Previously, I've talked about Chlora's potential benefits for preserving the immune function of athletes

and improving some cardiovascular risk factors, such as dropping blood pressures by a few points,

or lowering LDL cholesterol about eight points.

Remember that green eggs and ham study where taking

Chlorella with eggs appeared to blunt the rise in cholesterol?

It may help detoxify some dietary cholesterol, but what about the toxins found

contaminating many algae supplements?

Blue-green algae like AFA can make their own toxins, but even if the green algae chlorilla can't, when chloral is skimmed off the ponds,

the presence of other algae in microorganisms is unavoidable and can pose a hazard.

When you actually look at commercial algae supplements under a microscope,

the provided labels are usually inaccurate as factual contents usually do not match,

then may be contaminated with fungus, other algae, and bacteria.

And it seems that contamination was more frequent in the organic versus conventional products.

One product advertised as 100% organic chlorella contained both liver toxins and neurotoxins.

I've talked about a case report of apparent chlorale-induced psychosis.

There's also been a case of kidney damage reported, as well as an apparent

chlorale-induced drop in platelet count.

Some reactions are hard to miss, like a whole- rash or nausea, headache, dizziness,

fatigued abdominal pain and general weakness that rapidly resolved after stopping.

In these cases, though, it was a mixed algae product.

Even without contamination, if you cultivate pure clorella, it can still significantly induce

DNA damage in human cells.

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