Catharine Arnston
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The Dr. Tyna Show
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Our soils are so damaged, our food is so over-processed, and it's almost impossible to be properly nourished. And everybody I know has a countertop full of supplements. And when you take algae, because there's 40 vitamins and minerals that we test, there's probably like 200 micronutrients in there we haven't just tested for.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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So when your mitochondria DNA get damaged as they do, and I'll explain how they get damaged, your health crashes. It's just that simple. So how do they get so damaged? Well, a byproduct of this ATP stuff that we need, which is called cellular energy, a byproduct are free radicals. Let me explain what free radicals are just so you're clear on what they are.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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It's a molecule that has what's an unpaired electron in its outer orbit and nature strives for balance. So if the molecule has a single electron, it will steal an electron from a neighboring molecule to balance itself out. But then that molecule is unbalanced, so it will steal electron from another one. And so this is what causes tissue damage.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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Now, the good thing is there's these good guys called antioxidants. They have lots of extra and free electrons to give away. They're sort of like the kid who came to school with extra lunches for their friends. So they give them all away. And so those extra electrons that are donated by the antioxidant calms down the free radical, pairs it off. So there's no tissue damage. Perfect, right?
The Dr. Tyna Show
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Well, here's the problem. Your mitochondria have a second membrane. It has the outside membrane that all your other tissues cells have, which is called a lipid membrane. But your mitochondria have a second inner membrane. And why is that a problem? Because virtually no antioxidants can get in there.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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You could eat a room full of blueberries, a bottle, a house full of vitamin C or vitamin E, and none of it will get into that inner membrane to calm down those free radicals that are a byproduct of your ATP production. There are a handful, fortunately, of antioxidants that can get in there.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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And the good news is they're almost all in algae, glutathione, chlorophyll, but the most important one is called superoxide dismutase. And why is superoxide dismutase so important
The Dr. Tyna Show
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for your calming down your these free radicals well it's because there's a special type of free radical that's released in the mitochondria it's called superoxide now why is it so it's not only unique it's the most damaging free radical of all why is it so damaging because instead of having one unpaired electron it has three So it's three times as damaging.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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So it is so critical that you calm this free radical down and neutralize it. And this stuff called superoxide dismutase is what does it. And how does it do it? It converts the free radical into that superoxide into harmless water and oxygen. Ta-da! So it basically saves your mitochondria. Now, the good news is your body creates this stuff called superoxidismutase from the moment you're born.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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And until the age of 30, your mitochondria are protected. That's why you have so much energy. That's why you grow. That's why everything seems to work really well. Think of superoxide dismutase behaving like a big golf umbrella. If you've ever been seeing those big golf umbrellas, it doesn't matter whether you're a golfer or just shopping.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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If you suddenly get stuck in a rainstorm, you pop that big golf umbrella up, you could protect a family of 10. It's so big. So that's what superoxide dismutase does. Your body's making it for you. It doesn't stop the free radicals, but it stops the rain of them from getting to the mitochondria. Now, that works until you're 30.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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Now your body, after 30, and you're starting to get into perimenopause, and then eventually menopause, your body slows down that production of superoxide, dismutase. Now that big golf umbrella that's been protecting your mitochondria is about the size of one of those city totes umbrella. So now your mitochondria are dodging raindrops or free radicals.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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They're getting some protection, not a lot, but some. Then by the time you're 40, your body literally stops producing this superoxide dismutase. So now that golf umbrella that was protecting you and then became a totes is about the size of a cocktail umbrella. Virtually zero protection. Remember, the free radicals were always being produced.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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But up until that age of 40, you had this ability to convert it to oxygen and water. So there was no damage. Once you hit 40, once you're in that serious menopause stage, you lose that protection because the fact is up until about 150 years ago, we died at age 30. Our biology thinks we're dying. That's why it slows down estrogen. It slows down melatonin.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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It slows down a lot of things, including the superoxide dismutase. And scientists aren't aware, virtually nobody is aware, that algae, especially spirulina, but also chlorella, has the highest concentration of superoxidismutase in the world. You can't get it from any other food.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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you can't get it even if you took it as a supplement it would get damaged in your digestion and the reason why it works so well in spirulina if it hasn't been heated with dry with a high heat is because spirulina is a technically a bacteria it does not even have a cellulose wall so there's nothing for your body to break down to get access to the 40 nutrients the high protein and the high super oxidities
The Dr. Tyna Show
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it goes straight into the mitochondria and helps protect it instantly. We've had people with Alzheimer's and dementia, within 24 hours, their brain is back on. And so what happens is just like all parts of your body, all of your cells, including your mitochondria, when given the right nutrients and removing the wrong ones, they will grow back. Nothing in your body stays still.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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There's a great expression, you never step in the same river twice. You are constantly evolving. And so what you're putting in at the moment is creating new cells. And so that's why when you start giving your mitochondria the protection that it needs, and there's other things you can do as well, like red light therapy, building muscle
The Dr. Tyna Show
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This also stimulate cold plunges, stimulate mitochondrial growth. But the best one is getting the superoxidismutase. And we even did some clinical trials on that about that last year. So this is so important for women because at the same time they are losing all the superoxidismutase like men are, we are losing hormones. We are losing estrogen.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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And it turns out that estrogen also acts as an antioxidant in the mitochondria to protect it from free radicals and it helps with proper functioning of the cells. And so this is why women, particularly when we get into the perimenopause and menopause get hit twice as hard.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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A, we've lost the superoxidismutase protection of our mitochondria and B, we've lost the estrogen protection that was also protecting your mitochondria. And by the way, your mitochondria, the highest amount of mitochondria are where your greatest energy needs are. Number one is your brain. Your brain has 2 million mitochondria per cell. Next highest is women's eggs. After that is your heart.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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Your heart has 8,000 mitochondria per cell. So this is why when women, as we hit menopause and perimenopause, run into so much brain fog, we run into depression. There's a great book by Dr. Chris Palmer called Brain Energy, where he talks about every brain disorder ultimately is traceable to damaged mitochondria. So, and there's all sorts of science papers about that.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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So if we can get your mitochondria back up, because think of mitochondria as the, they're not just the powerhouse, they're the light bulbs that keep the light in your body working. In your office tower, when the lights go out, you call maintenance and they come and replace the
The Dr. Tyna Show
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light bulb for you can't do any work without any lights same with your body when your mitochondria which are the lights that keep everything working go out unfortunately you don't have a maintenance crew to come and replace it but you do have superoxidismutase which you can find in the highest concentration in our spirulina algae tablets energy bits and also to the second highest is in the chlorella
The Dr. Tyna Show
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But spirulina gets in there faster because it's a bacteria. So we can turn your lights back on just with food, not a drug, not any kind of surgeries. It's almost a miracle if there wasn't so much science proving that this worked. And as I said, we did our own clinical trials. And you can't argue with 25,000 clinical trials about superoxidismutase.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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So we just need to get the word out that, particularly to women, you don't have to struggle with metabolic dysfunction and weight gain and fatigue and brain fog as you enter this change of life, because it happens, it's just part of life. And so I tell people, as you get into menopause years, you can either get bitter, Or you can get better. I want you to get better.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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And one of the ways to do that effortlessly, simply, and with food is with spirulina algae, if it's raw.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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Yes, absolutely. Well, I'm glad that you take it daily. Everyone in the world should be taking it daily. But while I realize a lot of people think these tablets, these LG tablets are a supplement, they're actually food. And I refer to it as a foundational food. Because let's face it, we are being poisoned to death. A combination of...
The Dr. Tyna Show
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And until recently, there was not a lot of discussion about this. And you know, Dr. Tina, that so many science studies that were done were always with men. And women just, we're built differently. We have different issues.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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uh we have smaller bones so we're more susceptible to osteoporosis we're more susceptible to um all sorts of brain disorders and i'm convinced that so much of this is because the double whammy of our hormonal changes with the loss of the superoxide dismutase and so um i can't do anything about the hormones but i can certainly get the superoxidismutase back in and turn the lights back on there's and you can tell when your brain is functioning again it's like
The Dr. Tyna Show
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you just feel alert again. And to your point, these issues are hitting women earlier and earlier because of the toxicity that we're surrounded by the glyphosate, the pesticides, the lead, the heavy metals. That's why chlorella, but we'll talk about chlorella as well, pulls out all heavy metals to help protect you from this gathering of toxins because the average adult apparently
The Dr. Tyna Show
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in North America has 700 toxins in their bodies. And our immune systems and our bodies simply were not built to sustain that kind of toxic load. So it interferes with everything. It's like, your nutrition that you're getting from the nourishment you're getting from the spirulina in many cases can't get into the cell because the toxins are taking the spot of them on the receptor cells.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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So they work very well together. Spirulina puts nourishment in, chlorella pulls the toxins out.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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Soil's not having nutrients in them, so the plants don't either. And then over-processing, so there's fiber and calories, but no nutrition. And so algae is really, I think, the last shot we have being nourished. And also that's what spirulina does, and we'll get to that. And chlorella pulls out toxins because we're also being poisoned to death from the toxins.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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I really want women to understand that. Yeah. Well, and it's a couple of things. First of all, women, none of us were really told how our body functions from a metabolic perspective. So, and the way I describe it is, you know, I'm not much of a cook quite honestly. So unlike my two sisters who are magicians in the kitchen. So when I do cook, I need a recipe because it's foreign ground for me.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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And so I have the recipe and it tells you all the ingredients and I go out dutifully and buy all my ingredients. And then I, if I follow the recipe, there's a 99% chance, pretty good chance it's going to come out as it should. Our bodies is the same way. But nobody has really, until recently, told you the recipe.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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And one of the recipes that I follow includes a very critical nutrient because lots of times you have a very important part of your recipe. And for me, that's algae. Both spirulina and chlorella are part of your recipe so that you, because if you follow the instructions and you follow the ingredients, you will have a more positive outcome. It just is the way it is. So that's one thing.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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The other thing is, you know, If you lived in the Midwest, let's say, and the only cars you ever saw were used cars and everybody's driving around, they're all dirty. It doesn't matter how many times you take that used car to a car wash and make it look pretty on the outside. If you don't fix the engine on the inside, it's still never going to work properly.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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So you can do all this sort of buffing, like the patches for the estrogen patch. But if you don't address the bigger issue inside first, There's only so much traction that you're going to get. The better thing is to address the issue that's going on inside.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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And you'll find it by listening to Dr. Tina, some of these issues, so that you can then start adding the taking your car to the car wash and start adding the extra pieces. But you're only going to get so much mileage out of that old jalopy until you fix it. So algae is one of the things that will fix it. It's not just a patch. It's a fixer.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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because it fixes, repairs and protects your mitochondria so they can grow and be more plentiful and more powerful because they are ultimately what is giving your body the cellular energy it needs to perform in every single function. So that's why I'm so bullish on algae is because yes, it's great. It satisfies your hunger and gives you energy and your skin improves.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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All these other, there's a thousand lists of benefits and it's almost, unbelievable if it wasn't all proven in 100,000 studies that nobody seems to know about. But it does work, but it gets right to the root cause, which is getting your mitochondria functioning again.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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And it does it with food, which is a miracle in its own right because you don't have to get any kind of prescription drug and it has no downsides. There's no drug interactions. of any kind. By the way, it's a very affordable food. We sell them in large bags. Dr. Tina has a discount code she's going to share with you. But the bags are the largest value, best value. There's 1,000 tablets in a bag.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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And if you have too many toxins in your body, it doesn't matter how much nourishment you're getting, the the nutrients have a difficulty getting absorbed and getting where they need to go. So again, spirulina and chlorella work as your super heroes to give you super nourishment and keep you living long and well during your journey, particularly for women.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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1,000 tablets equals 551 pounds of vegetables. But using Dr. Tina's discount code, and you took 10 tablets a day, which is sort of a starter dose, it costs you $1 a day. So you can protect your health, bring back your mitochondria, turn the lights back on in your brain and your metabolic system, and still be nourished and get great skin and hair, and all at one.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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It's like the gift that keeps on giving. Again, it would almost be unbelievable if it wasn't so science-based. So we're not talking a very expensive thing to do, or you don't have to go to a clinic and get injections or anything. It's Foundational food. It's really foundational food.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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Oh, it's great for pets, by the way. Anyone's listening.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they have the same health issues we have.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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So that's just, that's just farm life. Now that you mentioned glutathione, the chlorella has the highest glutathione in the world. So it's really amazing. So that's one of the reasons why chlorella is so detoxing and why we called it Recovery Bits because it helps you recover your health. But I chew all of mine. I mean, you can't chew supplements. I chew mine.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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You can eliminate many of your other supplements and they're gonna be much better for you anyways,
The Dr. Tyna Show
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I chew them with sea salt or I add pistachio nuts or if you're keto, macadamia nuts are really great. Slices of fruit if you like. Some people put them in their smoothie. Just grind them up first and put them in your smoothie. So It's really up to you. They're great for kids as well. That's why you don't have to worry about anything. It's not age specific. They're good for fasting.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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So understand that it's a foundational food. Let's go back a little bit. First of all, it was the first life on earth four billion years ago, not just the first food, but the very first life. I've now taken to calling spirulina spiritualina because there's something spiritual about being the first life. It was a cyanobacteria like spirulina.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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They don't have any carbs. So they don't interfere with your fasting. There's no lectins or oxalates. So if you're a carnivore and you are avoiding vegetables because you don't want lectins and oxalates, you're good to go because... algae star in the ocean and didn't have to develop lectins or oxalates to protect themselves.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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So, um, so it's low carb, low Cal, no, no lectins or oxalates, uh, paleo, um, who like ancestral foods. You can't get any older than algae. It was the first life on Earth. So it's been around. Yeah, it's still here. It just needed someone to explain it.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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You need the chlorophyll and you can't get decent chlorophyll from vegetables anymore because there's no nutrients in them. And chlorophyll builds your blood. I'm not sure if I showed you this before. So your hemoglobin and chlorophyll are virtually the same cellular structure. Your hemoglobin has iron in the middle. That's what carries oxygen in. And chlorophyll has magnesium in the middle.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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But if you're not eating vegetables, you're not getting chlorophyll. And so when you have healthy blood, everything else is going to work better. You're going to carry oxygen more. You're going to have more energy.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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And ultimately that cyanobacteria evolved into becoming our mitochondria, which we're going to do a deep dive on today. So it's no surprise to me why all the nutrients found in algae are critical for supporting mitochondria health because basically they came from the same place. So they're family. So within the category of algae, we have two main categories. One is called macroalgae.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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Yeah. And probably everyone's heard of the 80-20 rule, whether it's in life or business, that 80% of whatever you're aiming for comes from 20% of something. And then most people spend so much time on the other 20%, it takes so much effort and they only get 20% benefit. So on the 80-20 rule, I put algae in the 80 category. On its own, it's amazing what it does.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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And all those other things, whether it's peptides or red light or cold plunges, they bring up the number. But the 80 is coming from the algae because on its own, without anything else, you're going to get massive improvement in your mitochondrial health. But when you leverage it and stack it with these other biohacks, then you get improved benefits.
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And so as an example with red light, I know I showed you that those little molecules in the electron transport chain, I talked about the CoQ10 molecule being a, or sorry, the cytochrome C molecule being a little helper molecule. Well, there's another little helper molecule called CoQ10.
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And they've done some research and found that when you have chlorophyll and red light, so it could be from a red light device, or from the sun, when you merge, you have simultaneous chlorophyll and red light, it recirculates the CoQ10 molecule, which is another one of those helper molecules in that transport chain. So it regenerates, it also contributes to ATP.
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And also, this is one of the reasons why it contributes to reducing inflammation. So, and of course, algae has the highest chlorophyll in the world, both spirulina and chlorella. Chlorella is the most So if you want the maximum, you get the spirulina because you get the helper molecule from the blue pigment and you get the helper molecule from the chlorophyll.
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So to your point, we are generating electricity from the sun with chlorophyll. So that's That's pretty, and there's nothing in the world with more chlorophyll than chlorella algae, which is why it's called chlorella because of the chlorophyll. So very, very efficient.
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But it just up-levels every biohack, whether it's the cold plunges and the cold plunge, the cryo, the blood is rushing into the core to nourish, to protect your organs. And then when you step out, then all the blood rushes out to your extremities and brings energy. But while it was in the core, it's going through something called autophagy or apoptosis.
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Autophagy is basically cleansing because your body needs to be cleansing its cells. This is why fasting is so great because when you're fasting, you're not eating. And so eating dumps all these glucose and electrons into the electron transport chain to generate energy for you. But it's like you can't clean up your car while you're driving your car.
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So your cell has a hard time cleaning itself up while it's being overloaded with food. And the worst offender are carbs. When you eat too many carbs, there's a great video I see on, you can see it on YouTube. It's with Lucille Ball. It's a segment from one of her episodes.
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she was working at a chocolate factory yeah i love that chocolate factory you know uh conveyor belt and she couldn't keep up so she was stuffing all the chocolates in her mouth or throwing them over her shoulders well when you eat carbs this is what's going on your molecules in that electron transport chain can't keep up because carbs release the most free radicals and so your poor little cell is getting so dumped on by free radicals because they escape from this
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process the electron transport chain. So the best thing to do, even if you don't want to go keto, just reduce your carbs. It will make your electron transport chain more efficient. So fewer free radicals, more electrons, because when they escape, they turn into free radicals. So you want to reduce the free radicals and you want to eliminate them. And that's what the SOD does. So
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One is microalgae. We're talking about microalgae today, but let me quickly define what macroalgae is. It's that stringy stuff you see washing up on shore, on beaches, also known as seaweed. And it's good for you because it has lots of fiber, but it has virtually no nutrition. It does have a lot of iodine in it because it comes from the ocean.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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Anytime you can stop eating from using intermittent fasting or fasting, it reduces the load of electrons being moved along the electron transport chain. So your cell has a chance to clean up and algae has no carbs. So A, it helps with the autophagy and the apoptosis, which also happens when you're doing cold plunges or cryotherapy. But even on its own, it's very much the cleanup crew.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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And I tell people, you know, lots of times, They only think of algae as the thing that's closed their favorite beach. And I remind people, well, algae is the cleanup crew in nature too. You can't see the toxins or bacteria that are in the water, but the algae shows up to get rid of them, to absorb them and to kill them. And it does the same thing in your body too, especially the chlorella.
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So it's the cleanup crew. So maybe you have a big mess to clean up or a little mess to clean up, but it will clean it up and get you back on track. And it does it from food.
The Dr. Tyna Show
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I know. And also foods become political and there's so many different things that you have to do if you pursue a paleo or a carnivore diet. And so even if you change nothing else, nothing, and just started taking these, you would feel an improvement. And as I mentioned, it saves you money, it saves you time. Let's go out and use that extra time to
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you know, go for a run or be with your family or do whatever it is you want to do and you're still getting nourished. I call spirulina your nutritional insurance because it gives you the protein, the collagen, the SOD, 40 vitamins and minerals. And I call chlorella your health insurance because it builds your immune system, pulls out heavy metals, supports your gut biome, helps with elimination.
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Yes, I said elimination. Chlorella is a beautiful thing to help with bowel movements. And most people aren't talking about constipation or pooping, but if you're taking medications, you're traveling, you're eating a lot of dairy, you're eating a lot of processed foods, you're eating a lot of gluten, I can almost promise you, you are constipated.
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And chlorella, not spirulina, only chlorella will help you get on top of that and have a happy bowel movement in the morning because elimination is very important. So it's not just what you're taking in nourishment wise, it's what you're getting rid of because there's this stuff that I call the junk in your trunk.
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And you want to get rid of that because if it's sitting there, your blood circulates around those because those are toxins and stuff that your body just didn't want. And so it's recirculating. It's like having a garbage truck parked in front of your house permanently and And who wants that? So we want to get rid of that junk in your trunk and you do that with chlorella.
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Now, the other type of algae is what we're talking about today and doing a deep dive on called microalgae. Now, microalgae is called microalgae because it's microscopic in size. You can't even see it. Something like a million of them could fit on the head of a pin. And it's completely opposite to macroalgae. First of all, it's found everywhere, not just the sea.
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So it offers you all of the benefits of a plant-based diet, the fiber, because it has the fiber in it and it does the stimulation of the peristalsis. They work so beautifully together. Spirulina, by the way, I also call it brain food because remember I mentioned your brain has the highest mitochondria, 2 million per cell.
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And so the first thing that turns back on is your brain because of the high concentration of mitochondria and the high superoxidase mutase in the spirulina that's getting to your brain. So We all know that fatty fish are brain food. Well, spirulina is very much a brain food. And then chlorella, I consider gut food because it has the fiber for your gut biome.
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It has the chlorophyll that kills bacteria. It stimulates peristalsis. It has the 40 vitamins and minerals that build your immune system. So it's very much your gut health algae. And if it helps you at all to think about it differently, I've come up with some analogies. I travel a fair amount and sometimes I get room service.
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And so it nourishes me for the day and I get out the door, I have lots of energy. I thought, hmm, that's sort of like spirulina. So think of spirulina as room service. And then chlorella, you come back to your room and it's all cleaned out. The garbage has been taken out. It's like, huh, that's sort of like chlorella. So think of chlorella as housekeeping.
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Spirulina is your room service and chlorella is your housekeeping. They do completely different things, but they are both really essential for living well and living optimally. And I tell people, it's never too late to feel great. I don't care what age you are. By the way, I'm turning 70 next year. I know, that's what I was going to ask.
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Yeah, yeah. And you know, this is my hair and I don't have any Botox. These are my teeth. And I do hot yoga. I do Pilates on the machines. I run a company. I'm traveling all over the place. I got my PhD when I was 68. So ladies, there is no expiry date on our forehead. Society seems to want us to believe that. And it's not there.
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And I want to encourage you, whatever your dream is, whatever you want to do, just go and do it. Don't listen to anybody else. Just listen to yourself because your soul will always whisper to you, by the way, it will not shout at you. Your ego will shout, your soul whispers. Your soul is who you should be listening to. Your soul is who you really are. Your soul is why you are here on earth.
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Your soul will help direct you to find joy. Joy is what you are here to experience. That is it. But society likes us to think, well, after the end of 40, you don't deserve any joy. Why would you get any joy? You're supposed to be you know, going out and getting ready for retirement. Screw that. You know, the best time of your life should be now. You've kind of figured out who you are.
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You're realizing how much bullshit is out there in the world. You're realizing you're the only one that you should be listening to. So you have this confidence level. So with the confidence level, I want you to feel energized. I want you to feel mentally on point, have the acuity, have the wherewithal to go, I deserve this because you do.
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But if we listen to the noise of the outside world, it will have us going down a path and then you realize it was not the one that you really wanted after all. So I want to give you, but it takes energy to live. It takes energy to pursue your dreams. It really does.
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And it also has virtually no fiber. Macroalgae has high fiber. Microalgae like spirulina chloral, spirulina has no fiber because it's a bacteria. Chlorella does have some fiber, but very little. But it's the most nutrient-dense food in the entire universe. And that's not just my opinion.
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And so I want to give you the energy, and it takes good health to do that too, because you can't very well be doing all this travel and juggling all the things that we women do if you don't have health and energy. So those are my core foundational promises to you. Mother Nature gave this to us as a gift to ensure we have the nourishment and the health.
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I'm just giving you a very clean, safe version of it. And I'm helping you understand why it works. But if I can get it into you, I can promise you it will do amazing things for you. And we have amazing lives to live. And each one of us has our own perspective on that. And I want you to be able to enjoy that and explore it. And do not listen to anybody telling you it's too late.
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It's never too late to feel great. Ever, ever, ever.
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And I'm so proud to tell people my age now because if I can do it, and honestly, I have not done anything special except take algae every single day for the last 15 years. And I wouldn't miss it. I don't know what I would do without it, quite honestly. It's just, it's a... game changer for me. And it's so essential that I wrote a little booklet.
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I was looking for a copy of, I can't seem to put my hand, a little book called The Algae Love Story, because we all need love. We can't live without love. It energizes us. It feeds us. It's natural. And algae is everything that love is from a nutritional perspective. And so
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We have a quote from NASA that says, one gram of algae has the same nutrition as a thousand grams of fruits or vegetables. So microalgae everywhere from the oceans, the lakes, the rivers, the streams, the soil, and it's harvested as a food crop. The two that are harvested as food crops are spirulina and chlorella. Now, microalgae, there's tens of thousands of strains.
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We're going to put the little book on our website soon, but it's called The Algae Love Story because I started the company out of love and algae will just love you to death. Love you to life, I think we should say. Algae will love you back to life for sure. And again, it's food and it's natural and there's one ingredient.
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We know that when foods have multiple ingredients, they're probably not good for you. You can't get any less than one. And it's like meeting the one. So I've met the one and it's algae. I'm probably, I call myself the algae gal because, you know, the gal next door is for everyone and so is algae. It's really for everyone and I'm going to try to be
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building algae farms here in Florida because we need to have it grown here in America in large quantities. In Asia, it's a multi-billion dollar agricultural crop. It's as big as the beef industry is and that's why you don't know about it because it's really not grown here. We have corn and wheat and you know, tomato patches, but we don't have huge algae farms.
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But if I do this right, I'm going to have some algae farms here in America for you very soon. Well, a couple of years. I hope so. Yeah, yeah. So I want it to be as natural as any other food group that you're familiar with. So we're doing our best. Yeah.
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tin so they you know are there canisters that come with a bag in them and you just you only buy a canister once and then you just refill it um with the bags and that you just shake the tablets out through the through the canister so if you have a family then your hands aren't going into the different bags and we have little little travel pouches that you could toss in your gym bag or a handbag the red one by the way is the blended algae tablet but um yeah we get testimonials
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email to us literally every day. It's, it's what, what people just absolutely love them. So, uh, I'm very proud. Our whole team is really proud of what we do. We're very education oriented. I taped 200 teaching videos last year. I'm going to do 200 more just helping people understand their bodies and mitochondria and algae, um, because it's here to stay.
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So you might as well, uh, as I say, get on the algae train now. It's, uh, that way you can understand and you can be used discernment to be sure that you're getting the best. Although I'm a little, um, I still think ours is the best. And doctors seem to feel the same way. So thank you, Dr. Tina, for sharing. allowing me the opportunity to share my passion with you and your community.
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LG is the love story of my life. I'm still single, so it's the best that I'm going to get, I think.
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Yeah, some 26-year-old tried to pick me up yesterday. I thought, well, okay, I guess I'm still in the game.
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Yeah, Dr. Tino, use it at energybits.com and come and see us anyways. We have lots of great stuff there. All right.
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One strain is called blue-green algae, and spirulina is one type of blue-green algae. and then there's green algae, and chlorella is one strain. But I want you to understand that while there is blue-green algae in the ocean, it's not spirulina. Spirulina and chlorella are grown in fresh water. Whether you buy it from Target or Whole Foods or from us, it's harvested.
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It's grown hydroponically, like lots of vegetables, lettuce, tomatoes, whatever. So yes, there's algae, microalgae in the ocean, but what you buy packaged from us, it's not from the ocean and ours is not from China. We grow ours in Taiwan, which is world renowned for having the highest quality algae because growing algae isn't like growing broccoli or carrots. It's more like making wine.
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So a couple of things on that point is the angle of the sun very much affects the quality of the algae, just like it changes the quality and the flavoring of your wine. Number two, the way that the wine is produced directly affects the outcome. Same with algae. And this is what separates us from pretty much almost anybody else.
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Because A, we grow ours in not just fresh water, but triple filtered spring mountain water. So no toxins because algae will absorb whatever's in the water. So you need clean water. You can't keep mycotoxins out of the ocean or lakes. And there's a company that does grow algae
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in klamath lake and i've got science that shows that there were our micro toxins in their in their algae because you just can't keep it out of wild bodies of water so very clean water and then the most important thing this is going to be a very large part of our conversation today is that we do not use high heat to dry it a lot of the uh pretty much most of the other lower quality lower priced algae
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companies cut corners because they're lower priced, so they need to get market quickly. And what do they do to cut the corners? They use high heat to dry it so they can get to market quickly, yada, yada, yada. We've never done that because I chose all the processes when I started the company 15 years ago. And I started the company because my sister had breast cancer.
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So everything we do is to really improve the health of everyone. And there were no corners to cut. I wasn't going to build that kind of company. This is so important because one of the nutrients we're going to talk about extensively, well, there's two actually. One is an antioxidant that protects your mitochondria called superoxide dismutase, which also happens to be an enzyme.
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And when you use high heat, on enzymes, they deactivate the enzyme. Doesn't matter whether you're cooking it at home or using it in a production process. This is why a lot of your greens powders are not as effective as algae either, because they use high heat to make, usually to blend the tablets or the powder. We don't ever use high heat, so it preserves all these magical nutrients
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many of them which are not found in any other food so you don't want to cheat yourself by getting the cheaper version because yes it may have been in there initially but using high heat deactivates it so that we're going to talk about superoxide dismutase also known as sod because this is critical for protecting your mitochondria particularly as you get into perimenopause
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and menopause, and your body stops producing it. Your body stops producing things like melatonin and hormones as you get older. Well, it stops production of this stuff called superoxidismutase, which is probably not very familiar with you. But there are 25,000 studies documenting how this superoxidismutase prevents Alzheimer's, prevents heart disease, prevents insufflations.
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So it's very heavily documented. But nobody knows that you get the highest concentration of it in algae, but only if it's not heated with heat over 114 degrees. So you could get fresh spirulina or frozen spirulina. Those would work just as well as ours, but you do need it to be raw. So that superoxide dismutase is one of the critical nutrients we're going to talk about today.
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The other critical nutrient only found in spirulina, because SOD is also in chlorella, is the blue pigment found in spirulina. That's why it's called a blue green algae. And this blue pigment is called phycocyanin. I'm going to spell that for you. P-H-Y-C-O-C-Y-A-N-I-N. It too is deactivated by high heat.
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So now you have these two critical nutrients found that are active in our algae that were originally in all algae. But if it's heated, used, dried with high heat, it's not there. It's like buying getting a great deal on a great car. And then you open, lift the hood and find out there's no engine in there. So it might look great, but it's not going to perform for you.
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And we want it to perform so it can protect you because your mitochondria are on your side, but they need a little help from you to make sure that they can be alive and well to keep you alive and well. So our process separates us from 90% of all the other companies that are out there.
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And that's why I kept, I, we also do third party lab tests here in the United States, by the way, I needed to know why a algae was working so well to protect people and restore their health or protect their health and why B ours was working better than anybody else's. And we've done some of our own clinical trials and all, all since we've last spoken. So I'll, I'll, uh,
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I'll reference some of those results as well. Just like I said earlier, the way that a wine is made affects the outcome, the taste, the quality, everything. And so, as I mentioned, growing algae is complicated.
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And the more attention that you give to your production process and the higher standards that you set, the better outcomes that your clients will have because all the good stuff is preserved. And that's what we do for everyone.
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Yeah. But what amazes me and what I'm so excited about and why I really dove deep into algae 15 years ago is because, as I mentioned earlier, our soils are so damaged, our food is so over-processed, and it's almost impossible to be properly nourished. And everybody I know has a countertop full of supplements.
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And when you take algae, because there's 40 vitamins and minerals that we test, there's probably like 200 micronutrients in there we haven't just tested for. You can eliminate many of your other supplements and they're going to be much better for you anyways.
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I also did some studies and found out that not only does spirulina have the highest protein in the world, it has the highest collagen in the world. Vegans can't take them because they're mostly from bones of animals and chickens and fish and whatever. So this is a vegan source of collagen. And in many cases, you're getting... Well, in most cases, you're getting more anyways. So it...
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to melt the collagen down, they use chemicals. So that's not so good for the environment or for you. So you can eliminate your collagen. You can eliminate your multivitamin. You can eliminate CoQ10 and biotin, lots of nutrients. So these individual nutrients are like listening to soloists. They may be a great soloist,
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Well, Dr. Tina, thank you. I love being a frequent flyer with you.
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But why would you listen to a soloist when you can listen to the orchestra, where the soloist is part of the orchestra and you get harmonies and synergies that aren't possible by just bringing a bunch of soloists together? Algae is your orchestra. All the harmonies are there so that they up-level each other.
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And you don't have to worry about taking it at certain times of day with food or without food because everything's already done for you. Mother Nature, I can't take credit for algae. That was Mother Nature's creation. But as I mentioned, I can take credit for, growing it so carefully, we preserve everything for you. So you can clear out your clutter.
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You can clear out some money because everything's already all there. And then you can just selectively add things that you may want to up-level even further. Algae is all I take. I do take vitamin C because there's actually not much vitamin C in spirulina. But otherwise, I just, I hunker down and take it in the morning, afternoon and night.
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And we'll talk about the different benefits of the two algae and why to take it different times a day.
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Yes, yes.
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Absolutely. So I'll do a few overviews, first of all. So your mitochondria are probably the most important thing that determines how well you age. And so what are mitochondria? Well, they're called the powerhouse of the cell. They're these little organelles that are inside your cells, and they generate what's called ATP, which is cellular energy. You need cellular energy for everything.
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We're not talking just a great run or a trip to the grocery store this is cellular energy is used by every body part your neurotransmitters your lymphatic system your digestive system everything requires cellular energy and so your mitochondria are what create that for you but the problem is as you get older you have fewer mitochondria and the ones that you do have tend to get damaged and
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And how are they getting damaged and why do you have fewer of them? Well, the process of generating this ATP cellular energy occurs in the mitochondria. But the mitochondria have their own DNA, which is also located inside. And there's only 37 of the DNA for mitochondria compared to like 25,000 of your regular DNA. And you think, well, how important could 37 DNAB.
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Well, those 37 mitochondria DNA control everything. They control your regular DNA. They control cellular communication. Think of them as the air controllers at an airport. There aren't many of them, but they control everything. And if your air controllers are having a bad day, planes would crash.
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And there was no incentive for anybody to teach you this because the scientists know this, all the stuff I'm telling you. The agriculturists who grow algae know all this. But the reality is scientists like to talk to other scientists. They have jargon. They actually don't know how to speak to consumers. And when I first, remember, I didn't come from a science background.
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And I told the universe when I started this, you know, find somebody else, you know. Find somebody with a science background. I don't know any science, but the universe knew I would teach myself the science. And so it turns out I am the perfect person because I am a good communicator. I have taught myself the science. I've got the PhD.
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So I take great joy in taking complex scientific information, particularly related to algae and how it works. Helps with your mitochondria health and all the other things. And helping you, the listener, the consumer or practitioner, understand it. Because if you can't understand it, you won't believe it. And so there's no smoke and mirrors here.
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I've read probably 3,000 PubMed articles at this point, and there's 100,000 out there about algae. But it's a pretty vast knowledge that I've accumulated over the years. And you don't have to spend your nights on PubMed like I did for 15 years. I did. I did the heavy lifting. I want you to understand this information so that you can put it to work.
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No point in knowing something if you can't put it to work. So we have a solution here that's going to help with our health, our energy, our beauty, our digestion, our families, our pets. And it's food, but it needed to be explained and it needs to be grown carefully to preserve all the nutrients so they can do the best work for you.
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It's a great question. And absolutely, for the world, to feed the world, that's the direction it'll have to go into. So I am planning to sort of buy some land in Florida next year, I hope. And we will grow what's called the outdoor pond. They're called ponds. They're so shallow. This is, again, the picture of the spirulina and the chlorella farm.
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However, I'm also in conversation with a number of companies. One's in Iceland, one's in Spain, one's in Austria, of all places. And these three companies, and there are others around the world, have developed technologies to grow spirulina and chlorella underground, well, actually in glass tubes using LED lights. And the great thing about this, I'm a purist, so I like to grow it outdoors, but
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You get about 90% of the same value growing it indoors. So the company in Iceland, they've been doing it for, I think, four or five years. They grow it in underground, five floors underground with LED lights, and they're doing it mostly for the Omega-3. Okay. And then they pull out, they extract the protein and they're donating that to Africa. So that's one example.
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There's another company in Austria, of all places, they grow theirs again in glass tubes, but instead of horizontal ones, they have them vertical. And instead of underground, they're inside glass enclosures. And they are growing spirulina and chlorella primarily as an ingredient to use in other foods, because this is how they also use it in Asia. Yes, you can Get the tablets.
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Yes, you can get powder. But it's also, you know, we put chia seeds in everything right now. Well, they put in Asia, they put in lots of countries in Europe, they put spirulina and chlorella as an ingredient in everything from pasta to snacks because it gives you all that extra protein and nourishment. And then there's another company I'm talking to in Spain that does the same thing.
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They grow theirs underground. So we'll partner with one of them and we'll have two types of farms going. One with the LED light, either underground or above ground, and one with the outdoor ponds. And I want to do it both ways to maintain the high quality to make sure that the glass tube one will be equal to the value or as close as we can get as the one growing outdoors.
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But when you grow it in these glass tubes, you are, there's no environmental anything. You can control the medium much, much better. And this way you could grow it like, you know, who would have thought you could grow algae in Iceland? So clearly this would be, you could grow this in, you know, Saudi Arabia. You could grow it anywhere. It is a massive investment, however.
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I mean, these things take five or $10 million to build out and you have to know what you're doing. So we'd be partnering with one of these companies. But then I would have the model for rolling it out around the entire world because we need better food. We know in America, our soils are so damaged from overcropping. There's no nutrients left in the soil.
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Even if you are eating plants, you're just, you're only getting fiber In calories, you're not getting nutrition. And it's worse in the rest of the world. I mean, they give them rice. And when you see children with those distended stomachs, that's indicative of a protein shortage.
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So my bigger picture plan, and like I said, I only started wanting to help my sister, and then I thought I could help more people. And I'm building a company so that I have the independence, financial independence, so that we can do other great things in the world, start a foundation, and then do things like this and teach the rest of the world how to feed themselves with proper high-protein food.
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Algae is going to be the agricultural crop of the future, and it's already recognized that way in many countries, but not here because nobody knows about it yet.
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Great question. Multiple questions. So athletes, listen up. You definitely want to be taking spirulina and chlorella. First, to answer your quick question, all algae does have protein in it. Spirulina is known for having the highest. So ours is 64% protein by weight. Chlorella has 60% protein. Wow.
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But I always encourage, if you're looking for protein, I encourage especially athletes to focus on the spirulina for a couple of reasons. Spirulina is not even a plant. It is a bacteria.
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And the reason why it's important for everyone, but particularly athletes to know, is because there is no cellulose wall for your body to break down to get access to the protein or any of the other 40 vitamins and minerals. So it's absorbed instantly. When I first started the company, you know, almost 14 years ago, I only had young interns working for me. And most of them were runners.
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And they started using the spirulina for running and found out that it gave them focus and energy and endurance. So they started blogging about it. So then marathon runners started using it. And it did exactly that. And here's the thing, especially for runners. it doesn't upset your stomach. Anything that's carb and sugar-based, you'll get stomach pain, you'll have gas.
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And this is particularly for, we got into the triathlete community because they are out there for a long time. So lots of them were pooping in their pants because of the stomach distress they were getting from all those gels and bars and drinks and stuff. never happens with spirulina or chlorella because A, there's zero carbs, zero sugar, zero caffeine.
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The spirulina is absorbed instantly, gets into your bloodstream almost instantly if you chew it and minutes if you swallow it. And we'll talk about the benefits of spirulina for the focus and the endurance and And then after the triathlete community, then we got picked up by all the Olympic athletes, Winter Olympics, Summer Olympics. We had so many Olympic teams using our products.
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I sent two of my team over to the Winter Olympics in Russia in Sochi many years ago. And we had invitations. We were in the winter, the U.S. Olympic Village, the Canadian Olympic Village. So athletes have been using spirulina and chlorella. And I'll tell you, chlorella does in a minute for athletes for centuries. In China, you can't be on the team if you don't take spirulina. It is incredible.
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It is the best pre-workout. And chlorella, I'll tell you now, is great as a post-workout because it pulls out all toxins, including lactic acid. So your recovery is much faster. So anyways, that's sort of the backdrop of why athletes should be using this. Now, on the protein question, when you eat animal protein, and I do, you know, I'm not a vegan.
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I just select my protein very carefully, grass-fed beef and organic free-range eggs. But animal protein is all bound up, and your body can't absorb it that way. And so it has to break it down into amino acids. before it can be absorbed. And animal protein can take up to three days for that to occur. Then you have what's called peptides, which collagen is an example of that.
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They're clusters of aminos. So they get absorbed a little faster. But algae, the aminos are already in individual aminos. So again, nothing for your body to break down, whether it's spirulina or chlorella. But spirulina gets absorbed faster because there is no cellulose wall to slow it down. So very... bioavailable protein.
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Now, in terms of, and by the way, it has 18 of the 20 aminos, including the nine your body can't make. So it is a complete protein. By the way, if there's any carnivores listening, there's no lectins or oxalates. A lot of people go carnivore because they've had autoimmune issues, and a lot of it may have come from eating kale and spinach, which are very high in lectins and oxalates.
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Zero in algae because it came from the ocean, it's not a land plant. So very bioavailable, all the aminos that you need to build and restore muscle. By the way, a protein is needed for everything, even in the DNA. There's what's called folded proteins. It's necessary for everything. Athletes, you also want protein. We know you want high protein, but you may not be aware that
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when we talk about mitochondria, the third one to fourth highest concentration of mitochondria is in your muscles. And you're going to find out that spirulina has nutrients in it that protect your mitochondria.
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So not only is a protein important for building your muscle, the spirulina and other nutrients like this antioxidant called superoxidismutase is important to protect your mitochondria that are in the fourth highest concentration in your muscles. So it will prolong your career as an athlete, whether you're a professional or not, or unprofessional. So a bioavailable instant access for the protein.
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Now, in terms of how you measure the protein, I'll give you a little bit more backstory. Generally, a fist amount of chicken, let's say, is about 50 grams of protein, which is a nice portion.
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Your body needs factors and cofactors to break down the protein so it can absorb the aminos. And most of us do not have all those factors and cofactors. And maybe athletes are a little different, but your average person doesn't. And it may take three days to get through all that process. So very often...
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50 grams of protein only turns into 5 grams of aminos because sometimes you only absorb 10% as aminos because it's a very inefficient manner in which it's absorbed. But 30 tablets of spirulina, which is what we sell, spirulina and chlorella, 30 tablets have 5 grams of protein and 5 grams of aminos because you absorb all of it instantly. It's bioavailable.
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So having five grams of protein, which is 30 tablets, is similar to having 30 grams of animal protein. Okay. And most people, in terms of quantity, your average person who just wants to fill nutritional gaps, and we'll talk about the different algae, the spirulina and the chlorella, because they do completely different things. But I call spirulina a And it's an energizing algae.
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We'll get into that in a minute. I call it your nutritional insurance because it has everything that your body needs, high protein, 40 vitamins and minerals. And then we'll talk about chlorella, which is a wellness algae, detoxing wellness algae. And I call it your health insurance. So spirulina is your nutritional insurance. Chlorella. is your health insurance.
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A little off the beaten trail. Well, I tell people I didn't pick algae, it picked me. And I couldn't imagine life without it, quite honestly. And that's why I'm so eager to help other people use it and learn about it. So I actually wrote a little book recently. It's a booklet actually called The Algae Love Story because...
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So if you just want sort of to plug nutritional holes, let's face it, we're not getting the nutrition that we need. And I'll explain what happens when that occurs. 10 tablets a day would be sufficient. And then 10 chlorella would give you the chlorophyll and build your immune system.
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But for athletes, for performance, and for therapeutic purposes, 30 tablets is really a better number, particularly if you're competitive and you want If you're doing races, if you're an MMH fighter or wrestler, we also know that you have to meet certain weight categories. And there's one calorie per tablet. So you get all that protein, one calorie, very efficient nutrition. And...
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What I tell people is even though you're getting energy from spirulina, it is not a stimulant. Stimulants are like caffeine, chemicals, or sugar. And you get a burst. It's like putting paper on a fire. You get a burst and then you have a crash.
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Not with spirulina. It's like putting a log on the fire. You get steady energy. And the irony is if you took 10 tablets or 30 and you're just lounging around on your sofa, you might not really even notice it. You will notice that you're more alert. And that you're not hungry, but you won't make, there's no big, there's no drama with spirulina. None. There's no drama with algae ever.
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It's sort of like me. I'm a no drama person. So, because what happens is this improves, and we'll talk about this in a minute, the ability of your mitochondria to produce ATP, which is cellular energy. And you can't store ATP, just like your body can't store vitamin C. You can't store ATP.
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So whatever you are making in the moment of that cellular energy, it's utilized in the moment, whatever you're doing. So if you're driving a car and you just had 30 spirulina, you're going to have more focus. Or if you're writing an exam, if you're an athlete and you take the 30, and we generally suggest give it 10, 15 minutes so it can get fully absorbed, blah, blah, blah.
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You're going to run further. You're going to run faster or you're going to lift more or you're going to lift longer and you won't even notice it because it's working at the cellular level and it's not a stimulant. You could take this even before bed if you wanted, although generally you want energy and focus and your hunger in the morning, afternoon or at lunch or before a workout.
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So it's cellular energy. It's not a stimulant and it works at the cellular level. to be generating more efficient ATP for you. And it gets deployed in the moment at whatever it is that you're doing. So we've had marathon runners. We've had long distance runners. There's a group of people that run like 24 hours or 48 hours.
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And all they do is they do their races with spirulina and water and they get, and that's all they use. It's unbelievable.
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No, ours do not have to be refrigerated. I'm not aware of brands that say they have to be refrigerated. I think the only benefit to refrigeration, I will say, is that if you chew them like I do, you'll get green tongues. It will maybe improve the flavor. The more important thing to do is keep them out of sunlight because the light will pull the chlorophyll out.
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My journey to discover algae and where I am now is definitely a love story. So we all love love stories, right? So it all started, I'm actually Canadian. I've lived in Boston for 35 years, although I am transitioning to Miami where there's a lot of wellness practitioners. Anyways, it all started with my love for my sister. I have two sisters.
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then you're missing, you know, it won't deteriorate the quality of the remaining nutrients and your protein is still there, but it will pull out the chlorophyll. And you might as well get the biggest bang for your buck. And chlorophyll, we'll talk about chlorophyll in a minute. It's very important for your health, build your blood. Like I say, I won't spoil the future.
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And there's an interesting Bible passage where they talk about, you know, Jesus feeding the masses
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with manna from heaven and they now think he was giving them algae because when the algae on the in the ocean by the ocean you could scrape it off it's white because the light has pulled the chlorophyll out but all the protein the polysaccharides and all the are still there and so you could live on that
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Forever, because in fact, I'm the one that found out that the nutrient profile, especially the amino acid profile of spirulina in particular, is virtually identical to mother's breast milk. Same aminos, same proportions, and we all know that mother's breast milk is considered the perfect food.
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Because spirulina was the first life. Cicinobacteria was the first life on Earth, not just the first plant, first life. And it was gifted to us by Mother Nature. I call spirulina Mother Nature's breast food because it's virtually identical. Same profile. In fact, one of the key nutrients in mother's breast milk is an omega-6 called GLA, which stands for gamma-lenaic acid.
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Now, we all know that most omega-6s are bad for us, and they are. particularly if they're heated. And the worst offender is canola oil. But the heat causes these seed oils to become even more inflammatory.
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And so because we do not use high heat on our algae, and spirulina is second only to mother's breast milk with this GLA, which is an omega... Because we don't use high heat, that omega-6, like in mother's breast milk, behaves like an omega-3. So it is non-inflammatory. So there's all sorts of reasons why you want to step up and buy a higher quality product for spirulina.
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Again, it's like if you buy a beautiful car that doesn't have an engine, what's the point? you're going to miss out on all these nutrients. We haven't even talked about, you know, the mitochondria health yet. And there's two really critical nutrients in spirulina not found in any other food. One of them is actually in chlorella, but that are deactivated by high heat.
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So your options are raw spirulina that, you know, you have to eat because it's raw or some, a company like ours, where our algae tablets are raw, but if you swallow them, There's zero flavor, no repeat. It's not like fish oil, never repeats, no stomach distress, safe for every age from newborns to children to teenagers, grandparents, and your pet.
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My younger sister, 15 years ago, developed breast cancer. She's fine. I want everyone to know that. But as she was preparing for her chemotherapy, her oncologist, which is a cancer specialist, advised her to change her diet to an alkaline diet. They didn't tell her why or what it was. So my sister called me. I have an MBA.
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I would, first of all, spirulina, I would... I'm so sorry, you know, I don't like to bash other companies, but this whole green powder thing, I think, has gone crazy. First of all, companies are pounding their chest, boasting about how many nutrients or ingredients they have in there.
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Well, let me tell you, if there's 85 nutrients, you can be darn sure there's very, very little of any one of them in there, number one. Exactly. we have one ingredient. It's just spirulina or chlorella. We have a blended tablet, but one ingredient. Number two, powders must use high heat to blend their mix. It just is what it is.
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So you're getting a teeny amount of nutrients and they're being deactivated by high heat. Well, Yeah, so that pretty much is not why you would be taking the powder. They're messy. You can't avoid the flavor. There's often hidden ingredients in there that they don't have to put on the label, so you're never really sure what you're getting. It's just a dog's breakfast.
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I wouldn't go anywhere near it. a powder, quite honestly. And for ours, the tablets, you can grind them up in the coffee grinder and put them in your smoothie and turn them into powder. As a small company, I had to make a choice between tablets or powder. And I went with tablets because they're so much easier to travel with. You can swallow them so you don't take any, there's no flavor.
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Kids actually love to chew them because it turns a tongue screen and they think it's pretty funny. Your pets will absolutely adore you if you give them to them as a treats. So I'm not a big fan of greens powders. I'm sorry, but I'll pound my chest. We have one ingredient. That's it. Nothing added, nothing subtracted.
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And by the way, we don't even sell them through chain stores, chain retail stores. We only sell them on our own website, energybits.com or through clinics, biohacking clinics, longevity clinics, practitioners, because our algae is medical grade food. And we do third party lab tests here in the United States to document the that the nutrients are what we say they are.
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Because also you can go on, there's lots of companies that say what the nutrients are and then they get tested and they're nowhere near what they say on the label. Our lab tests prove that what we say is in there is actually in there. We don't add anything, by the way. It's just the way we grow it so everything's preserved.
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And the doctors, they need to be sure that it's toxin-free and has what we say it has. So when they recommend it to their patients, they know it's a safe product.
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I was doing international business, nothing to do with nutrition, but I'm a good researcher and I love my sister. So I said, I have no idea what this alkaline diet thing is, but I'll find out. And I did. And it turned out to be mostly a plant-based diet for two reasons. One is the plants have phytonutrients in chlorophyll, which have been proven to build your immune system.
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Great questions. So they are completely different, and I'll explain why and when to take them. And if you had to choose, I usually defer to spirulina, and I'll tell you why. So spirulina, as I mentioned, is an energizing algae. You get the energy in a couple of ways. It has the highest protein, complete protein with all those aminos, very high in B vitamins.
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B vitamins convert the aminos into glucose, into energy. So there's that one impact. Also, because of the profile of spirulina, it improves the quality and the amount of ADP being generated, which is cellular energy, and it improves and protects your mitochondria, which gives you long-term cellular energy. So it's very energizing, satisfies your hunger.
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It satisfies your hunger because of the high protein, but also high essential fatty acids. It's not a huge amount of omega-3, but then it has that GLA and has other critical nutrients. So it's very satisfying. If anyone's taking a GLP-1, you really should be taking spirulina because you'll lose muscle mass. If you're an athlete, you really should be taking this anyways for lots of other reasons. So
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And because your brain, because this has such an impact on your mitochondria health, and because your brain has the highest amount of mitochondria in your entire body, there's 2 million mitochondria per cell in your brain, this is brain food. Absolutely slam dunk. And we've done clinical trials that prove it.
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And the reason why is the nutrients, the superoxidase mutates that protects your mitochondria for free radical damage. The blue phycocyanin preserves and protects your telomeres. The high essential fatty acids protect your brain. Your brain's high in fat.
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There's a load of things why this protects your brain and restores it very, very quickly, whether it's Alzheimer's, mood disorders, doesn't matter. There's a great book by the name of Dr. Chris Palmer. He's a psychiatrist and a professor at the medical school at Harvard. And he wrote a book two years ago called Brain Health. You can get it on Amazon. I really recommend it.
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It's written for the consumer. And he talks about how all brain disorders, doesn't matter what it is, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, all are due to damaged mitochondria. And because spirulina is known to heal and protect the mitochondria, this is your first step to restoring brain health, preventing dementia or any other kind of issues. Also in concussions for athletes.
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So if there's anybody involved with contact sports, you need to be taking this every single day. So that's what spirulina is. Nourishing, By the way, we know that fatty fish are known as brain food as well. And a lot of it's because of the omega-3. And I tell people, where do you think the fish get the omega-3 from?
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They get it from algae, right? The algae, right. So save yourself, save the fish. By the way, fish oil is usually rancid by the time you get it, which makes it inflammatory. And you're hopefully taking it for anti-inflammatory purposes. This never goes rancid. By the way, ours has an expiry date of three years. What vegetable... or fish oil or any supplement for that matter will last three years.
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And chemotherapy does cause havoc to your immune system. So I'm sure my sister's oncologist wanted her to have the strongest immune system possible. Number two, turns out that there was a German scientist by the name of Otto Warburg, who won a Nobel Prize back in the 40s for discovering that cancer cannot exist in cells that are alkaline.
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And I forgot to mention, when you're taking spirulina, at least 10, preferably 30 or as close to 30 as you can get, you don't need a multivitamin, a CoQ10, a collagen powder, biotin, You can eliminate many of your multivitamins and minerals. It has magnesium, potassium, a small amount of sodium. So it has all the electrolytes. So it's a complete package.
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And supplements, by the way, I tell people, you know, take individual supplements. It's like listening to a bunch of individual soloists and they're playing different songs. So they don't sound very good together. Algae is the orchestra. It's all the nutrients, all the factors, all the cofactors. Everything is harmonized and synergized to give you one plus one gives you 10. It just works.
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So you don't have to think about, should I take it with something? Certain supplements you need to take or avoid certain foods. Never happens with algae. It's just the harmony, the symphony of nutrients crafted by Mother Nature. I can't take credit for algae. Mother Nature is who created it for us. I can take credit for growing it safely for you in ways that preserve the nutrients.
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But the nutrients came from Mother Nature. So that's spirulina. We call it energy bits because it's very energizing at the cellular level and in the moment. So that's the most important thing to understand.
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Chlorella is a green algae, and so it only has the one pigment. This blue pigment, by the way, is called phycocyanin. I'll talk about that later because it has some very important abilities, which is to kill cancer cells. And I'm going to spell it for you so you can Google and see that I'm telling you the truth. Phycocyanin, the blue pigment in spirulina, is P-H-Y-C-O-C-Y-A-N-I-N.
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I'll get back to that later. But chlorella has one pigment, the one that you know, which is called chlorophyll. And it has the highest chlorophyll in the world, 500 times more than arugula and 25 times more than chlorophyll water. Now, a lot of people are taking chlorophyll water, and I think that's terrific.
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But I tell people, why would you take chlorophyll water when you can get more chlorophyll from chlorella, plus chlorella in addition to the chlorophyll, has 60% protein, 40 vitamins and minerals. So you're getting much more when you take chlorella for your chlorophyll.
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And if you weren't aware, the chemical composition of chlorophyll is virtually identical to the chemical composition of your hemoglobin. And you can go online and check this out. So the first thing to know is that chlorophyll builds your blood. And they've used chlorophyll for this purpose for centuries.
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Even as recently as World War II, if they ran out of blood for transfusions for the injured, they would give them liquid chlorophyll and they would heal just as fast as if they'd had a blood transfusion. Wow. The trouble is our vegetables have zero chlorophyll in them anymore because the soil is so damaged. My arugula goes yellow after day three.
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I'm sure yours does too because there was not much chlorophyll in the first place. And chlorophyll is very important for healing your blood. Number two, chlorophyll kills bacteria. It kills it in your mouth. It kills in your colon. And that's a very important attribute. Another interesting thing about chlorophyll, and I'm going to show you a picture, is that it's a fat-based pigment.
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And the range of alkalinity, we can get into this later in more detail. The range goes from 0 to 14. So your cells should be 7.1 to be slightly alkaline. So an alkaline diet is a plant-based diet, and the alkalinity would prevent more cancer from taking hold in other cells. So those were the two reasons I assume her oncologist wanted her to have an alkaline diet.
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And spirulina has two pigments, the blue one called phycocyanin and also some chlorophyll. But chlorella only has a chlorophyll. Now, I show you this picture because I put a couple of tablets, and you're welcome to do this at home, put a couple of tablets of spirulina on a plate and put some warm water in it. I tapped it for a while so it would disperse.
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But look at how beautifully it dispersed through the water. Then when I did the same thing with chlorophyll, it would clump. It would not disperse. It would just clump. And of course, it's just green. I did this experiment about 20 times. I couldn't figure out why the chlorophyll was not dispersing as beautifully as the blue pigment in the spirulina.
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And I finally found the answer, and it's online. Chlorophyll is a fat-based pigment. The blue pigment in spirulina is called phycocyanin, is a water-based pigment. So they do different things in your body. But we all know that your cell walls are made of fats. This is why you want vitamin E, vitamin D, omega-3, because your cell walls need to be kept moist with healthy fats.
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That will allow nutrients in and toxins out. Well, chlorophyll is one of those fats. Who knew, right? But we're not getting chlorophyll from our vegetables, so you're certainly not getting any healing properties for your cell wall.
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But this also helps explain to me when some people were doing maybe juice fasts, one of the things that was helping was the chlorophyll from the vegetables in the fast that were healing the cell walls. So chlorella, again, highest chlorophyll in the world, which will heal cell walls, kill bacteria, and build your blood.
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The main thing about chlorella, and we call ours recovery bits, is that it helps you recover your health. That's why we call them recovery bits. Again, spirulina is an energizing algae. How does it help you recover your health in addition to what I just told you? It has a hard cell wall. Spirulina has no cellulose wall. It has a hard cellulose wall that attaches to toxins, heavy metals,
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Lead, mercury, radiation, aluminum, glyphosate, pesticide. Athletes use it because it attaches to lactic acid and chelates them, which means it pulls them out. So we are surrounded by toxins. The average adult in North America has 700 toxins in them. Even newborns have toxins in them. And our immune systems were not built to sustain that kind of toxic load.
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And so when you have too many toxins, your immune system's not working very well. So that's one thing. But it interferes with the communication of your cells, particularly your mitochondria. So here you are taking spirulina to nourish your body, build your mitochondria. But if there's still toxins sitting on cell walls, it's like someone has stolen your parking spot.
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And so even though you've got this great nutrition, it doesn't have the VIP pass to get in because the toxins are blocking the way. So see how they work together? This will pull out the toxins to allow the nutrition to get in and do what it needs to do. You can't just do a cleanse once a year, once a month, once a week.
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You need to be doing it on a daily basis because the toxicity is causing absolute havoc. for our stomach, our gut, our brain, and so we need to clean those out. This will clean out your blood within an hour and a half. Remember, spirulina gets into your system in just minutes, but chlorella, because of that hard cell wall, takes it longer. But if you want to test it out, and if you drink alcohol,
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Drink whatever you need and then take 30 chlorella when you're finished, either at the bar or at home, and you will be stone sober in an hour and a half and you will never have a hangover because it gets into the blood so quickly and cleanses it out. By the way, chlorella also has the highest glutathione in the world, which is also a detoxing antioxidant, particularly for your liver.
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So your blood will be cleansed in an hour and a half. It takes about a week to cleanse out cells and a month to six months for organs. It's all about the density of the cell structure.
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I did some research for her, found foods to eat, what not to eat. She did go through chemo, completely healed. And afterwards, I started reading more about plant-based nutrition, was stunned by the science I had found because I'd been always in business, not in science. And so I thought, somebody needs to tell the world about this stuff. So I'm very passionate.
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I'm sure. Absolutely. Okay. You know, because the liver has tight cell structure, it won't happen overnight. It might take a couple of months before you see, but for your blood, you know, my dream is in 10 years, every single bar in the country will be selling chlorella.
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I mean, we'll stop the drinking and driving situation because it just, it just, it works, you know, and athletes love it for the detoxing. We feel NHL teams that have for almost 10 years, Just so you know, because this is food, they put 75 spirulina in their smoothie before a game because hockey players need lots of focus and energy for those bursts on the ice.
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And then afterwards, they put 75 chlorella in their smoothie as a post-smoothie game smoothie to pull out the lactic acid and build your immune system. Again, athletes... You know that when you're pushing yourself, whether it's for a race or a competition, it's hard on your system.
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And so this builds your immune system because the last thing you want to do is get sick and then miss a game or a competition or whatever. So this is why I call it your health insurance. Spirulina is your nutrition insurance. This is your health insurance.
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Also, if you're on a team and you're traveling by bus or you're sharing rooms in a dorm or something, one of you gets sick, it goes through the entire team very, very quickly. We've had parents tell us that their kids were the only kids at school, never got a cold all season. And the teachers will say, what is it that you're doing with your children? Chlorella.
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So very, very much a wellness, detoxing, recovery, recovery algae. If anyone's taking chemotherapy, this will pull out excess chemo after the day after your treatment so you're not as nauseous. It has amazing other things. It has the highest tryptophan in the world. Tryptophan is a precursor to melatonin. which helps you sleep. This won't make you sleepy.
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It'll just help you get into the deep sleep. So it's really great for sleep. And sleep is one of my hacks for ensuring longevity, wellness, brain acuity, managing your weight. It's right in there with algae and sleep are my two go-tos for sure. Also, we don't talk about it a lot, but I do. Bowel movements.
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Lots of people are on medications or they're eating more processed foods or dairy or they're not drinking enough water or they're not moving a lot. And so they get constipated. And this relieves constipation. It's a combination of the high chlorophyll and the fiber and it just triggers things. Spirulina does not behave that way, just chlorella. And in fact, because...
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High protein requires a lot of water to digest. If you find you're seeing any kind of constipation from taking 75 spirulina, this is your answer. So this triggers bowel movements, also known as peristalsis. I tell people, you got to get rid of the junk in your trunk because the stuff that's sitting in your colon is stuff your body didn't want. That's where all the toxins are.
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And if you don't have a bowel movement, what's happening is your blood is circulating around all that junk in your trunk and circulating it again through your body. It's like having a garbage truck parked in front of your house permanently. So you want it in and toxins out. So this, again, colon cancer is on the rise, particularly with men. Carnivores, I'm pretty sure you're constipated.
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I gave up my 25-year corporate career, back to school, studying nutrition.
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So you don't have to get lectins and oxalates when you take chlorella or spirulina. You can just get the benefits from it. It's paleo-friendly, carnivore-friendly, vegan-friendly, low-carb, low-cal.
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See what I mean? I mean, it's like the perfect child.
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taught nutrition, plant-based nutrition, but this is what led me to algae because as I was trying to encourage people to eat more vegetables and plants, I learned that, oh, it was too hard for them, it took too much work, or they gave them gas, or the kids wouldn't eat them, their husbands wouldn't eat them, and they went bad quickly. A thousand... you know, excuses or reasons, not excuses.
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I mean, the best thing you can do for your heart is take spirulina, algae, chlorella as well, but mostly spirulina. There are 25,000 studies documenting how the nutrient I want to talk about next when we get to mitochondria health, that's at highest concentration in spirulina called superoxide dismutase, also known as SOD. Yeah.
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25,000 scientific studies proving SOD prevents heart disease, prevents Alzheimer's, reduces inflammation. The list is endless, but particularly heart disease. And it's a combination of things that it's doing. One is that this reduces cholesterol, which can, you know, Cholesterol is actually not the bad guy that it's made out to be.
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Your body needs 2,000, I think it's milligrams of cholesterol every day. So eating three eggs a day just means your body doesn't have to make that much more cholesterol. Cholesterol is not what's causing the problem. It's inflammation in your blood vessels. And the white blood cells go in there to heal the inflammation. And so it layers up.
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It's sort of like I tell people it's sort of like sometimes on your roads, if you have a pothole and the city comes and they fill in the pothole and then but then there's a lump and then they put more stuff on top of it and there's a bigger lump. That's what's going on in your in your blood vessels, too.
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So when there's damage, the white blood cells basically put a bandage on it, which closes it up and you get enough of that going on. Finally, then your blood pressure goes up because the arteries are so narrow, and that can cause decreased access of oxygen by your heart, so you have a heart attack, or a piece of that white layering breaks off and you have a stroke.
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So spirulina and chlorella as well have nutrients that reduce the inflammation. Also, chlorella in particular has a nutrient in it called vitamin K2. A lot of people know about vitamin K. It's what makes plants green, but its sister vitamin is K2. And almost everybody in North America is deficit in K2.
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And moves excess calcium out of soft tissue like your brain and your blood vessels.
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Because what happens is we're all taking calcium and we're taking D3 for absorption of calcium. And you think, oh, well, this is good. It's going to go into my bones. No, this excess calcium is going into what's called your soft tissue, your brain, your skin, your blood vessels. Arteriosclerosis, part of what's hardening, that's hardening of the arteries. Part of what's hardening is the calcium.
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So vitamin K2 moves excess calcium. There's some in spirulina, but more in chlorella. And it moves it into your bones and your teeth where it should be stored. And the reason why we don't have K2 in our diet is very interesting. It only happens starting in the 60s or 70s. Up until the 60s or 70s, there was no K2 shortage in our diet. Why? Because animals like cattle...
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have an extra bacteria in their gut that allows them to convert K1, which is in grass or anything green, convert it into K2. So then when we were eating the grass-fed animal protein, we were getting K2. And then in the late 60s, early 70s, the farmers realized, well, if I feed my cattle corn, nothing green about corn, and I put them in enclosures, they'll get fat a lot faster and make more money.
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And I'm sure your listeners will feel the same way. So I thought, okay, I know what this nutrition does, this green nutrition. If I can't get people to eat more vegetables, I have to find a way to get the nutrition into them quickly, effortlessly. And so back to my research I'd done. And when I got to algae, that's when the miracle happened.
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So that's what happened. They took all the cattle off pastures and started feeding them corn. And there's no K1 or K2 in corn. No. So they've shown that the incidence of heart disease completely mirrored the movement of cattle off the pasture and into enclosures being fed corn. Crazy, right?
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So virtually nobody, and there's great books about this. So since the 70s almost, the only place you can get K2 from food is grass-fed animal protein, a Japanese dish called natto, which is terrible tasting. Yep.
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But the Japanese love it. Yeah. Or algae.
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Right? And you can buy a K2 supplement, but here's the thing. They make that K2 supplement from fermented chickpeas. And K2 is a very complicated vitamin. There's M4, M5, different Ms. And the one that can get into your brain is the one from grass-fed animal protein. I think it's M4 and algae. So you want this to have the same benefit of this K2 in your entire body.
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Apparently, the one fermented chickpeas is the type that can't get into your brain. And so we know that there's calcification of your brain, your pineal gland, pretty much everything. Kidney stones, calcification. So the algae helps move that out of there to, again, preserve your blood vessel health. And then the fact that it nourishes the superoxidismutase, because your heart...
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is the second highest concentration of mitochondria in your body. Your brain is the first, 2 million per cell. Your heart has 8,000 mitochondria per cell. So when you heal your mitochondria, and we're going to talk about how spirulina does that, your brain is the first place where you'll see improvements. Your heart is number two. By the way, there's increasing science about this.
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And eye doctors have known about the healing properties of spirulina forever because of the superoxidism taste. Because your eyes are literally the front part of your brain. They're connected. So there's a very high amount, you know, the 2 million... per cell concentration of mitochondria in your eyes, too. But what I wanted you to know is that there's different eye ailments. I can't remember.
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I don't think it's glaucoma. It's another thing. But it's early predictor of a heart attack. Really? Yeah. And I experienced it, sadly, with one of my friends last year. He had some eye I can't remember what the name of the disease is. And they said, you really should have that looked at. Six months later, he was skiing, had a heart attack on the slopes and died on the spot.
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And so I'll have to dig into that a little bit more. But the heart requires particular nutrients that protect the mitochondria. And this superoxidismatase that I'll talk about is number one. We work with a lot of heart specialists, surgeons, and they are adamant about giving this to their patients. Yeah. It's a pre-surgery, post-surgery. It's medical grade food. At least ours is.
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Because first of all, it's the most alkaline food in the world. That box was checked. It's been documented as being the most nutrient-dense food in the world. We have a quote from NASA that says, one gram of algae has the same nutrition as a thousand grams of vegetables. One to a thousand. That's pretty big.
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Not everybody's is. But yeah, it's pretty amazing.
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The medical community knows nothing about nutrition, unfortunately. The body is an amazing piece of equipment.
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And it is the most sophisticated piece of equipment in the universe. And if you give it what it needs and take away what it doesn't, it will heal itself. The problem is most people don't know what it needs, and so they're driving blind. My goal is to help people understand how the body works, particularly at the mitochondria and so that it's not a mystery.
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And you can't have 25,000 studies showing the benefits of particular nutrients and wonder if it's working or not. Of course it's working. When you have a sliver in your finger or cut your finger, it heals.
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Just because you can't see your heart Doesn't mean it's not healing. Exactly. But you have to know what it needs to heal. And nobody's sharing that information. Certainly not the traditional medical community. And I don't, they are there for a very good reason. They do a great job on corrective, a lot of corrective situations, health situations. But we're talking prevention and correction.
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Prevention, prevention. In the most non-evasive, natural way possible.
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The United Nations has endorsed spirulina algae since 1974, which is 50 years ago, as the answer to world hunger because it has the highest protein in the world. Not just protein, but bioavailable protein, and it's a sustainable crop. 50 years where they grow it as an agricultural crop. It's a multi-billion dollar agricultural crop there. It's been studied for over 100 years.
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And people have said to me, who's your mentor? Mother Nature. Because nothing in nature happens overnight. Seasons don't change in one day. They take months to migrate. Whatever health condition you have didn't happen overnight.
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overnight no it took years the trouble is this is why they call inflammation the silent killer because it can go it'll go on often for 10 years before you even have symptoms then the symptoms show up whether it's brain fog or you know shortness of breath or whatever it is and we're all so busy we think oh well you know that'll go away and then it doesn't so then you go i'll go to the doctor i'll get a i'll get a subscript a prescription which dampens the symptom but does not control control
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does not correct the problem. And, you know, maybe, you know, that's good enough for you. Certainly not good enough for me. I want to correct the problem.
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And, um, but it won't happen overnight. You have to understand the problem and you have to be able to take action. People hate change. And I, I understand that I have problems with it too. We all do because we have certain things and certain expectations and, uh, certain favorites. Um, but
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Don't you prefer to live and live well and live long than, you know, whatever it is that you don't want to do? You know, I would encourage, and this is why I love algae so much, because it doesn't, you don't have to give up anything. Just add it. That's it. Just take it. And if you swallow it, boom, it's in two seconds. How much work is that?
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And we have a discount code for you, for your listeners. But when you take the 10 tablets a day and you buy the large bag, It works out to a dollar a day. Don't tell me you can't afford that. You, your health, your family are worth it. A dollar a day, you can't even get a third of a cup of coffee at Starbucks for that.
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So, you know, sleep, movement, algae, and actually, I'm a big fan of intermittent fasting. Those are my four pillars for making sure you have the best opportunity to be your best.
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Okay. So first of all, those are a little wondering what exactly is mitochondria are. They're called organelles and they're in all of your cells. And what they do is they generate cellular energy. It's called ATP. And just to put it in context for you, think of cellular energy like electricity. It keeps things working. And in an office tower...
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You can't do any work in your office if you don't have any lights on, right? And fortunately in an office, when the light bulbs go out, you just pick up the phone, call maintenance, and they come and replace it. Well, in your body, the lights are these things called mitochondria. They keep the lights on in your body so that your brain works.
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And the cellular energy is not just energy to have a great workout or run to the store. It's for everything. Neurotransmitters. Breathing, thinking, walking, digestion, lymphatic system, everything in your body works because of cellular energy.
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The problem is, as you get older, your mitochondria die, so you have fewer of them, and the ones that are still there get damaged, so they don't work as well. And you don't have the maintenance people to call up and just replace your lights. So as you get older, and we'll talk about particularly there's a marker at the age 40 on when the wheels start to come off.
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And this is exactly when chronic disease kicks in, brain fog, weight gain. fatigue, especially for women. And for athletes, you know, this is when you start struggling with your workouts and not recovering as fast. It's because your mitochondria have decreased in quantity and in quality.
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The benefits we're going to talk about today are documented in almost 100,000 scientific papers, none of which has been shared outside of eight. So the best part I can save to the last is that because it turns out that in Asia, they grow in freshwater. We're going to talk about that in a minute, not the ocean. And press it into little tablets like I'm showing you now.
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And we're going to talk about why and what's in the algae, particularly the spirulina, that can reverse that for you. So, and even if you're not at 40, if you're 30 or 20, you want to protect your mitochondria to preserve what you have.
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Because as I mentioned earlier, so much of this damage, which is inflammation, it's all occurring in the mitochondria, is silent. It's going on even though you're not conscious of it. And the symptoms often don't show up for like 10 years. So we want you to preserve what you have or correct and regain what you lost.
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And you can do that with this particular antioxidant I'm going to talk about called superoxide dismutase that is in the highest concentration in spirulina in the world, but only if it's raw because superoxide dismutase is also an enzyme. And if you expose it to high heat, like all the other algae companies do, you deactivate it.
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So, spirulina is like the electricity, and it's not just the electricity, it's also the light bulbs. And so, as you get older, your lights go out, right? Literally, the lights in your head, the lights in your body, there's just fewer of them. It's darker and darker, and you have less and less energy, and you think that that's life. No, it's not.
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It is if you don't know how to prevent or correct it. But there is no reason why you can't live long and not deteriorate. But you need to know the rules of the road. So I'm here to help you with that. So I'm going to give you a bit of a science lesson.
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So now that you know what mitochondria are and to explain exactly what's going on so that you can enjoy your spirulina and know that it's going to work for you. Here's a picture of a cell. And in your cell, there's a whole bunch of stuff. That's the nucleus. But you also have these little peanut-shaped things, which are your mitochondria. Now, remember, there's
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2 million of these peanut-shaped things per cell in your brain and your eyes. Women's eggs, by the way, have 800,000. Heart has 8,000, and then muscles are 5,000 per cell. Your regular skin or fat cell has only about 1,000. The highest concentration of mitochondria are where the highest energy needs are. It takes a lot of energy to think. It takes a lot of energy to make a baby.
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it takes a lot of energy for your heart to pump. So that's why there's so many mitochondria in those particular organs and then also for your muscles. We've got the cell. We've got all these little mitochondria inside the cell. Now, inside the mitochondria, and I'm going to give you another picture. It's with a bigger shot of the mitochondria. You see a bunch of other things.
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So inside the mitochondria, this is where that cellular energy called ATP is being produced. Now, but here's the thing that most people would never know. Your mitochondria have their own DNA. You know that nucleus I showed you before in the cell? That is where your other DNA, and there's like 22,000 of those. But your mitochondria have their own DNA, and there's only 37 of them.
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But the mitochondria DNA control all of your other DNA. They control all the communication that goes on in your body. They're like the air controllers at an airport. There's not many of them, but they control everything, right? So the problem is your mitochondria DNA are located right where the ATP is. And you think, well, what's the problem with that?
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Well, what you don't know yet is that a byproduct of ATP production are free radicals. We know what free radicals are, right? They're a molecule with an unpaired electron. And so nature strives for harmony and simplicity. So that free radical will go and steal an electron from another molecule to balance itself out. Now it's unbalanced and it causes tissue damage in the process.
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They're about the size of a baby aspirin. And each one of these tablets has the same nutrition as an entire plate of vegetables. So while I'm talking to you right now... I just had a plate of vegetables. Wow. How easy is that?
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So it steals from another one and steals another. So that's how you get damage and inflammation. But there's these things called antioxidants that have extra electrons. to give away, sort of like the kid at school who brought extra lunches for all their friends and to give them away, okay? So we all know about antioxidants.
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We've heard about them for years, and blueberries are high in them, and vitamin C is an antioxidant, vitamin E is an antioxidant, but here's the problem. Your mitochondria are your only cell in your body with two membranes. There's the regular membrane on the outside that you have, the fat one I mentioned earlier, and your fat membrane is called lipid membrane. Antioxidants can get in and out.
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There's little things called channels called porins that allow them in and out, but there's no channels on that inside membrane. So all of your regular antioxidants can't get in there. Any athletes who have studied or read any studies about whether antioxidants improve athletic performance or longevity, the answer is no.
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And the reason is they've been studying the wrong antioxidants because vitamin C and vitamin E cannot get in that. This is like the intensive unit at a hospital. Lockdown. No. your average antioxidant cannot get in there. There are a few that can, and the most powerful one is called superoxide dismutase. And why is it so important?
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Well, these free radicals that are damaging, the most damaging free radical is called superoxide, and it's created in the mitochondria. And what makes it so damaging? Well, remember I said free radicals usually have one unpaired electron? superoxide has three unpaired electrons. So it is three times as damaging.
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And so this antioxidant called superoxide dismutase neutralizes that free radical and turns it into harmless water and oxygen. It's sort of like having the firemen in there. They basically hose them down so it can't damage the DNA of the mitochondria, which means the mitochondria don't get damaged, which means that they can generate more energy and they can thrive.
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So now you, your listeners, their family, their kids, their pets, they can have all of the nutrition that they need, plant-based protein, chlorophyll, 40 vitamins and minerals from one tablet. One tablet has the same nutrition as an entire plate of vegetables. Now there's no reason for someone to not get the nutrition that they need effortlessly. Wow.
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Now, the good news is your body makes this stuff called superoxidismutase from the moment you're born. Great, right? This is why you can recover quickly from sports or illness or anything. One of the reasons, there's many other reasons, but nonetheless. But then when you hit the age 30, and certainly by the time you get to 40, your body stops making it. This is exactly when disease kicks in.
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This is when brain fog, this is when heart disease, cancer, diabetes, we're all fine when we're young. And then at 40, it's like the hammer came down. And I believe it's because we are no longer getting the benefits of the superoxidismutase. To help you understand what exactly this stuff does, think of superoxidismutase like a big golf umbrella, right?
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If you've ever been out on the golf course or just shopping and you've got one of those big golf umbrellas, if it pours rain, you open up your big umbrella, the rain doesn't stop, but you aren't getting wet because you've got this huge umbrella. That's what superoxidismutase does for your mitochondria. The free radicals are always going to be a byproduct of ATP.
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But if you have superoxide dismutase, it's protecting your DNA from the rain of free radicals. However, by the time you're 30, that umbrella is now about the size of a totes umbrella. It's sort of like a city umbrella. So you're dodging the raindrops. By the time you're 40, that golf umbrella is now the size of a cocktail umbrella. No longer viable. This is when your DNA gets...
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fried with free radicals. Remember, the free radicals never stop because they're a natural byproduct of ATP. But you previously had this protection that did not cause the damage to occur. So after the age of 40, you do not have... And why 40? And why does it slow down after 30? Well, other things slow down too. Hormones, melatonin. There's lots of things your body stops making by the time of 40.
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And the reason is we've been on earth for 2 million years. And biologically, we used to always die at 30. This ability of us to live to 60 and 70 and 80 and 90 is only in the last 150 years. It's a lifestyle change. But our biology has not caught up with our lifestyle. So our body slows down, thinks it's, you know, retirement time. It just slows down just about everything.
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Women, estrogen, people don't know this, but estrogen is actually an antioxidant. women, when your estrogen level drops, when you go through perimenopause and menopause, you are losing the protective capability of the estrogen to protect your mitochondria. This is why you get brain fog. This is why you get fatigue. It's because the estrogen drop is causing
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the mitochondria to be no longer protected from that antioxidant benefit. The double-edged sword is your mitochondria is also a precursor to creating estrogen. So as the mitochondria get damaged, it's not making as much estrogen. The estrogen drops, which means there's less protection. So you see what happens.
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So this is why women in particular, absolutely after 40, must be taking spirulina so we can get back the superoxide dismutase, get your all that free radical damage and turn the lights back on. You literally feel like the lights come back on. And the first place you feel it is in your brain because your brain has the most mitochondria. So that's sort of what's going on and why it's happening.
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alkaline, plant-based, high protein, 40 vitamins and minerals effortlessly. If you can swallow water, and we recommend 10 tablets of spirulina in the morning, we'll talk about why in a minute, and 10 chlorella in the evening, or for medicinal purposes, maybe 30 of each. But if you even took 10 tablets of spirulina, and we'll talk about how we sell them, That works out to a dollar a day.
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But I'm going to give you even more science because it's so important to me that you understand this. Because once you understand, it's like cooking. It's a recipe. Or if you're an athlete, you know what you need to do. You have to do legs one day and arms the next day. There's always a routine to follow to achieve your goal.
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So I want to go a little bit further so you have even clearer understanding of what's really going on. So back to the mitochondria and that inner membrane, okay? So this ATP production stuff actually occurs on that inner membrane itself. And see how it's all convoluted? And evolutionarily, it was so clever because when it's convoluted, you have more surface. Same with your brain.
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It's all wrinkles. It's because that gives you more surface. Even in your DNA, there's what's called folded proteins. So there's more surface. So you have this folded surface on the inside. And that surface in the inner membrane is where the actual ATP is produced. So I'm going to show you how it actually happens. So here's the surface, okay, the inner membrane of the mitochondria.
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And there's these four little molecules embedded in the surface, okay? And there's a couple of helper molecules. One you've probably heard of called CoQ10. And the other one is cytochrome C, which you've probably never heard of. Think of these molecules embedded in your mitochondria, inner membrane, kind of like runners in a relay race. You've all seen a relay race. You have a runner with a baton.
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One runner runs a certain distance, passes the baton to the next runner, who then runs a certain distance, passes it to the next one, and then they hopefully win the race. Well, instead of runners, you have these molecules. And instead of a baton, you have electrons, okay? The goal is ATP production instead of crossing the finish line.
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So the closer these molecules are to one another, the easier it is for them to pass the electrons. Perfect. That means you get efficiency and more electrons, more ATP being produced. And I'll talk to you in a minute about these helper molecules.
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However, as your mitochondria get damaged from all these free radicals that are occurring, what happens is in that inner membrane where the molecules are normally tightly beside one another so they can pass the baton, which is basically the electrons from one another, what happens is the mitochondria expand. Ultimately, they expand so big that they explode, which is a process called necrosis.
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Anyways, as the mitochondria gets damaged, they expand. Two things happen from that expansion. Now, look how far away some of those molecules are from one another. This means they can't effectively pass the electrons to one another to create that ATP.
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So the first thing that happens when you get mitochondria damage, decreased ATP, decreased cellular energy, which leads to fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, metabolic health issues. That's number one. You get less ATP production. Number two, when the electrons aren't being passed effectively from one molecule to the next, They don't disappear.
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They leak out into the rest of the mitochondria and become free radicals. This is that downward spiral that you get into. The more damage you have, the more damage you get. The more damage you have, the more damage you get. It never ends. I want to show you what this actually looks like. Here's a picture of a real mitochondria, healthy mitochondria on one side.
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Here's a damaged mitochondria on the other side.
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That's where all that... leakage has occurred and caused damage. This thing is going to get bigger and bigger and explode because when your mitochondria either expand and multiply through a fission or fusion, and there's a healthy way to do it and an unhealthy way. The unhealthy is called necrosis, where they basically explode because they got so big.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
We have a discount code for you. So a dollar a day to give you all the nourishment you need will replace most of your other supplements. It will replace a lot of food and it's effortless. I chew mine. I'm chewing it now. But most people do swallow it. But it's food. It's not a supplement. When we grow it, we'll talk about algae in a minute, but algae is everywhere.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
And then all those free radicals that were in there transfer to the rest of the molecules. So we need to find a way to stop that process. And spirulina has the superoxidismutase, it has the glutathione, it has so many other nutrients in there that get in there to heal the mitochondria and ensure also spirulina and fasting, which is the other thing I want to mention.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
When you're fasting or you take spirulina or chlorella, there's virtually zero free radicals. So not only do you have fewer free radicals being released, but you're also having the healing properties of the superoxide dismutase. Now, I do want to backtrack a little bit because I did mention these two little helper molecules.
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One is CoQ10 and the other one is cytochrome C. And cytochrome C, I want to talk to you a little bit because when I say helper molecule, it helps move and speed up the process of moving the electrons from one to another. Right. So this cytochrome C molecule, it's really cool because it's being determined by recent scientists, science research as the divider between life and death.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
So the amazing thing is that the blue pigment in spirulina, because it's not anywhere else in the universe, what it does with that cytochrome C molecule in a healthy cell, it speeds it up. It's like having a Tesla in there, making sure that this is one of the many reasons why spirulina gives you energy. It speeds up that cytochrome C molecule so you can get more ATP, so you have more energy.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
Life is good, right? Here's a very interesting thing. They have done studies, and you can go online, and I've got a science paper to show you one example. In an unhealthy cell, which is called a senescent cell, it's a cell that's been subdivided and it's inflammatory and doesn't have any value any longer, or in a cancer cell, the blue pigment in spirulina
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detects that it's an unhealthy cell, and instead of speeding up that with the cytochrome C molecule, it ejects the cytochrome C molecule, which then goes and releases something called capases that kill the cell.
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That blue pigment in spirulina, which is called phycocyanin, P-H-Y-C-O-C-Y-A-N-I-N, and I want you to know how to spell that so you can go online and Google it. It has been proven to kill cancer cells. Here's one test where they put cancer cells in a Petri dish, dyed them purple, and added some phycocyanin 24 hours later. Cancer cells went from that to that.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
The chemotherapy companies use, not all of them, but some of them use phycocyanin in their treatments now, and they measure whether the cancer is being killed by the amount of cytochrome C in your bloodstream. Right? Who wants chemotherapy? Yeah, I don't think so.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
So this is why I call spirulina intelligent food, because you have to be intelligent to take it, and it knows what to do in your body. In a healthy cell, it speeds up the process of ATP production, and in an unhealthy cell, like a cancer or senescent cell, it ejects it and kills it.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
How incredible is that?
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
If it wasn't proven in science, it would be unbelievable.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
It's in the oceans, the lakes and rivers and streams. But we grow it. hydroponically, which means in water, fresh water. And then we eat in Taiwan. So algae tablets are not a supplement. They're a food. They're a whole food. And we call them bits because they're bits of food.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
And who is going to tell you that?
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
So when you said if I had to choose between one or the other, they're like my children. I love them all dearly, but I would always defer to spirulina because it has this extra benefit of the phycocyanin, which for the ATP production, the mitochondria production. And there's one more thing. I don't think I even mentioned this to you when I met you at the A4M.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
Because as you can see that there are all these nutrients that are found in algae. So anyone's from the FDA, I'm not saying algae does any of this. What I am saying is that the nutrients found in algae have been proven to do certain things. And here's the kicker as well.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
Both that blue phycocyanin that has that cancer-killing capability and the superoxide dismutase, which is proven to protect you from heart disease, Alzheimer's, both superoxide dismutase and the blue pigment are deactivated by high heat. So if you're buying the lesser quality algae at your local Target store, don't expect to get all these benefits because it's like the car with no engine in it.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
Thank you, Dylan. So great to meet you at the Longevity Summit for A4M in Vegas a couple of weeks ago and be here now. So I'm excited to always share my knowledge of algae. I've been researching it in the science for over 15 years, and I'm actually self-taught on the science. So about three years ago, I thought, well, maybe I should try to get some credentials to back up my knowledge.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
So you have to get either a high quality like ours, or you could get raw, like, you know, just, you know, it tastes terrible. There's places like the Pocrates Institute, which is a very well-known 50-year-old healing center in Florida, West Palm Beach. And they work with stage three and four cancer patients. They've had like a 95%. success rate.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
And one of the first things they do is give them raw spirulina. Spirulina, red light therapy, massage, meditation. And a lot of it's because of the healing properties of the gluficosine and the superoxidismutase. They use chlorella as well. But if they're using it and seeing success, and there's other anecdotal experiences, but the science is very, very convincing. So it's very amazing.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
But this is a lead up to about, look at all the amazing things that spirulina and chlorella do for you if you have high quality. It gets all the nutrients into the mitochondria, which are where the rubber hits the road. Mitochondria disease, they're realizing is the base for virtually every chronic disease. Everything comes down to it.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
So to preserve your life and your health of yourself and your loved ones, you need to look after those mitochondria. And the easiest way to do it, particularly non-invasive from food, is with spirulina algae tablets because you can just swallow them. You don't taste anything.
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But what I wanted to tell you is that it doesn't, now that I know so much after 15 years of research, it doesn't surprise me that all this is available to your mitochondria from algae because your mitochondria evolved directly from algae. I know it's hard to believe, but the science is there. And it was discovered in the 60s by an MIT professor who was ridiculed for 10 years until
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It was a woman until her peers realized she was right. So remember I mentioned that algae was the first life on Earth four billion years ago? It's all documented. And it was a cyanobacteria like spirulina. And it showed up because it was an anaerobic cell. Before this cyanobacteria, Earth was just gas and water, no oxygen, no life.
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Nobody knows why this one single cell, anaerobic cell started growing, but it did. And it released and it generated ATP and in the process released oxygen. So within a billion years, larger aerobic cells could grow, but they weren't generating ATP as well.
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So I can imagine the conversation between the big cell and the little cell and the big cell says, and so the anaerobic cell, which does best with no oxygen, now there's all this oxygen on earth. And it's like, look what we did. We screwed up. We're having a hard time here.
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So the big cell basically sort of said to the little cell, hey, little guy, you come and make ATP for us, and we'll engulf you and protect you from all that oxygen, and we can coexist.
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Effectively, that's what happened. So here you have your original cyanobacteria, like spirulina, gets engulfed by the bigger cell, but instead of digesting it, it coexisted, and that... cyanobacteria, like spirulina, became your mitochondria. It's proven in science. It's called endosymbiotic theory.
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So it's no surprise to me that everything that's in algae heals your mitochondria because they're family.
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Yes. In fact, we did a small clinical trial with that, a company who does that very thing this summer. The company is called MeScreen, M-E-S-C-R-E-E-N. And you can go online and order their blood test. I think it's $3.99. And they have a number of markers to evaluate the health of your mitochondria. So they determine free radical production and capacity of your mitochondria.
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I can't remember all the lists. So we partnered with them in the summertime and did a small clinical trial with women and men over 55, because we figured that's when people are going to have some mitochondria damage. And they did the blood test first. Then we gave them spirulina every day for 30 days. They did another blood test after seven days and another blood test after 30 days.
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So we actually haven't written the full paper up yet. We got the results from the first seven days. And the gentleman who was overseeing the study, his name is Hemal Patel. He does all the research. by the way, for Dr. Joe Dispenza. He does all his brain research, right? At the University of Southern California in San Diego. So, you know, pretty good, reputable lab and scientist.
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And his comment, and I have a quote, he said I could share this, is that the impact and the improvement in the mitochondria energy and the reduction of free radicals. The only other time he'd seen that kind of significant improvement was when he had done a clinical trial the year before with a group of people and they were doing intermittent fasting for 90 days.
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After 90 days, they had similar kinds of improvements after seven days of spirulina. 90 days intermittent fasting got you the same results of seven days of spirulina. Of course, the best would be doing intermittent fasting and the spirulina. Because when you're doing intermittent fasting, what's happening is you have shortened your eating window. Two things occur when you do that.
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Your digestion requires 15% of your energy. So there's energy that's freed up, number one. Number two, when you're not flooding your mitochondria with carbs, because ultimately everything gets reduced to glucose, and there's the citric cycle, and then you get into the thing I showed you, the electron transport chain. But if you're not flooding the mitochondria with all these
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
Yeah. So algae is its own food category, first of all. Similar to, I think, mushrooms are their own food category. And within this category called algae. There's two main subcategories, macroalgae and microalgae. Macroalgae refers to that stringy stuff that you see washing up on shore, also known as seaweed. And it's called seaweed because it's only in the sea.
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free radicals that it has to accommodate, it can clean up. But when you're constantly eating in our world, in America, we're constantly snacking and carb load. Carbs have the worst, the highest amount of free radical damage because they have so many that they get spilled out into that mitochondria, which causes it to expand.
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And the image I have, I don't know if anyone's ever seen this, there's a Lucille Ball video. You can probably see it on YouTube somewhere. I was a big fan of Lucille Ball. She was working in a chocolate factory and she was supposed to be putting the chocolates into the boxes and they kept speeding up the conveyor belt and she couldn't keep up.
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So she started eating the chocolates and throwing them over her shoulders and it was just mayhem. That's what's going on in that, what I call the electron transport chain with the four little molecules. When you eat carbs, especially if you eat carbs constantly, that electron transfer chain gets overloaded. It can't keep up. So more of them spill out
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into becoming and become free radicals, which causes more and more damage. So when you're doing intermittent fasting and you're not having that carb load, your cell and your mitochondria can clean up, can go through a process called autophagy, which allows the cell and the mitochondria to be more efficient in whatever it's doing.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
So that's one of the healing benefits of intermittent fasting is that it gives your mitochondria and your cells a chance to clean up. With algae, you get the same benefits of intermittent fasting, plus you get all these healing benefits Because they're there. When you're doing intermittent fasting, there's no nutrients.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
But with the algae, especially spirulina, you get the glutathione, you get the superoxidismutase. You start healing other attributes of the mitochondria and its ability to produce and replicate. Because it's not just healing the mitochondria, it's helping them replicate. So anyway, so I thought that was pretty interesting that...
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You can take this test and it's MeScreen.com and consumers can use it. And we use their test to evaluate the impact of spirulina. And in seven days, we saw a pretty significant improvement.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
Yeah.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
I love sharing the knowledge because it's taken a while to accumulate. And like I said before, what's the point of knowing something if you can't share it and give people an action plan? Because, and again, this is why I love spirulina and chlorella tablets, at least ours so well, is that you don't have to really change anything if you don't want to.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
Just add them to your routine, whether you're an athlete, a soccer mom, you will see improvements. The science is there. Anecdotally, it's been proven through professionals. You can even go on our website. We have 50 testimonials from years ago from athletes, whether they were aerialists or skiers or hockey players or triathletes. And we don't pay them for any of those testimonials.
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They just volunteered. to give them to us. So it works and it's incredible what it does for you, but it has to be high quality or you're not going to get the full value. And the reason, again, that you don't know about it is because it's not grown here, at least not yet by me. And there was no incentive for anybody to inform you. It's just like a lot of things, right?
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And it's still good for you because it contains iodine because it's from the sea. and it contains fiber, but it has virtually zero nutrition. Years ago, I used to buy these big bags of kelp noodles, and the whole bag would be maybe five calories because there's just fiber and nothing else.
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I do enjoy that because we have to do something. We're at a crisis and something has to change. I'm not the only one. I was just at the 4M and I was in the Biohack Yourself movie and there were like 100 other professionals in there. And so everybody is doing their part. And there's lots of other things you can do like red light therapy, meditation, sleep. Please get yourself some good solid sleep.
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It's not selfish. By the way, I read a quote, I'm trying to think of the name of the person was, they said, self-care is about giving the world the best of you, not what's left of you.
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And we think that sleep is selfish. And man, that's when all the juicy recoveries occur. And if you can't get that sleep, you are just cheating yourself and you You want to be your best for yourself and for your community and for your family. So sleep, algae, movement, and fasting are the four pillars that I truly can't live without and hope other people won't either.
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Okay, yeah. Well, our website is energybits.com, E-N-E-R-G-Y, B for boy, I-T for Tom, S for Sam, energybits.com. And we're also very active on social media, Facebook, Instagram. Our handle is at energybits. We write a blog every month. And so the discount code, sorry, is Gemelli, G-E-M-E-L-L-I. Makes sense, right? And so we have large bags with a thousand tablets.
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We have really cool canisters that come with a bag inside and really neat little openings. So you open the bag and put the tablets in there and then you shake the tablets out. You only buy a canister once and then you refill it with bags. We have single servings. So the Discount code works on everything at all times. Remember, the bags are your best value. There's a thousand tablets.
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If you took 10 tablets a day, they would last you three months and cost you a dollar a day. For therapeutic effects, whether you're wanting to prevent something or correct something, or if you're an athlete wanting to compete, we do suggest the 30 tablets for better outcomes. If you're on a GLP-1, please take the spirulina. 10 to 30 a day would be great, even just 10.
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So macroalgae, stringy, only a few strains, maybe five or 10, comes from the ocean, zero nutrition, literally, but high fiber. Microalgae, which is what we're talking about today mostly, is completely opposite. First of all, it's everywhere, not just the sea. It's in the rivers, the lakes, the streams, your aquarium, your swimming pool.
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protect your muscles, protect your cell structure because they're growing every day. And we call them bits because they're bits of nutrition. There's nothing else in it. It's just 100% whole food that's been grown carefully and preserved so you can get the best value out of it. So it's your turn to learn about algae. Other people in Asia have known about it for 60 years.
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Why should they be the only ones enjoying these benefits? I think it's time that Here in North America, we learn about it and use it. And my goal is to help feed the world one day with it.
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Well, thank you, Dylan. Thank you for everything you do. We couldn't do this without folks like you because, you know, we're small, independent, you know, didn't take any venture money. We're just hand to mouth, you know, making it happen one person at a time. So like you. And so it's because our hearts are in it. And I'm going to be here for a while. Algae won't let me die.
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So thank you. Thank you for everything.
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And it's also grown, as I mentioned, hydroponically in fresh water. And it's in the soils as well. And there are tens of thousands of strains of microalgae compared to just a few of macroalgae. The main difference between micro and macro, though, is microalgae is called microalgae because it's microscopic in size. You cannot see this with your eye.
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You can get something like a million microalgae on the head of a pin. That's how tiny they are. And that's why when you consolidate them into these tablets, there's so much nutrition. So they have a thousand times more nutrition than anything else. So high nutrition and either no fiber or virtually no fibers. Spirulina is technically a bacteria. It has zero fiber in it.
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Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
So microalgae, zero fiber or no fiber or little fiber, very high in nutrition. And there's multiple thousands of strains. The two that most people know about are spirulina and chlorella. Spirulina is just one of many blue-green algae.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
and chlorella is one of many green algae spirulina is the one i'm holding here that's a darker color and that's because it has two pigments in it a blue one called phycocyanin and the green one chlorophyll that most people know about and chlorella is a green algae now i want to point out that many times you'll read on the internet that or you'll see that a blue green algae closed your favorite beach we're not talking about spirulina it's just another strain of blue green algae right um
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
By the way, poor algae gets the bum rap because it shows up when there's toxins and bacteria because it absorbs them and kills them. Algae is the cleanup crew. So you couldn't see the toxins or the bacteria, but you can see the algae. So you blame the algae. but it's actually there to protect you and the environment. And it does the same thing in your body. It's the cleanup crew.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
So just imagine a Taylor Swift concert. Algae is the cleanup crew that goes in and gets rid of all the stuff that's lying there. So it has nothing to do, spirulina is nothing to do with the algae blooms that you see showing up. But spirulina and chlorella are the two that are grown all around the world, well, in Asia primarily. 99% of algae is grown in Asia. That's China, India, Taiwan, Korea.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
And as you mentioned, I graduated in September with my PhD, which I'm very proud of. And Anyone who is listening, I also want to point out that I got it. I'm almost 69 and so not far away from 70. So this is proof that if you look after your brain and your health and you have enthusiasm for life and lucky me, I found my path.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
And the reason why you don't know about it out here in North America is that it's not grown here. And there's no incentive for anybody to tell you about it. It's sort of like the French keep the best wine to themselves. In Asia, 99% of algae is grown there and 99% of it is consumed there. My plan is to grow it here in America, probably in Florida.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
Because growing algae as an agricultural crop is not like growing broccoli or carrots. It's more like making wine. It's affected by the angle of the sun. And so Taiwan, wherever it's located, it seems to have the best algae in terms of the nutritional component.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
And we'll get into this in greater detail about how you process it and what makes us different and our algae different and better because it is a premium product. But it's the process. We don't use high heat to dry our algae, which is very, very, very important.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
The most important thing because high heat kills enzymes and deactivates critical nutrients and all the lower priced algae that you could buy from Costco or Trader Joe's or I call it now Trader Joke's. They were grown in China or India and to cut corners to get to market quickly, they use high heat, but it deactivates so many of the powerful nutrients found in algae.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
And I tell people, hey, you wouldn't buy a good looking car if it didn't have an engine in it, right? Just because it looks good doesn't mean it's going to work for you. Same with algae. Just because you're getting a better price doesn't mean it's going to give you the best value. I know for sure it won't give you the best value. So, and we can get into that in greater detail, but-
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
The fact that it's been around, used for thousands of years, documented in 100,000 scientific papers and is very well known in Asia, but not here because it's not grown here. I'm here to tell you that algae isn't new. It's just new to you.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
You know, a few years ago, you may not have known about bone broth or chia seed or kiwa or collagen powder until somebody in North America went down the path to educate you. And now it's everywhere. So that's more or less what I'm doing. And I've been doing it for almost 15 years. So I'm deep into this. I know a lot.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
I don't think there's anybody else educating North Americans about the nutritional value and importance, particularly now. at this juncture in our lives where there's so many chronic diseases. We're in a nutrition crisis. We're in a health crisis. We're in an agricultural crisis. And I know it sounds funny, but algae will address all of those. And it does it effortlessly with food.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
Because when you're lower, whatever, if you have something that's lower priced, you just have to sell more to make money. And I'm unusual. Well, a couple of things. First of all, I wasn't planning on building a company. I just wanted to help my sister.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
And then when I learned a certain amount about what this plant-based diet did, even before I got to algae in a big way, I felt responsible that I'd learned something. And for me, I've always been like this. I like to share what I know or what I have.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
So as I started sharing more and then I discovered algae as the foundation for all of the things that we needed nutritionally and for our health, I just kept going. And in the early days, like I was by myself for five years and it took me that long because just like what you're going to learn today, I thought this is crazy that this This algae can do this. It helps with your brain.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
It helps with your heart. It helps with your skin. It helps with your hormones. It helps with your digestion, helps with your sleep. It's like having Einstein on your hands. It's like, you do that too? And I didn't believe it. I thought, this can't be possible. How can something so amazing not be known? And it's not known because it's not grown here.
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #2 with Catharine Arnston! Why we all need algae, Spirulina and Chlorella Benefits, Mitochondrial Health Explained, How algae extends our lifespan, ENERGYbits and MORE!
your body and your brain will never stop, but you do have to look after them. We've got some great tips for you. Of course, taking algae is my number one tip and we'll explain why today. Yeah, I don't think that I could have done it without algae. And so I want everybody else to feel as great. I have an expression that says, it's never too late to feel great.