Possible Benefits Of Bladderwrack Seaweed Anti-Cancer constituents
Contributes to a healthy thyroid gland and better metabolism
Helpful with hypothyroidism and goiter
Relieves rheumatism and rheumatoid arthritis
Soothes irritated and inflamed body tissues
Aids in weight loss if thyroid problems are a factor of obesity
Helps burn more fat when exercising
Boosts stamina by allowing cells to consume energy efficiently.
Lowers blood cholesterol (like bad LDL) and blood glucose levels
Works as dietary fiber to help with constipation, diarrhea, heartburn, and indigestion
Acts as an anti-bacterial to ward off bacteria and viruses and to speed wound healing

Bladderwrack is a type of seaweed found on the coasts of the North Sea, the western Baltic Sea, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. A common food in Japan, it is used as an additive and flavoring in various food products in Europe. Bladderwrack is commonly found as a component of kelp tablets or powders used as nutritional supplements. It is sometimes loosely called kelp, but that term technically refers to a different seaweed.

Related terms: Black-tang, bladder, bladder fucus, bladderwrack, Blasen-tang, brown algae, common seawrack, cut weed, Dyers fucus, edible seaweed, fucoidan, fucoxantin, Fucus, green algae, Hai-ts'ao, kelp, kelpware, knotted wrack, Meereiche, Quercus marina, popping wrack, red algae, red fucus, rockrack, rockweed, schweintang, sea kelp, sea oak, seetang, seaware, seaweed, sea wrack, swine tang, tang, Varech vesiculeux, vraic, wrack.

Background: Fucus vesiculosus is a brown seaweed that grows on the northern coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and the North and Baltic seas. Its name is sometimes used for Ascophyllum nodosum, which is another brown seaweed that grows alongside Fucus vesiculosus. These species are often included in kelp preparations along with other types of seaweed.

The Vietnamese consume seaweed as food in various forms: raw as salad and vegetable, pickle with sauce or with vinegar, relish or sweetened jellies and also cooked for vegetable soup. As herbal medicine, seaweed is has been used for traditional cosmetics, treatments for cough, asthma, hemorrhoid, boils, goiters, stomach ailments, urinary diseases, reducing the incidence of tumors, ulcers and headaches. Although Vietnam has an abundance of algae floral with total number of species is estimated to be nearly 1,000 species of which there are 638 species of marine algae identified.

HOW MUCH TO TAKE?
Our Bladderwrack can be taken in the form of an infusion that can be prepared by pouring a cup of boiling water over two to three teaspoonfuls of the dried herb, and letting the herb steep in this water for ten minutes by leaving it closed with a lid. The resulting infusion can be drunk thrice every day as a part of the treatment.

TRY A SEAWEED MINERAL BATH
by Louise Gaudet - www.bckelp.com
Bladderwrack (Fucus spp.) about 40 grams
Muslin pouch or cotton scarf
Place Bladderwrack Flakes in pouch or scarf, tie well closed with elastic or string (loose seaweed flakes may clog drain).
Throw pouch in hot bath water. Jump in .Gently squeeze pouch and rub algin (rich seaweed gel) all over body and face. Breath in fresh ocean breeze (not fishy at all). Relax!

Bladderwrack contains all the minerals that your body needs. It is very nourishing to the skin and soothes muscles and joints. I am a professional Wildcrafter of seaweed, and we sell high quality kelp (Nereocysiis leutkeana) and Bladderwrack (Fucus spp.) in whole, flakes or powdered form. We also sell Seaweed Bath Pouches and all natural Kelp soap.

WEIGHT LOSS METABOLISM NATURAL BOOSTING POWDER!
1 1/2 oz (45 g) Bladderwrack or 1 oz (30 g) Bladderwrack powder
1 oz (30 g) Cinnamon powder
3/4 oz (20 g) Licorice powder
Mix 1-3 teaspoons in your favorite smoothie or try in tea.
Use once per day. Enjoy getting slimmer naturally!

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SEAWEED TO FIGHT AND PREVENT CANCER?

The reason cancer cells are so deadly is because they do not die. Our body is made up of about 60,000,000,000,000 cells. Old cells die, and new cells are born. This is normal. And this normal dying process is called, ‘APOPTOSIS,’ meaning programmed cell death. However, unlike the normal cells, cancer cells do not die. They don’t have apoptosis. They live and multiply forever.

Then in 1996, a miraculous substance called fucoidan from seaweed was first introduced at the 55th Japan Cancer Convention. It was reported that fucoidan causes apoptosis to cancer cells without affecting the normal cells.

The idea of using seaweed to prevent or treat diseases goes back at least as far as ancient Egypt. What’s so great about seaweed? Evidence shows that ancient Egyptians used seaweed to treat breast cancer. Much more recently, scientists have theorized that seaweed in the Japanese diet might be an important reason postmenopausal Japanese women have only one-ninth the amount of breast cancer as do women in the United States.

So far there are about 659 studies on fucoidan that can be found in www.pubmed.gov. Here are 2 briefs.

(1) In a study done at Fukuoka University, Japan, researchers discovered that fucoidan inhibited the invasion of cancer cells. They discovered that fucoidan specifically inhibited the attachment of cancer cells to laminin.

(2) In the Laboratory de Pharmacologie Marine, in Nantes, France, researchers studied the anti-tumor and anti-proliferative properties of fucoidan extracts from brown sea plants. They discovered that fucoidan exerts a reversible antiproliferative activity in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. Their study also showed anti-tumor activity in mice bearing non-small-cell bronchopulmonary carcinoma cancer. Their study indicates that fucoidan exhibits inhibitory effects both in vitro and in vivo as a potent anti-tumor agent.

Fucoidan is a complex polysaccharide composed largely of fucopyranoside and natural sulfate found in seaweed. Researches indicate that the higher the sulfate group counts in a plant, the higher its therapeutic potential.

Following is the clinical results from Dr. Akira, MotoKuniribkushu Cancer Center in Japan. (The percentages show either total disappearance of cancer cells or reduction by more than half since taking Fucoidan.)

Cancer of tongue 83%
Breast Cancer 78%
Cancer of Pharynx 81%
Uterine Carcinoma 72%
Esophageal Cancer 84%
Ovarian cancer 58%
Stomach Cancer 84%
Pancreatic cancer 48%
Colon Cancer 80%
Leukemia 84%
Synchronous Primary Lung Cancer 86%
Prostatic Cancer 73%
Lung Cancer (adenocarcinoma) 75%
Bladder tumor 72%
Lung Cancer(small cell carcinoma) 79%