Quote from NoDoji:
Chlorella good, Spirulina bad: http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/spirulina/
Eat fresh, whole foods. Ditch the processed/refined crap and in three months you'll be renewed.
In Life There is Always... On The Other Hand:
in a reply to that MD's video about Spirulina... there was this comment made below... that covers the issue...
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The point you raise is the prime reason why it is extremely important to harvest spirulina at a pH over 10 (between 10-11).
This is part of the quality control that commercial producers and small-scale producers employ to ensure spirulina's quality for consumers. If it's not at the right pH, it simply doesn't get harvested. The liver toxins you're speaking of are called microcystins, which are peptides produced microcystis, not by spirulina. Microcystis are unable to survive at such a high alkaline level between 10-11.
This is what separates spirulina from another superfood cyanobacteria, Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (aka AFA blue-green algae), which commonly grows up in Klammath Lake in Oregon. AFA, however, cannot grow at the high alkaline levels that spirulina can in order to avoid microcystins.
This is the prime reason why I grow spirulina and not AFA, or chlorella for that matter, which also grows at a lower pH. Commonly, people and researchers assume that since AFA and spirulina are both cyanobacteria, their ideal growing conditions are also one and the same, but they usually get lumped together anyway when the research is not complete.
It would be helpful if the gentleman who produced the video would learn more about each species and their differences.
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I actually had a email back and forth from THAT doctor on THAT website about Avocados which he has a video where he says they are dangerous... due to researchers in India... i contacted the Indian researchers and they said they were ONLY speaking about microscopic danger and that I should eat all the 'Cadoes i wanted... sent the Indian docs email to THIS Doc who is the critic and he ignored it... typical MD ego...
and on and on it goes... I know people who have taken Spirulina and Chorella healthfully for over 5 years... like Mike Adams... here is his PDF on it....
http://www.naturalnews.com/SpecialReports/Superfoods.pdf