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The magic of chlorophyll

Eat a fresh salad every day. Aside from providing oxygen, the very source of life on Earth, chlorophyll, the molecule in plants responsible for harnessing sunlight, has been shown to significantly prevent cancer cells from reproducing. Where a cancer cell cannot reproduce itself, it dies off. Thus, chlorophyll is an effective weapon against tyrannical cancer regimes seeking to overtake your inner lands. The Cancer Society’s five fruits and vegetables a day helps to make our bodies alkaline. Cancer thrives in acidic conditions.

In the 1960s, trout farmers of the Pacific Northwest lost stock to the fungus Aspergillus flavus, which produces one of the most deadly cancer-causing agents in humans, Aflatoxin B1. Twenty years later, scientific studies using chlorophyll chlorophyllin (a derivative of chlorophyll commonly extracted from the alfalfa plant) proved that chlorophyll had a chemotherapeutic effect against the dreaded Aflatoxin B1 in trout.

Further research showed that chlorophyll greatly reduced colon cancer development in rats exposed to heterocyclic amines (produced from meats boiled at high temperatures). And other studies found similar effects against skin cancers in mice and liver and stomach cancers in trout exposed to carcinogenic hydrocarbons found in tobacco smoke.

This research demonstrates that eating vegetables high in chlorophyll may be a good and easy way to stave off cancer. Vegetables high in chlorophyll include spinach, wheatgrass, broccoli and leafy greens such as kale. Or, just eat a great-tasting organic salad, available at “The Peak” on South Main in Fallbrook.

In addition to its anti-carcinogenic effect, chlorophyll acts as a blood-builder, counters the effects of radiation, heals the skin topically, aids in wound-healing, helps with peptic ulcers, promotes intestinal regularity, decreases gas, deodorizes the body and eliminates mold from the body (which is not an easy task).

With all these great benefits of chlorophyll documented by science, remember: “When you’re green inside, you’re clean inside.”

 

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