In the 1950s, Ann Wigmore author of Be Your Own Doctor and Viktoras Kulvinskas author of Survival Into the 21st Century, opened the Hippocrates Health Institute in Florida. They began treating people with wheatgrass juice and a diet of raw, living foods. People from all over the world visited the institute in their attempt to heal from major degenerative conditions.

What was it that Ann Wigmore and Viktoras Kulvinskas found in green foods that gave them their remarkable health-enhancing benefits? Chlorophyll. When we think of supplementing our foods, we think of vitamins and mineral supplements, but we don’t usually think of taking a chlorophyll pill as one of the nutrients we rely on to nourish our bodies. After you read the following impressive list of chlorophyll health benefits, you might think about putting chlorophyll on top of your list of supplements to take to keep yourself young and healthy.

What is chlorophyll? “Chlorophyll is the sun nutrient which is the basis for all plant life activity; the green blood of plants becomes the red blood of animals and humans.” (Alive and Well , 2002, p.112). Since its molecular structure is very similar to hemoglobin in human blood, chlorophyll in green foods can help strengthen the immune system, support healthy blood and circulation as well as help to maintain proper operation of the intestinal tract (p. 112). It is believed that “the magnesium content of chlorophyll may have immune potential by increasing phagocyte activity (white blood cells that gobble up microbes” (Let’s Live, 1992, p. 37).

Natural therapists traditionally classify cholorphyll as cooling and alkalinizing. To assist the body’s pH balance, chlorophyll can help neutralize the acidifying and stimulating effect of excess protein, sugars and starch. Like vegetables, fruits and nongluten grains such as rice, chlorophyll is alkalinizing and cleansing (p.37).

Green foods filled with chlorophyll are nature’s vitamin pills, providing Vitamin C, Vitamin A, iron, folic acid, protein, Vitamin B12, Vitamin K and calcium (p. 36). To learn more, I would recommend that you read a study done by Dr. Gitte Jensen at the Royal Victoria Hospital, affiliated with McGill University to learn about the remarkable benefits of eating Super Blue Green Algae™; a food considered to contain the highest amount of chlorophyll. (Consumption of AFA..., JANA, January 2000, p. 50).

How does one take chlorophyll? Eat green plants! But most of us lead a busy lifestyle and have no time to juice or grow our own sprouts. Instead, we can get the benefits of green foods through capsules, tablets or powder of dehydrated or freeze dried forms of either wild crafted or organically grown foods like wheat grass, wild crafted blue green algae, or different cereal grasses like barley and oat.

The highest concentration of chlorophyll of any food is found in blue green algae harvested wild from Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon.

Chlorophyll content per 10 grams:
Wild blue green algae from Upper Klamath. Lake 300 mg
Spirulina 115 mg
Chlorella 280 mg
Barley Grass 149 mg
Wheat Grass 55 mg

(“Simply The Best”, 1992, p. 3).

We have, in capsule or tablet form, the wild blue green algae from Upper Klamath Lake. We also have a unique blend of sprouted grains and green grasses that provides a huge range of nutrients, antioxidants, enzymes, chlorophyll, probiotics, high quality protein, vitamins and minerals. It comes in powder form so it is very convenient to use. Just stir a spoonful of green powder into a glass of water or your favorite juice and it’s ready to drink. It’s delicious too!

Let yourself experience the healing gifts of green chlorophyll rich foods. These nutrient rich foods may well be one of the answers to maintaining a youthful looking and youthful feeling body as those birthdays accumulate.

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