137. Protect Your Brain and Mitochondria.
Protect Your Brain and Mitochondria
Email: elemental.evanhw@gmail.com
On this weeks Wellness Wednesday episode, Evan is joined by one of his favorite guests, Catharine Arnston. Catharine is the founder of Energybits. Energybits produces the highest quality Spirulina and Chlorella that Evan has found through his 15+ years of health and wellness research. Catharine is an expert on the topic of micro algae and it shows through her passion on the podcast.
On this episode we cover the power of spirulina and chlorella in protecting and healing the brain and mitochondria. We discuss how these algae have been shown to help in slowing down aging, attacking cancer cells, and keeping Alzheimers at bay. Energybits have become a necessary part of my morning ritual. I believe everyone should be eating these micro algae as the benefits are amazing and there's no downside to them.
Have your notebook and pen ready because, Catharine is about to take you to school with this episode. Catharine has also been kind enough to provide a 20% discount code for any purchases made at Energybits. Just use the code ELEMENTAL at checkout. I have provided the link and code at the top of these show notes for your convenience.
As always, do everything with good intentions and connect to your elements.
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Disclaimer:
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Transcript
Hey everyone.
Speaker:Welcome back to the Elemental Evans Show.
Speaker:I have one of my favorite reoccurring guests on today with us.
Speaker:She is just a wealth of knowledge.
Speaker:Um, it's, it's always a pleasure for me to connect with her and also to
Speaker:just be a student and take some notes because, uh, that is what's gonna happen
Speaker:during today's episode if she's going to fill you with so much knowledge.
Speaker:So get your notebooks ready.
Speaker:Um, welcome to the show, founder of Energy Bits, Catherine Arnstein.
Speaker:Thank you so much for joining me today.
Speaker:Well, thank you Evan.
Speaker:I love being a frequent flyer on your show.
Speaker:Yeah, you're, uh, you're, you're up.
Speaker:There's first class I always fly, first class with you.
Speaker:Hey, whatever I, whatever I can offer in any way.
Speaker:Uh, I'll, I'll try to be the, what is it like Emirates Airlines for you here.
Speaker:Right, right, right, right.
Speaker:Um, but yeah, no, it, it, it is truly, uh, all jokes aside, such a pleasure to have
Speaker:you on and, uh, we're gonna talk about my favorite, I always say quote unquote
Speaker:supplement because obviously it is a whole food that we're gonna talk about today.
Speaker:Um, but being that I have had you on before, um, I think I wanted to kind
Speaker:of go in a little bit of a different direction to touch on some subjects we
Speaker:might not have touched in the beginning.
Speaker:But for those of you who are just tuning in, um, please correct me if I'm
Speaker:wrong, Catherine, but, uh, what we're talking about today is micro-algae
Speaker:as opposed to macro algae, which in the past Catherine has explained it.
Speaker:Macroalgae would be like seaweed, the bigger type of, uh, you know, like
Speaker:sea plant life that we would have.
Speaker:Whereas microalgae is smaller stuff.
Speaker:So that's gonna be spirulina and carella microscopic.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Beautiful.
Speaker:So that is what we're talking about today is the microalgae.
Speaker:But I think one of the most important things regarding microalgae, and
Speaker:specifically spirulina and chlorella is something that you refer to,
Speaker:and I've referred to this in the past, but I didn't have such a
Speaker:beautiful, eloquent name for it.
Speaker:Uh, but that is what you've termed the, uh, great nutrient collapse.
Speaker:And I, I'm not sure if that's actually your term, but I mean, that's where
Speaker:I've first seen it, so I'm gonna.
Speaker:Credit that to you right now?
Speaker:Well, I can't take credit for that.
Speaker:That's a, that was an article that scientists have, um, referenced it.
Speaker:Uh, so I was just re relaying that.
Speaker:Uh, so I, I wish I could take credit for it, but it is correct.
Speaker:Yeah, we are in an unprecedented period.
Speaker:It's not just the environmental poor earth, we're heating it, her, her up to
Speaker:crazy temperatures, but we have a complete nutritional collapse that's predicated on
Speaker:our soils being depleted of all minerals.
Speaker:And when they're depleted, the plants are depleted and we're depleted.
Speaker:So, um, but yeah, that's what's going on right now.
Speaker:It's pretty sad.
Speaker:Yeah, it's, it definitely is, and it's something, um, you know, and, and please
Speaker:add in anything if, if I miss something.
Speaker:But from my understanding, this great nutrient collapse.
Speaker:Um, so for example, if you took a apple from a hundred years ago,
Speaker:it's going to have a higher level of nutrient density basically.
Speaker:And a lot of that is going to be due to mainly like farming practices,
Speaker:like, um, you know, depleted top soils, monocropping, um, over usage
Speaker:of, you know, chemicals on our plants.
Speaker:Um, these are things that are kind of contributing to this.
Speaker:Is this, uh, correct Catherine?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Well, it's, it's a couple of things.
Speaker:Uh, yes, it is all, uh, the soil monocropping of the soil, which has
Speaker:depleted all the minerals is, you know, uh, certainly the most egregious thing
Speaker:that's happened in our farming ecosystem.
Speaker:Number two, now, uh, so many of our vegetables are grown in foreign countries,
Speaker:so they're harvested before they are ripe, and then they, so the nutrients
Speaker:can't get to the fruit or the leaves.
Speaker:So by the time they spend a lot of time in warehouses, so by the time they get
Speaker:to your dinner table, there's a lot of fiber and not a lot of nutrition.
Speaker:Um, left.
Speaker:The other thing is, um, The, uh, um, ozone layer has been depleted.
Speaker:And the, what they're finding, the, the effect of that is the nutrient
Speaker:level and the protein level of the plants is dropping and the sugar
Speaker:and carb levels are increasing.
Speaker:So, you know, add that to the fact that also most of the food people are
Speaker:eating these days is so processed.
Speaker:Um, and when they add things back in, they're, it's not the natural
Speaker:nutrients that Mother Nature has intelligently provided to us.
Speaker:They're extracts.
Speaker:And when you put in, uh, if you see buy a box of something that says fortified with.
Speaker:Uh, you know, iron, for example, please put it, leave it on the shelf
Speaker:because, uh, a especially iron, uh, man, that's, that stuff's bad news, uh, for
Speaker:our bodies and for our mitochondria.
Speaker:And two, when you put an extract into anything, your body doesn't
Speaker:recognize it like it does the nutrition that is in there naturally.
Speaker:So you can get into excess, excessive, uh, overload.
Speaker:Uh, it doesn't get absorbed, so it's either one or the other.
Speaker:You get too much or too little.
Speaker:So, um, so, and you mentioned the apple on top of all that, there's the bio,
Speaker:the genetic modifications that have been going on and everyone, all the farmers
Speaker:are breeding, you know, using hybrid fruits and vegetables to be sweeter to,
Speaker:uh, take, you know, to accommodate to the taste buds of the North American and
Speaker:other countries, but particularly North American, they want sweetness and sugar.
Speaker:I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker:Sugar.
Speaker:Is has no redeeming feature, whether it's refined, uh, you know, you, I, you have to
Speaker:really even be careful with your fruits.
Speaker:Uh, and, and especially if you're ketogenic or you're low carb, you
Speaker:know, an instance spike comes from sugar, whatever format you get it from.
Speaker:So, uh, and if you still need to eat fruit, berries are your best bet because
Speaker:they like strawberries or raspberries.
Speaker:They have the, the least amount of sugar.
Speaker:But, uh, those insulin spikes are gonna come.
Speaker:And when you get insulin spikes, you get inflammation.
Speaker:And the inflammation causes damage to mitochondria.
Speaker:And ultimately damage mitochondria, as we'll talk about today, is
Speaker:where the rubber hits the road.
Speaker:I tell people I never eat alone.
Speaker:I eat with my mitochondria.
Speaker:They're always with me.
Speaker:And, um, They're always with you.
Speaker:And if once you understand what they need, uh, to, uh, and they're
Speaker:on your side, by the way, you guys are all on the same team.
Speaker:We're all on the same team.
Speaker:But, um, it's like asking a, your baseball team to go play a, a
Speaker:game and put blindfolds on them if you don't give your mitochondria.
Speaker:What they need to perform.
Speaker:Uh, they can't.
Speaker:And, uh, they take a hit or they die and then they, you know, your baseball
Speaker:team will be, uh, throwing, uh, the wrong shot, the the ball to the wrong
Speaker:team and, and scoring for somebody else.
Speaker:And so you don't want that to happen when your mitochondria are
Speaker:damaged, they send the wrong signals.
Speaker:Everything, everything, everything comes to mitochondria health.
Speaker:And, uh, fortunately people are starting to learn about that.
Speaker:So, um, so yeah, our whole, the whole food supply, your mitochondria can't
Speaker:perform properly if you aren't giving them the fuel, um, that they need.
Speaker:And that, uh, and they ha they don't have the arms and legs to, to choose the food.
Speaker:It's, that's your job.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:Uh, so mitochondria is definitely going to be a massive topic of today's episode.
Speaker:Um, but really quickly coming back to the, uh, to the great nutrient collapse.
Speaker:So the reason spirulina and Chlorella are so incredible for literally what you were
Speaker:just saying is for one, C, coming back to the sugar, there's zero sugar, but
Speaker:on top of that we have 40 plus minerals and vitamins in spirulina and chlorella.
Speaker:Is that correct?
Speaker:That's right.
Speaker:And in fact, we have a, also have a quote from NASA that says, one gram
Speaker:of algae has the same nutrition, uh, equal to a thousand grams of
Speaker:vegetables, one to a thousand.
Speaker:And so, so, and we sell our algae in la large bags of a thousand tablets.
Speaker:And I use that quote to do a calculation, and I found out that each
Speaker:bag of our algae tablets has the same nutrition as 551 pounds of vegetables.
Speaker:So, you know, they, they're $130, but we have a discount code we'll share.
Speaker:So it works out to like a, you know, a hundred dollars ish per bag.
Speaker:But if you bought 551 pounds of vegetables, that would've cost you $1,500.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So, um, and 10 tablets a day is sort of what we suggest to people.
Speaker:You could have less, but, and even better, take more.
Speaker:But that works out to about a dollar a day.
Speaker:If you don't think you and your body and your health and your longevity,
Speaker:and your skin, and your digestion, and your sleep, and your mitochondria.
Speaker:Aren't worth a dollar a day, man.
Speaker:You gotta work on self-image, self-love, because you are worth it.
Speaker:And there is nothing in the universe with more nutrition
Speaker:than spirulina and chlorella.
Speaker:Even the United Nations 49 years ago declared spirulina, algae,
Speaker:the answer to world hunger because it has three times the amount
Speaker:of protein at steak on a weight.
Speaker:Basis, and it's the most eco-friendly, sustainable crop in the world.
Speaker:Uh, it's, it's, uh, it is the most concentrated food, the most
Speaker:eco-friendly, sustainable food.
Speaker:And we sell it in tiny tablets that you can swallow or chew.
Speaker:So it's the most effortless food in the world.
Speaker:You don't have to drag this home from the grocery store.
Speaker:You don't have to clean it, you don't have to cook it.
Speaker:You don't even have to chew it.
Speaker:Of course, I chew mine, but, um, they, they're little tablets
Speaker:about the size of a baby aspirin.
Speaker:The spirulina is the blue-green algae, and it has nutrients in it, not
Speaker:found in any other food in the world.
Speaker:We're gonna talk about that and why they're good for the mitochondria.
Speaker:And then chlorella is a green Algae has the highest chlorophyll in the world, but.
Speaker:Honestly, you could eat them, chew them, swallow them, put 'em in a smoothie,
Speaker:just get 'em into you because you're not getting the nutrition that you need,
Speaker:uh, from the, our food supply period.
Speaker:And who wants to spend the rest of the entire day cooking?
Speaker:I mean, we all have jobs, we have families, we have other responsibilities.
Speaker:So, um, and the tablets travel.
Speaker:Well, they, they're not affected by heat.
Speaker:Well, not, you know, like they, they are when you grow them, if you use high
Speaker:heat, you kill many of the nutrients, including the enzymes and the pigments
Speaker:that we're gonna talk about that are very healing, which makes our brand
Speaker:so unique cuz we don't use high heat.
Speaker:So, uh, you get the full, the full deal when you, uh, use ours.
Speaker:But, but nonetheless, honestly, you know, and I'm 13 years into this,
Speaker:algae is the answer for everything.
Speaker:And, and I know it sounds crazy for you think, oh, that woman,
Speaker:she's, she's making this stuff up.
Speaker:I don't believe her, but I don't say anything.
Speaker:I don't have the.
Speaker:The PubMed articles to reference.
Speaker:I tell people the only reason you don't know about algae and its
Speaker:benefits is that it's not grown here, and no one's told you about it.
Speaker:Uh, 99% of it's grown in Asia, 99% of it's consumed there, and it's a
Speaker:multi-billion dollar agricultural crop.
Speaker:We've talked about this before.
Speaker:Uh, spirulina chlorella are harvested as food crops not there.
Speaker:There is algae in the ocean, but spirulina chlorella are grown in freshwater
Speaker:farms, and, uh, then we just air dry it.
Speaker:But, hey, why should the Asians be the only ones benefiting from this super
Speaker:foods super amazing, uh, nutrient density.
Speaker:Um, and, you know, the Japanese are well regarded for their longevity.
Speaker:Their, their low obesity rates.
Speaker:Their low cancer rates, and they don't leave their house without
Speaker:taking chlorella, uh, algae every day.
Speaker:So, um, Yeah, I mean, honestly, it's almost too, I, I came up with this saying,
Speaker:uh, uh, about the benefits of algae.
Speaker:Too simple to believe.
Speaker:Too powerful not to, yeah.
Speaker:Pretty much says it.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:A hundred percent.
Speaker:Uh, yeah, so actually going back to the, the price on this, I actually
Speaker:just include energy bits into my, like, grocery bill almost, because
Speaker:that's what I consider it is groceries.
Speaker:It's a food.
Speaker:And, uh, absolutely.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And it, and like you said, it is absolutely cost efficient even at,
Speaker:you know, 10 of them a day that, like you said, it's a dollar a day.
Speaker:It is my number one supplement, you know, quote unquote supplement that I take.
Speaker:Um, you know, because it does cover such a, a wide array
Speaker:of, uh, nutrient deficiencies.
Speaker:I was actually, um, I did a podcast recently on major deficiencies in the us.
Speaker:And, uh, spirulina and chlor chlorella had practically every single one of them.
Speaker:Um, I was looking at the chlorophyll content of Chlorella, which
Speaker:obviously chlorella basically has chlorophyll in the name worlds.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:25 times more chlorophyll and liquid chlorophyll.
Speaker:So figure that out.
Speaker:It's, it's insane.
Speaker:I was looking, um, uh, compared to, I think it was a cup of spinach, um, you
Speaker:could get the same amount of chlorophyll that's in a cup of spinach in, I think it
Speaker:was like five tablets of the energy bit.
Speaker:So, oh, probably even, probably even less.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Okay, gotcha.
Speaker:Probably like one tablet.
Speaker:Geez.
Speaker:I mean that, yeah, it's insane.
Speaker:It's, it's so nutrient dense and just, uh, yeah, like you really
Speaker:get your bang for your buck.
Speaker:So for me personally, I don't even consider it in like my supplement,
Speaker:uh, you know, expenditure.
Speaker:I consider it in my grocery expenditure.
Speaker:So, Um, yeah, yeah.
Speaker:We, we had an email from a woman, uh, a couple months ago.
Speaker:She's 87 and, um, sh before she found us, she was incontinent.
Speaker:She couldn't sleep for longer than an hour at a time, cuz as you
Speaker:get older, your melatonin drops.
Speaker:Um, she had no energy, so she started taking both of them.
Speaker:And she said within a couple of weeks, or even, or a week, I can't
Speaker:remember what the email was, uh, sh her incontinence was gone.
Speaker:She was able to sleep, uh, five or six hours at a time.
Speaker:Her energy w uh, went through the roof.
Speaker:She now does CrossFit check this out.
Speaker:An 87 year old woman doing CrossFit, she says her grocery
Speaker:bills, to your point, have dropped.
Speaker:She eats one meal a day now cuz she just has her energy bits in the morning and,
Speaker:and on in the email and I'll even send it to you cuz she said we could share it.
Speaker:That particular day, she went for a three mile walk, then she watched her
Speaker:grandson at school, played basketball, then she played, she went to the nursing
Speaker:home to visit her friend and, you know, she cleaned out her, her garage.
Speaker:And then at five o'clock she decided to have something to eat.
Speaker:All of that from like 30 tablets of energy bits.
Speaker:So, so, uh, and we also have emails from mothers who are so grateful because they
Speaker:said, you know, dinnertime was always very strenuous or, you know, painful.
Speaker:Um, because they were always fighting with their kids to get them
Speaker:to eat their vegetables, and the kids just didn't wanna eat them.
Speaker:So now they give the kids a couple of tablets a day, problem solved
Speaker:because they're getting all the nutrients, all the chlorophyll, all the
Speaker:phytonutrients, um, to, to, um, to build their, what you know, what they need.
Speaker:And now, They're not getting the fiber, uh, because actually spirulina
Speaker:has zero fiber cuz spirulina is a bacteria, it's a cyanobacteria.
Speaker:There is a bit of fiber in the chlorella.
Speaker:Um, and also on your deficiencies, probably B12 might have
Speaker:showed up on your radar.
Speaker:And I, I wanna address that because literally every day we get an email from
Speaker:someone, because there's a lot of stuff on the internet about, uh, the, um,
Speaker:B12 and spirulina being the pseudo b12.
Speaker:Not the real deal.
Speaker:Not not.
Speaker:Uh, and so I did a deep dive just this morning and I have some.
Speaker:Documents, some scientific pa uh, documents that prove at least in our
Speaker:algae, which is a called the spirulina.
Speaker:Plantes, which is the spirulina, uh, it is the real, uh, um, um, coline, uh,
Speaker:b12, which is, uh, absorbed by your body.
Speaker:And the chlorella is also the real b12.
Speaker:So I'm not sure where, um, what spirulina and chlorella these other articles
Speaker:are referencing, but they're not.
Speaker:Correct when it comes to ours.
Speaker:And so I just wanna assure people that, um, and the, uh, that we've
Speaker:got the real B12 in our, in our, our spirulina and chlorella.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:No, and that's super important.
Speaker:Uh, really good to know that, you know, it's, it's the biologically, uh, active
Speaker:or like absorbable type, um, which is, it is super important to know that.
Speaker:And, um, this is why I always talk about energy bits cuz I'm like, no, no, no.
Speaker:This is, this is everything in the way you need it.
Speaker:Just eat it.
Speaker:Um, now in terms of the mitochondria, cuz I'm about to
Speaker:just let you loose on this topic.
Speaker:I know you're gonna provide us with so much information right now, but
Speaker:yeah, if you wouldn't mind, I mean if, if you care to, you can give a
Speaker:little, uh, brief overview of what the mitochondria is for new listeners.
Speaker:Um, and then also definitely dive in on superoxide dismutase and phycocyanin
Speaker:and what benefit that provides for both, uh, brain health and heart health.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So I have a little chart.
Speaker:Um, oh, and I, I wanted to mention that real quick.
Speaker:For everyone who is listening, please go check this out on YouTube
Speaker:because Katherine brings the best, uh, like physical examples and
Speaker:actually presents them on screen here.
Speaker:So if you are listening to this, I highly encourage you
Speaker:go check this out on YouTube.
Speaker:She's gonna have some awesome diagrams, so please, uh, check that out.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Well, and you know, the, I really wish in schools they would teach us how our bodies
Speaker:work because when something doesn't work well, the first thing people do is they
Speaker:get a, they're, they're frightened and they go into a freeze mode and grab it.
Speaker:Anything.
Speaker:That's why so many people take medications.
Speaker:But if you start to understand how your body actually functions and people never
Speaker:think twice about reading the instructions on how their phone works in their iPhone.
Speaker:So I just wanna assure you that what I enjoy doing is helping people
Speaker:understand how their body functions.
Speaker:Because once you understand the rules of engagement, it's
Speaker:a lot easier to provide it.
Speaker:And then you'll start to understand why it's working, cuz it's not, uh, certainly
Speaker:when it comes to algae, it, it's not a, uh, it's, it's, it's not phony.
Speaker:It's not smoke and mirrors.
Speaker:It's the real nutritional needs being met by your body and most
Speaker:particularity your mitochondria.
Speaker:So what are the mitochondria?
Speaker:Well, They're known as being the power cells of your, of
Speaker:your, uh, uh, in your cells.
Speaker:They, which generate, uh, what's called atp attp is the form of
Speaker:energy required by your body.
Speaker:It takes the food that you eat, uh, and converts it into electrons
Speaker:that are then transferred into this thing called attp, which is what
Speaker:everything in your body requires.
Speaker:Attp it, thinking, walking, talking, breathing, your lymphatic
Speaker:system, a absolutely everything.
Speaker:And, and so, uh, inside your cell you have your nucleus, and then
Speaker:you have these little mitochondria that are generating the atp.
Speaker:Now, um, the, the problem arises, um, because the ATTP that's being
Speaker:produced inside these mitochondria, a byproduct, Are free radicals.
Speaker:And as you probably know, the free radicals are very damaging.
Speaker:And the prob what, what, what the issue is inside the, um, those little
Speaker:organelles, the mi mitochondria where the ATP is produced, that's also where
Speaker:your mitochondria have their own dna.
Speaker:You didn't probably know this, but your mitochondria have their own
Speaker:dna and there's only 37 of them compared to the 22,000 regular dna.
Speaker:But those mitochondria DNA control everything that goes on in the regular
Speaker:mitochondria, in your regular dna, all your cellular communications.
Speaker:So the problem is, however, the D n A are located exactly where the A T
Speaker:P is produced, which is exactly where the free radicals are being produced.
Speaker:Your regular nucleus DNA is way outside of the mitochondria,
Speaker:so they last your lifetime.
Speaker:Your mitochondria DNA lasts an average of 10 days, and that's because they're
Speaker:constantly being bombarded by free radicals that are being thrown off
Speaker:as a byproduct of the ATP production.
Speaker:And so when that's happens, your mitochondrial DNA die or they get mutated.
Speaker:And when they're mutated, they send the wrong signals to the cells and to the
Speaker:other nucleus and the other dna, and when they die, you have less of them.
Speaker:So you have less energy in both situations.
Speaker:You have.
Speaker:Diminished attp, which means you have diminished capability in
Speaker:whatever it is that you wanna do.
Speaker:This leads to brain fog, this leads to hormonal issues, this
Speaker:leads to skin issues, this leads to cancer, it leads to everything.
Speaker:So, um, and just to show you sort of what happens and I'll, you know,
Speaker:I'll get a little geeky on you.
Speaker:I'm showing you in that the mitochondria.
Speaker:The way the ATP is produced is there's these little electrons that are embedded
Speaker:in the cell membrane, and they, they take the electrons that are, you know, your
Speaker:glucose is converted from the food that you eat, and then it's like a relay race.
Speaker:They, they move these little electrons along the pros, the course.
Speaker:And the final stage is to pass it into, um, uh, where it, the ATP is generated.
Speaker:But the problem is when the free radicals are constantly being released, those
Speaker:little trends, uh, stations, think of it like a, as I say, a relay race.
Speaker:You know, when you have a relay race, you have someone passing a baton.
Speaker:Well, well, when the damage occurs in the mitochondria, the relays.
Speaker:Or the, you know, the, the runners in the, in the race get further and further
Speaker:apart, so it's harder and harder for them to pass the baton when they're, when
Speaker:they're healthy, they're tight and they're working closely, and the electrons get
Speaker:moved along, not very many free radicals.
Speaker:And so that's when you get high ATV production, when there's too
Speaker:many free radicals, those stations get moved apart from one another.
Speaker:So more and more electrons get dropped, and that turns into free radicals.
Speaker:And I'll show you a real picture of a mitochondria.
Speaker:Here's a healthy one, and here's one that's been damaged.
Speaker:See all the empty space.
Speaker:So it's hard for the electrons to get trans moved from one
Speaker:of those stations to the next.
Speaker:And so it's a slippery slope.
Speaker:It just gets worse and worse.
Speaker:The analogy I make is it's like asking Tom Brady to throw a pass in a stadium that's
Speaker:six times the size of a normal stadium.
Speaker:It just doesn't work.
Speaker:So this is why when you start to have damaged mitochondria, it's a downward.
Speaker:Spiral and you want to find a way to stop it.
Speaker:So there are two ways to reduce the free radicals, which would then therefore
Speaker:reduce your damage to your mitochondria and help you get your health back.
Speaker:Because here's the great thing, your body, every single cell in your body,
Speaker:every single microorganism in your body is constantly regenerating itself.
Speaker:So whatever situation you find yourself in, it's not, it's not stagnant.
Speaker:You're, there's a great, um, quote, I like an Asian quote, that you
Speaker:never step in the same river twice.
Speaker:You know, if it is a great visual, cuz the river's always
Speaker:flowing, your body's the same way.
Speaker:So when you give it better nourishment, when it's generating
Speaker:and making it the next bunch of cells, they're gonna be healthier.
Speaker:So whatever situation you do, find yourself in.
Speaker:Don't despair.
Speaker:Uh, on the other hand, if you are healthy, keep it up and keep giving yourself what
Speaker:your body needs cuz then you'll, you'll continue to have a big, a good structure.
Speaker:So the two ways to reduce that free radical damage is two ways you can,
Speaker:uh, reduce the free radicals, or you can remo and you can remove them.
Speaker:Let's look at the first one, which is to reduce them well, sugar and refined carbs.
Speaker:Create the most free radicals.
Speaker:They're the ones that get, get, they're dropped the most along that relay station.
Speaker:Keto diets or low carb diets have fewer carbs, and the best is fasting,
Speaker:intermittent fasting or algae.
Speaker:There's virtually no free radicals generated from
Speaker:intermittent fasting and algae.
Speaker:Um, so very, very efficient.
Speaker:But even if you just start by having fewer carbs, you will
Speaker:start having fewer free radicals.
Speaker:Um, and that means you'll have less mitochondrial damage.
Speaker:You know, when I see someone with a lot of wrinkles, I can almost.
Speaker:Promise you they eat a lot of sugar because, you know, you get
Speaker:free radical damage in your skin just like you, which you can see.
Speaker:But that kind of free radical damage that's also occurring inside your
Speaker:body, which, where you can't see it, but it manifests as heart disease,
Speaker:it manifests as hormonal issues.
Speaker:Brain fog, and we'll talk about the brain in a minute, but the
Speaker:skin, you can certainly see it.
Speaker:And people always comment on my skin.
Speaker:Um, and I attribute it to the fact I eat so much algae cuz oh, I don't have
Speaker:any free radical damage in my skin and, and it's no Botox as everything moves.
Speaker:Nice.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You have to ask nowadays, you know?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So, um, so re so reducing free radicals, your, is your number one, uh, step
Speaker:to protecting your mitochondria.
Speaker:The second step is to remove them.
Speaker:Okay?
Speaker:Now, normally we would, we would know, oh, well antioxidants, they, they are
Speaker:great for, uh, removing free radicals.
Speaker:But the problem is, uh, most of the antioxidants cannot get into
Speaker:the mitochondria because the mitochondria are your only cell
Speaker:in your body with two membranes.
Speaker:Every other cell, including the mitochondria, have what's
Speaker:called a lipid membrane.
Speaker:And now the mitochondria have a second one that, and I'll explain
Speaker:to you later where it came from.
Speaker:But that second membrane is impenetrable by almost all
Speaker:antioxidants, except for that I know of.
Speaker:There could be more, uh, glutathione, melatonin, superoxide dismutase
Speaker:and chlorophyll now, um, and we'll, uh, talk about that in a second.
Speaker:But the reason why they can't get in them is because the mitochondria,
Speaker:the inner membrane, does not have this thing called porins.
Speaker:Porins are little openings that allow, um, proteins and antioxidants in and out
Speaker:of your lipid membrane, but there aren't any in your, um, in your inner membrane.
Speaker:So the good news is your body creates, uh, um, most of those antioxidants that
Speaker:you need to get into the mitochondria, glutathione, melatonin, and superoxide
Speaker:tase doesn't make chlorophyll.
Speaker:Um, but the bad news is your body stops making them.
Speaker:When you get 30, so after the, so you've got all, that's why when
Speaker:you're, you know, you're teenage, you're 20, I mean, you can go out and
Speaker:party, you can do whatever you want.
Speaker:You always bounce back because you've got all these, you know, whatever you've been
Speaker:doing in your body, you can bounce back.
Speaker:But once you hit 30, it drops All those, those, those critical antioxidants that
Speaker:you've been having all these years.
Speaker:Are gone.
Speaker:And so your mitochondria are no longer protected.
Speaker:Uh, it's like your superpowers are suddenly dis disappeared or somebody
Speaker:cleared out your bank account.
Speaker:Uh, you don't have, you don't have what you used to have.
Speaker:And this is exactly the time when, um, disease starts happening because
Speaker:when you, by the time you hit 40 or 50, you've, you've lost the
Speaker:protection of those antioxidants.
Speaker:And by the way, we haven't talked about this yet.
Speaker:You've been living longer.
Speaker:And we have so many toxins in our world.
Speaker:The average adult I read has 700 toxins in them.
Speaker:So it's a perfect storm.
Speaker:You have more, you have more toxins, and you have less
Speaker:protection of your mitochondria.
Speaker:So here's the great news, algae has.
Speaker:The highest concentration of three of those antioxidants that could
Speaker:get in there, suid dismutase me, um, glutathione and chlorophyll.
Speaker:And that, uh, is particularly spirulina and chlorella pulls out toxins.
Speaker:So now you, you can reverse the situation where you were missing these
Speaker:critical antioxidants to protect your mitochondria just by taking the algae
Speaker:you can get, you can fla literally flatline the, uh, inflammation levels.
Speaker:Get rid of the toxins and get your mitochondria healing and.
Speaker:I don't make this up by the way.
Speaker:Uh, there are at least 25,000 studies that have documented the healing
Speaker:powers of superoxide dismutase, which is one of the critical nutrients.
Speaker:And, and, and it's actually a, um, it's an enzyme.
Speaker:It's found in spirulina, but it's also in, in chlorella.
Speaker:But highest concentration is in, is in spirulina, uh, everything,
Speaker:as I said, from heart disease.
Speaker:It re, it reduces the, um, stops your telomeres from, from, uh,
Speaker:shortening, it removes inflammation.
Speaker:So it's particularly good for brain, uh, health.
Speaker:Um, but yeah, because by the way, your brain has the highest concentration
Speaker:of mitochondria in the world.
Speaker:2 million mitochondria per cell.
Speaker:I mean, think about that.
Speaker:2 million mitochondria per cell.
Speaker:That's one packed.
Speaker:Subway car.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And, uh, we'll talk about, I've got, I've got some really
Speaker:cool information about that.
Speaker:But there's a book that came out last November by, um, Dr.
Speaker:Chris Palmer, brain Energy.
Speaker:The whole book is about how all brain issues, whether it's post-traumatic
Speaker:stress disorder or anxiety, is really a mitochondrial disease.
Speaker:And so the first step is to heal your mitochondria because once they are
Speaker:functioning better, then um, all these other, um, issues in your brain have
Speaker:a better chance of being corrected.
Speaker:So, um, and I completely agree and I read the book and, you
Speaker:know, he's here in Boston.
Speaker:We're going to actually get together next week.
Speaker:I think so.
Speaker:Um, that's amazing.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker:It's, and then also, sorry, real quick, I wanted to jump in real quick also.
Speaker:I just wanted to mention that, uh, mitochondria, uh, uh, just a really
Speaker:quick reason why they're so important is, like you just said, they're super
Speaker:jam-packed in all the cells of our brain, but that's because it's an area where
Speaker:we have high energy, uh, demand, right?
Speaker:And that's why the heart as well has high levels of mitochondria.
Speaker:Sorry, I just wanted to jump in real quick and Yes.
Speaker:And chime that.
Speaker:Well, the, um, because remember, the mitochondria are responsible
Speaker:for generating energy, cellular energy, and, um, I tell people, look
Speaker:at cellular energy is like money.
Speaker:When you have more money, you can do more things and you have more choices, right?
Speaker:Cellular energy is exactly the same way, more cellular energy.
Speaker:You can do more things and you have more choices.
Speaker:So the highest needs in your body, uh, have the highest
Speaker:concentration of mitochondria.
Speaker:Um, your brain uses by the way, 20% of all your, um, energy needs.
Speaker:And so it's a hog.
Speaker:It's a, it's a cellular energy hog.
Speaker:Um, but that's why one of the reasons why when you take spirulina, you get
Speaker:physical and mental energy immediately.
Speaker:Um, but you also, because it partly is feeding in through this.
Speaker:Um, mitochondria, but it sat and it satisfies your hunger.
Speaker:By the way, both algae are, um, zero carbs, great for intermittent
Speaker:fasting, ketogenic vegan paleo carnivore, zero oxalates.
Speaker:Zero lectins.
Speaker:I feel like I've got a prodigy child on my hands, but, um, uh, but yes, so the
Speaker:brain has the most 2 million per cell.
Speaker:The next highest, which might be sort of interesting to know, are women's eggs.
Speaker:Why is that?
Speaker:Because it takes a lot of energy to generate a human being.
Speaker:To create a human being, and I'd say, so interesting.
Speaker:Side note, for any of the ladies that are listening, uh, we all
Speaker:know that our regular, um, d n A is comes, half of it comes from men.
Speaker:The sperm and half comes from women from the egg.
Speaker:Well, when it comes to mitochondria, it's all from the ladies.
Speaker:All of your DNA in your mitochondria come from the eggs.
Speaker:So, um, you know, here we are, the women we're working in the back rooms
Speaker:again, you know, making things work.
Speaker:But, uh, I thought that was pretty f fascinating.
Speaker:So after.
Speaker:Brain, then the eggs, then the heart, the heart's about 8,000,
Speaker:um, mitochondria per cell.
Speaker:And after that it's muscles.
Speaker:And then, um, all your other organs.
Speaker:So you can see even athletes that those of you who are listening,
Speaker:um, you need to be sure that you're feeding those mitochondria.
Speaker:And there's other ways to do it too.
Speaker:Uh, exercise obviously, uh, red light therapy.
Speaker:Um, but the spirulina and the chlorella for sure, um, because they,
Speaker:they are, have the nutrients that can get into the inner membrane.
Speaker:Uh, and I'll tell you, um, well, I can tell you now why, why
Speaker:the, the inner membrane exists.
Speaker:So, uh, I, I may have mentioned, or maybe I didn't, but algae was the first
Speaker:life on earth for a billion years ago.
Speaker:And, uh, it was, uh, started with this cyanobacteria, uh, which like spirulina,
Speaker:spirulina, as I mentioned, is a bacteria.
Speaker:And before cyanobacteria Earth was gas and water, nothing lived.
Speaker:And then this single cell, anaerobic cell started growing.
Speaker:It released oxygen.
Speaker:By generating atp.
Speaker:And after a billion years there was enough oxygen.
Speaker:So aerobic cells, which were larger could grow, but they
Speaker:didn't generate ATP as well.
Speaker:So I kind of joke and say, well, I can imagine the conversation, a big cell
Speaker:says to the little cell, Hey, little guy, I see you're struggling there.
Speaker:Why don't we join forces?
Speaker:Uh, we'll protect you from the oxygen and you come and make ATP for us.
Speaker:And that's basically what happened.
Speaker:Again, all proven in science is called endos symbiotic theory that the original,
Speaker:um, single cell organism that was absorbed by the larger cell, which was aerobic,
Speaker:it evolved to become mitochondria.
Speaker:So cyanobacteria like spirulina became our mitochondria.
Speaker:So the second membrane that's inside the mitochondria that no antioxidants,
Speaker:except everything that's an algae can get into is a leftover from the original
Speaker:days when it was a single cell organism.
Speaker:And then when it got absorbed.
Speaker:A lipid membrane was put around it just like all the other cells.
Speaker:Uh, and this was discovered in the sixties by a female scientist
Speaker:at MIT also here in Boston.
Speaker:Um, and, uh, and it's, if you go on PubMed or research anything about
Speaker:the history of mitochondria, uh, that's, that, that's reference.
Speaker:So, It, it's, it makes a lot of sense to me that that's why algae seems to
Speaker:be so perfectly suited for protecting, correcting, uh, and, and improving the
Speaker:functionality of your mitochondria because they're basically from the same place.
Speaker:They evolve from the same place.
Speaker:So, uh, and you, so you can't get any further back in history, uh, than algae.
Speaker:And you can't get any deeper to the core of what's causing your health
Speaker:or your disease than mitochondria.
Speaker:That's it.
Speaker:There's no n you can't go any further than that.
Speaker:So it's, it's, it's fascinating to me.
Speaker:So two of the most powerful nutrients that support the mitochondria
Speaker:are, are found in spirulina.
Speaker:One is called super oxidase, also known as s o d, and the
Speaker:other one is the blue pigment.
Speaker:That's called fico Cyan, and I, I, I'm gonna spell it for you because you
Speaker:would never really know it otherwise.
Speaker:It's P h y c o c y a n I N.
Speaker:And the reason I want to spell it out for you is so that on your, if you're
Speaker:interested, just go online and Google fico, signin and cancer treatments because
Speaker:you're gonna find out that this is what the chemotherapy companies are using.
Speaker:We'll talk about this in a minute, to kill cancer cells, and yet it
Speaker:exists naturally in spirulina.
Speaker:And by the way, FICO signin does not exist anywhere else in nature.
Speaker:Nowhere else except spirulina.
Speaker:I would say that killing cancer cells would be a pretty important
Speaker:thing to have on your mind.
Speaker:I, I might as well just jump right to that one right now.
Speaker:So I, anyone who's listening, I am not saying, I just wanna
Speaker:make sure you understand this.
Speaker:I'm not saying that algae kills cancer cells.
Speaker:I am saying that scientists have done research to find out that a nutrient
Speaker:called phycocyanin has been shown to kill cancer cells and that algae contains this
Speaker:nutrient spirulina, algae, not chlorella.
Speaker:So here's, I'm gonna show you this, and again, if you Google FICO sign and we'll
Speaker:send you, um, Uh, the, uh, the, uh, PowerPoint with the links to this, but
Speaker:this was a, I'm showing a picture of, uh, some cancer cells that were put in a Petri
Speaker:dish and they dyed them purple and it's a 24 hour, 24 hour, um, time, uh, shot.
Speaker:And so they could, they can see that.
Speaker:And what they did with these cancer cells is they put some phycocyanin in
Speaker:the, in the Petri dish, and there's six images, and it starts here where the
Speaker:cancer is very dense and it ends here where the cancer is virtually gone.
Speaker:So, and what I point out to people is that the amount of phycocyanin that was
Speaker:used in this experiment to kill the cancer cells, one of our algae spirulina algae
Speaker:tablets, has 4,000 times more phycocyanin, one tablet than was used in this test.
Speaker:Geez.
Speaker:Crazy, right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Crazy.
Speaker:So you, so in case you are interested, I hope you are, I wanna
Speaker:help you understand why it works.
Speaker:So in the electron transport chain, there's all these little molecules
Speaker:where there's the, but like the baton being passed along, as we mentioned.
Speaker:And sometimes it gets dropped on its way to the finish line,
Speaker:which is called at p production.
Speaker:Now there's two what's called carrier molecules.
Speaker:One you may have heard of before called coq 10.
Speaker:We're not talking about that one, but there's another little carrier molecule.
Speaker:It's called cytochrome C, and it helps shuttle the electrons between
Speaker:the third molecule in the electron transport chain and the fourth molecule.
Speaker:And I, the analogy I make, it's like, you know, if you're at one of these
Speaker:big airports and you gotta get on a shuttle bus to get to your terminal,
Speaker:you know you miss that shuttle bus, you miss your plane, right?
Speaker:So these, this little cytochrome C is the shuttle bus now, and it works to carry
Speaker:the electrons to its final destination to generate ATP in healthy cells.
Speaker:This is one of the reasons why FICO signin in spirulina algae helps
Speaker:generate energy because it speeds up the bus as it moves the electron
Speaker:from station three to station four.
Speaker:That's on healthy cells.
Speaker:On unhealthy cells, which include cancer cells and senescent cells.
Speaker:Senescent cells are basically zombie cells.
Speaker:They've replicated themselves to death literally, cuz each time you replicate,
Speaker:you lose some of your, um, tele, uh, telomeres and eventually end up with
Speaker:a cell that can't replicate anymore.
Speaker:But it doesn't, it just doesn't go away.
Speaker:It's sort of like a guy, someone who's worked all their life and
Speaker:it's time for them to retire, but they just won't go home.
Speaker:They won't leave and they're still kicking, they're
Speaker:making a mess in the office.
Speaker:That's what a senescent cell is.
Speaker:It's still hanging around.
Speaker:It's inflammatory, it's not doing anything.
Speaker:You wanna get rid of it.
Speaker:That's what a to Fiji does.
Speaker:That's what, um, uh, when you go to, uh, cryotherapy helps
Speaker:clean out some of that stuff.
Speaker:So this cytochrome c molecule in health, in unhealthy cells, senescent cells,
Speaker:and cancer cells, the FICO signin kicks it out and it kills the cell.
Speaker:Pretty sweet, right?
Speaker:It's self-directed.
Speaker:And in fact, the, uh, um, apparently the, um, chemotherapy companies can determine
Speaker:if their treatments are working in their cancer treatments by what do they do?
Speaker:They measure how much cytochrome C is in your body, in your blood,
Speaker:because if there's a lot of cytochrome C that tells them there's
Speaker:been a lot of cancer cells killed.
Speaker:So it's working so.
Speaker:Unbelievable.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:So, um, uh, so I think that's pretty powerful that this, the, the, um, the,
Speaker:the FICO signin, the blue pigment that is found in ca spirulina, nowhere else
Speaker:has that pretty powerful capability.
Speaker:But I do want you to know, here's a chart that, that that pigment, like
Speaker:including the next nutrient we're gonna talk about, which is super oxidase,
Speaker:blue pigment phycocyanin is damaged.
Speaker:You lose 50% or more of its capability when you dr.
Speaker:You use high heat, so almost everybody using high heat, all the other algae
Speaker:companies to dry their algae, which means you're shooting blanks, you're not getting
Speaker:the FICO sign and power that you should.
Speaker:Uh, and that is in intact in ours cuz we don't use high heat.
Speaker:So, That's a very powerful benefit that protects not only the mitochondria,
Speaker:but um, your healthy cells and gets rid of the unhealthy cells naturally.
Speaker:You know, it's mother nature's way of, you know, keeping us healthy.
Speaker:God bless her.
Speaker:I mean, she's, she's God, everything up her, her sleeve.
Speaker:The other nutrient I wanna talk about is called superoxide dismutase, um, and
Speaker:also known as s o d and what it does.
Speaker:Uh, so when you have these free radicals, the most damaging free
Speaker:radical is called superoxide.
Speaker:And so this nutrient called superoxide dismutase, which is actually an enzyme,
Speaker:is the most powerful way to neutralize it.
Speaker:And what does it do?
Speaker:It turns superoxide into harmless water.
Speaker:Ta-da.
Speaker:Mit your mitochondria.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:There's, you know, cuz now is, they're like firemen and they're
Speaker:rescuing you from the fire.
Speaker:Cuz those free radicals, they're like fi, they're like sparks from a
Speaker:fire because when you, your poor old DNA are sitting right there by the
Speaker:fireside, by the bonfire getting fried.
Speaker:But when you give it the super oxidase, it's like putting up a shield and uh,
Speaker:and actually it's more than a shield.
Speaker:It removes the, the, um, the, the, uh, free radicals and turns them into water.
Speaker:So that's pretty powerful.
Speaker:Um, but you can't get, uh, any amount of super oxidase from any other food.
Speaker:I think there's 0.0, 0, 0, 0 0 1% in cabbage or broccoli, but then
Speaker:it gets damaged in digestion.
Speaker:And because sup, because spirulina is a bacteria which allows it to get absorbed
Speaker:instantly cuz there's no, um, Fiber or SEIUs wall, it gets absorbed and in, and
Speaker:the, all the nutrients, including the suid dismutase and the phycocyanin get
Speaker:directed to the, uh, it's a d direct shot.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:You know, it's like the airlines here, right?
Speaker:You, it's like going into first class, you know, you get
Speaker:to load onto the plane first.
Speaker:Uh, so it gets to the mitochondria and, and so you know, the two of them
Speaker:super oxidase, which protects your mitochondria from free radicals and also
Speaker:protects your telomeres from shortening.
Speaker:Cuz here's that picture.
Speaker:As they replicate, there's less and less telomere to, and then your DNA
Speaker:gets exposed and it gets unraveled and then you get DNA mutation
Speaker:and that contributes to damage.
Speaker:So, um, pretty powerful stuff.
Speaker:Uh, and it's all natural.
Speaker:We don't add it.
Speaker:It's Mother Nature, she cooked it up.
Speaker:Uh, we just grow it very carefully.
Speaker:We preserve it without high heat so that you get the maximum benefit, um,
Speaker:and don't, um, you know, don't miss out on any of the, uh, the nutrients.
Speaker:And, and it works honestly, when we've had people who've had Alzheimer's who write
Speaker:us and tell us that within 24 hours of starting to take the spirulina, you know,
Speaker:before they couldn't figure out how to work their microwave or couldn't remember
Speaker:their address, they were back on track.
Speaker:Um, which gets me to the.
Speaker:Part about the brain health, because I've been reading so much about brain
Speaker:health and we know, uh, our algae has helped, um, people on the spectrum.
Speaker:Uh, any kind of, uh, um, if you've got any kind of attention disorder issue,
Speaker:this is so powerful for the brain.
Speaker:And I've read so many articles, but I thought, you know what,
Speaker:I need to test ours for sure.
Speaker:And we're a small company, so we can't do these big expensive CLI clinical trials.
Speaker:But the good news is we, um, have been working for the last six
Speaker:months with a fabulous non-profit.
Speaker:They're based in Florida called the Gray Team, gray team.org.
Speaker:And their entire purpose, uh, for existing is to reduce the suicide rates
Speaker:of military veterans, which is that at a heartbreaking 35 to 50% rate, 35 to 50%
Speaker:military veterans are committing suicide.
Speaker:Geez.
Speaker:I mean, That's just, that just, I just makes me cry.
Speaker:So they're doing everything they can.
Speaker:They've been working with a lot of the biohacking community and, and they
Speaker:thought they would try, they, they'd met me and, and our team many times.
Speaker:So we thought we'd do a small experiment.
Speaker:And so we recruited some of their members, their veterans, and these are people that
Speaker:have had brain issues for 20 or 30 years.
Speaker:Some had ms and all we did was give them a pouch of our spirulina algae tablets.
Speaker:Uh, there's 30 tablets in a, in a single pouch for 30 days.
Speaker:Uh, we measured, we did an EEG brain scan before the test, and we
Speaker:did another one after the 30 days.
Speaker:Now, honestly, we could have probably done the brain scan after a week and found
Speaker:the same results, but it is what it is.
Speaker:And we also had some, um, uh, different devices, uh, AVI for a bios strapp
Speaker:for measuring heart rate, availability and sleep and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker:So before I tell you the results of that test, I just wanna,
Speaker:I'm gonna show you a picture.
Speaker:Uh, using EEGs have been, um, Uh, or EEG and brain tests have been used in
Speaker:the athletic community for decades, uh, particularly for contact sports because,
Speaker:you know, football, there's lots of head injuries and concussions, and so, um,
Speaker:they would want to know when the athlete was safe enough to go back into play.
Speaker:So I, um, I'm showing you a picture that, um, this was a picture of
Speaker:an eeg, of a brain of an athlete before they had a concussion.
Speaker:And so you can see all the bright colors, the red and the yellow.
Speaker:It shows, uh, brain activity.
Speaker:Then they would have a concussion where there was a massive inflammation and
Speaker:the, and the EEG showed colors that were all blue, which indicated no brain
Speaker:activity and massive inflammation.
Speaker:And then once they did a bra, another e eeg, and the brain once again showed the
Speaker:red and the bright colors that indicated that the brain was healthy again and
Speaker:the athlete could go back into play.
Speaker:And I show you that because I wanted you to see.
Speaker:The e EEG before and after for the participants in our study.
Speaker:So here's one participant.
Speaker:The EEG showed what blue and what does the blue show?
Speaker:Massive inflammation.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Uh, this, this was the, we did the, um, frontal occipital region as
Speaker:well as the central parietal region.
Speaker:The frontal region is the where executive decision making is
Speaker:occurring, but nonetheless, they were both massively blue after 30 days.
Speaker:There's still a little bit of blue, but very significant return of yellow and red
Speaker:in both the parietal and the occipital, showing that the executive function
Speaker:decision making had been restored.
Speaker:And all we did.
Speaker:Well, they did nothing else except take 30 of these little spirulina tablets a day.
Speaker:And as I said, we probably could have tested after a week, um,
Speaker:and found the same results.
Speaker:They also, we also, you know, measured their heart rate variability.
Speaker:This one individual, their heart score, heart rate variability
Speaker:proof from 55 to 80, that's a 50% increase in 30 days unheard of.
Speaker:So, um, the, the, not the organization to call again is
Speaker:Gray team, G R E Y t eam.org.
Speaker:Um, we are supporting them.
Speaker:We're, we're gonna hopefully do a much larger study.
Speaker:We're gonna get this written up.
Speaker:Uh, Dr.
Speaker:Dagostino is gonna, is helping us.
Speaker:Dominique dagostino, who's very big in the biohacking and keto world.
Speaker:And he's a professor at, uh, uh, Southern Florida.
Speaker:He's gonna help us write this into a paper so we can present it, um, because
Speaker:it offers great hope for everyone.
Speaker:Not just the veterans, but for everyone.
Speaker:If something so natural, pro that.
Speaker:So safe, uh, no spirulina in particular, zero interactions with anything.
Speaker:No medica safe for any child, any age, teenagers, grandparents, athletes.
Speaker:If you can just improve your mental health by just taking spirulina,
Speaker:like what do you got to lose?
Speaker:Seriously?
Speaker:And for employers who might be listening, listen, we want, everybody
Speaker:wants to be sharp on at work.
Speaker:You wanna be sharp at home.
Speaker:You wanna be sharp on, on the playing field.
Speaker:As, as athletes, this is more than a pre-workout.
Speaker:I mean, this is your.
Speaker:Mental health insurance.
Speaker:Uh, it's also your nutritional insurance.
Speaker:But, um, that was pretty powerful to me.
Speaker:Um, and I'll, I'll give you one more anecdotal story about the power
Speaker:of spirulina, and I don't have the number, the data I, I have, I'm
Speaker:waiting for it to be sent to me.
Speaker:Uh, I was at Dave Asprey's.
Speaker:We, I spoke and we exhibited at his show, um, in Orlando second year.
Speaker:And one of the companies we work very closely with is, um, uh, BrainTap.
Speaker:They have a device that.
Speaker:Um, allows you to listen to music and sounds and beats, and they also
Speaker:have lights that flash, and it's shown that, uh, it helps you, uh, um,
Speaker:create new brain pathways and, and comms provides you with more, uh, uh,
Speaker:opportunity to get into Alpha and, you know, the deeper sleep zones.
Speaker:So anyways, they, they've known me and we, we've loved each other and they said, you
Speaker:know, we wanna do a little test with you.
Speaker:Um, so when you, they test your device, their device, what they do first is they
Speaker:have these, this way to measure your heart rate availability and all your biomarkers.
Speaker:It's, uh, takes about five minutes.
Speaker:They, you know, put electrodes on your wrists or whatever.
Speaker:So, so they did that for me.
Speaker:And then, um, I went and I had some of my spirulina.
Speaker:I had about a pouch and a half, so like 40 ish tablets and waited half an hour.
Speaker:And then I came back and they tested me again.
Speaker:And it was the CEO who did the test for me.
Speaker:And he almost fell off his chair because he said they have never
Speaker:seen results like this before.
Speaker:I blew out all of their markers.
Speaker:There were only two, I wasn't at a hundred percent.
Speaker:And when I did the brain tap device afterwards, that came back and
Speaker:they measured me again and I was at a hundred percent in everything.
Speaker:And here's the really cool thing.
Speaker:So I'm 66, I'm almost turning 67 my biological age.
Speaker:After those small number of tablets, well, you know, it's 40 ish.
Speaker:I went from a biological age of 66.
Speaker:To 32.
Speaker:It measured me, my biomarkers measured me at an age of 32.
Speaker:Now, I think that's hilarious because there's been a huge amount
Speaker:of coverage by this gentleman.
Speaker:I can't remember his name right now, but, um, he's been, uh, spending two
Speaker:or three years getting all of these biohacking devices to, uh, reduce his age.
Speaker:I think he's 45.
Speaker:I think he spent 3 million over three years, and he has knocked
Speaker:off five years off his age, five years, th 3 million in three years.
Speaker:I had the equivalent of $6 worth of algae tablets.
Speaker:Waited 30 minutes and knocked 32 years off my age.
Speaker:Okay, ladies and gentlemen, you tell me which one you wanna do, right?
Speaker:Yeah, crazy.
Speaker:And I'll get the numbers I'm get, they're gonna get, get them for
Speaker:me so I can show them on a chart.
Speaker:And uh, honestly, afterwards he said, I think we need to acquire you and I and.
Speaker:I, I can't take the credit for this other than the fact that I educate
Speaker:people and I make sure that our growing conditions are so pure and
Speaker:safe that we can deliver a healthy, um, product to you that you can give
Speaker:to your children and your grandparents.
Speaker:But Mother Nature is the one who has given this to us, and I am so proud to
Speaker:be her spokesperson because somebody needs to, um, and think about it again.
Speaker:The United Nations has endorsed spirulina for 49 years as
Speaker:the answer to world hunger.
Speaker:So, and NASA has endorsed it for 50 years as well.
Speaker:So, you know, dig in, come and visit us at Energy Bits or just
Speaker:go online, but be aware there's some misinformation about algae.
Speaker:But, um, We'll provide you with, uh, Evan some information people can dig in.
Speaker:Uh, uh, I have at least 3000 links to n NIH articles that
Speaker:validate the benefits of algae.
Speaker:There are a hundred thousand, so I don't have them all, but I
Speaker:have, I have a good enough number.
Speaker:Uh, so it's unbelievable.
Speaker:Like I said at the beginning, I have, I came up with this
Speaker:quote too simple to believe.
Speaker:Too powerful not to, what do you have to lose?
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:No, that's, that's I think the perfect motto for, for energy bits altogether.
Speaker:Um, yeah, so I actually, I do have one more question I want to, uh, kind of end
Speaker:this whole podcast with, but I also just wanted to do a quick recap because there
Speaker:was so much information in that I know.
Speaker:Sorry about that.
Speaker:No, no.
Speaker:And amazing, like, I, I hope, um, you know, people go back and listen to this
Speaker:and, and hopefully are taking notes, but yeah, just basically to, to cover this.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:By taking spirulina chlorella, you are going to be protecting these mitochondria.
Speaker:And the mitochondria are gonna be the powerhouses of your cells.
Speaker:It's also going to, you know, reduce biological age.
Speaker:It's gonna help you age gracefully, slow down the aging process.
Speaker:It's going to give you more energy, make you feel better, make you perform better.
Speaker:It's gonna help with your brain, cuz that's a massive
Speaker:area of mitochondria density.
Speaker:The brain, the eggs, all the stuff that you really need taken care of is
Speaker:essentially going to be taken care of.
Speaker:And that's why, I mean, it's, it's, there's so much information that
Speaker:sometimes it's hard for me to, when I meet someone I'm like, Hey, like
Speaker:trying to explain this and that and that about Spurling and Chlorella.
Speaker:And at the end of it I'm just like, look, it's gonna be like the best thing
Speaker:you can pretty much take for yourself.
Speaker:So that's usually where I end off with it.
Speaker:But, um, one thing.
Speaker:I came up with a great analogy cuz we didn't talk about
Speaker:chlorella, which pulls out toxins.
Speaker:But I came up with this a great analogy where, think of spirulina like room
Speaker:service because it gives your body all the nourishment that you need,
Speaker:sort of like you would get from room service at a hotel for your day.
Speaker:Gives you, you know, and, and for your life.
Speaker:And think of chlorella like housekeeping.
Speaker:It cleans all the junk out of your trunk.
Speaker:It pulls all the toxins out.
Speaker:Uh, spirulina again, another way to think about it is that it works from at
Speaker:to build your mitochondria and chlorella because of the chlorophyll and other
Speaker:nutrients build your immune system.
Speaker:Uh, or another way to think about spirulina works on the brain
Speaker:and, you know, downwards and chlorella works on your gut and up.
Speaker:So they do completely different things, but they're both essential for your
Speaker:health and, um, They, once you start taking them, honestly, you never
Speaker:wanna stop, and hopefully you won't.
Speaker:But they do replace a lot of other things, so they're not an add-on expense.
Speaker:Um, they really, um, replace a lot of stuff that's probably
Speaker:not good for you anyways.
Speaker:Yeah, sorry about that.
Speaker:No, no, I Please Catherine, anytime you need to interrupt, please just
Speaker:do it like your, your words hold much value to me and, and are gonna provide
Speaker:a lot of, uh, value to the listeners.
Speaker:But the last thing I did want to end off with, and I've had a few people ask me
Speaker:this, um, so is in terms of how many, uh, tablets to take, which you kind of
Speaker:mentioned on this, and of course, you know, everything that we're mentioning
Speaker:here, we're not medical professionals, so take this with a grain of salt.
Speaker:But, um, at the end of the day, for the average person, I heard you say
Speaker:about 10, um, tablets would be, you know, like a good general amount, but
Speaker:also let's say for maybe with kids or even someone with, um, let's say
Speaker:dementia or Alzheimer's or maybe they are going through cancer, would you.
Speaker:You know, recommend a higher amount for that person.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:And again, thank you for reminding me to remind your listeners that
Speaker:we aren't a medical facility.
Speaker:I'm not a medical doctor.
Speaker:I'm just sharing information that I have accumulated over these last 13
Speaker:years and, um, try, I'm trying to help people understand where to start,
Speaker:because keep in mind this is not a pill.
Speaker:It is not a supplement.
Speaker:We call them bits because they're bits of food.
Speaker:So, um, just like any kind of food, you kind of have to gauge your own appetite.
Speaker:Energy levels, age.
Speaker:Health, you know, levels.
Speaker:But, so on average, we found that 10 tablets a day, spirulina in the
Speaker:morning, take chlorella before you go to bed, because that's when your body
Speaker:does a detox repair cycle for children.
Speaker:We suggest, uh, one or half a tablet for their age.
Speaker:So if they're 10, give them five a day.
Speaker:If they're eight, give them four a day.
Speaker:They can have as many as you'd like to give them.
Speaker:We, I had a, um, the 18 month, year old daughter of a chiropractor, um, Dr.
Speaker:Wolfson, who's a very big paleo cardiologist.
Speaker:His daughter met me at a show.
Speaker:My, this little girl was like a foot and a half tall.
Speaker:She must've eaten a hundred tablets, like in five, in the space of five minutes.
Speaker:So finally, I said, I think maybe she said enough, but it's, there's no overload.
Speaker:Honestly, your poop will be green if you eat more, but.
Speaker:So for pets, for children, you know, um, until they're a teenager, just
Speaker:give them half of what their age for a pet given or a child's portion,
Speaker:you know, five tablets, 10 tablets.
Speaker:If you have a health condition, whether it's heart disease, cancer,
Speaker:you had cancer, um, you should be doubling and tripling that for sure.
Speaker:Uh, and again, once again, what have you got to lose?
Speaker:We were, when I was at Day's Show, we met the folks from the Hippocrates Health
Speaker:Institute, which is a well regarded 50 year old institute in Florida, Palm
Speaker:Springs, Florida, uh, Palm Beach rather.
Speaker:And, uh, they're recognized for helping people who are in stage four
Speaker:cancer, um, get healthy and they give them saunas and red light therapy,
Speaker:chlorellas, green juices, sprouts, but they wanted a better source of
Speaker:spirulina, so they're considering ours.
Speaker:Um, so you need.
Speaker:I would say 30 tablets.
Speaker:60 tablets until a day of each one, until you get a clear diagnosis.
Speaker:Um, and, and then, you know, take as many as you want after
Speaker:that, but keep taking them.
Speaker:Never, I don't think anyone should ever stop taking these.
Speaker:They are your health insurance, honestly.
Speaker:They're also your nutritional insurance.
Speaker:So when you do eat, you're just eating for fun or flavor or social reasons.
Speaker:Um, but, and don't worry about taking more.
Speaker:I don't, I stop, I don't tell anybody how many I take anymore
Speaker:cuz people were horrified.
Speaker:I take a lot.
Speaker:Uh, so, but on the other hand, you know, and I do eat real
Speaker:food, uh, and I'm not vegan.
Speaker:I eat, you know, grass fed beef.
Speaker:I'm very selective about my food choices.
Speaker:I make sure I eat the best, but I, and I try to eat once a day.
Speaker:Sometimes it's twice a day, but, you know, so I intermittent
Speaker:fast like everybody else does.
Speaker:Or you should, um, with my algae to keep me through the day.
Speaker:So, um, so yeah, so if you did take 10 tablets a day, a bag of the thousand
Speaker:tablets would last you three months.
Speaker:Um, uh, and by the way, if you are on chemotherapy, the chlorella, which
Speaker:pulls out toxins including radiation, is really helpful to take the day after your
Speaker:treatment because it will pull the excess chemotherapy out so you're not as sick.
Speaker:Um, we, you know, we want you to get the benefits of your treatment,
Speaker:so don't take it right away.
Speaker:Take it, you know, as long, you know, at least 12 hours
Speaker:afterwards, eight or 12 hours.
Speaker:Um, so, and, and you know, the United Nations used chlorella after Chernobyl
Speaker:for that very reason to pull out the, the, um, excess radiations.
Speaker:And same with Fukushima.
Speaker:Disaster took 12 years, 10 years ago, uh, the entire global supply of
Speaker:Chlorella was bought up within 24 hours.
Speaker:Geez.
Speaker:So, um, So keep in mind it's food.
Speaker:Uh, what have you got to lose?
Speaker:Uh, it's been used safely for 70 years in Asia, endorsed by international agencies.
Speaker:Um, the only difference is that with our brand, we don't use high heat
Speaker:and we grow it very, very carefully.
Speaker:So all the nutrients are intact so they can go to work for you.
Speaker:Um, and I can't say the same for other.
Speaker:Companies, but I can, I can assure you that we sell through
Speaker:doctors and practitioners and we do third party lab tests.
Speaker:So, um, I'm very bullish on the quality that we provide.
Speaker:Um, but remember, it's Mother Nature who gave it to us.
Speaker:We are part of nature.
Speaker:Uh, any issue you ever have, look to nature.
Speaker:The things that make us healthy are natural.
Speaker:It's sunlight within, you know, reason, sleep, movement, nutrition, love.
Speaker:Right, those things.
Speaker:And algae is the most effective, efficient, cost, efficient,
Speaker:times efficient source of food.
Speaker:Please don't go to your local, uh, ocean or lake and scoop up some algae
Speaker:because it'll be full of toxins cuz algae absorbs whatever's in the water.
Speaker:And so, um, and in fact, by the way, algae kills all bacteria.
Speaker:That's why algae blooms show up because there's been toxins in the water and they,
Speaker:they kill the bacteria and they absorb it.
Speaker:So that's why you don't want it.
Speaker:But it does the same thing in your, in your body.
Speaker:That's why we work with biological dentists and if you chew it,
Speaker:you get the benefit of killing the bacteria in your mouth.
Speaker:And, um, lots of your bacteria travel through your body
Speaker:because it starts in your mouth.
Speaker:So, um, keep that in mind.
Speaker:Chewing, a lot of people don't like the flavor, but chewing does get
Speaker:into your system quickly and, um, And it gives you that extra benefit
Speaker:of killing bacteria in your mouth.
Speaker:Especially a chlorella.
Speaker:Tastes pretty good.
Speaker:Give it a shot.
Speaker:Maybe with sea salt or my favorite, uh, salt and pepper,
Speaker:salt and vinegar, pistachio nuts.
Speaker:But whatever you do, grind it up.
Speaker:Swallow it.
Speaker:When you swallow it, there is no repeat.
Speaker:It's not like fish oil Yeah.
Speaker:Goes down.
Speaker:It stays down.
Speaker:Yep, yep.
Speaker:No, absolutely true.
Speaker:Um, Catherine, thank you for being the spokesperson for, uh,
Speaker:bringing this information our way.
Speaker:Uh, you know, like you said, I know there's a ton of information on
Speaker:this, but um, the lag in getting it to the public has, is very apparent.
Speaker:And so I wanna personally thank you for Oh, thank you.
Speaker:Doing that work.
Speaker:Yeah, no, I'm so happy to, uh, be able to provide just even a small platform for you
Speaker:to be able to do so, but, oh, thank you.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:No, I, I really appreciate it.
Speaker:And, um, uh, also before we end off here, everyone, I, I did want to mention that
Speaker:Catherine's been kind enough to provide, uh, a code for us so that for being a
Speaker:listener to the show, you can get, I believe it, is it 20% off, Catherine?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:20%.
Speaker:And the code is elemental and it works on everything all the time.
Speaker:There's no time limit, so don't panic.
Speaker:You have to, you know.
Speaker:So, uh, use it now.
Speaker:Use it next week.
Speaker:Use it next year.
Speaker:Share it with your friends.
Speaker:Um, and, uh, we do have bags, we have fun canisters that,
Speaker:uh, come with a bag inside it.
Speaker:And once the tablets are gone and the canister, you got it, you refill them
Speaker:with the bag, uh, we have a sample pack.
Speaker:And if you don't, if you have any concerns, I would encourage you to go to
Speaker:Amazon and buy a $6 single pouch, right.
Speaker:$6 and give it a try.
Speaker:There's 30 tablets in a pouch, so if you took 10 a day, there's three
Speaker:days A pouch could be your meal.
Speaker:By the way, there's one calorie per tablet, so, uh, it's like a
Speaker:meal in a, in a bag or two meals.
Speaker:Uh, and when you are sure you are comfortable with that, this is for you.
Speaker:Come back to energy bits.com and use the elemental discount
Speaker:code to get your 20% off.
Speaker:But we're not here to push the product.
Speaker:Uh, we are quite happy to have you try it out and see if it works for you.
Speaker:Um, and uh, man, it's, it's certainly worked for me.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker:No, by, by all means, I, I'm a big believer in that I don't, uh,
Speaker:I don't endure something that I personally don't use myself and enjoy.
Speaker:And, you know, I've tried.
Speaker:Maybe like seven or eight different spirulina, um, companies, you know?
Speaker:And, and this is by far my favorite.
Speaker:Um, so Oh yeah, I'm, I'm speaking from, from personal usage here.
Speaker:Um, but yeah, no, I, I think that the product, or not even the
Speaker:product, the algae, the mother nature algae here speaks for itself.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You try it and you'll, you'll notice the difference.
Speaker:You'll notice the quality.
Speaker:So, um, Catherine Yeah.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:You're, you're, you're awesome.
Speaker:Please, just like I said, you're, you're before you No, no.
Speaker:You're more awesome.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Without, without you, I can't get the message out.
Speaker:So thank you for everything that you do.
Speaker:We're all in this together.
Speaker:We're trying to turn this big ship around and bring health back, and it
Speaker:shouldn't be so complicated or so hard.
Speaker:So, um, so I'm, I'm grateful to be part of the solution, not the problem.
Speaker:Yeah, no, I, I think you're absolutely the solution, uh,
Speaker:and, and helping out with it.
Speaker:So, Catherine, I, I appreciate you so much and for sharing this information.
Speaker:Um, Hopefully I'll, I'll, I'm actually not even, hopefully, I'm
Speaker:sure I'll have you back on in the future with some new information.
Speaker:No problem.
Speaker:Uh, when you have more results coming back in, um, I'm, I'm
Speaker:happy to have you back on.
Speaker:So, Catherine, thank you so much.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:Thank you very much.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Have a great day, everybody.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And, uh, everyone, you know the motto of the show.
Speaker:It's do everything with good intentions, connect to your elements, and, uh, eat
Speaker:your energy bits, get out, get on them.
Speaker:They're, they're absolutely incredible.
Speaker:So, Kathryn, thank you.
