Fresh Spirulina for Natural Health and Healing
No other food (or supplement) on earth provides such powerful health and immune boosting, anti-ageing and longevity, and disease prevention and curative properties.
With more than 100 bioactive antioxidants — many unique to microalgae —it's no wonder pharmaceutical companies are researching spirulina.
HIGH DENSITY
The highest nutritional density of any food we know — that's why space agencies are planning to grow fresh spirulina in spacecraft and on other planets.
COMPLETE
Contains almost every nutrient the child, adult, and aging body needs to grow and thrive. Improve and complete your nutrition — without taking supplements.
BIO-AVAILABLE
Fresh spirulina's soft cell wall makes it fast and easy to digest — natural nutrients can be in your bloodstream in minutes.
ORGANIC
Nutrients in fresh Spirulina are organic — already converted and incorporated into living cells — ready for your body to use.
100 Plus Bioactive Compounds That Work to Protect Your Health
We tell new fresh spirulina customers to stop taking all their supplements.
Fresh spirulina's bioactive compounds work singly and in combinations to boost your health, protect your health, and boost your healthy lifespan.
- Acacetin
- Allophycocyanin
- Alpha-coumaric
- Anthocyanins
- Apigenin
- Arginine
- Astaxanthin
- B vitamins
- Benzoic
- Caffeic
- Caffeine
- Calcium
- Canthaxanthin
- Carotenoids
- Catalase
- Catechein
- Catechin
- Catechol
- Chlorogenic
- Chlorophyll a
- Cinnamic
- Copper
- Coumarin
- C-phycocyanin
- Cysteine
- Diatoxanthin
- Echinenone
- Ellagic
- Epicatechein
- E-vanillic
- Ferulic
- Flavonols
- Fluorotannin
- Galactose
- Gallic acid
- Glutathione peroxidase
- Hespirdin
- Hespirtin
- Histidine
- Iron
- Iso-ferulic
- Kampferol
- Linolenic acid
- Lipase
- Luteolin
- Lysine
- Magnesium
- Manganese
- Methionine
- Methyl esters of fatty acids
- Methylquercetin
- Myxoxanthophyll
- Naringenin
- Naringin
- Neochlorogenic
- Oligosaccharides
- Oscillaxanthin
- P-coumaric
- Peroxidase
- Phenolic compounds
- Pheophytin
- Phycobiliprotein
- Phycobiliproteins
- Phycocyanin
- Phycoerythrins
- Phytols
- Pinocembrin
- Pinoquercetin
- P-oh- benzoic
- Polysaccharides
- Polyunsaturated fatty acids
- Potassium
- Protocatchuic
- Provitamin A6
- Pyrogallol
- Quercetin
- Quercetrin
- Quimic
- Rosmarinic
- Rutin
- Sakuranetin
- Salycilic
- Selenium
- Sterols
- Superoxide dismutase
- Synaptic
- Taxifolin
- Transcinnamic
- Tryptophan
- Tyrosine
- Vanillic
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin B-12
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin E
- Xanthophylls
- Xylose
- Zeaxanthin
- Zinc
- Β-carotene
- Β-cryptoxanthin
- ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids
- Ω-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids
- 3,3-dimethylquercetin
- 3,4,5-methoxycinnamic
- 3-hydroxychininone
- The World Health Organization has designated spirulina as "the most balanced, complete and nutritious superfood on earth.”
- The United Nations has referred to spirulina as “the ideal food for mankind.”
- NASA and other space agencies have utilized spirulina in astronaut diets and plan to grow it in spacecraft and on other planets.
AMINO ACIDS
Fresh spirulina includes the 8 essential amino acids that the body cannot synthesise:
- Isoleucine (required for optimal growth)
- Leucine (stimulator of brain functions)
- Lysine (necessary for producing antibodies, enzymes and hormones)
- Methionine (rich in sulphur, has antioxidant properties)
- Phenylalanine (required by the thyroid gland)
- Threonine (improves intestinal and digestive functions)
- Tryptophan (regulates serotonin)
- Valine (naturally stimulates mental and physical capacities).
It also provides non-essential amino acids: Alanine, Arginine, Aspartic acid, Cysteine, Glutamic acid, Glycine, Histidine, Proline, Serine, and Tyrosine.
OMEGA FATTY ACIDS
Spirulina is the richest source of omega fatty acids — provided in a ratio of 1.5:1. The ideal ratio for human health is between 1:1 to 2:1 omega-6/omega-3 fatty acids. (Source)]
Spirulina is the only food source that contains large amounts of essential fatty acids, especially γ-linolenic acid, which is an omega-6 type that helps regulate all hormones and has anti-inflammatory properties. Comparatively, breast milk is the only food source that contains large amounts of essential fatty acids. (Source)
Fish do not make omega fatty acids but rather sotre omegas that come from spirulina and other microalgae. DHA and EPA are present in fish, fish oils, and krill oils, but they are originally synthesized by microalgae, not by the fish. When fish consume phytoplankton that consumed microalgae, they accumulate the omega-3s in their tissues [Source].
Fish oils are tainted with mercury and other heavy metyals and toxins from the ocean.
Fish Oil is rated 5.8 out of 10 with 31% of reviewers reporting a negative effect. Spirulina is rated 9.0 out of 10 with 100% of reviewers reporting a positive effect. (Source)
VITAMINS
Spirulina is an excellent way to get all your vitamins — naturally:
it provides exceptionally high levels provitamin A (beta-carotene) and B12 (four times higher than raw liver), and significant levels of B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B7, B8, b9 and B12, vitamin D, vitamin E, and vitamin K.
Spirulina provides complete and natural vitamin complexes that are already incorporated into living cells and available to your body almost instantly. Learn more about the dangers of supplements below.
ORGANIC MINERALS
Spirulina is exceptionally high in iron, high in phosphorus, potassium calcium, magnesium, selenium, and an excellent source of zinc.
The minerals provided by spirulina are organic (already converted for use in living cells) which makes them extremely bioavailable — here's an example:
IRON
Iron is one of the most necessary minerals for good health — and one of the most difficult difficult to get enough of.
One-third of all humans and 40% of young children and women suffer from iron deficiency which causes a host of serious and debilitating symptoms and conditions.
Most Iron supplements are only 5 to 10% bioavailable. That means 90% exits the body into the sewers.
Fresh living Spirulina is rich in organic Iron, of which around 90% is quickly absorbed and used by the body.
HEALING COMPOUNDS
Fresh spirulina provides exceptionally high levels of powerful natural antioxidants and anti-inflammatories, living active enzymes and natural healing compounds that boost your health and wellbeing and work to slow ageing, boost your immune system, and prevent and fight a host of diseases including cancer.
Explore this site to see hundreds of research studies confirming spirulina's healing 'superpowers.'
Get Your Nutrition from Living Food/Superfood Not Supplements
EAT RIGHT FOR NATURAL NUTRITION
A healthy diet with five to nine servings of varied and multi-coloured fruit and vegetables provides the healthiest nutrition possible.
Avoid junk food and super-processed foods — in addition to robbing you of important nutrients they can damage your health and cause serious illness.
If you struggle to maintain a healthy diet, fresh spirulina can provide all your missing nutrients without the negative side effects of taking unhealthy supplements.
ARE SUPPLEMENTS SAFE?
Supplements are promoted as safe and healthy by for-profit chemical manufacturers and supplement companies, but taking synthetic supplements can seriously damage your health and immune system, speed ageing, and cause illness and serious diseases, including cancer.
Any food scientist will confirm that natural nutrients from fresh living food and functional superfoods are far safer and better at protecting your health than synthetic man made supplements.
Read on to learn why supplements are a bod choice.
HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR NUTRIENT INTAKE & BALANCE NATURALLY
If you can’t always manage five to nine servings of varied and multi-coloured fruit and vegetables, look to superfoods to increase your dosage of natural complex vitamins and nutrients.
Fresh spirulina is the most nutritionally dense and most easily digestible natural superfood on earth.
It provides all the natural nutrients your body needs to thrive.
A healthy diet can build and protect your health, but if you can't avoid sodas, fast foods, processed foods, or too much alcohol, fresh spirulina can help you restore your nutrient balance.
STOP YOUR SUPPLEMENTS WHEN YOU START TAKING FRESH SPIRULINA
It’s clear that synthetic supplements can harm your health - see below for details - and that they can interfere with your body’s ability to digest and use natural nutrients.
We strongly recommend that when starting on daily fresh spirulina you stop taking all your supplements for at least 3 to 4 weeks.
If, after that period, you feel that your body needs a specific supplement, try adding that supplement only back to your diet and listen closely to your body to see if it makes any real difference to your health and how you feel.
Most people find that daily fresh spirulina provides all the nutrition they need.
COMPLEX VITAMINS FROM FOOD & SUPERFOOD
It's important to understand the difference between complex natural nutrients and synthesized nutrients provided in supplements.
Vitamin C provides a good example of the complexity of natural vitamins.
Vitamin C complex from fruit and vegetables include Ascorbic Acid, but also includes Ascorbigon, Tyrosinase, J factors, K factors, P factors, rutin and bioflavonoids – plus associated living active enzymes that combine and multiply the benefits we’re looking for.
These 8 phytonutrients and healing compounds work together with ascorbic acid to provide the benefits ascribed to the vitamin C complex.
You can only get real complete complex vitamins from foods – not from supplements.
NAKED VITAMINS USED IN SUPPLEMENTS CAN BE DANGEROUS
The supplement industry tells us that ascorbic acid is vitamin C.
It’s a convenient and profitable deception (ascorbic acid is easy and cheap to make).
It would be far too complicated (and expensive) for them to include ascorbigon, tyrosinase, J factors, K factors, P factors, rutin and bioflavonoids – plus the associated active enzymes that are required to deliver real vitamin C complex benefits.
Ascorbic acid might be more honestly labeled as ‘naked’ vitamin C.
NAKED VITAMINS CAN HURT YOUR HEALTH
To utilise naked ascorbic acid, your body needs the other c-complex constituents. As they are not supplied in supplements, it finds and scavenges them from healthy tissues and organs – a process that damages and upsets the balance in your healthy body systems.
This scavenging action can cause many negative side effects:
- Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea
- Headaches and migraines
- Skin flushing
- Dizziness
- Heartburn
- Stomach cramps and bloating
- Fatigue and sleepiness or insomnia
- Elevated uric acid and oxalate
- Raised blood sugar levels
- Increased oxidation that can damage cells and DNA (C-complex counteracts oxidative damage to cells and DNA)
- Death of beneficial bacteria in your intestines that aid in digestion and combat more dangerous bacterial infections
DECEPTION: IT'S SOLD AS NATURAL VITAMIN C
Synthetic ascorbic acid is created by breaking down corn starch with heat, acetone, and hydrochloric acid.
It is sold as “natural” because industry funded scientists claim that synthetic ascorbic acid molecules are ‘similar enough’ to natural ascorbic acid to be used in the same way.
This is deception:
- Ascorbic acid is only one of many parts of the vitamin-C complex and cannot be described as vitamin C complex
- Synthetic ascorbic acid is not created by nature and is not nature identical
- Most ascorbic acid is extracted from GMO corn, which introduces other problems
- Some forms of synthetic ascorbic acid cannot be absorbed or used by our body.
THE INCREASED DANGER OF INCREASED DOSAGES
Many people increase ascorbic acid doses during the cold and flu season, hoping to minimize the chances of getting sick.
Taking vitamin C complex from foods is a good idea and makes it difficult to overdose.
But taking more synthetic ascorbic acid will weaken your immune, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory systems and make you more susceptible to colds and flu.
A 100 YEAR OLD LIE
Albert Szent-Georgi won the Nobel Prize for the discover of vitamin C in 1937.
He initially thought ascorbic acid, which could be synthesised, was vitamin C.
A research study proved that ascorbic acid was just part of the compound. Sailors with scurvy – a vitamin C deficiency disease - were given chemically synthesized ascorbic acid - it did nothing to prevent or cure the disease.
Naturally derived vitamin C from orange and lime juice, and syrup of Acerola cherry were found to prevent and cure scurvy.
Szent-Georgi came to understand that vitamin C complex components - ascorbic acid, rutin, ascorbigon, tyrosinase, J factors, K factors, P factors, and bioflavonoids - together provided vitamin C complex benefits.
Even today chemical and supplement companies persist in selling ascorbic acid as vitamin C.
WHAT ABOUT OTHER SYNTHETIC SUPPLEMENTS?
Most supplements are made from synthetic vitamins, which are cheaper and easier to produce than natural derivatives.
Even vitamins synthesized from living plants or animals go through a series of high temperature and aggressive chemical processes to isolate a single molecule that is deemed by scientists to be the key component of that vitamin complex - and do not provide the associated compounds found in real food sources.
More dangerous but profitable synthetic naked vitamins are sold to an ill-informed public.
WHAT ARE SYNTHETIC VITAMINS EXTRACTED FROM?
A quick tour though synthetic vitamin sources is instructive:
- VITAMIN A - synthesized from acetone (nail polish remover), or from rat intestinal mucosa and bile salts.
- VITAMIN B – synthesized from coal tar, ammonia, acetone (nail polish remover), hydrochloric acid, nitrous oxide, acetic acid and nitrogen, 3-cyanopyridine, formaldehyde, and crude oil.
- VITAMIN C – synthesized from corn starch, acetone, and hydrochloric acid.
- VITAMIN D – synthesized from wool oil.
- VITAMIN E - synthesized from petroleum products.
- VITAMIN F – this comprises two essential omega fatty acids: alpha-linolenic acid and linoleic acid. Most supplements extract these from fish, who do not produce omega fatty acids but get them from spirulina and other related microalgae.
COMMON SUPPLEMENT ADDITIVES & THEIR SIDE EFFECTS
Supplement tablets and capsules contain additives that aid in the manufacturing process and control where the contents are releases into the body. The most common additives are:
- CELLULOSE – gas, bloating, depression, forgetfulness, lack of energy, and headaches.
- CALCIUM PHOSPHATE - severe nausea, vomiting, constipation, confusion, tiredness, loss of appetite, increased thirst or urination, kidney stones.
- LACTOSE - bloating, gas, diarrhea, cramping, stomach pain, constipation, allergic reaction.
- MAGNESIUM STEARATE - nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, can interact with medications.
- MAGNESIUM SILICATE - may cause vomiting, mucosal irritation, can contain asbestos and cause cancer.
- MALTODEXTRIN - microbiome imbalance, damage to the intestine, increased risk of inflammatory bowel disease.
- SILICON DIOXIDE - anxiety‐like effect, depression tendency, behavioural despair, can aggravate depression by affecting memory, learning, overall activity and exploratory behaviour, may induce oxidative stress leading to neuro-behavioural alterations and changes in vital organs including central nervous system damage.
- SODIUM BENZOATE - itching, swelling, urticaria skin irritation like rosacea, Pruritus, increased risk of ADHD, chronic low-grade inflammation that can cause obesity.
ARTIFICIAL COLOURS, FLAVOURS, POLISHES & THEIR SIDE EFFECTS
Other unhealthy ingredients are added for cosmetic purposes, including:
- ARTIFICIAL COLORANTS (including Red 40, Blue 2, Yellow 5) – risks of allergies, DNA damage, cancer, and hyperactive behaviour in children.
- ARTIFICIAL AND “NATURAL” FLAVOURS (often including high-fructose corn syrup, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, artificial sweeteners, flavour enhancers and other unnecessary ingredients, especially used in children’s vitamins and gummies) - these have been linked to diabetes, hypertension among children, and weight gain.
- CARNAUBA WAX (common in expensive car polishes) - dry skin, acne, rashes, inflammation, dermatitis, dizziness, nausea, blurry vision, and dryness, and irritation or burning of the eyes.
SUPPLEMENT PRESERVATIVES AND STABILIZERS & THEIR SIDE EFFECTS
Many supplements include added preservatives and stabilizers to extend shelf life, which can also deliver negative side-effect:
- PARABENS (methylparaben, ethylparaben, propylparaben, and butylparaben) - can disrupt body hormones, harm fertility and reproductive organs, affect birth outcomes, increase the risk of cancer and cause skin irritation (now banned in EU and some Asian countries but still widely used)
- FORMALDEHYDE - bronchospasm, pulmonary edema, systemic toxicity, metabolic acidosis, tissue and organ damage, and coma (there is no antidote)
- PROPYLENE GLYCOL - nausea and vomiting, headache, central nervous system depression, dizziness, light headedness and passing out (now banned in EU and some Asian countries but still widely used)
LEARN MORE
Here's a selection of articles where you can learn more about the downsides of synthetic supplements:
- USDA Human Nutrition Research Center – Better Vitamins from Food
- Food Science – How Vitamin Supplements are Made
- Supplement Manufacturing Explained – Nutri Science Labs
- Empty Harvest: Understanding the Link Between Our Food, Our Immunity, and Our Planet. Bernard Jensen, Mark Anderson
- Natural Vitamin C vs Synthetic Vitamin C
- Synthetic versus Natural Vitamins: 4 Reasons To Go Natural
- Why Take Natural Vitamin C
- Made How – Supplements
- Whole Food Remedies
FRESH NOT DRIED SPIRULINA
Don't confuse fresh spirulina – a natural living micro-algae that’s easy to digest and absorb and provides almost every nutrient your body needs to thrive – with dried spirulina powder or tablets.
Dried spirulina – some scientists regard it as fresh spirulina ash – loses much nutrient value (up to 95% of some important nutrients) during high temperature industrial drying and can lose a further 50% in a few months due to non-refrigerated storage.
Insist on fresh living spirulina that has been frozen after harvest to retain maximum nutrient levels and freshness.