Daily Whole Food Multis with 77 Ingredients

The Greens help me wind down…

"Often at night I can't sleep because I'm too worked up running my businesses. If I don't take a Green, I sometimes keep working till 3 or 4 AM, and feel dreadful the next day.

"So now I take Greens with dinner and about 20 minutes before I want to retire, so my mind is calm enough for me to go to sleep. I used to have a shot of cognac or vodka, and sometimes I still do, but they don't work as well as the Greens, plus they're way more expensive and not as healthy."

New Dad finds health – more energy, sleeps better, doesn’t fly off the handle at work anymore…

"If you had asked me at the beginning of the year what I was doing to stay healthy, I would have looked at you with a blank stare. Healthy? Who cares, you only get one ride on this merrygo-round they call life, so why not have fun and be happy.

"Then came the day when, after climbing the stairs to go to bed, I was out of breath and sweating like a pig - and I had walked up them. I thought to myself, "How could I let myself get so out of shape in only 36 years?" Something had to change quick. I was about to become a dad and I want to be around to watch my children grow up.

"I was fortunate to know someone who was so enthusiastic about the Pops that I had no choice but to try them. I am so glad I did. I can now climb stairs easily without sweating, I sleep better at night and I don't fly off the handle at work anymore.

"I love the Pops because they are easy to work into my daily routine. For me, it's one Purple in the morning and one Green after dinner. The Purple gives me the energy to get through the day while the Green helps get rid of all the garbage I eat and helps me sleep better at night."

Unstuck, finally…

"I lost 37 pounds on a low carb diet, but I wasn't eating veggies and I got plugged up. With Pop-A-Green I've been normal for a year now. I can stay on my low carb plan and not worry about getting sick. With both Pops, my husband's high cholesterol dropped 60 points after 3 months..."

Sea Vegetables

This ingredient can be found in: Pop A Green

The sea provides us with a wide supply of food rich in different types of nutrients. Apart from the fishes and other animal sources, the sea also harbours numerous vegetables and algae that are considered rich sources of essential nutrients. Numerous research is being conducted on different plant resources available widely in the sea and their wide array of benefits has been discovered. Sea vegetable supplements are widely consumed owing to the multitude of health benefits available from them.

Chlorella

Chlorella is a type of algae widely consumed as a food supplement in Japan. Numerous beneficial factors of chlorella have been identified in research studies performed on these algae. Apart from high levels of proteins, vitamins and amino acids1, chlorella contains high amounts of antioxidants, carotenoids and other beneficial substances. These factors were noted to be quite effective in reducing blood pressure and prevention of clot formation in the blood vessels of the brain (thereby reduces the incidence of stroke) in animal studies. It was also noted that chlorella enhanced the functioning of the blood vessels. 2

Another animal study revealed that chlorella was effective in reducing blood cholesterol levels.3 Further, several other studies have revealed the beneficial effects of chlorella on diabetes. Chlorella has high levels of antioxidants that may be beneficial in preventing oxygen induced damage of cells and tissues in diabetics. An anti-cataract effect of chlorella was noted in an animal study wherein the occurrence of cataracts was significantly reduced with administration of chlorella.4

Dunaliella salina

Dunaliella salina is another type of microalgae that is considered the best commercially available source of beta-carotene (pro vitamin A). Additionally dunaliella salina has the ability to accumulate significant amounts of other carotenoids, vitamins, minerals and proteins.5

Diabetic individuals tend to suffer from various complications owing to increased oxidative stress (which leads to cell destruction) in the body. Numerous types of antioxidants have been tried to decrease such complications. The administration of dunaliella salina in diabetic rats was found to have beneficial effects on these animals. However, it was noted that blood sugar levels were elevated to a certain extent.6 More detailed analysis of this sea algae is required to prove its beneficial effects in diabetics.

Another study on dunaliella salina has reported that it has antimicrobial activity and it can be effective against microorganisms belonging to the groups such as E coli, S aureus and C albicans.7 The beneficial effects of dunaliella salina make it a widely consumed health supplement.

Hawaiian Spirulina

Spirulina has been considered one of nature’s richest sources of nutrition. A wide variety of nutritional contents such as B-complex vitamins, proteins, minerals, beta-carotene, antioxidants and numerous other undiscovered bio-active molecules is present in this algae. Accordingly, spirulina is beneficial in many disorders and is considered to exhibit multiple effects such as antioxidant, antimicrobial, anticancer, anti allergic, anti-inflammatory and anti-diabetic effects.8

Spirulina has been widely studied and along with other benefits it is believed to boost the body’s defense (immune) system and increase the functioning of specialized immune cells. Such imporved action may be beneficial in the effective management of viral infections. It also reduces blood cholesterol levels. Further it may also reduce the toxic changes occurring in the liver, kidney and testes and prevent injury to these organs.9 Other beneficial elements found in traces in spirulina include iron, selenium, zinc, copper, and chromium.10

References

  1. Lee, William H., and Michael E. Rosenbaum. Chlorella. New York, NY: McGraw&-Hill, 1998.
  2. Sansawa H, Takahashi M, Tsuchikura S, Endo H. Effect of chlorella and its fractions on blood pressure, cerebral stroke lesions, and life-span in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats. J Nutr Sci Vitaminol (Tokyo). 2006 Dec;52(6):457-66.
  3. Shibata S, Oda K, Onodera-Masuoka N, et al. Hypocholesterolemic effect of indigestible fraction of Chlorella regularis in cholesterol-fed rats. J Nutr Sci Vitaminol (Tokyo). 2001 Dec;47(6):373-7.
  4. Shibata S, Natori Y, Nishihara T, Tomisaka K, et al. Antioxidant and anti-cataract effects of Chlorella on rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes. J Nutr Sci Vitaminol (Tokyo). 2003 Oct;49(5):334-9.
  5. Hosseini Tafreshi A, Shariati M. Dunaliella biotechnology: methods and applications. J Appl Microbiol. 2009 Feb 25. [Epub ahead of print]
  6. Ruperez FJ, Garcia-Martinez D, et al. Dunaliella salina extract effect on diabetic rats: metabolic fingerprinting and target metabolite analysis. J Pharm Biomed Anal. 2009 Apr 5;49(3):786-92. Epub 2009 Jan 21.
  7. Mendiola JA, Santoyo S, Cifuentes A, Reglero G, Ibáñez E, Señoráns FJ. Antimicrobial activity of sub- and supercritical CO2 extracts of the green alga Dunaliella salina. J Food Prot. 2008 Oct;71(10):2138-43.
  8. Kulshreshtha A, Zacharia AJ, Jarouliya U, Bhadauriya P, Prasad GB, Bisen PS. Spirulina in health care management. Curr Pharm Biotechnol. 2008 Oct;9(5):400-5.
  9. Khan Z, Bhadouria P, Bisen PS. Nutritional and therapeutic potential of Spirulina. Curr Pharm Biotechnol. 2005 Oct;6(5):373-9.
  10. Mazo VK, Gmoshinskiĭ IV, Zilova IS. Microalgae Spirulina in human nutrition. Vopr Pitan. 2004;73(1):45-53.