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Re:Lead is even deadlier than was feared by sulam on Sunday March 18, 2018 @10:25AM (#16612042)
Ironically the first scholarly result searching for heavy metals and spirulina covers the risk of ingesting them because it bioaccumulates. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3824145/

The article does refer to several studies showing health benefits for spirulina, although none of them discuss using it to remove heavy metals from the body (it’s not even clear to me how such a mechanism could possibly work).

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Re:Lead is even deadlier than was feared by matte_black on Sunday March 18, 2018 @10:52AM (#16612195)
I am not a doctor, but it’s something to do with Spirulina binding with the metals.

Or it could be that I’ve mistaken Spirulina for Chlorella.

Because they bind with metals it’s important to get them from clean sources as I mentioned.

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Re:Lead is even deadlier than was feared by sulam on Sunday March 18, 2018 @11:00AM (#16612240)
Heavy metals accumulate in organs inside your body. Algae and other plants have a mechanism that prevents oxidative metals from damaging them. Does this mean if you eat those plants, they’ll do the same for you? It seems incredibly unlikely since the first thing your body does to these plants is digest them. You are not a plant.
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