Against nearly 40% sodium in salt, there is only 3.5% sodium in Seagreens® together with all the other minerals, trace elements and compounds naturally chelated and in a balance which is ideal for the human body (potassium 2.5%, Magnesium 0.7%, Calcium 2%, etc).

Seagreens® Culinary Ingredient (pure seaweed granules) can replace salt in most recipes, balancing blood and cells, aiding full metabolism, helping to regulate and ‘clean’ the internal environment.

Seagreens® also provides a well balanced supply of naturally chelated iron (575µg/g) valuable in the treatment of low blood pressure, and the most important anion magnesium whose lack is proven causal in heart and circulation diseases. Japanese research in the 1980s used wrack seaweed as a hypotensive drink to significantly reduce blood pressure with no side effects (26), and isolated hypotensive chemicals including histamine from the seaweed.

Wrack seaweed has also been shown to lower high blood sugar, due to its natural combination of nutrients especially chromium which is active in blood sugar control and iodine which aids metabolism. Japanese scientists found a substance in brown seaweed which when tested in rats: “was twice as powerful as heparin in antithrombin (clotdissolving) activity” (10).

Hypotensive chemicals including histamine, which reduce blood pressure, have been isolated from wrack seaweed (10). Research especially at Lund University in Sweden confirms the beneficial effect of Omega-3 on blood pressure and blood cholesterol levels (25).

In the early 1990s Russian researchers claimed to have achieved the following results by feeding patients up to 10g per day of polysaccharides in the form of wrack seaweed dried powder for 3 months: cholesterol reduced by 26.5%; B-lipoproteins reduced by 25.1%; triglycerides reduced by 32.1%, No negative reactions were found in the kidneys, liver or other organs.

No side effects were found (60). “Since most instances of high blood pressure not only involve arterial problems but are also closely related to excesses of the liver, very small amounts of whole salt - ideally in the form of seaweed - can help detoxify the liver, once poor quality and fatty foods are eliminated from the diet and the blood pressure is out of the danger zone” (1 p157, p162, p163).