How Chlorophyll Can Help Eliminate Bad Breath

Chlorophyll is the green pigment in plants that give most their color and enables them to carry on the process of photosynthesis. Chlorophyll, found in the chloroplasts of the plant cell, is the only substance in nature able to trap and store the energy of sunlight.

Chlorophyll helps to remove body odour, eliminate bad breath, relieve sore throat, improve blood circulation, reduce indigestion and reduce tiredness. Among its other virtues, Chlorophyll apparently makes cells more resistant to bacteria, stimulates wound healing, helps in the treatment of peptic ulcers, and promotes bowel regularity. Chlorophyll, an alkalinizing food, can help offset the acidifying effect of the typical high-fat, high-protein Western diet.

Chlorophyll, the green pigments in plants, is remarkably similar in molecular structure to hemoglobin, a protein in the human red blood cells that carries oxygen to bodily tissues. One reason for their beneficial effects on your health is, chlorophyll reduces the acidity in your body: Stress, and too much protein and fat in your diet makes your body acidic. When your system becomes slightly acidic, free radical formation and oxidative reactions increase. More serious consequences of body's acidity is the fact that it causes calcium to be mobilized out of your bones to buffer the acid and make your body more alkaline. The calcium that is mobilized from your bone to neutralized the acidity is then lost in the urine. Body acidity is the major cause for eotroporosis.

Cancer Chemoprevention in Trout, Rodents, and Human Populations: Studies by Drs. Bailey, Hendricks, and Pereira have shown that dietary co-treatment of AFB1-exposed trout with the chlorophyll derivative Cu-chlorophyllin (CHL) strongly reduces hepatic tumor initiation. Molecular dosimetry in the trout revealed that reduction in DNA adducts was a quantitatively predictive biomarker for tumor reduction under certain conditions. Mechanistic studies in the trout (Bailey) and rat (Dashwood) models support a very simple chemoprotective mechanism in which strong non-covalent CHL-carcinogen complex formation reduced systemic carcinogen uptake. Dr. Bailey is now collaborating with Groopman and Kensler at the Johns Hopkins NIEHS Center on their NIEHS-funded clinical intervention trial in Daxin, China, to assess CHL effects on biomarkers of human AFB1 dietary exposure. This collaboration combines the strengths of two NIEHS Centers to translate knowledge first gained in aquatic models directly into the human prevention setting. Dr. Dashwood's studies suggest equally promising CHL protection against colon carcinogenesis in rats by co-exposure with dietary heterocyclic amines, and a 13,000 trout chemoprevention experiment with Drs. Bailey, Hendricks, and Pereira has shown strong, dose-responsive CHL protection against all tumor phenotypes in the multi-organ trout DBP model.

  • Oregon State University Environmental Health Sciences Center - Carcinogenesis Core

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