Spirulina is a simple one celled blue green algae that thrives in warm, alkaline, fresh water. Algae can be grouped according to the predominant pigment; blue-green, red, green, and brown. Spirulina is a blue-green algae because it contains chlorophyll (green) and phycocyanin (blue).

The fruit hull of the Mangosteen has been used to treat skin infections, wounds, and diarrhea in South East Asia for many years. These researchers added the xanthone, gamma-mangostin to rat glioma brain cancer cells. The Mangosteen xanthone potently inhibited the conversion of arachadonic acid to an inflammatory prostaglandin known as PGE2, it also inhibited the release of the inflammatory COX-2 enzyme (in brain cancer cells this could inhibit the transcription of genetic material slowing down the cancer cells).

LDL-cholesterol becomes rancid through a reaction with peroxides in the blood stream. When LDL-cholesterol becomes rancid it damages the lining of blood vessel walls and causes or contributes to hardening of the arteries (coronary artery/cardiovascular disease). In this study scientists at the University of D?sseldorf, Germany are interested in the effects of an enzyme released from particular white blood cells and its impact on cardiovascular health.

Many of the floods of diseases the people of the world suffer with are due to inappropriate or exaggerated activation of genes involved with inflammation. Finding therapeutic agents that can modify the inflammatory reaction is the highest priority in medical research today. Drugs developed so far by the pharmaceutical industry are associated with both toxicity and side effects which is why a natural substance that modifies the inflammatory pathway is gaining significant interest.

According to a recent analysis of 7,462 Americans, having a Helicobacter Pylori infection increases your risk of being deficient in iron and increases your risk of developing anemia. The bacterium Helicobacter Pylori causes stomach inflammation and is responsible for most ulcers. It is also a major cause of MAST cell lymphoma and other stomach cancers.