Seagreens® reduce cholesterol largely due to the neutralizing action of their unique range of polysaccharides, and act as an antidote to excess sodium consumption. Arctic wrack has been found to reduce cholesterol in eggs and its comprehensive mineral content to have a balancing effect on blood and plasma.

The primary polysaccharide is alginic acid, a linear polymer of L-guluronic and D-mannuronic acid. Cholesterol lowering effects may be related to viscosity of gel and inhibiting cholesterol absorption. A purified carbohydrate product is extracted from various brown seaweeds like Seagreens®, called algin or sodium alginate, used widely in industrial processing as a binding agent. Orally, algin is used to lower serum cholesterol levels (114).

Polysaccharides’ have anticoagulant activity similar to heparin, a popular pharmaceutical anticoagulant. One assumption is that these (polysaccharides) clear the blood of fatty substances the same way heparin does.

If you inject heparin after a fatty meal, it accelerates the disappearance of visible fats, reducing bad LDL cholesterol and raising good HDL type.” Japanese researchers showed Wakame to suppress the re-absorption of cholesterol in the liver and intestine, and Hijiki (both closely related to Seagreens®) to lower serum cholesterol and improve fat metabolism (18). Research especially at Lund University in Sweden confirms the beneficial effect of Omega-3 on blood pressure and blood cholesterol levels (25).

A study completed in 2005 at Karolinska University Hospital and Linköping University, Sweden suggests that elevated concentrations of serum cholesterol is a risk factor for testicular cancer. In deaths among 44,864 men tracked from 1965 there was a positive correlation between serum cholesterol concentration and the incidence of testicular cancer (94).

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