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"Weight-loss Seaweed" -- The Truth of the Matter

If you think that stimulating the thyroid gland can help you lose weight, think again.

A fisherman collects seaweed. Photo by H. A. Thomsen

Some years ago, I took a trip to Siam. On the beaches of Som, a Cambodian village, I saw one of the most incredible spectacles of my life - millions of emaciated young people were collecting seaweed and taking it up to the beach, where, once cleaned, it was left to dry. I thought that the seaweed was a food source for them, seeing how little there was to eat in the area. However, the truth was somewhat different. This seaweed was destined for weight-loss products. The paradox of the story: a people dying of hunger spent the day collecting seaweed to send to Western countries where it would be turned into weight-loss pills for gluttons and pigs. Such is life.

The seaweed in question.

Getting back on track, can some types of seaweed actually help people who want to lose weight? A little, but certainly not for the iodine that they contain - stimulating the thyroid does not help one lose weight. Stimulation of this delicate gland can actually damage it, as we learned from those crazy doctors who prescribed thyroid extract to combat obesity for years.

Seaweed can have another important benefit - it can make one feel full, making a diet easier to follow.
Front-runner among other plants that can satiate the appetite is the Flea Wortseed, a plant that, when soaked in water, creates a gelatinous mass that fills the stomach and calms hunger pangs.
Flea Wortseed has another great benefit - it combats constipation, and it does so without irritation, a downside of 90% of the laxatives out there, including vegetable based one. Aside from augmenting fecal mass, it rids the intestinal walls of toxins and wastes which can increase the chances of tumors. Say yes to Wortseed for constipation and no to those irritating laxatives, almost always made of Senna and often presented as inviting Swiss pills. Not much Swiss about them, though, if all the herbs are Italian, including that dangerous Senna.

DOTT. CIRO VESTITA - NATURAL MEDICINE
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