Helicobacter pylori / ulcer

(See also above under Antibacterial)

Peptic ulcer of the stomach is most common in Blood Type O patients of whom Dr Peter D’Adamo says: “Any blood type O who suffers from ulcers or wants to prevent them, should use wrack seaweed because it will make the ulcer-causing bacteria, H. pylori, slide off the stomach lining” (3).

The fucose component (of the seaweed) is known to act on H. pylori “much as dust would on a piece of adhesive tape: it clogs the suction cups on the bacteria, preventing it from attaching to the stomach” (3, p58, 136).

In vitro and animal studies have demonstrated the efficacy of a fucoidan extract from Cladosiphon seaweed (known in Japan as Okinawan Mozuku) against Helicobacter pylori, further supported by subsequent human trials in a clinical setting, where similar results were observed against gastric ulcer and non-ulcer dyspepsia (166).

Seagreens® wild wrack seaweeds, all members of the order Fucaceae, or Fucus, are rich in fucose especially Seagreens® Food Capsules and Food Granules. Japanese scientists have isolated a definite anti-ulcer substance in seaweed which had antimicrobial activity against a long list of human disease-causing bacteria including E.coli, Pseudomonas æruginosa, Salmonella, Staphylococcus, Aspergillus, Fusarium and Shigella (10).