Chlorophyll is one of the most ubiquitous chemicals in the human diet and makes up a considerable amount of the micronutrient intake when a high plant food diet is eaten. Chlorophyll is a pigment in plants that is structurally similar to human haemoglobin apart from the presence of magnesium ions rather than iron ions. Chlorophyll may have a number of health effects in humans and in particular it may be able to modify the process that can lead to the formation of cancers. One way this may occur is through the modification of oxidative stress through an antioxidant process that is present in certain chlorophyll metabolites. Of course one of the major benefits of eating more chlorophyll from plants is that with the chlorophyll many other useful and health giving nutrients are consumed. High chlorophyll diets therefore tend to be high in many beneficial phytochemicals, many of which possess antioxidant, anti-cancer, cardioprotective and anti-inflammatory effects.
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