Herbal Plants: Spirulina (Healing Food)

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During our visit to Healing Galing Office, my MIL as given this Healing Food or Spirulina as one of the required medication she will take. I just wonder why they are referred as healing food. What is in this supplement? What particular herbal plant it came from? What are the benefits we can get from this one? With these questions I tried to research about the said product.

Spirulina (Arthrospira platensis and Arthrospira maxima) is a type of blue-green algae that grows in warm, alkaline water that considered to have abundant health benefits making this as super food. It contains high amount of protein (60-70%) which is a good source of essential and non-essential amino acids. Furthermore it has essential fatty acids like omega-3, DHA, GLA, palmitic, oleic and stearic acid.

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