Chlorella: Why it Makes a Vegan, Keto, Paleo, or SAD Diet Better

Joel Kahn
7 min readMay 19, 2019

Whether it’s lead, mercury, PFAS, BPA, DDT, glyphosate or other toxins that are in the news, you can run but you cannot hide from the challenges to health that the Industrial Revolution and the chemical industry have created over the past century.

A focus on overall wellness requires a plan to death with biotoxicity from water, air, food, medications and other sources. In addition to air filters, water filters, glass containers, and sauna therapy, I take a handful of 30 organic chlorella tablets every day.

Whether you are following a vegan, Paleo, Keto, Mediterranean, or certainly if a Standard American Diet (SAD), chlorella is quickly becoming well known (along with spirulina) as one of the world’s healthiest foods to manage biotoxicity. An added bonus is the nutritional content this powerhouse of a crop provides.

Background on Chlorella

Chlorella has been around for hundreds of millions of years. However, awareness of its nutritional properties started less than 100 years ago. Following World War 2, there was a global food shortage. As the population of the world continued to rise exponentially, economists feared that global food production could not meet the demands of the growing population. Food scientists, hard at work searching for…

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Joel Kahn
Joel Kahn

Written by Joel Kahn

Professor of Cardiology, Summa cum Laude grad, Kahn Center for Longevity and GreenSpace Cafe. www.drjoelkahn.com @drjkahn. Author The Plant Based Solution NEW