What is Spirulina platensis?
Spirulina platensis is a type of cyanobacteria or blue-green eyelashes that are used as a food and nutritional supplement. Historically, Spirulina platensis has been dried, made for cakes and is used as food as an ancient Aztec Mexico and the Knembus of the Lake Chad in Central Africa. In the twentieth century, Spirulina became popular as a supplement to nutrition when it was examined and discovered its extensive nutritional benefits. It is currently grown in China, India, Thailand and the USA. This suggests that Spirulina can protect against Huntington's disease, Parkinson and cancer. Other animal studies have shown protective benefits against stroke damage, arthritis, allergies, inflammation and hypertension. Studies on human subjections suggest that spirulina can also improve digestion health by helping growth beneficial hostobacteria in the gastrointestinal system. One study showed that patients suffering from cancer by oral lesions experienced the regression of symptoms after receiving a daily dose of the type of spirulina.
One of the active components isolated in Spirulina platensis is pigment pigment phekococyanine, which gives Spirulin's platensis its characteristic blue -green color and adds twenty percent of the spirulina protein. Fycocyanine is used in the pharmaceutical and food industry and is considered to be antioxidant properties. After the inflammatory properties were discovered, a substance containing phykocyanine was patented as an anti -inflammatory used in animals. Although the initial studies were promising, it should be noted that further research must be carried out before spirulin can be carried out for specific health conditions.
Most plant proteins are incomplete and must be combined with proteins other than the body. Spirulina planensis is a complete plant -based protein that has been hoping for some organizations that it could be used to fight hunger and malnutrition in third world countries. It also has five completeH amino acids that the body cannot produce in itself.
The vegan community has accepted the consumption of Spirulina platensis since it contains vitamin B12, which usually occurs only in animal foods. Unfortunately, the form of vitamin B12 in Spirulin is characterized by low biological availability, which means that the form of vitamin B12 in Spirulin cannot be used by the body. The vegans should not rely on Planensis Spirulina as a source of plant vitamin B12 and should be supplemented in a different form. In addition to the supply of the body with protein, Spirulina planensis is a rich source of many other vitamins, minerals and supplies of gamma-linoli acid (GLA), the fatty acid that the body requires, but may have difficulty producing. Although Spirulina planensis requires further human subjects research to verify its health benefits, it remains a safe nutritional supplement for humans and animals.