Chlorella May Improve Excretion of Toxins

NAGOYA CITY, Japan—At the Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry conference, held March 29 to 30, a study was presented confirming the acceleration of excreted methylmercury from mice in both feces and urine after supplementation of Parachlorella beyerinckii CK-5 chlorella (http://www.jsbba.or.jp). The study was sponsored by Chlorella Industry Co. Ltd., Tokyo, and the National Minamata General Research Center, Kumamoto, Pref., Japan. Eight-week-old female mice were separated into groups and orally administered 5 mg/kg of MeHG or 5 mg/kg of MeHG plus 100 mg of chlorella powder; a third group of animals served as a control. After 24 hours, there was no significant excreting difference between the intervention groups; however, toward the end of the 24 hours, the chlorella group showed dominant excreting compared to the animals that only received the toxin.