Catharine Arnston
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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