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Spirulina is the Best Iron Supplement

April 20, 2017 By Nemira 4 Comments

Spirulina is the best iron supplement. The blue-green algae are twenty times richer in iron than common iron-rich foods. Iron is vital for red blood cells and maintaining a healthy immune system.

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  • Spirulina Is the Best  Iron Supplement
    • Why Do We Need Iron for our Bodies?
    • Spirulina is the Best Iron Supplement

Spirulina Is the Best  Iron Supplement


The Spirulina is first by the iron content compared with foods such as Chlorella, hazelnuts, pistachios, cashews, fried beef liver, spinach, or eggs.

In the one hundred grams of  Spirulina, iron’s content is 150 mg. Chlorella has 130 mg in one hundred grams of Chlorella content.

The human body quickly absorbs spirulina. Spirulina has the form of iron that light reaches the intestine and travels through the bloodstream to cells. Spirulina is the best iron supplement.

Spirulina is the Best Iron Supplement

Why Do We Need Iron for our Bodies?


Iron is essential for red blood cells. The iron sits in the middle of hemoglobin, a quaternary structure. Without iron, the oxygen could not travel to the tissues, organs, and cells through the bloodstream from the lungs.

Iron forms complexes with molecular oxygen in hemoglobin and myoglobin.

Iron participates with enzymes dealing with cellular respiration, oxidation, and reduction in plants and animals.

Iron in tissues, hemoglobin, bone marrow, blood proteins, and muscles can find iron. It is a more complicated process, but I want to show that iron is vital for the human body.

Spirulina is the Best Iron Supplement


Spirulina is a source of iron. Spirulina contains the most significant amounts of iron. Anemia is when individuals lack iron in their bodies, especially in the blood. Hemoglobin contains iron. Hemoglobin carries oxygen in the blood to tissues, organs, and cells in the body.

When levels of iron are low, anemia occurs.

In the book Spirulina in Human Nutrition and Health, two studies regarding Spirulina supplements are presented.

The group of girls of age group between 18-22 were anemic. After one month of Spirulina supplementation significant increase of hemoglobin levels were recorded.

Thus, it is clear from this study, that suplementation of 5 g of  spray -dried Spirulina powder to anemic adolescent girls for a period of 30 days had a significant effect on iron metabolism, as is evident by the improved hemoglobin levels, and can be effectively used to combat iron- deficiency anemia, which is widely prevalent in the world.

The second study was done with preschool children in India. This study is described in detail in the same book Spirulina in Human Nutrition and Health.

Researchers provided 1 g of spray-dried Spirulina daily for 50 days. This Spirulina contains the highest available form of iron. Scientists recorded that hemoglobin levels increased significantly in preschool children.

Spirulina is the best iron supplement. Spirulina quickly digested and absorbed. According to scientists, hemoglobin levels in blood improve profoundly when consistently consuming Spirulina.

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Comments

  1. Marcus says

    April 20, 2017 at 8:30 am

    I think spirulina is an awesome superfood! I tried it for the first time a few years ago, I bought it in dried powder form and not in capsules because I could then get more for the same price.

    I quickly learned that pure spirulina tastes very bad to be honest, and I had a big bag of it haha. I was unsuccessful at masking the taste, but what did actually work quite well was using it in green smoothies since it complimented the taste.

    I bought the spirulina because I could understand it had amazing health benefits and as you write here it is a great iron source. Spirulina also has a ridiculously high amount of protein, which I think is quite cool 😛

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    • Nemira says

      April 20, 2017 at 2:09 pm

      Hello, Marcus. Your experience reminds me my friend who did not like Spirulina powder. Smoothies are best way to hide taste of Spirulina. Bananas are big helpers. Adding some lemon would help to hide taste of Spirulina. It depends on person when questions are about taste. We all have anatomically the same taste buds, but we like different things. The value of Spirulina overcomes all doubts because you can change the taste adding to smoothies various fruits or vegetables. Strawberries, raspberries, oranges have great taste.

      What I like about Spirulina that you can use it inside and outside. Spirulina is used in cosmetics as rich in product. Everybody can put on skin Spirulina’ s powder, keep foe awhile. Spirulina refreshes and may rejuvanate texture of skin.

      Proteins in Spirulina is big deal because proteins are vital for our bodies. Spirulina is easily absorbed and proteins go straight into liver without long absorbtion in the digestive system.

      All the best, be healthy and wealthy, Nemira

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  2. Gato aka Cindy Peterson says

    April 28, 2017 at 2:23 am

    I got lost. What exactly is spirulina? Where is it found? How did they discover that it was iron rich? Why is it the best iron supplement? There was too much of best iron supplement & not enough explanation of why it was to convince me to buy it. The picture is good but maybe a picture of how it’s collected?

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    • Nemira says

      April 28, 2017 at 4:00 pm

      hello here. Thanks for comment and letting me to put more links to other blogs and pages about Spirulina. Blogs in this website touch various aspects of things, items and topics which may enrich our lives.

      In short, Spirulina is blue- green algae. It grows naturally in Africa, Central America. Aztecs and Mayans consumed it. Spirulina grows in warm and alkaline waters. Flamingoes feed and flourish with wild algae founded in lakes. Look how they are skinny.

      Nowadays, factories grow Spirulina in ponds where strict regulations and supervision are established to ensure the quality of Spirulina.

      Of course, people who live by the Lake Chad, consume Spirulina. It is harvested from lake, dried and sold as dried cakes in native markets around Lake Chad, Africa.

      Spirulina is a nutraceutical food. Algae is easily digested and absorbed thanks to tiny membrane of Spirulina cell. You can check about Spirulina contents in the blog Spirulina and Nutrition.

      What is about iron, scientists found out that commonly used iron sulfate contains less iron as Spirulina. Studies were done with animals and humans. Everywhere Spirulina helped deal with anemia, iron deficiency.

      All the best, be healthy and wealthy, Nemira

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