Brown Seaweed:
Iodine, Fucoidin, Antioxidants, Minerals, Vitamins
Seaweeds are a whole food loaded with general nutrients and specialized nutrients found mainly or only in seaweeds.
Minerals, vitamins, antioxidants, and fucoidin and focoxanthin that provide a longer list of benefits.
Brown seaweeds like wakame and bladderwrack
I’m talking about food size quantities, like a salad, or teaspoons of powder, not a few small capsules.
Other than that, this is general information and I will not give personal advice, product suggestions and reviews, or amounts.
Iodine
It’s possible to get even therapeutic doses of iodine from seaweeds that vary greatly from species to species that you can look up.
Some have way more than needed or possibly is even tolerable.
RDA means little. Therapeutic doses are needed to make for deficiencies and larger amounts needed for detox. I will not define quantities here.
I’m interested in teaspoons of powder or amounts eaten as food. Not just a few capsules.
The iodine from seaweed is sometimes listed on supplements as elemental from seaweed.
The other fraction in supplements is potassium iodine (KI) that I took as an isolated supplement that did nothing for me. Some say they have science that KI is better, but I’m not here to debate that. Nature provides the whole food versions we need and I’m more interested the multitude of rare nutrients that have gained attention for seaweed.
Iodine is one of the most common deficiencies and first order of priority for every cell in the body so please stop thinking about thyroid problems that are more of an effect than cause of a slow metabolism. I have written about it elsewhere and will not repeat.
Metabolism is the result of all nutrients working together and you are only as strong as your weakest links.
Toxins and infections drain nutrients so you need more than the RDA usually.
The focus on whole food first is a superior and cheaper way to approach health, isolated supplements when but not for everything.
You get nutrients you don’t even know exist for needs and problems you may not even know exist. It’s a way to deal with uncertainty from complexity.
Minerals
Some minerals found in significant quantities, there may be more, depending one hwo much you eat.
Calcium
Magnesium
Potassium
Sodium
Sulfur
Iodine
Manganese
Vanadium
Zinc (but lacking copper in good ratio)
Vitamins
B1 thiamin in substantial amount, now recognized as a major crucial deficiencies
B2 riboflavin a major cofactor of other B vitamins so a prerequisite to absorbing
B 9 folate also often a deficiency as tricky to supplement with as can become toxic
Beta-carotene
lutein
zeaxanthin
violaxanthin
fucoxanthin
C small amounts but present as a synergist and recycled by polyphenol bioflavonoids like phlorotannins the most numerous.
E
K mk7 vegetable source
Fiber fermentable. Fiber can also bother people with weak guts until they heal that.
Fucoidin
Immunity, cancer fighting
Anti inflammatory
Anti clotting
Anti oxidant detox
Weight loss fat burning
Menstrual cycles longer, reduced estrogen from high (not soy)
Blood pressure and anti coagulation
AGEs
Collagen: Inhibits collagenase and elastase that break down skin:
Reduce carb uptake and increase .insulin sensitivity
Quotes from article linked below:
Cancer: The fucoidan class of polysaccharides is known to act as enhancers of natural immunity secondary to increasing Natural Killer Cell (NK cell) activity, and this appears to extend to Bladderwrack.
As a type of carotenoid known as a xanthophyll, fucoxanthin absorbs blue-green to yellow-green colours of visible light which helps protect vision.
Bladderwrack has the ability to stimulate pro‐collagen I production (fibroblasts) by 228% (greater than retinol at 190%)
All subsets of compounds in bladderwrack possess anti-oxidative abilities (fucophlorethols, fucoidans, fucoxanthine and anti-inflammatory properties(fucoidans, and fucoxanthine
Consumption of seaweed can also prevent uptake of fat soluble, non-metabolizable toxins (in this cited example, dioxins) and increase their excretion rates via enterohepatic recirculation. These effects are seen at a physiologically relevant dose of 4g wakame.
Cancer: The fucoidan class of polysaccharides is known to act as enhancers of natural immunity secondary to increasing Natural Killer Cell (NK cell) activity, and this appears to extend to Bladderwrack.
https://examine.com/supplements/bladderwrack/research/
Whole Foods versus Isolated Supplements
Advantages of whole foods:
But what you measure is not necessarily as effective because it has been denatured in the process and isolated from cofactor nutrients necessary for utilization.
Plus additives need to encapsulate that can be irritating.
There may be more studies for isolated nutrients because it is easier to study isolated variables and money from supplements and drug companies to do so.
The most important proof is what works experimentally.
Minerals, vitamins, antioxidants, and fucoidin and focoxanthin that provide a longer list of benefits.
Brown seaweeds like wakame and bladderwrack
I’m talking about food size quantities, like a salad, or teaspoons of powder, not a few small capsules.
Other than that, this is general information and I will not give personal advice, product suggestions and reviews, or amounts.
Iodine
It’s possible to get even therapeutic doses of iodine from seaweeds that vary greatly from species to species that you can look up.
Some have way more than needed or possibly is even tolerable.
RDA means little. Therapeutic doses are needed to make for deficiencies and larger amounts needed for detox. I will not define quantities here.
I’m interested in teaspoons of powder or amounts eaten as food. Not just a few capsules.
The iodine from seaweed is sometimes listed on supplements as elemental from seaweed.
The other fraction in supplements is potassium iodine (KI) that I took as an isolated supplement that did nothing for me. Some say they have science that KI is better, but I’m not here to debate that. Nature provides the whole food versions we need and I’m more interested the multitude of rare nutrients that have gained attention for seaweed.
Iodine is one of the most common deficiencies and first order of priority for every cell in the body so please stop thinking about thyroid problems that are more of an effect than cause of a slow metabolism. I have written about it elsewhere and will not repeat.
Metabolism is the result of all nutrients working together and you are only as strong as your weakest links.
Toxins and infections drain nutrients so you need more than the RDA usually.
The focus on whole food first is a superior and cheaper way to approach health, isolated supplements when but not for everything.
You get nutrients you don’t even know exist for needs and problems you may not even know exist. It’s a way to deal with uncertainty from complexity.
Minerals
Some minerals found in significant quantities, there may be more, depending one hwo much you eat.
Calcium
Magnesium
Potassium
Sodium
Sulfur
Iodine
Manganese
Vanadium
Zinc (but lacking copper in good ratio)
Vitamins
B1 thiamin in substantial amount, now recognized as a major crucial deficiencies
B2 riboflavin a major cofactor of other B vitamins so a prerequisite to absorbing
B 9 folate also often a deficiency as tricky to supplement with as can become toxic
Beta-carotene
lutein
zeaxanthin
violaxanthin
fucoxanthin
C small amounts but present as a synergist and recycled by polyphenol bioflavonoids like phlorotannins the most numerous.
E
K mk7 vegetable source
Fiber fermentable. Fiber can also bother people with weak guts until they heal that.
Fucoidin
Immunity, cancer fighting
Anti inflammatory
Anti clotting
Anti oxidant detox
Weight loss fat burning
Menstrual cycles longer, reduced estrogen from high (not soy)
Blood pressure and anti coagulation
AGEs
Collagen: Inhibits collagenase and elastase that break down skin:
Reduce carb uptake and increase .insulin sensitivity
Quotes from article linked below:
Cancer: The fucoidan class of polysaccharides is known to act as enhancers of natural immunity secondary to increasing Natural Killer Cell (NK cell) activity, and this appears to extend to Bladderwrack.
As a type of carotenoid known as a xanthophyll, fucoxanthin absorbs blue-green to yellow-green colours of visible light which helps protect vision.
Bladderwrack has the ability to stimulate pro‐collagen I production (fibroblasts) by 228% (greater than retinol at 190%)
All subsets of compounds in bladderwrack possess anti-oxidative abilities (fucophlorethols, fucoidans, fucoxanthine and anti-inflammatory properties(fucoidans, and fucoxanthine
Consumption of seaweed can also prevent uptake of fat soluble, non-metabolizable toxins (in this cited example, dioxins) and increase their excretion rates via enterohepatic recirculation. These effects are seen at a physiologically relevant dose of 4g wakame.
Cancer: The fucoidan class of polysaccharides is known to act as enhancers of natural immunity secondary to increasing Natural Killer Cell (NK cell) activity, and this appears to extend to Bladderwrack.
https://examine.com/supplements/bladderwrack/research/
Whole Foods versus Isolated Supplements
Advantages of whole foods:
- Less denatured and more effective at lower amounts
- More nutrients to address possible weak link deficiencies you might not know you have
- More therapeutic nutrients like rare things you never heard of.
- Cheaper
- While one whole food supplement might not have all of a nutrient you need, if you make it habit of using whole foods or whole food like supplements it adds up to enough and more.
But what you measure is not necessarily as effective because it has been denatured in the process and isolated from cofactor nutrients necessary for utilization.
Plus additives need to encapsulate that can be irritating.
There may be more studies for isolated nutrients because it is easier to study isolated variables and money from supplements and drug companies to do so.
The most important proof is what works experimentally.
Eat to energize, detoxify & immunize.
Move to circulate, align, & relax.
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Move to circulate, align, & relax.
Primal Rejuvenation Health Coaching
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Free Assessment
See how I support you fully in
Health Coaching Steps
I work over video: Facebook, Zoom, Google, from Michigan, USA
Hess.PaulC@gmail.com
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enough to make a difference
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Sensitive
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