produced during photosynthesis and accounts for chlorella’s extremely rapid growth – it can quadruple every 20 to 24 hours.
Making up a little more than 12% of chlorella, CGF is found only in this single-celled, blue-green algae and not in spirulina or any other microalgae.
The RNA and DNA in CGF, along with its chlorophyll and glutathione content, has been shown to support cellular health.*
Here’s why it’s so valuable to health…
As you age, your body tends to produce less RNA and DNA, slowing down your cellular processes. The walls of your cells, which transport nutrients and wastes, can become less functional.
When you eat foods rich in RNA and DNA, you help support your cellular health.
The CGF in chlorella with its abundant RNA and DNA, along with its chlorophyll and other components, like beta glucans and glutathione, support the following aspects of your health:
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Cellular energy production*
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Tissue repair and recovery from exercise*
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Healthy cellular aging*
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Normal detoxification processes*
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Immune function*
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Digestive health by promoting the growth of beneficial bacteria*
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An already healthy inflammatory response*
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Cardiovascular health, including blood pressure levels already in the normal range*
Considered an excellent natural source of CGF, chlorella consists of 10% RNA and 3% DNA. This makes it the most concentrated source of nucleic acids in the world – 17 times more concentrated than sardines, the next best source.
However, as potentially beneficial as chlorella may be, your ability to benefit from it may be limited…
Why Chlorella’s Bioavailability Depends on Its Cell Walls
One of the main challenges with being able to take advantage of chlorella’s benefits involves the plant’s cell wall.
In its natural form, chlorella has a tough cell wall, which makes it difficult to digest. Therefore, for your body to properly absorb and utilize chlorella’s unique nutrients, the cell wall must be broken or weakened.
Japanese researchers realized this early on, and worked to develop a method to break down the cell walls.
Most chlorella products are cultivated in outside ponds. To survive the sometimes harsh outdoor elements, the blue-green algae must have strong and thick cell walls.
Therefore, chlorella cultivated outdoors requires an additional step – usually a special machine to forcibly break the strong and thick cell walls.
The downside of this processing method is potential damage to chlorella’s fragile nutrients.
If you choose broken cell wall chlorella, it’s vitally important that you get it from a high-quality manufacturer that can guarantee no harm has been done to the nutrient potential.
Another way to make chlorella more usable – and my preferred method – is through fermentation.
With fermentation, you get chlorella that is more digestible and doesn’t need the harsh physical processing which can damage the cells and degrade the nutrients.
Introducing Fermented Chlorella with Chlorophyll
To provide you with all the valuable potential benefits chlorella offers, our Fermented Chlorella with Chlorophyll is made by a unique fermentation process.
Rather than using outdoor ponds, our chlorella is cultivated in a closed and sterilized bio-reactor using pure water. With this strictly controlled system, the chlorella is kept clean throughout processing and the risk of heavy metal and other contamination is significantly reduced.
Chlorella grown in a closed system naturally grows a softer, thinner cell wall because it doesn’t need to produce a more rigid hard shell for protection against toxins.
Even more importantly, the thinner cell wall is easily broken during the drying process. This translates into no loss of nutrients and about 80% improved digestibility.
A much gentler process, this advanced closed tank fermentation system provides optimal cultivating conditions and requires no harsh milling to break the cell wall.
Best of all, this superior system produces consistent and reliably high yields of chlorella, so our supplier can provide us with high-quality chlorella year-round, regardless of weather.
Each one-teaspoon scoop of Fermented Chlorella with Chlorophyll powder provides 2,500 mg of Fermented Chlorella and 50 mg of health-supporting chlorophyll from Chlorella vulgaris, without any fillers.
This finely textured, mildly flavored powder easily mixes into smoothies or any beverage of your choice, making it a simple and quick way to naturally support your health and well-being.*
The Power of Fermentation for Digestibility and Absorption
Humans have been fermenting foods for thousands of years for preservation and to increase their digestibility, nutrition and flavor.
In recent years, researchers have discovered fermentation enhances certain nutritional and health aspects of foods, including:
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Pre-digesting complex foods
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Increasing levels of certain nutrients
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Improving mineral and antioxidant bioavailability
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Reducing anti-nutrients like phytic acid and lectins
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Creating unique metabolites not present in the raw material
There are different types of fermentation that can benefit your health. To learn more about how fermentation affects the nutrients in foods and supplements, including Fermented Chlorella, watch the video below:
Fermented Chlorella – Also Available in Convenient Tablet Form
Want an even quicker and easier way to get your daily dose of chlorella?
Fermented Chlorella with Chlorophyll is also available in convenient tablet form.
Just like our Fermented Chlorella with Chlorophyll powder, the fermented chlorella in our tablets…
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Is highly digestible and bioavailable due to the soft, thin chlorella cell membranes created by fermentation.
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Provides chlorophyll, CGF, essential fatty acids, nucleic acids (RNA and DNA), amino acids and all the other important compounds in chlorella.
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Is cultivated and produced year-round in a sterilized indoor environment to avoid toxins and other contaminants.
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Does not contain any synthetic or GMO ingredients, excipients or fillers.
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Is produced according to strict quality control measures.
As a bonus, our Fermented Chlorella tablets contain an added Trace Mineral Complex from two varieties of marine red algae: Lithothamnion glaciale and Lithothamnion tophiforme, harvested from the North Atlantic seabed, to help you fulfill your trace mineral needs.
Each 5-tablet serving of Fermented Chlorella with Chlorophyll provides 970 mg of Fermented Chlorella and 30 mg Trace Mineral Complex.
Get the High-Quality Chlorella Your Body Can Use – Order Fermented Chlorella Today*
You can’t be too careful when choosing a chlorella product. Not all producers pay attention to the bioavailability or usability of the finished product. Nor do they give a second thought to the nutrients lost when breaking the tough chlorella cell walls.
Some producers cultivate their chlorella outdoors in uncontrolled environments, such as ponds, which can risk contamination with heavy metals and toxins.
With chlorella, cultivation and processing matters for bioavailability, quality and purity. You can only benefit from what your body absorbs and utilizes.
Give your body the support it needs for normal detoxification, immune health, healthy cells and energy production, as well as a long list of other potential benefits.
Our Fermented Chlorella with Chlorophyll in your choice of powder or tablets can help you get your health back on track.*
Start taking advantage of all this green superfood has to offer, and order your supply today.