Catharine Arnston
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So it's no surprise to me that everything that's in algae heals your mitochondria because they're family.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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...
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.
Yeah.
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