Lori Esarey MS, APRN-C, ABAAHPGoing Beyond Weight Loss to Achieve Wellness For Life

Chlorella for Gut Health: Can This Algae Help with Constipation & Digestion?

18 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker highlights chlorella’s health properties, beginning with its status as the algae with the highest glutathione content, an antioxidant crucial for liver protection. She positions chlorella as a gut‑health algae, contrasting it with spirulina, which she describes as a brain‑health algae. The discussion then shifts to constipation, noting that it accounts for 1.3 million emergency‑room visits annually in the United States, predominantly among women and children. She explains that women’s longer colon, which wraps around the uterus, contributes to higher susceptibility. Common constipation triggers—stress, low fiber intake, certain medications, travel, excess dairy, and inadequate water—are listed, covering roughly 90 % of cases. Finally, she points out that chlorella contains the world’s highest tryptophan levels; because tryptophan is a melatonin precursor, she recommends taking chlorella before bedtime to support sleep.

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And it has chlorella has the highest glutathione, which is an antioxidant particularly important for your liver. And when I was reading the writing my book, I stumbled across a very very important extra benefit again related to gut because this is really a gut health algae while spirulina is a brain health. And this will be very interesting for women in particular. And it deals with constipation. I had no idea constipation was such a big problem in America. One point three million emergency. visits a year, and most of them are either women or children. It's just, I found out that women actually have a larger, longer colon just because our colon has to go around our uterus and stuff. But this solves constipation. People get constipated if they are stressed, they're not having enough fiber, they're, they're on medications, they're traveling, too much dairy. Um, and that pretty much sums up about 90% of America, right? So how does this— lack of water. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So you're gonna love how this, how this solves the problem. I had no idea, but, uh, well, first of all, this has the highest tryptophan in the world. Um, tryptophan is a precursor to melatonin, which helps you sleep. So this is another reason why we say take it before bed.