LIVESPIRULINA FAQ

Like any delicate vegetable, spirulina nutrients start to degrade within hours of harvest. We flash-freeze our algae at harvest to make sure you get full potency nutrients, and because that’s the only way to preserve the bioactive enzymes, peptides, and natural antioxidants and anti-inflammatories at full potency.

Freezing stops the clock so that when you eat your SPRU you get frozen-in-freshness.

SPRU is a superfood — not a supplement — that provides almost every nutrient your body needs to thrive, in a living organic and ready-to-use form that your body loves. The amounts of natural-from-food nutrients it supplies are well-matched to your body’s daily needs — enough to keep you in optimal health – but it is important to take it daily.

Some people feel a fast result — they report a “Livespirulina Rush” of energy and healthy feelings. Allow 4 to 6 weeks to correct all your nutrient imbalances and feel all the health benefits.

SPRU comes in two forms, and also in a convenient Starter Pack for beginners:

• Ready-to-drink SPRU Shots made with Livespirulina + pure fruit juice — just defrost, shake and enjoy — are convenient.
• Economical frozen SPRU Stix contain a preset dosage of Livespirulina – drop frozen into your juice or smoothie.

We’ve created a 30-Day Starter Pack to make it easy for beginners to get to know our products and to feel the benefits at reduced cost. It is available in three dosages:

• Light - For children and healthy adults eating a healthy Real Food diet.
• Health - For active and stressed adults and those with health problems.
• Performance - For Athletes, new mothers, nutrient replenishment, eating disabilities, and recovery from illness.

Livespirulina has a creamy taste – not the fishy smell and taste of dried spirulina.

We farm SPRU Livespirulina in Gauteng using a proprietary clean-farming technique developed by a scientist-led team over 5 years.

It is sustainably farmed using very little land or water, and we use compostable or recyclable packaging wherever possible.

That depends on your product choice and dosage:

• SPRU Shots — Convenient ready-to-drink SPRU + Juice start at R1020 for a 30-Pack.
• SPRU Stix — Economical frozen SPRU to add to juice, water or Smoothies start at R714 for a 30-Pack.
• SPRU STARTER PACK — recommended for beginners provides 30-days of Shots & Stix start from R760 – ask about special first-purchase discount offers.

Further discounts of up to 20% are available for Subscription Deliveries.

To make sure you can buy Livespirulina at the lowest price we avoid middlemen and do not sell SPRU in shops — although we do partner with small private resellers.

Order from our WhatsApp Concierge (connect below right) or from our Online Store — we deliver quickly across South Africa.

Most Livespirulina nutrients — including amino acids, omega’s, vitamins — and especially bioactive nutrients, peptides and phytonutrient healing compounds – are damaged or completely destroyed at high temperatures.

Dried spirulina powders and pills are commercially dried at 180 degrees C, leaving only a few nutrients intact.

Livespirulina is never heated and never dried so you get great taste and 100% potency.

• Dried spirulina is farmed in huge ponds or lakes —often exposed to industrial, water or air pollution, and radioactive fallout — that it sucks up like a sponge. These remain in dried powder.
• Dried spirulina is heated to 180oC to dry — this damages or destroys most of the delicate nutrients.
• Dried spirulina is stored at room temperature — allowing the omega oils to go rancid and create a fishy taste and smell. A further 50% nutrient reduction occurs within months of room temperature storage.

SPRU Livespirulina is grown in sealed bioreactors – like those used to grow pharmaceuticals – using clean filtered water, air and pure nutrients to avoid toxic or heavy metal contamination.

SPRU Livespirulina is never heated, never dried, and frozen within hours of harvest to maintain purity and full potency.

Sustainably farming a pure and potent product and delivering it with frozen-in-freshness costs a little more — but it’s worth it.

Remember that you can stop all your supplements when you swop to SPRU — many customers report actually saving money by changing to SPRU.

Livespirulina is the most potent source of bioavailable iron on Earth.

Compare the bioavailability of spinach (4%) to iron supplements (10-14%) to Livespirulina (94%) — this is really important as more than two-thirds of the world population – especially women and young children - are iron deficient.

It is also a great source of organically bound calcium that is easy for your body to use.

Livespirulina really is the ultimate superfood — your daily dose plus 20 minutes of sunshine a day provides Full-Spectrum nutrition — all the nutrients your body needs to thrive:

AMINOS: All 18 amino acids – including the essentials your body can’t make.

OMEGAS: A perfect balance of clean vegan omega acids — Livespirulina and human breast milk are the only concentrated sources of pre-formed GLA on Earth. This is where fish get omegas.

VITAMINS: Organic food vitamins grown by nature and fully complexed. Pro-Vitamin A (natural Carotene), raw B Complex (B1, B2, and B3 co-enzymes, B6 natural Pyridoxine, B12 Active Cobalamin), Natural Vitamin C complex (including ascorbic acid, ascorbigon, tyrosinase, J factors, K factors, P factors, rutin, and bioflavonoids, plus associated enzymes), Vitamin K (with magnesium), Vitamin E complex (the entire family of tocopherols – plus GLA), Vitamin K (with magnesium). Add 20 minutes of face and arm sun exposure a day for Vitamin D and you have a full house.

MINERALS: Livespirulina provides minerals in a living matrix, meaning they are already ‘chelated’ (bound to amino acids) for near-instant absorption: Macro-minerals Magnesium, Potassium, Calcium, Phosphorus & Sulfur, and Trace minerals Iron (Organic Ferritin), Zinc, Selenium (with Cysteine for GPx production), Manganese, Copper, Chromium and more.

FUNCTIONAL PEPTIDES: Never heated, these delicate proteins remain folded in their active, functional states. SPRU provides a range of active peptides including Antihypertensive Peptides (similarly action to ACE-inhibitor meds to naturally relax blood vessels), Immunomodulatory Peptides (help white blood cells distinguish between your own healthy cells and invading pathogens), and Satiety Peptides (that signal your brain that you have received high-density nutrition — effectively shutting down the ‘hidden hunger’ caused by nutrient-void UPFs).

FUNCTIONAL ENZYMES: Livespirulina provides a battery of bioactive enzymes including SOD (your body’s primary defence against dangerous Superoxide Radicals), Peroxidase & Catalase (SOD partners that break hydrogen peroxide into harmless water and oxygen), and Digestive Enzymes that reduce the ‘Metabolic Burden’ on your pancreas and liver).

No other superfood — or supplement — can match Livespirulina’s nutrient offering.

Yes - we strongly recommend you stop taking all supplements when you start on SPRU Livespirulina — except any prescribed by a health professional.

Livespirulina — as a living food — provides complexed organic nutrients in a form your body welcomes and is programmed to use.

Supplements contain synthetic isolates — which are not complexed so your body struggles to recognise and use them — so around 70% are expelled as waste.

Supplements also include a host of non-food ingredients that you really don’t want to be putting into your body.

Absolutely. Livespirulina is an ancient proto plant that has been providing complete nutrition on earth for 3.5 billion years.

Please reach out using our WhatsApp channel below right.

If you have specific health or product related questions we’ll be happy to put you in contact with our researchers directly.