People aren't buying this to cure diseases or for the protein. They buy it for the vitamins and antioxidants, which absolutely will help the body in many ways.
Yeah, this guy didn't seem like much of a doctor to me. He didn't seem to cover this in an informed nor in an unbiased manner. He only skimmed the surface of the points I know of spirulina.
Drs don't know much about health. They're the official 3rd leading cause of death. But more like the 1st leading cause of death if think about it. Also the cvd scam. pHarma is poison. I've avoided Allopathic Drs for over 30 years.
You are a smart man Charlie Brown. Funny how doctors try to discourage us with the price while charging $5,000 for the meds to give us our last rites with when we are in the 4th stage of cancer. $25 seems a small price to pay in comparision.
Yep. They only get kickbacks from big Pharma. I was almost killed by bloodpressure meds and now I use organic greens and I am great again. Not ONE DOCTOR asked about my diet bud... not one. You are what you eat. 👍
For years my nails kept breaking due to my medication. After a couple of months of taking only 2 caps of Gandalf Spirulina/day, my nails grew again. I don't know about other effects, but this works for me.
your nails grew back in only a couple months with spirulina!? That's awesome and very interesting! mind if I mention you and this fact in an article I'm writing? it's about Spirulina, and this would be cool to add your account from it.
As soon as he said there is nothing wrong with artificial additives it was game over for me. Chlorella, Spirulina and Wheatgrass are some of the best and safest supplements a person can have,
you're falling victim to the naturalistic fallacy. You shoulda kept listening because he said something very wise just after " it is not the ancestry of a molecule that determines its safety."
Wow, you really do get lost when you have an opinion about something you did not investigate thoroughly. Spirulina is one of the best researched superfoods. And although there are some issues with side-effects, especially from low quality products, there are many clinical trials that clearly show a lot of potential health benefits. Our channel features one spirulina video that highlights the top 6 spirulina benefits based on clinical studies, and more will come as we continue to research this incredible superfood (and others).
I think he means that there's all types of videos, articles, etc that say "help the immune system" for different foods and products where it's almost like another cliche thing to say for health benefit claims.
he's refering to the fact that there is no proven way to "boost the immune system", that when you see that on a product it is pure marketing. If you know of any legit research that says otherwise I would love to know about it.
And don't forget, spirulina contains all 13 vitamins in the correct ionic colloidal form, this means that the body utilizes these nutrients immediately giving you of general well being.
The truth about spirulina? All he has said is it's expensive and used to colour blue smarties! Oh and that it's not that useful as a food/supplement either...Well this came up right behind a Dr Berg video title 'Why do astronauts take spirulina?' Because NASA concluded that the nutrient value of 1Kg of the stuff equates to 1000Kg of fruits & vegetables....
Doctor Berg the Chiropractor Scientologist who is not a doctor in the field he influences in? that pseudo parrot quack who outed his own son on behalf of the cult? You must be daft as a block of wood.
He said himself that spirulina is very high in chlorophyll. But says that it's only good for hay fever to a small degree. Though if you search chlorophyll you will see that it is excellent at removing toxins from the body. Toxins in the body are the cause of many diseases and why people feel bad.
I take both spirulina and chlorella but this comment has a few problems the main one being the sentence "if you search you will see". Medical professionals do not base their comments of Google searches of health vlogs. They are giving a professional opinion and unless their comment can be backed up by large scale random controlled trials or meta-analysis then you shouldn't be making a comment as a professional. By research studies I do not mean some trial that studied 10-50 people, it is the breadth of research and the overall consensus. Hunting a picking does not count.
@@Stephend005 Just because you may only use google to search does not mean that is what I meant when I said search. Though google pulls up some good articles as well. I search medical journals, pubmed and ncbi. There are many articles there that speak of the studied benefits of spirulina. This doctor said in so many words that spirulina is basically useless, and I don't think any study shows that to be true. So whether or not there are many studies that meet all of your requirements, he was still talking out of place. He could have said it is Unknown as to whether or not it has these benefits. But even if he did have a study meeting your requirements proving it is useless, large studies are often funded by pharmaceutical companies, which have no interest proving a cheap(relative to their meds) herb can heal or greatly benefit people. I don't fault him for not claiming spirulina has wonderful benefits, rather for suggesting that does not have much of any benefit.
@@artisticmike the trouble you’re going to run into here with the assumptions you have made about me is you do not know anything about me. You don’t know that I am a qualified and registered health care professional who reads peer reviewed journals everyday since my work has subscriptions to basically all of them. We also have weekly journal club meetings where we all discuss as a group different research we have found and critique it for conflicts of interest and methodologies. I personally like these supplements and take both spirulina and chlorella, but more broadly I have a huge problem with people cherry picking their research. Just being able to find something that supports your view isn’t good enough. It’s the consensus across that board that is important across all the research that meets a good standard. EDIT- not saying you are doing that, but the wording in your original comment implied it. Either way cheers to good health friend.
I always cringe when someone mentions "toxins". You act like there's bad particles floating around your body and things you eat will go and target them and specifically carry them through your excretion channels.
They say that because they understand how the immune system works, unlike you. The immune system is not like a car you can boost with different fuel additives etc., it's a very complicated, dynamic system that has evolved to work the best as it is. All you can do to it is make it worse, but not better
I think we are supposed to take spirulina in the AM, chlorella in the PM? To balance things out, so we can detox anything that might be "building up" in our systems. Saw this by the inventor of Energy Bits, Catherine Something 😊
@Flutistmom Many GPs in The UK are like this, hugely ignorant and cannot venture outside of their bubble of medical knowledge which in the real world is far from enough
Suffering RA for 19 years now, a year ago i tried taking spirulina and chlorella along with a combo tablet of vit b1, b6 and b12 and my energy went up, nerve pain went away but the nerve damage on my hands is hard to restore, they look like crab legs. Believe me hatural/herbal meds has help me more than prescribe drugs. Biologic drugs made me more sick. Its your body, take charge, do your research, change your eating habits no gluten after all its only you that can feel pain.
@@bersabeharris4680 Try chicken collagen II. My mom had horrible, painful RA. She was having surgeries in her hands. She took q10, omega 3 oil and chicken collagen II. Her huge joints and curled up fingers went back to normal, with no pain. There is a product called Authro 7, if I remember right, that might help. She started taking that and then bought some of the products in it separately for cheaper.
Are you taking the powder or tablet form? And it's very confusing, there are reviews that spirulina is not healthy. I've been taking spirulina in tablet for a year now.
He promotes a pharmaceutical anti-Histamine over a natural supplement Spiralina indicating one is more expensive? If you look at overall cost in the long term by far Spiralina wins hands down, by improving overall health. We do not want to suppress Histamine production, we want to know why it is high and treat the underlying problem. Who is paying this person and where did he get his education?
@@tigger7988 Agree. He forgot to mention this is a capitalistic country, You can make money anyway you want, legally. The government supports business to make money!!
The truth is that it only has a miniscule amount of the b12 to begin with. One tablespoon (7)grams only contains 0.1 pg. So I doubt that it's going to interfere much in blocking a huge dose of true b12 suppliment called Methylcabalamin. Most B12 suppliments are not the real deal. Its just Cabalamin.
In 2018, he didn't say the quantity of the bag at 26 bucks. But I get it for 21 bucks a pound and make our household powdered veggies from it and other good stuff. It's a big part of my pre workout drink too.
Spirulina is not expensive if you make it yourself. There are plenty of videos of how to grow your own using a 10 gallon fish tank and a few accessories.
NO. HE SO NOT TALK ABOUT THAT. HE IS ON THE GIVING SING OF THE 'FUTURE' for to be repeated BUT ONLY WHAT SHOULD BEEN WIPED OUT ALLREADY and not what it make sense. too visible with the NAVY
I find a lot of similarities with 'P' Eugenie's (husband) in the face... Yes. it is a lot of 'duckies' NOT JUST ONE it is published which was born... SICK OF YOUR SO CALLED SICKREET and the 'R' Yorks TOO
There is one thing to consider, B12--which spirulina has pseudo B12 which blocks the receptors in cells from absorbing REAL B12. Chlorella only has trace amounts of these useless pseudo B12 molecules and therefore is a better option.
@Françoise J The onus is on the one making spurious scientific claims to back it up with citations of supporting research. Otherwise it’s just speculation.
listen to what he said just after... its spot on the truth. "the ancestry of a molecule does not determine its safety" . A chemical is a chemical is a chemical, it does not matter one iota whether or not that chemical is natural or artificial, it matters only how it interacts with our biology.
This guy makes twists the arm of science. It's true it doesn't matter the origin of a compound but here he is comparing different compounds, phycocyanin is actually a protein, which we can digest and break down and has a lot of potential beneficial effects. There is no synthetic phycocyanin, we don't make proteins in a lab such a thing is very very difficult to do, we rely on biological systems to make phycocyanin. Most blue food dyes are smaller organic molecules (organic meaning containing carbon) these compounds are man made and therefore no biological system in history has ever had to deal with them. We don't know what effects these compounds will have on human health in the long term, these small compounds are more akin to the signalling compounds in our bodies like hormones, which who know what receptors they are binding to and interacting with.
Neither here nor there. I had 2 big bottles of California gold 500 tables spirullina since last year. As I started to take it again to comfort my guts, a lady friend asked for some and took 3 tables every day. After a week her severe pimples started to reduce .
In a community in Africa, poverty was severe and people resorted to eating the "pond scum". The children were healthy and no sign of any malnutrition. Well, well, they were eating spirulina out of necessity... Very nourishing and healthy supplement.🎉🎉🎉
Challenger just looked it up to send a link but I think it was on sale when I got it because the same item is listed at $26 now. But I got it for $10 🤷🏼♀️
What’s the purpose of harping on the price doctor, don’t you think our Quality of life is worth it? I can spend 26 bucks on a movie or dinner why wouldn’t I want to spend it in my health? Dude seriously what’s your agenda are you really that ignorant, hayfever?! Sinus rinse- what did you eat before the hayfever attack happened etc... don’t leave your well being up to someone just because they have a certificate framed on their wall, there have been great improvements medically BUT!!! Your health is your responsibility, many people die from prescribes meds , one med leads to another each one does damage to the human body, educate yourself your worth it, Pray to GOD Almighty to direct you one door will lead to another with education on nutrients like selenium, magnesium and many others what does your body need and how do you use the nutrient does it need another nutrient to work in conjunction with it
I completely agree with you, but we have been conditioned to not worry about our own health and just ask your doctor for the answer to all ills, most people want to live any old way, (life's for enjoyment attitude, you only live once etc.) yes its vital we do our own research.
🙄 Holy...this isn’t biased at all. 👀 who is funding his “expert” advice? 😏 If anyone is researching spirulina don’t let this be your only source of information!! Keep looking!
Kim Elle just make an argument creating a fake controversy and people will believe it . There’s tons of RU-vid channels where they just go against science on purpose and people love it .
Anthony Fernandez As much as it makes me sad about human nature, you’re right. People gobble it up. There are people out there who want to know, to learn, without all the controversy. Me, for example. It makes me discouraged to realize all the misinformation you have to shovel through to find the truth...if that’s even possible.
@Mersal 13 My recommendation is to read many different resources. Pay attention to any that seem extreme to you or biased, like this one. If you decide to purchase some find a knowledgeable health food store or go by reviews (cited by different sources) as to quality. Also, if you do decide to buy some, go by what your body tells you. That’s the biggest resource of all. I can definitely tell a positive difference, someone else may not. Good luck and happy researching!
“There’s no difference between natural or synthetic…” Hilarious! In that one sentence this chemist demonstrates he has no idea what the words nutrition and natural mean. Of course all molecules are the same! But nutrition is all about how molecules work TOGETHER within nature to produce their effects! You can change ONE atom of a molecule and you’ll get a completely different molecule producing drastically different results. Plus, there is no logical way to know, before you observe them, exactly how two molecules or compounds are going to react together or that might happen in an impurity is accidentally introduced. That’s what makes nutrition do hard to figure out. It’s astounding a man with a Ph.D can be so ignorant. The problem is he thinks having a Ph.D in one subject makes him an expert in two others: nutrition and medicine. This is a clear demonstration of the arrogance of modern scientistry (science as a profession); that they believe if you tear something apart and separate all its parts from one another you can understand how the whole works together. That’s nonsense. All of nature is a SYSTEM, as fine-tuned of the universe at the moment of the Big Bang. Nutrition perhaps even more so! I don’t know what the truth is about spirulina. But the one thing I do know is, he is wrong.
@@terrifictomm The appeal to naturalness is a marketing tactic used by companies to sell plants at higher prices to new age quacks who romanticize a pure conception of nature.
Why don't you quote him out of context? I'm guessing he knows more about this than you. Or do you have a youtube channel that I missed? In any case, Dr Joe was discussing COLORS in candy, not spirulina or nutrition.
I finally quiet spirulina after continuously taking for 2 years. I lack vitamin B12 seriously in my body due to which wounds began to appear on my tongue & lips became critically worse. Plus, ear is experiencing Tsss sound continuously. Doctor gave me vitamin B complex tablets & now all fine.
It's also possible that you were deficient in vitamin B12 before you started taking spirulina if you had poor nutrient absorption due to gastrointestinal issues or if you were not eating enough animal products like eggs, meat, dairy products, etc. which are all good sources of B12.
I will look this up as I suffer from constant sinus congestion along with many complaints related to that. thank you for standing up for people who believe in the benefits of spirulina
Hmm I wonder “where” he got that bag for that price? I found a pretty good deal for it, and it’s organic. I wonder how much big pharma paid him for this video promoting antihistamines!? 🤔
Thanks!!! 1) 2nd generation antihistamines do not cross the blood-brain barrier. Look for ones from the 1980's and later if concerned, 2) phenylpropanolamine (PPA) has a risk of hemorrhagic stroke- FDA. 3) Side effects are symptoms of what may be a more serious problem. Correlation is not causation but be careful.
if i allergic to prawns should i take this? I dont understand what u telling us pls explain in a baby language way so i can undersatnd.u sound too educated. I need to know what u saying pls help I have pcos as well as hypothyroid and is that good for me what else is good?
I tune my musical instruments down to A432hz Scientific Tuning, and the first thing that certain “atheist-types” as I call them tell me is that there is nothing “sacred” or “healing” about tuning to that. I’m a musicologist and even sense color-shapes for each note. I just want a better, and more scientifically focused tuning reference. How is that “hype?” How could there be something WRONG with that?
The doctor told me to eat 30 grams in thirty days but I did not ten times in ten days and if I eat again now then what will work and no herm to the body please say a little.
Check into nutrition medicine don’t stop at the first thing you read research for yourself what is your supposed ailment, Learn about that part of the body and what other part of the body works with it, is this a nutrient deficiency, your ailment could be coming from another part of the body and manifesting in the area that you feel is giving you the symptoms, find out how that body works and how to restore it there are many nutrients out there and the body uses certain nutrients for certain things
Thank you for creating this informative video. I have been considering growing spirulina on my own, but have been worried about the purity of the culture (which I have no way to verify on my own). My second concern is the nutrients that need to be added to the solution regularly. Specifically the list below. NaCl CaCl2.2H2O KNO3 NaNO3 FeSO4 EDTA (Na) K2SO4 MgSO4・7H2O NaHCO3 K2HPO4 A5 micronutrient (H3BO3, MnCl2.4H2O, ZnSO4.4H2O Na2MoO4,CuSO4.5H2O)
What concerns you about table salt, amonium sulfate, baking soda, urea, potassium nitrate, iron sulfate, epsom salt, citric acid, and calcium chloride? Why use chemical elements instead of explaining what they are and why they concern you?
Thanks Joe for getting back to me. How would one verify if a culture is free of heavy metals? Would I need to send it to a lab for testing before growing it?
Technically your right but I suppose the argument would be that the "synthetic" variety may have impurities in it left over from the process that made it that the "natural" variety may not.
fuckwad alright fuckwad ur clearly stupid. Theres no such thing as life force and chemistry is energy transfer. You can derive “synthetic” food colouring with 99.99% purity. Exactly like you can derive 99.99% purity from a natural process. You have no knowledge of chemistry clearly.
dr j iv'e been drinking hawaiian spirulina powder for 4 months now. my body, my joints feel great, but i started experiencing some aches at the top of my spine, base not my neck about 2 month ago. not pain but a present ache/soreness. it's new to me, so i know it's not just incorrect posture when sitting or lying down. what could be happening here?
A rubber duck collector? Good information though. I have been taking spirulina since the 70s. And there are many places to get certified organic spirulina a lot cheaper than the good Dr was hoodwinked into paying for his.
@@VictorGonzalez-vb1gt this alopathic doc didn't give good advice but why am I surprised they're all about handing out drugs that our bodies don't need or recognize...the spirulina I buy is "Gandalf Hawaiian Spirulina"...high quality and grown under controlled conditions and is organic..take it with fruit...you get what you pay for... you can also buy Prairie Naturals Spirulina in powder form...it's still good and not as pricey...can't go wrong with these super foods...and don't listen to regular docs...most of them have no nutritional knowledge..they're great if you break a leg but otherwise stay closer to naturopaths...our bodies are not made from plastic and drugs mimic what's natural...God Bless
@@JamesSmith-qy3eu you got it...they go together hand in glove...if you break a leg they can set it but as far as nutrition goes, except for the odd alopathic doctor forget about it...they know nothing about nutrition...we are like biological machines...we NEED minerals (we are made up of the exact same minerals found in the ground) vitamins, enzymes etc etc etc etc ....drugs mimic what's real...our bodies look at them like plastic....that's why so many side effects from them...how many people die from supplements versus pharmaceuticals ??? this guy doesn't seem to think chemicals are bad...imagine what he tells his patients
isnt it weird when you take it the 1st time in powder form? i added 1tsp to a glass of water, and it seemed to not want to be stirred completely. So i drank the 1st glass, and then refilled the same glass to wash away what was left in the glass. Its got imo a kind of lettuce/celery taste.
Should this, taste exactly like wheatgrass? I've just got a bag and it looks and tastes just like wheatgrass to the point I wonder if there was a mix up at the factory!
First check you T4 levels thioryd before taking it. Coused me to have hypotheroid meaning that now my glans doesnt produce thiroxyne and can cause to gain weight. There is spirulina without iodine for these cases. Other from that its a great help to many things
Would iodine stimulate you thyroid? This is well known. Or are you guessing because you became Hypothyroid because of your thyroid not putting out enough hormone
@@mariakalaitzi4650 Stress related? Lack of sleep? Hormone imbalance? Did you see an Endocrinologist or Normal doctor, a specialist can see what stress hormone ie: Hormones etc are/were effecting you etc
I suffered side effects from OTC antihistamines for 25 years. I don't suffer at all taking spirulina. Why would I go back to products that make me sick?
Did I completely miss the "truth" part? That kinda implies you were going to reveal something against conventional knowledge about spirulina. All you did was point out how it's not price efficient for what it does.
Why on earth I would compare Spirulia with an Antihistamines??? Spirulina has far more benefits than just an Antihistamine. Can Dr Schwarcz also provide an analysis on the benefits, and in such a scenario this video would be made redundant.
I'm goning to be lazy (since the Doctor himself was so lazy he even failed to mention it) and not post you a link to them, but there are multiple science papers about positive health benefits of spirulina. High price is unfortunate but it comes from a difficulty of growing it at large scales - it is however extremly easy and cheap to grow for own use in a fishtank but I never did it myself so no details here.
Spirulina, per 1 Tbsp serving has 4 grams of protein, 0 Cholesterol, is high in vitamin A like 400%, and 11% Iron. Whey protein per 1 cup serving has 2.1 grams of protein, 5mg cholesterol, 0 vitamin A, 0 iron. Spirulina $12 on the low end $25 on the high end for 32 servings. Whey protein $ 22 low end $89 high end for 30 servings. Spirulina wins. More protein per serving, plus more goods in every serving. Actual cost for spirulina and whey protein are about the same. And, Spirulina is the only vegetable source of B12. “Spirulina is the only vegetable source of vitamin B12 having two and half times more than meat” ~ Mathur M. (2018) Bioactive Molecules of Spirulina: A Food Supplement. In: Mérillon JM., Ramawat K. (eds) Bioactive Molecules in Food. Reference Series in Phytochemistry. Springer, Cham
@@rickcastillo9466 Whey protein doesn't have 2.1 grams per cup. It has 13 grams of protein per serving, and 208g of protein in a cup. The nutrition label that pops up on a google search uses data automatically collected from websites to try and fill out the nutrition forms. Their script got confused between a scoop of unknown size and a cup, and went with a cup.
