How about taking Chlorella?

[KiWiStyle]

I don't know how you do it. Just the thought is making me gag.

I agree. I tried taking the maca root straight gangsta style only chasing it with water after I saw the suggestion...I puked for ten minutes straight. Never again.

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[Wenbev]

I agree. I tried taking the maca root straight gangsta style only chasing it with water after I saw the suggestion...I puked for ten minutes straight. Never again.

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you poor thing Oh the things we do.

 

[KiWiStyle]

you poor thing Oh the things we do.

I finally tried it with my green smoothies and I barely tasted it so I'm guessing the same will be true for the Chlorella.

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[Onhergrind09]

This past Sunday, I upped my dosage to 8g/dy. So far so good. I also decided to add in an equal amount of spirulina (even though its recommend to do a 2:1 ratio of spirulina/chlorella). Today was my first day adding in spirulina and the taste doesn't bother me since my shake pretty much masks it (though I think it has a stronger taste and smell than chlorella) but I'm undecided about whether I'm going to continue with it because of how thick it makes my drink. I think I'll test it out for this week and then decide whether or not I want to continue with it.

In other news I'm loving my nettle tea, I drink it every night, use it daily as part of my moisturizer and scalp serum and I use it as a rinse after washing or co-washing.

 

[ilong]

blackbarbie986 - Welcome to the chlorella thread - the place where the brave :gunner7:and not so brave "chlorella gangsta's" hang out and support each other.

Please keep us posted on your progress. You are right to this thread or as much as you can - there is a wealth of information in the thread, especially from earlier posters. Many of us recent posters have already enjoyed some of the majo benefits of this supplement and we hope you will too.

 

[ilong]

@KiWiStyle - so sorry about your "gangsta style" experience. Hopefully, the chlorella in your smoothie will be better.

I am going to take my chlorella "gangsta style" in about 30 minutes. You all pray for me!

ETA: :210:I went gangsta' !! Took a slug of bolthouse green smoothie, teaspoon slug of chlorella and chased with 2 more slugs of bolthouse. Hopefully, I'm not jumpin' the gun - but I am going to (try) keep taking the powder like this and hopefully I'll adapt.

 

[ilong]

While reading up on spirulina and chlorella yesterday - I read something pretty interesting which supported my thoughts on the low quality of the Vitamin Shoppe (VS) brand chlorella.

The article compared two types of chlorella - Chlorella with fillers and chlorella reported to be as pure as possible. A magnified picture of the chlorella stated to be of a lesser quality had tiny light colored specks, which the article identified as fillers. The magnified picture of the chlorella stated to be of a purer quality was a solid dark colored green, similar to Source Natural yaeyama powered chlorella. The picture of the chlorella with the specks looks EXACTLY like the Vitamin Shoppe brand chlorella!!! This is what is listed on the VS bottle as Other Ingredients: Maltodextrin, croscarmellose sodium, sodium starch glycolate, stearic acid, pharmaceutical glaze, silicon dioxide, magnesium stearate.

 

[KiWiStyle]

While reading up on spirulina and chlorella yesterday - I read something pretty interesting which supported my thoughts on the low quality of the Vitamin Shoppe (VS) brand chlorella.

The article compared two types of chlorella - Chlorella with fillers and chlorella reported to be as pure as possible. A magnified picture of the chlorella stated to be of a lesser quality had tiny light colored specks, which the article identified as fillers. The magnified picture of the chlorella stated to be of a purer quality was a solid dark colored green, similar to Source Natural yaeyama powered chlorella. The picture of the chlorella with the specks looks EXACTLY like the Vitamin Shoppe brand chlorella!!! This is what is listed on the VS bottle as Other Ingredients: Maltodextrin, croscarmellose sodium, sodium starch glycolate, stearic acid, pharmaceutical glaze, silicon dioxide, magnesium stearate.

That's interesting. I bought the NOW brand last week but haven't opened it yet because I had been in vacation. I'm seriously considering returning it tomorrow for the Source Natural brand.

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[Wenbev]

I finally tried it with my green smoothies and I barely tasted it so I'm guessing the same will be true for the Chlorella.

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I'll need to investigate the ingredients in those green drinks again.
ilong those machine gun smilies are the funniest ever!
I always check the ingredients, a lot of times companies add soy and yeast, etc
The source nat tablet bottle has chlorella nothing else

 

[Onhergrind09]

Wenbev, some questions, I know you're currently at 12g/day of chlorella. how long have you been taking chlorella overall? How long do you plan to stay at 12g/day? Do you have any plans to drop doen your dosage? Thanks is advance for your responses to my questions

 

[KiWiStyle]

So excited! I just called the Whole Foods that carry the Source Naturals brand powder and they received a shipment of it and its now in stock! I'm going this afternoon to exchange the NOW brand I bought for SN and then start my detox today!!!

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[Wenbev]

Wenbev, some questions, I know you're currently at 12g/day of chlorella. how long have you been taking chlorella overall? How long do you plan to stay at 12g/day? Do you have any plans to drop doen your dosage? Thanks is advance for your responses to my questions

Onhergrind09 I've been taking chlorella since the beginning of September but religiously since November last year. I slowly increased my dosage to 12g by January. I originally decided to cap off at 12g because I thought that was a good place to stay and economically I was running thru a bottle with 600 tabs in 10 days. I never plan to decrease.
Unfortunately, two weekends ago, I missed several doses during that weekend and by that Monday I was no longer green. When I restarted chlorella I had detox symptoms all over again. I figured if the chlorella left my body that fast at the 12g I was currently taking, I needed to increase. So, last Monday I decided to increase to 16g and cap off there. I'm thinking I'll float in between 12g and 16g from now on.

 

[Wenbev]

So yeah, no bolthouse daily greens (too many ingredients I can't pronounce) or naked juice green machine (has spirulina and blue green algae) for me. I'm just going to stick to my tablets and call it good. Good lunch with the powder y'all.

 

[JC-Junkie]

Hello there, I would like to know whats the best chlorella available in the U.K ? Preferably in tablet form but any powder suggestions are also welcome !

TIA and HHG too =)

 

[Wenbev]

Hello there, I would like to know whats the best chlorella available in the U.K ? Preferably in tablet form but any powder suggestions are also welcome !

TIA and HHG too =)

Any Europeans here to help answer??!! There were a few Brit posters in the beginning of the thread and I believe they purchased thru iherb.com. The best advice I can offer is to start with yaeyama chlorella from Japan. Not China as their guidelines for quality are not as strict as the Japanese. Also read the first two or three posts of this thread if you cannot/do not chooses to read the whole deal as it provides good information. Also the brand names by popularity are listed in the poll above. All of that should set you in the right direction for making a good choice! Please keep us updated!

 

[KiWiStyle]

So yeah, no bolthouse daily greens (too many ingredients I can't pronounce) or naked juice green machine (has spirulina and blue green algae) for me. I'm just going to stick to my tablets and call it good. Good lunch with the powder y'all.

I make my own green smoothies daily so I know exactly what I'm drinking. I went to whole foods and exchanged the Chlorella...I mixed 1g with with about 8-10oz of smoothie. It was perfect because the Chlorella smells just like dried fresh green vegetables to me and the flavor blends very well because I only add fruits for health and taste...no other sweeteners.

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[JC-Junkie]

Thank You very much Wenbev ! Is the Yaeyama type of chlorella from Japan ?

I just went onto the iherb website and its in dollars, which would mean a lot to ship here to the U.K so any U.K suggestions would be great !

 

[ilong]

KiWiStyle - I have the Vitamin Shoppe (VS) brand at in my office at work and the NOW brand at home. I purchased VS when I was completely out and did not want to wait for the shipment of NOW. The NOW brand is a very dark green color (no specks). As a matter of fact KiWi - if it would help I can take a picture of both and post them. I'll remember to take a couple of VS chlorella home with me.

Wenbev - IKR - . I made a spreadsheet of all my supplements and their ingredients. It helps me to see visually any overlap and/or if I am missing something.

 

[ilong]

@Jc_Junkie
Welcome to the thread. Did you try Amazon? Sun-chlorella distributes from the UK also. The challenge you may have is selection. You may only have 1 or 2 suppliers of chlorella in the UK. In google type "where to buy Chlorella in the UK".

I know Sun Chlorella is a high recognized brand grown near Indonesia processed in Japan and is pricey. Source Natural's Yaeyama chlorella is grown in Japan.

You realize that once you start taking chlorella and active on this thread you will become an official "chlorella gangsta' " right?

ETA: Based on what I've read, it's my understanding that chlorella pyrennoidosa (yaeyama) chlorella is the most highly regarded, due to its high content of Chlorella Growth Factor (CGF), the key nutrient. HTH

 

[JC-Junkie]

ilong thank you very much ! You've helped my a lot. I have also heard and read that the yaeyama chlorella was the best one, so I have been looking for that type in particular, I have found that Amazon UK have Jarrow Formula Yaeyama tablets at 400mg, is the one that everyone is taking ?

I've also just found the source naturals tablets too ! Very excited Theres two from Source Naturals however, the source naturals, and the emerald garden source naturals too, so I'm stuck between the two erplexed and niether one mentions yaeyama.

 

[ilong]

@Jc_Junkie - you are more than welcome and it's my pleasure. We should support and help one another.

I don't take Jarrow - I recently purchased Source Naturals and took it for the second time last evening. (See my post #6234 on page 312). The label on the bottle is a little different than what I received. I believe Kilacurlz takes Jarrow.

I believe a couple of recent posters have indicated what they take so, as Wenbev suggested, you should read some of the posts. For a quick update - maybe start with posts from this year and when you have time start at the beginning of the thread.
HTH

 

[JC-Junkie]

ilong will start reading now I found a source which sounds promising too

 

[JC-Junkie]

Just bought some chlorella capsules from Yaeyama Chorella its capsules filled with yaeyama powder
I'm excited !! Can't wait, even if its not super great for my hair at least some great results for my skin and nails would be great ! But defo hair growth is important too oooohhhh and whiter eye whites would be lovely too !

HHG !!!

 

[Wenbev]

I make my own green smoothies daily so I know exactly what I'm drinking. I went to whole foods and exchanged the Chlorella...I mixed 1g with with about 8-10oz of smoothie. It was perfect because the Chlorella smells just like dried fresh green vegetables to me and the flavor blends very well because I only add fruits for health and taste...no other sweeteners.

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I went to that green smoothie girl site to see how she makes her smoothies. Right now I thinking I'm doing a variation of onhergrind09's smoothie recipe up thread without the protein.
I think if I like the flavor of the smoothie, maybe I may try the powder after all.

 

[Wenbev]

Thank You very much Wenbev ! Is the Yaeyama type of chlorella from Japan ?

I just went onto the iherb website and its in dollars, which would mean a lot to ship here to the U.K so any U.K suggestions would be great !

Yaeyama chlorella is the name of a specific species of chlorella which is a fresh water algae. That species is specifically grown in a coral reef off an island in Japan.
There are different species of algae grown all over the world.
My best advice would be to do a simple google search. I did one with several pages of sites one of which is amazon.co.uk

 

[Wenbev]

KiWiStyle - I have the Vitamin Shoppe (VS) brand at in my office at work and the NOW brand at home. I purchased VS when I was completely out and did not want to wait for the shipment of NOW. The NOW brand is a very dark green color (no specks). As a matter of fact KiWi - if it would help I can take a picture of both and post them. I'll remember to take a couple of VS chlorella home with me.

Wenbev - IKR - . I made a spreadsheet of all my supplements and their ingredients. It helps me to see visually any overlap and/or if I am missing something.

That's great, I started a spreadsheet when I first started taking chlorella to track the results. My issue is the spirulina. It has iodine and that's a no go for moi

 

[Wenbev]

LOL. ilong you beat me to the punch. Didn't see several posts!

 

[Kilacurlz]

I used the gnc chlorella, first...can't remember if that was the brand but where I bought them. They were capsules and not yaeyama. Then I bought vitacost brand yaeyama when I ran out. I still have some of those capsules. Really like them but the amount you have to take becomes rather expensive so I ordered the jarrow yaeyama powder from vitacost. Love this and I save loads of money. It's dark dark green, no specks or anything. Can't taste it in any of my homemade or store bought smoothie mixes. Good stuff.

 

[ilong]

JC-Junkie - congratulations on your purchase. I think you will be glad you did. Please keep us posted on your progress.

Wenbev - no problem. Better multiple responses than no responses.
Why do you not want the protein in the smoothie drink?

I am increasing my spirulina for the increased protein, in the hopes of more energy and most importantly hair growth.

 

[Wenbev]

ilong I feel that I don't need the added protein, I think I get enough from my diet, especially with the added chlorella and chia seeds. AND, it seems the powders always have ingredients I can't pronounce.