Posted by Larry Hoover on May 21, 2005, at 10:32:28
In reply to Original Limu is the ultimate choice, not Sea Vegg, posted by Thorp on May 17, 2005, at 0:19:41
I appreciate the enthusiasm, but I really have a problem with someone selling merchandise in this forum. Exceedingly expensive merchandise, especially so.
> Fucoidan is found only in sea-based plants.
Actually, any of the brown algaes, in particular. You may note the similarity between the name fucoidan and the genus name Fucus. There are many Fucus algaes consumed as food around the world. Limu is in the genus Laminaria. I'm rather skeptical that Limu is somehow special amongst them all. Brown algae have been contributing to health of many seaside populations, without anyone knowing about the sulphated polysaccharides (fucoidan) they all contain.
Laminaria japonica (Limu) has a more common name. Kelp.
> Besides all the other tremendous nutritious components in Limu Moui including vitamins, amino acids, essential fatty acids, anti-oxidants, glyconutrients, live enzymes, and particularly the whole spectrum of minerals and trace elements in colloidal form found in the sea which our blood emulates, and still others, the fucoidan in Limu Moui stands out as perhaps the greatest nutrient and immune booster ever discovered.
There is nothing in the contents of Limu that set it above the other brown seaweeds, as far as I can tell. All whole sea plants contain the above list of nutrients, with the exception of the high concentrations of sulphated polysaccharides found in the brown algae.
> The scientific and medical establishment is taking an ever greater interest as well as the studies on fucoidan have been growing exponentially since the mid-1970’s in the database of the National Library of Medicine at www.pubmed.gov. Anyone can go to this database and search the word fucoidan
And how many of those 600 articles are specific to Laminaria japonica? Eleven. Not a single one mentions Limu.
> and turn up now over 600 studies and can narrow those studies to issues of interest simply by adding an additional word or more like cancer or tumor or tumors or carcinogen or carcinoma, immune, blood or platelets or leukocyte, inflammation or inflammatory, liver or hepatitis, lung or pulmonary, heart or cardiovascular, pancreatic or diabetes or insulin, virus or viral, bacteria or bacterial, wound or wounds, surgery, skin or dermatitis or dermal, etc.
Again, what makes your product special?
Try and convince a skeptic, also an organic chemist (toxicology). For example, what is the fucoidan concentration?
Lar
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