One of the Earth's greatest treasures lies beneath the seas and lakes of the world. Research has proven that the waters of our oceans contain some of the richest known sources of mineral elements. The moving forces of nature, through rain, erosion and rivers, has brought all the valuable vitamins of the earth to the sea floor.
These vast sources of nutrition may become much more important than any of us now realize. Land degradation, pollution and over farming has had a drastic affect on the soil. Most commonly, it is from the soil that we derive our minerals and vitamins from the fruits and vegetables we eat. If this food grown on land can no longer give us all the nutrients we require to protect our bodies we can also turn to the rich vegetation of the sea, seaweed.
Kelps, spriulina, blue green algaes, seaweeds like komba, nori & wakame are
nutritent dense sea vegtables most people are just now starting to take seriously as an important source for natural antioxidants, organic trace minerals and much more. Below is some of the latest data on just one type
of marine seaweed:
Fucoxanthin is an antioxidant found in wakame, a type of brown kelp used in Asian cuisine.
Fucoxanthin burned fat in lab tests on rats and obese mice, prompting the rodents to lose weight, report Kazuo Miyashita, PhD, and colleagues.
Their findings were presented at the American Chemical Society's 232nd national meeting, in San Francisco.
Miyashita is a chemistry professor in the Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences at Hokkaido University in Hokkaido, Japan.
The researchers isolated fucoxanthin and added it to the animals chow.
The fucoxanthin appeared to boost the rodents' production of a protein involved in fat metabolism, according to the researchers.
Also, levels of the omega-3 fatty acid DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) rose in the rodent livers when the animals were fed fucoxanthin with soybean oil.
DHA is one of the omega-3 fatty acids found in fatty fish such as salmon and has been linked to protective benefits against conditions
It would be impractical for people to eat enough seaweed to see such a benefit, Miyashita notes in an American Chemical Society news release.
He says he hopes to develop a pill containing fucoxanthin from Wakame.
So keep your eyes open for many new products in the near future with
sea algaes and seaweed as another way to help you stay healthy and energized!