Chlorophyll plays an important role in making plants green and healthy. It also has vitamins, antioxidants, and therapeutic properties that may benefit your body.

You can get chlorophyll from plants or supplements. Supplements may be more effective, as chlorophyll doesn’t survive digestion long enough for absorption. Chlorophyll supplements are actually chlorophyllin, which contains copper instead of magnesium.

Chlorophyllin has similar properties to chlorophyll. The marketed benefits are:

• stimulating the immune system
• eliminating fungus in the body
• detoxifying your blood
• cleaning your intestines
• getting rid of bad odors
• energizing the body
• preventing cancer