Even as a health professional, I find it very difficult to distinguish between advertising hype and fact for certain health products. Nearly every product is wholistic, conquers free radicals and has numerous, some may say even contradictory uses. Scientific evidence is hard to come by because, let’s face it, there is not a lot of money in plant medicine because you can’t patent them.

When one of my clients told me about some of the benefits her husband experienced from taking spirulina I believed it, but could not understand how. Spirulina was considered to be a wonder food but primarily as a nutritional supplement. It contains many amino acids, trace elements and minerals which help one’s overall wellbeing but nothing specific.