Chlorella

I've been conversing with a friend and fellow patient about albumin, and how our protein leakage also causes a lack of albumin in our system, which leads to a number of bad things. Most apparent of the symptoms of not having albumin in our systems is edema, as it is the albumin that acts as a chaperone for fluid that passes through our blood. When there is no albumin, the fluid goes crazy -- sort of a physiological version of "Girls Gone Wild".

One of things we can do to deal with about our hypoalbuminaemia is to eat foods with albumin, so that we can make up for all of albumin our kidneys are leaking away. You can find albumin in egg whites, meats, and some plants.

One of the things recommended for raising albumin production is chlorella, which is algae found in freshwater. You can actually get chlorella tablets at your local health food store (warning: they are not cheap). As you can read in my last link, chlorella has a number of benefits, even for people in good health. I tried them for a time, but I ended up quitting due to their cost, and, well, they taste quite awful. But if they can help heal my body and put it back into equilibrium, then that's a sacrifice that I'll make.