SPRU Fresh Spirulina Daily Dosage
Fresh spirulina is a functional food – both a food and a medicine.
That means you cannot take too much - if fact many people eat only fresh spirulina for 100 days and show significant health improvements as it provides complete nutrition.
Sadly, it is currently too expensive to maintain avery high dosage, but we're working hard to find more economical ways to clean-farm spirulina.
Find your daily dosage, learn how to get started for best results, and read about why you can stop taking supplements.
SPRU TO BOOST NUTRITION
In today’s busy life it’s almost impossible to achieve complete nutrition from food.
Most people have nutrient deficiencies they are not aware of — these can drive hidden hunger and leave you susceptible to medical conditions and even serious illness.
People turn to supplements for additional nutrients — but research confirms that supplements are a bad choice.
Fresh spirulina is a powerful and concentrated superfood that contains everything you can find in supplements and more — in a natural living organic form that is quickly digested and highly bioavailable.
SPRU TO BOOST WELLNESS
Fresh Spirulina contains hundreds of natural healing substances that boost wellness, improve physical and mental performance, prevent and fight illness, and slow ageing – explore these superpowers and see supporting scientific research on this site.
More than twelve thousand research studies confirm the health benefits of daily spirulina.
Explore the many science-backed SPRU Superpowers spotlighted on this site — sign up for updates as we’re are busy adding more.
SPRU is your daily dose of wellness.
FRESH SPIRULINA DOSAGE – SP WHO?
We measure dosage in Spirulina Portions (SP)
- SP-1 is a single portion or dose,
- SP-2 is a double portion, and
- SP-3 is a triple portion or dose.
HOW MUCH SPRU – YOUR DAILY DOSE
Find your suggested fresh spirulina portion below.
If you have questions please chat with us on WhatsApp (below right).
SPRU PRODUCT PORTION SIZES
SPRU SHOTS
- Ready to drink spirulina and slow-pressed fruit juice shots
- No added sugars, stabilizers, preservatives, colouring or other nasties.
- Sold frozen in 6-Packs
DOSAGE: SP-1.5 (one and a half fresh spirulina portions per shot)
SPRU STIX
- Pure fresh spirulina cubes to slip into a juice bottle or add to your smoothie
- Sold in 30-Packs
DOSAGE: Available in SP-1, SP-2 and SP-3 (single, double or triple fresh spirulina portions)
SP-1, SP-2 and SP-3 STIX are the same size but contain different amounts of spirulina.
MORE DOSAGE INFORMATION
Fresh spirulina is no ordinary health product - reading the information below will help you jump-start your health improvement.
Click on headings to learn more.
STOP YOUR SUPPLEMENTS
When you start taking fresh spirulina stop taking ALL your supplements.
Fresh spirulina provides hundreds of powerful natural nutrients — protein, amino acids, omega fatty acids, vitamins, active enzymes, antioxidants, anti-inflammatories, minerals, trace elements, bioactive and healing substances — a wellness powerhouse beyond the ability of supplements.
Don’t believe us? Listen to your body — after 2 or 3 weeks, if you feel the need for any specific supplement, try starting that one again and see if it makes any difference to how you feel.
Most SPRU customers never take supplements again.
HOW TO GET STARTED
When starting with fresh spirulina, choose your daily dose — then double or triple it for 2 to 3 weeks.
This will help fill and eliminate nutrient deficiencies you may not be aware of, and also allow the healing and prevention spirulina compounds to do their work and boost wellness across all your body systems.
Listen carefully to your body and pay attention to your mental and physical wellbeing, energy levels and more.
After this time, slowly drop back to the dose you selected while paying attention to how you look and feel.
Your body will tell you what the correct dosage is for you.
START WITH A FRESH SPIRULINA FAST
A fresh spirulina fast is a terrific way to improve your health and get started with your fresh spirulina regime.
There are a selection of great fasts to choose from:
- CLEANSE DETOX REPLENISH
- VEGAN PLANT-BASED BOOSTER FAST
- WEIGHT LOSS FAST
- ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE FAST
- LONGEVITY & ANTI-AGEING FAST
- SPIRULINA WELLNESS FAST
If you don't find the fast you're looking for please reach out — we'll be happy to help you create the fast you want.
TOO MUCH SPRU?
There is no known maximum dosage for fresh spirulina.
In the United States 10 to 30-day fresh spirulina fasts — during which participants take large SP-30 daily doses of fresh living spirulina and water — are gaining in popularity.
Some devotees eat only fresh spirulina for 100 days at a time and are found on medical inspection to be healthier afterwards than before - reporting dramatic health improvements including blood sugar stabilization, decreased visceral fat , muscle increase, iron increase, and consistent water content increase.
WHEN TO VARY YOUR DOSAGE
After a few weeks on your chosen dosage you’ll know when to vary your dosage depending on how you feel and your plans for the day and week ahead.
You may want to increase your dosage:
- When you need extra energy
- If you feel the beginnings of a cold, flu, herpes outbreak or other illness
- When you have a mentally stressful period, or late nights ahead
- Before and after unusual physical or athletic performance
- Before and after a late night or heavy alcohol intake
- When suffering from and recovering from an illness
DOSAGE FOR ILLNESS & SPECIAL CASES
The dosage guidelines on this page may be varied considerably if you are fighting — or recovering from — a serious illness or medical condition.
Eating disorders — or any problem that prevents you from getting sufficient nutrition — may also require different doses.
We provide dosage guidance, but the best strategy is to remember that fresh spirulina is a powerful natural superfood that packs both nutritional and healing properties. Listen closely to your body and monitor any changes carefully.
Fresh spirulina is a new food with only a decade of use — from our experience it provides far more powerful results than reported in the thousands of research articles about dry spirulina.
We are not medical professionals and cannot provide fresh spirulina prescriptions or definitive dosage advice, but we do our best to pass on feedback from users and refer you to scientific research that may provide useful information.
You are welcome to contact SPRU at any time if you have questions using the chat widget bottom right.
We're especially interested to hear about your experience with fresh living spirulina — please share it with us to make it available to others looking for information.
BEST TIMES TO SPRU
There is no single best time to take your daily fresh spirulina.
Experiment to find the best dosage and SPRU times for your body.
There’s no need to take your daily dose all at once — you can split your dosage over the course of the day.
Most people prefer to enjoy spirulina first thing in the morning, while others divide their dosage or prefer early afternoon for an energy boost, or take it before and/or after a workout.
Some people experience an energy surge — a spirulina rush — if that’s you, avoid taking SPRU after late afternoon as you may be too energized to sleep.
Remember, you can:
- Buy SPRU products in SP-1 up to SP-3 dosage
- Combine SPRU products to create a larger dosage
- Split your dosage to enjoy at different times of the day
- Double or triple your dose for the first 2 weeks (see GETTING STARTED above)
- Vary your dosage according to how you feel and the demands of your day
- Safely take up to SP-30 a day
COMPARING FRESH SPIRULINA TO SUPPLEMENTS
People often ask how much of a particular nutrient is in a fresh spirulina dose.
Nutrient tables on supplements do not take into account the nutrient's bioavailability.
Bioavailability is a measure of the usefulness of the nutrient — how much your body can actually absorb and use.
Bioavailability is a function of
- whether the nutrient is in an inorganic (useless to your living cells before conversion) or organic state (ready for human body use): all fresh spirulina nutrients are already in a living cell and ready for use by the human body
- the absorptivity of the nutrient — how and where it is delivered to your body: spirulina nutrients are housed in a gel cell wall that releases them instantly to be absorbed through the stomach wall into your blood, while chemical supplements must first dissolve their carrier powders and linings and may pass through your body unabsorbed (plant nutrients are enclosed in hard cellulose cell walls that our stomach cannot dissolve)
The bioavailability of iron sources makes a good example as the majority of the world population suffers from iron deficiency:
- spinach (famous for providing iron) has a bioavailability of around 4%
- iron supplements provide between 9 and 14% bioavailability
- spirulina (natures richest source of organic iron) provides a massive 94% bioavailability
Taking a supplement purporting to provide 1000 units of iron may only provide only 90 to 140 units of iron.
The only way to truly know what level of a nutrient you are getting is to measure it in your blood, take the nutrient for a month or longer, then measure its level in your blood again.
This is the basis of spirulina research — more than 200 independent research studies on this website have slected a group of people with a similar health problem, treated them with a dose of spirulina for a period of time, and carefully measured the before and after changes.
As you will see as you review the research, spirulina provides astonishingly positive results — in spite of the researchers having used DRIED spirulina (fresh spirulina has only become available in the past 5 years).
Fresh spirulina - never heated, never dried - provides up to 8 times more nutrients and up to 20 times more antioxidants, anti-inflammatories, active enzymes, and healing bioactive compounds than found in dried spirulina powder or tablets.
Almost any dose of fresh spirulina will provide more benefits than shown in most of the above research studies that have been conducted with dried spirulina.
COMPARING FRESH SPIRULINA TO DRIED SPIRULINA
Dried spirulina sold as powder or tablet supplements is heated to very high temperature during the drying process — this damages or destroys active enzymes, omegas, antioxidants, anti-inflammatories, healing compounds and many of the vitamins.
Dried spirulina stored unchilled and in light can lose a further 50% of its nutrients within six months of manufacture.
Fresh spirulina - never heated, never dried - provides up to 8 times more nutrients and up to 20 times more antioxidants, anti-inflammatories, active enzymes, and bioactive compounds than found in dried spirulina powder or tablets.
SPRU fresh spirulina is frozen hours after harvest to capture and maintain the highest nutrient levels possible.
It continues to amaze us that tens of thousands of research done with dried spirulina managed to achieve such excellent results.
It's little wonder that fresh spirulina users report dramatic health improvements.
SPRU Fresh Spirulina Daily Dosage
Fresh spirulina is a functional food – both a food and a medicine.
Find your daily dosage, learn how to get started for best results, and why you can stop taking supplements.
