Kelp: Nourishment for Glands

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Kelp: Nourishment for Glands JoAnn Guest Feb 02, 2003 10:56 PST KELP

 

Nourishment for Glands

 

Kelp comes in all shapes and sizes. There are species which grow as much

as two feet a day under ideal conditions.

For our purposes here, though, we are dealing with " ascophyllum nodosum "

which grows in abundance in the North Atlantic just below Greenland and

between the Canadian Maritime Provinces(Newfoundland and Nova Scotia)

and the British Isles.

 

The icy-cold waters here are ideal for this olive green plant to

flourish, as well as in the Norwegian Sea.

 

Norwegian kelp is especially rich in iodine, a mineral essential to

thyroid health, vitamin E utilization, metabolic efficiency, and

resistance to bacterial infection.

The amount of iodine in sea kelp exceeds that found in land plants by

as much as 20,000 percent.

 

The iodine from kelp has an affinity for the cells of the thyroid gland,

where it concentrates and acts to disinfect the body’s entire blood

volume, which flows through this gland at the rate of about once every

17 minutes.

 

Depletion of iodine results in fatigue, susceptibility to illness,

inability to metabolize foods efficiently, weight gain and goiter.

This element is also essential in the formation of " thyroxin " , a hormone

which helps balance estrogen levels in the body.

Besides causing weight gain, excessive estrogen is considered by many

physicians and nutritionists to be a factor in the development of breast

and uterine cancers.

 

Iodine from kelp is also very rich in calcium. Kelp has always been a

mainstay of the traditional Eskimo diet.

In fact, the native diet contains five times the calcium found in the

average American diet. Just one ounce of their local kelp, for instance,

contains 273 mgs of calcium, which is over 25 percent of the RDA

(Recommended Daily Allowance).

That kelp also supplies 25 mgs of vitamin C when fresh, equivalent to

the amount found in one fresh lime –that’s about half of the RDA.

 

Another nutritional component of Norwegian kelp is sodium alginate.

 

Studies conducted at McGill University in Montreal over a decade ago,

and at the Harwell Research Unit in England, demonstrated that sodium

alginate could absorb from 80-90 percent of the potentially deadly

radioactive isotopes of Strontium 90 directly from the intestinal tract.

Sodium alginate gradually chelates the remaining amount out of the bone

structure into which the isotopes tend to become incorporated.

 

Nutritional Powerhouse.

 

Norwegian kelp is an absolute nutritional powerhouse containing many

other essential trace elements.

 

It has chromium, essential to glucose utilization; zinc for collagen

strength and healthy skin, iron for tired blood, potassium for healthy

kidneys and normal blood pressure, copper for normal nerve

transmissions, sulphur for preventing cell mutation that could lead to

cancer; silver and tin required by those portions of the brain

responsible for memory, silicon which is crucial to skin elasticity;

magnesium for sound nerves, manganese for the sufficient release of

insulin from the pancreas, and so on.

 

These many different nutrients found in Norwegian kelp seem to

concentrate mainly in the glands of your endocrine system.

 

They are scattered throughout the body and regulate many functions.

Their chemical *messengers* or hormones, travel through the bloodstream

to all parts of the body.

 

Three of these endocrine glands are located in the brain. Kelp feeds

them essential hard-to-get elements.

 

The first of these glands, the hypothalamus, coordinates the activities

of the nervous and endocrine systems from its control center stop atop

the brain stem.

 

A short stalk leads from the hypothalamus to the pituitary gland just

below it, which regulates how much hormone the other glands release. And

the tiny pineal gland acts as the body’s clock, signaling the onset of

maturation and regulating the menstrual cycle.

The functions of the thyroid have already been mentioned.

 

But embedded deep within this gland are four tiny parathyroids, in

charge of removing calcium from the bones and adding it to the blood.

The bilobed thymus glands stimulate the production of *white blood*

cells.

 

Perched atop each kidney are the adrenal glands. They influence

metabolism, maintain normal blood pressure, and help the body adjust to

stress.

 

In between the kidneys is the pancreas which secretes insulin and

glucagons to control the level of blood sugar within the body.

 

The adrenals and pancreas, along with the liver, greatly contribute to

the level of energy we have in our muscles at any given time.

 

When our energy reservoirs are down and the body becomes fatigued, then

kelp is called for.

 

Certain rare trace minerals like boron, bromine and zirconium, found in

infinitesimal amounts in kelp, go to different receptor sites in each of

these organs and help to chemically crank up the body’s energy supplies.

 

Finally, there are the reproductive organs which complete the last of

the endocrine group. Male sex hormones are made in the testes of men and

stimulate their sexual development.

 

Women’s ovaries secrete the hormones estrogen and progesterone, which

enable them to safely bear children. Women are thirty something and have

been taking kelp regularly seem to have far lower incidence of abnormal

childbirths than do others who seldom or never use kelp.

 

Besides the numerous minerals and vitamins A, B-complex, C, E, D and K,

which it contains, Norwegian kelp is also abundantly rich in about 20

different amino acids.

Some of these are essential: lysine, leucine, isoleucine, methionine,

phenylalanine, threonine, valine and tryptophan.

 

Without these amino acids on a daily basis, the body begins to die.

 

The gut flora stomach bacteria provides low levels of them, but daily

kelp will increase these levels.

 

Kelp likewise contains many conditionally essential amino acids. These

may become important only under certain circumstances, such as inborn

error of metabolism, infectious disease or excessive stress.

For instance, one type of schizophrenic may have a recently expressed

inborn error of metabolism that calls for more or less serine, while a

burn victim might require an increase of amino acids.

 

Certain cancers such as melanomas, create tremendous depleting of

phenylalanine and tyrosine. So kelp can meet all of these needs of

non-essential amino acids.

 

Amino acids are converted inside the body in two different ways—either

as sugar called *glycogenic* or into fat called *ketogenic*

 

.. All amino acids, whether essential or not, are valuable energy sources

which fuel our mental, emotional and physical activities.

A lack of key amino acids is best evidenced in adrenal exhaustion and

fatigues.

But kelp (four capsules), licorice root – (four capsules) and dandelion

root (two capsules) will keep our engines running nicely.

 

Salt Substitute

 

The use of powdered or granular kelp as a substitute for table salt, has

been gaining popularity within the last decade.

Kelp has a pleasant taste and all of the necessary elements in a natural

balance.

 

I recommend that granulated kelp be used wherever table salt or black

pepper would otherwise be used.

This is a much healthier choice for your body’s sake.

This type of seaweed also has a remarkable ability to stop bleeding.

Simply sprinkle powdered kelp on the wound.

 

 

 

 

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