Algae tablets are the best foods for hangovers and protecting your body from suboptimal holiday choices. Read more to learn why.

‘Tis the season for celebration – filled with festive meals, drinks, and other indulgences. While relaxing and enjoying these moments is all part of the fun, it can leave many of us feeling bloated, sluggish, and yes – hungover. 

The winter holidays can throw off our health, whether that be because of extra travel, festive meals, family stress, or drinking. This can lead to a whole lot of toxic exposures that our bodies may not be used to handling. However, there is a superfood that can offer some support during this season of overindulgence—algae tablets!

Chlorella and spirulina can support your body to feel its best this season. From supporting detoxification and liver function to aiding digestion and reducing alcohol’s impact, ENERGYbits® can be the holiday helper you didn’t know you needed! 

In this article, we cover how incorporating algae tablets into your holiday routine can help you recover from holiday excesses and feel your best all season long!

How Chlorella Helps with Detoxification and Maintaining Optimal Health During the Holidays

The holiday season can bring about many toxin exposures – whether from alcohol, rich and heavy meals, or other environmental factors like traveling. Combined, this can put increased stress on the liver, our body’s main detox organ. RECOVERYbits®  chlorella, can be a great support for promoting elimination and maintaining optimal health this time of the year.

Packed with essential vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, algae tablets support overall health and assist your body’s natural detox mechanisms. They work to support liver function, promote toxin elimination, and ease digestion – all of which help mitigate the effects of overindulgence.

By including algae tablets, like ENERGYbits®, into your holiday routine, you can help support your body in processing and eliminating toxins effectively. This will help you stay balanced and energized all holiday season long!

Best foods for hangovers

Although spirulina and chlorella aren't a cure for holiday hangovers, they can provide nutritional support like vitamins and amino acids. Let’s look at them individually:

Spirulina:

• Is rich in antioxidants, including vitamins A, C, and E, and the big one called phycocyanin. These can help neutralize free radicals that occur during alcohol metabolism in the liver [1]. This, in turn, can reduce oxidative stress and protect liver cells.
• Helps boost levels of glutathione; a key antioxidant critical for liver function [2]. Therefore, it can help support the liver’s natural breakdown of harmful substances in alcoholic beverages and help speed up their elimination.
• Contains plenty of B vitamins, including B1, B2, and B6, which are often depleted after drinking [3]. These vitamins are key for optimal energy and liver support and might help mitigate some of the fatigue that often comes along with hangovers.

Chlorella:

• Is packed with chlorophyll, a green plant pigment that works as a natural detoxifier. It can help bind up some waste, including some alcohol byproduct. This can reduce the waste’s impact on the liver and support your body to eliminate the waste more efficiently [4].
• Contains beneficial polysaccharides that can help protect the liver from the negative impacts of alcohol by strengthening the gut-liver connection [5]. These encourage a healthy balance of gut bacteria, help strengthen the intestinal barrier, and bind up some substances to be eliminated. This can help reduce the strain of alcohol on liver cells, protecting them from damage.
• Supports healthy liver cell repair and regeneration [6], helping the liver recover from the strain of processing alcohol.

When it comes to battling a hangover, there is no magic cure. However, it is important to focus on protecting your body against the stress and nutrient-depletion impacts of alcohol. Taking algae tablets, in addition to focusing on foods rich in electrolytes, antioxidants, and hydration, can give your body the support it needs. 

This holiday season, opt for nutrient-dense food options, including eggs, leafy greens, and plain old water to support your body’s recovery process. While they won’t eliminate a hangover, these foods, combined with spirulina and chlorella, can help mitigate its effects and speed up recovery.

Help bind toxins, assisting with elimination

When it comes to binding and eliminating toxins from the body, look no further than algae tablets. Chlorella, in particular, can escort these substances out of the body. This is because of the unique structure of chlorella’s cell wall that allows it to trap harmful substances and safely escort them out. 

While heavy metals are the major toxin studied when it comes to chlorella’s toxin-binding ability, some studies also find it can also bind other toxins, like pesticides and environmental pollutants. One study found that chlorophyll, the pigment found in chlorella, was even protective against endocrine-disrupting chemicals, which can interfere with hormone balance [7]. 

Algae tablets can bind to toxins in the gut [8]. This prevents their absorption into the bloodstream and helps the body eliminate them through waste. Chlorella also contains components that can help bind dietary fats after digestion, which can help mitigate the absorption of some less healthy lipids [9].

RECOVERYbits® provides chlorella that can give your body an extra layer of protection from processed foods, alcohol, and other day-to-day exposures during this holiday season. It can also support the liver and kidneys, reducing the overall toxic load during the holiday season, and helping you recover more quickly from holiday indulgences.

 

Support liver function and health

By supporting all four phases of detoxification, these nutrients make algae tablets helpful foods to consume both prior to, and after drinking. Algae tablets contain nutrient compounds that can help support alcohol breakdown and reduce the oxidative stress that comes with a few too many drinks.

Research finds that chlorella and spirulina can also have positive impacts on liver health. In one study, researchers reviewed the results of several trials. They found that chlorella supplementation noticeably reduced one specific liver enzyme called AST (aspartate aminotransferase), which can be a sign that something is affecting the liver [10].

The chlorophyll found in algae tablets can also help support your body’s detox pathways. Chlorophyll provides some protection against DNA damage caused by harmful chemicals in the environment, such as pollutants. Research finds it can bind to these harmful substances, minimizing their harmful effects on the body [11].

 

Protect your gut bacteria

The holiday season often means an increase in high-fat, high-carb, and high-sugar meals. While delicious, they can throw off the gut bacteria balance, promoting the growth of suboptimal microbes while reducing the number of beneficial ones [12]. 

Eating this way can temporarily impair the barrier that protects us from toxins and suboptimal bacteria, having ripple effects throughout the body. Over time, it makes the microbes in the gut less diverse. This diversity is a key measure of gut flora health and robustness. A less diverse gut flora is less healthy and less robust against stress and challenges. Because they’re less healthy, they may also produce less beneficial metabolites like short-chain fatty acids, which promote gut health.

In one study on young athletes, researchers gave participants 5 grams of spirulina daily for 15 days. After eating a high-fat meal, they measured blood lipid levels before and after the treatment [13]. Results found that spirulina helped their bodies process fat more efficiently, with lower fasting fat levels and improved fat clearance after the intervention.

 

Since RECOVERYbits® chlorella contain prebiotics, they can help protect the balance of gut bacteria. Suboptimal bacteria can tend to take over when you feed them holiday meals. In rats, feeding them spirulina protects the gut flora from high-fat meals [14]. By supporting the gut flora, algae tablets can help keep digestive discomfort after heavy meals at bay.

Supports healthy blood sugar control

When we overdo it with sugary treats and high-carbohydrate foods, it can cause big spikes in our blood sugar levels. This can contribute to energy crashes and even metabolic stress [15]. 

Spirulina can support fasting blood sugar levels and improve insulin signaling [16]. By incorporating these algae into your holiday routine, you can better support your body from blood sugar highs and lows that come with indulgent meals. Also, by providing B vitamins, the algae tablets will help you feel more balanced and energized throughout the festivities.

 

Conclusion

When it comes to staying healthy and happy this holiday season, look no further than the power of algae! While winter festivities can often derail health goals, there is no reason that you can’t find balance even at this time of year. If you want to support your body’s natural detox mechanisms, keep your gut bacteria healthy, and get essential nutrients, ENERGYbits® is here to help. 

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