Alfalfa Health Benefits

Alfalfa health benefits include being a source of many vitamins, the most common being:

• Vitamin A, which is good for the eyes and may possibly prevent cataracts.
• Vitamin D., which is essential for bone development, by aiding in the absorption of calcium and phosphorus from food that you eat.
• Vitamin E, which is essential for good immunity and the health of your skin and eyes, and protecting cells from damage (as an antioxidant).
• Vitamin K, which aids the body in being able to properly clot and prevent problems with bleeding.

In addition to providing the body with these specific vitamins (and others), some other health benefits include being a source of trace amounts of many minerals. It is also believed that there is a direct correlation between supplementing with alfalfa and lowering cholesterol.

In Chinese medicine, alfalfa is often used as an agent to cleanse the body's digestive tract, for the treatment of jaundice and kidney stones, and also for weight loss.

In other parts of the world, alfalfa is used as a diuretic, to help those who are having water-retention issues.

Although available in its natural form, most people supplement with alfalfa using either a tablet or a liquid tea form. In addition to being easier to get a full serving in at one time through concentrated alfalfa tablets or by making an alfalfa tea, it is also safer to do this as there are occassionally problems with the raw plant (such as salmonella contamination).

For this reason, it is recommended to find good natural alfalfa tablets that are made by a high-quality manufacturer who thoroughly tests its products. My alfalfa supplement of choice is Shaklee Alfalfa.

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