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Dark Chocolate and Vision
Jim Goetz
Keeping it simple, peer reviewed research is showing that cacao at 72% improves blood flow and improves vision for at least 2 hours after consumption. Further testing is needed to determine how long the effects do last. To biohack this- consume a minimum of 72% cacao and work on hand eye coordination. See if this may improve your fine motor skills such as hitting or catching.
Chlorophyll The Miracle Cure All
Mike Brandon
 
People take many supplements for many reasons, sometimes they are justified, and sometimes they are just well marketed. Even with supplements that I know have been proven to work, I like asking people why exactly they are taking something. The answers I get range from highly educated to head scratchingly confusing.  I was with a friend at a local supplement store, and she reached for “Liquid Chlorophyll”, so I tossed the question at her and she rattled off a few dozen homeopathic reasons for taking it. I must have zoned out because she starred at me and asked if I think she is wasting her money, and I told her that I'm not sure, but I have a better answer for her now.
 
First of all, what is it that we are talking about? Chlorophyll is a natural pigment in plants that allows them to absorb sunlight for photosynthesis. It is jam packed full of vitamins and minerals/antioxidants like vitamins a,c,e,k, beta carotene, mg, iron, k+ ca+ and some omega 3’s. Naturally we get it in our diet mostly through dark leafy greens and algae; It is fat soluble. However it is “unstable”, meaning that it degrades easily. Cooking it destroys most of the chlorophyll, as well as freezing produce (destroys about 50% and 30% respectively). So in supplements, it is slightly modified into a water soluble form called chlorophyllin. At the time of this writing, there was no found sources stating if chlorophyllin still has the same mineral content as chlorophyll.
 
An interesting and potentially clinically relevant note, is that the chlorophyll structure is very similar to our body’s heme, which is what carries our O2 throughout our body in our blood cells. The major difference is that chlorophyll has magnesium in the center of the molecule whereas heme has iron.
 
So just like most homeopathic remedies, there is a laundry list of conditions and ailments that chlorophyll/chlorophyllin has been used for, but lets hit some of the research to see what they say.
 
Though it has been heavily researched, it's only been done on a few of the proposed benefits, but lets get the disproven ones out of the way first. One of the major things it is advertised for is a natural deodorant. It supposedly lowers body odor, bad breath, and “fecal odor” by taking supplements orally. For those of you that hope to take plant blood to make you smell better, Im sorry to inform you that it doesn’t appear to work. Granted, these studies were all done using the supplement form and not natural chlorophyll, so with food sources there is still hope because some studies have shown high produce eaters to have less body odor, but they also tend to be smaller, more slender individuals which could also play a factor.
 
Supplementation may also help suppress hunger. When on a high carb diet, chlorophyill can affect satiety hormones like cholecytokinin, ghrelin, and insulin. This hasn’t been shown effective on low carb, high fat diets however which already give major satiety benefits.
 
Onto the brighter side, both forms appear to help with cheleating; that is they bind to some heavy metals, toxins, and maybe even some pesticides. It’s possible that chlorophyll doe