How to Achieve Complete Healthy Nutrition in a Nutrient-Poor World - Part 4

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Supplements Damage Health &
Drive Hidden Malnutrition

The World Health Organization calls spirulina "the most balanced, complete and nutritious superfood on earth.”

The UN calls spirulina “the ideal food for mankind.”

NASA says 1 portion of spirulina is equivalent to 1 000 portions of fresh fruit and greens. Spirulina farms will provide healthy food and convert CO2 into breathable Oxygen on spacecraft, the moon, and on Mars and other planets.

Spirulina - the most concentrated natural food on earth - can provide complete nutrition and is healthier and safer than multivitamins & supplements. 

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There are so many misconceptions about modern nutrition - with so many people suffering from hidden malnutrition that drives obesity and disease - that we've created a short educational course:

How to Achieve Complete Healthy Nutrition in a Nutrient-Poor World 

Nutrition Wreckers  

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Ultra-processed foods - including ice cream, ham, sausages, crisps, mass-produced bread, breakfast cereals, biscuits, carbonated drinks, fruit-flavoured yogurts, instant soups and more - often contain low nutrient levels and high levels of unhealthy saturated fat, salt and sugar. When we eat them, we leave less room in our diets for healthy nutritious foods. Chemical additives in these foods often cause negative health effects.

The Importance of Complete Nutrition  

From conception to passing, clean and complete nutrition is the most important driver of good health, peak performance, and a longer active life.

The human body evolved to thrive on a varied diet of natural food nutrients. 

Today's diet provides ever less natural nutrition. Foods are stripped of essential nutrients during processing. Foods are laced with non-nutrient chemicals that our body cannot process, and toxins that drive disease and early death. 

It is increasingly difficult to eat the varied diet of natural nutricious food we need to maintain peak health and performance, and to enjoy a long active disease-free life. 

Many people turn to supplements in the hope of better nutrition, but our body is not programmed to recognize or process these synthetic imitation nutrients that often do more harm than good. 

Adding unprocessed superfoods with exceptionally high natural nutrient density can help improve nutrition, but only one superfood - fresh spirulina - provides everything our body needs for complete nutrition.

The 4 Truths of Complete Nutrition 

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It’s becoming increasingly difficult to achieve the complete nutrition we need to maintain energy and optimal health.

We trust that the food we buy is healthy and nutritious, and we trust that taking multivitamins and supplements will help build better health. Sadly, both of these 'facts' are untrue.

Here are four science-backed truths that will help you achieve complete nutrition and better health. 

1. MODERN FOOD is Driving Widespread Malnutrition & Disease

  • Processed & ultra-processed foods provide little nutrition 
  • Fruit and vegetables are far less nutritious than they were a century ago 
  • Many modern foods - including meat and fish - are laced with unhealthy chemicals and dangerous toxins

2. SUPPLEMENTS Provide Unhealthy Synthetic Imitation Nutrients

  • Your body does not know how to process or use theses mopdern synthetics 
  • Many supplements have dangerous side effects that can severely harm your health 
  • They are promoted as healthy, but treat them like pharmaceuticals - overdose can be fatal

3. HEALTHY NUTRIENTS Are Found Only in Natural Foods & Superfoods

  • Vary your daily produce & fruit intake for complete nutrition
  • Only natural nutrients build & maintain optimal health and longevity 
  • Even small amounts of natural nutrients taken daily will build & maintain your health 
  • Clean-grown, recently-harvested (or frozen) unprocessed foods provide the best healthy nutrition 

4. NATURAL SUPERFOODS Can Help Maintain Oprimal Nutrition

  • Many superfoods provide high amounts of specific nutrients 
  • Only fresh spirulina provides all the nutrients you need for complete nutrition 
  • Fresh spirulina also helps clear toxins & heavy metals from your body - and provides natural health protection

The Impact of Modern Farming on Nutrition

While the human body’s nutrition needs and ability to absorb and process nutrients has not changed, the nutrients available to us have changed dramatically.

Here's an overview of pre-modern eating, modern foods, supplements, and superfoods:

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PRE-MODERN EATING

  • Plant foods were mostly grown in soil bursting with nutrients and natural biomes and were extremely nutritious 
  • Foods were consumed soon after harvest, ensuring maximal nutritional value 
  • Animals fed on naturally grown plants producing healthy meat 
  • There were few toxins in the air, soil and water to transfer into our human diet through food 
  • Foods were naturally dried and/or milled in ways that maintained nutrients

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MODERN EATING:
WHY ARE WE SO UNHEALTHY?

  • Most plant foods are industrially grown In poor soil (reducing nutrient value) that is polluted by heavy metals and other toxins, and are treated with toxic pesticides that are absorbed and passed on for human consumption 
  • Most plant foods are harvested early reducing nutrient content, and are eaten 2 to 3+ weeks after harvest (storage time severely reduces many nutrients) 
  • Animals are farmed in stressful and often unsanitary conditions, fed unnatural food and growth hormones, antibiotics and other toxic chemicals to help them survive high-density farming 
  • High intake of modern meat promotes cancer, heart disease, lung disease, stroke, diabetes, infections, Alzheimer’s disease, chronic kidney disease, chronic liver disease ad shortens lifespan by up to 10 years (see sources below) 
  • Most foods are processed or ultra-processed (to remove nutrients that spoil and reduce shelf life) and are high in fat, salt and sugar that disrupt our gut microbiome and contribute to bloating, constipation and indigestion 
  • Unnatural unhealthy chemicals are added to food to adjust texture and flavour and extend shelf life 
  • In many countries - including the UK and US - more than 50% of food eaten is low-nutrition ultra-processed food
  • Research shows that eating ultra-processed foods increases your risk of 32 unhealth outcomes including cancer, major heart and lung conditions, mental health disorders, and early death (see sources below) 
  • High levels of toxins in the air, soil and water (especially in South Africa) transfer into our body through our food and water 

MODERN_FARMING

THE IMPACT OF
MODERN FARMING

Widespead global reductions in Iodine and Iron nutrient levels in common foods have already caused serious public health issues. This is an important global health issue that – if not reversed – will lead to widespread global malnutrion.

BOTTOM LINE: The decline in nutrient density and reduced consumption of plant foods is causing serious nutrient malnutrition.

SOURCES: Research and articles about MODERN PLANT FOOD [READ MORE]

MODERN PLANT FOOD

SOURCES: Research and articles about MODERN MEAT [READ MORE]

SOURCES: Research and articles about PROCESSED & ULTRAPROCESSED FOODS [READ MORE]


Natural vs. Synthetic Nutrients

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Nutrients from naturally grown foods or superfoods are safer and healthier than nutrients from supplements.

Naturally grown unprocessed nutrients are organic. They're already incorporated into carbon based living cells and are safe and ready for your body to use.

Supplements - whether extracted from natural ingredients or chemically synthesized - are inorganic isolated impersonations of natural food that are laced with preservatives and other chemicals. 

In some cases supplements may be helpful for short-term use when prescribed by a properly qualified nutrition or medical professional, but for your health's sake opt for natural organic nutrients from food or superfood to optimise your health.  

Complete Your Nutrition with Healthy Food or Superfood

Is it hard for you or your family to maintain a healthy diet? Here's how restore your nutrient balance : [READ MORE]

Can’t manage 5 to 8 servings of varied and multi-coloured fruit and veg? Can't avoid sodas, fast foods, processed foods or too much alcohol? 
  • Nutritionally dense superfoods can help to complete and balance your nutrition.

  • Clean-grown fresh spirulina is the most nutritionally dense, complete, and most easily digestible natural superfood on earth.

  • It provides all the nutrients your body needs to thrive.

Why Avoid Synthetic Nutrients?

Your body is designed to run on complete natural nutrients - not synthetic imitations. Here's an example: [READ MORE]

Let's talk about Vitamin C:
  • Natural vitamin C complex from fruit and vegetables includes Ascorbigon, Ascorbic Acid, J Factors, K Factors, P factors, Tyrosinase, Rutin, Bioflavonoids – plus living active enzymes that aid absorption and multiply its health benefits.

  • Manufacturing all vitamin C complex components is expensive if not impossible, so biotech companies decided that ascorbic acid – which happens to be inexpensive to synthesize from corn starch, acetone, and hydrochloric acid – was the key component of vitamin C complex - and gave themselves permission to label ascorbic acid as vitamin C.

  • Today ascorbic acid is incorrectly marketed as vitamin C - but:

  • Natural vitamin C complex prevents and cures scurvy - ascorbic acid does not.

  • You can't overdose on natural vitamin C - you can harm your health and overdose on ascorbic acid.

  • Ascorbic acid is NOT vitamin C. It is a synthetic isolate that is widely used in foods and supplements making overdose easy and dangerous.

  • Daily vitamin C intake is important. Want real vitamin C? Eat citrus, strawberries, blackcurrants, broccoli, brussels sprouts - of fresh spirulina.

SIDE EFFECTS OF TOO MUCH ASCORBIC ACID. [READ MORE]

When your body absorbs ascorbic isolate is looks for the other important vitamin C complex components - if these are not present it starts to scavenge these from other parts of your body. 
This scavenging action can unbalance many body systems and cause side effects including:
  • 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

  • Death of beneficial gut bacteria that aid in digestion and combat more dangerous bacterial infections

  • Increased oxidation that can damage cells and DNA which can lead to cell death

  • Inflammation, and cancer - while C-complex counteracts oxidative damage to cells and DNA, ascorbic acid on its own can promote it

Why Stop Taking Supplements?

We recommend stopping all supplements when you start taking fresh spirulina. [READ MORE]

All supplements, whether chemically synthesized or extracted from natural sources, are synthetic.
They may be promoted as ‘natural’ or 'nature identical' but taking them risks harming your health.

  • Most people find that daily fresh spirulina can provide all the nutrients they need for optimal health.

  • Replacing synthetic nutrients with natural nutrients will eliminate supplement side effects and can significantly improve your health.

  • If you have been prescribed specific supplements for nutrient deficiencies, ask your medical or nutrition professional to arrange blood tests before your start spirulina.

  • Many people - especially those with iron deficiency - are surprised to discover their nutrient levels higher than ever 4 to 6 weeks after starting on fresh spirulina.

  • Repeat the tests periodically to ensure your nutrient levels are correct.
LEARN ABOUT SUPPLEMENT DANGERS:

WHAT SYNTHETIC VITAMINS ARE MADE FROM: [READ MORE]

Many people are shocked to learn what supplement vitamins are made of:. 

  • 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 – Comprises two essential omega fatty acids: alpha-linolenic acid and linoleic acid. Most supplements extract these from fish.

    FUN FACT: Fish do not produce omega fatty acids but get them from eating spirulina and other related microalgae.

COMMON SUPPLEMENT ADDITIVES & THEIR SIDE EFFECTS: [READ MORE]

Supplement tablets and capsules contain additives that aid in the manufacturing process and coatings to control where the contents are release into the body. Here are the most common additives and their side effects:  

  • CELLULOSE – Can cause gas, bloating, depression, forgetfulness, lack of energy, and headaches.

  • CALCIUM PHOSPHATE - Can cause severe nausea, vomiting, constipation, confusion, tiredness, loss of appetite, increased thirst or urination, kidney stones.

  • LACTOSE - Can cause bloating, gas, diarrhea, cramping, stomach pain, constipation, allergic reaction.

  • MAGNESIUM STEARATE - Can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, can interact with medications.

  •  MAGNESIUM SILICATE - Can cause vomiting, mucosal irritation, can contain asbestos and cause cancer.

  •  MALTODEXTRIN - Can cause microbiome imbalance, damage to the intestine, increased risk of inflammatory bowel disease.

  • SILICON DIOXIDE - Can cause 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 - Can cause itching, swelling, urticaria skin irritation like rosacea, Pruritus, increased risk of ADHD, chronic low-grade inflammation that can promote obesity.

SUPPLEMENT COLOURING, FLAVOURS, POLISHES & THEIR SIDE EFFECTS: [READ MORE]

Here are their side effects:  

  • ARTIFICIAL COLORANTS (including Red 40, Blue 2, Yellow 5) – Can cause 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) - Can promote diabetes, hypertension, especially  among children.

  • CARNAUBA WAX (common in car polishes) - Can cause 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: [READ MORE]

Many supplements include preservatives and stabilizers to extend shelf life, which can also deliver negative side-effects including:
  • 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 - Can cause bronchospasm, pulmonary edema, systemic toxicity, metabolic acidosis, tissue and organ damage, and coma (there is no antidote).

  • PROPYLENE GLYCOL - Can cause 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)

SOURCES: Learn more about the downsides of synthetic supplements: [READ MORE]

Research and information from trusted sources:

Spirulina's Natural Nutrients

Spirulina's Natural Nutrients

Fresh spirulina provides more than 100 natural nutrients - including protein, amino acids, omega oils, vitamins, fiber, minerals, and trace elements - making it the most complete and concentrated functional food on earth.

Highest Nutrient Bioavailability 

Here's why fresh spirulina nutrients are so quickly absorbed. [READ MORE]

There are three reasons why fresh spirulina nutrients are so readily bioavailable:
  • SOFT CELL WALLS - Unlike plants and other algae, fresh spirulina has a soft cell wall that releases nutrients almost instantly to be quickly absorbed into the bloodstream.

  • COMPLETE AND NATURAL - Fresh spirulina nutrients are complete and already incorporated into living cells and ready for your body to use.  
    Synthetic nutrients found in supplements are chemical copies that may be incomplete and difficult for your body to absorb and use.

  • ORGANIC MINERALS - The human body is unable to extract nourishment from inorganic minerals. 
    Fresh spirulina’s minerals are already converted from inorganic (dead minerals) to organic (incorporated into living cells) and ready for your body to absorb and use.
Absorption is so fast that some people experience a ‘spirulina rush’ as nutrients hit the bloodstream almost instantly.

Ancient Primal Nutrition - Spirulina is a Foundation Nutrient

Dinosaurs, fish, birds, animals and humans have evolved to thrive on fresh spirulina. [READ MORE]

Long before plants, fresh spirulina provided the richest and most complete source of nutrition on earth:
  • Spirulina has been at the base of earth’s food chain - providing a foundation for good nutrition - for 3.5 billion years.

  • Spirulina - and other microscopic algae - provided the largest source of nutrition on earth for billions of years.

  • Spirulina microalgae were eaten by larger life forms who were in turn eaten by other life forms - thereby passing its nutrient mix up the food chain.

  • DID YOU KNOW? Fish don't produce Omega Oils - they get it from spirulina and other microalgae and store it in their liver. Fresh spirulina provides pure essential Omegas and is ranked by users as better than fish oil.

  • DID YOU KNOW? Spirulina consumes C02 and produces oxygen 4 times more efficiently than plants and trees. Spirulina and other forms of algae still provide 50% of earth's oxygen.

Clean Nutrients - Stick to Clean-Farmed Fresh Spirulina

Why Modern Spirulina may be Contaminated: [READ MORE]

Research and information from trusted sources:
  • A thousand years ago, spirulina grew naturally in unpolluted lakes, rivers and oceans where it absorbed and provided clean nutrients.

  • Today earth's lakes, rivers oceans and air are polluted by chemicals, toxins and heavy metals.

  • Spirulina has a unique ability to absorb toxins and heavy metals – almost all dried spirulina is grown in open ponds - often in polluted water or sea water where it can absorb both airborne and water-born pollutants.

  • Very little dried spirulina powder or tablets are tested for toxins. Dried green spirulina powder is traded as a commodity and there is no way to know where or how it was grown. 

  • To protect your health from possible contamination avoid dried spirulina. Insist on fresh spirulina that is clean farmed in sealed bioreactors.

Harvest-Fresh Spirulina - Flash Frozen to Preserve Maximum Nutrition 

Freshly harvested spirulina provides peak nutrition immediately after harvest. [READ MORE]

Harvested spirulina is fragile - its delicate nutrients start to break down within hours of harvest - even when refrigerated.
  • Flash freezing fresh spirulina within hours of harvest stops nutritional depletion to deliver optimal nutrition.

  • Dried spirulina can lose up to 80 percent of delicate nutrients through high-temperature processing - then lose another 50 percent during six months of ambient temperature storage and exposure to light.

  • Insist on clean-farmed flash-frozen fresh spirulina superfood. 

Natural Complex Nutrients - Nature's Gift to Your Nutrition

Protect your health with whole natural complex nutrients. [READ MORE]

Natural complex nutrients (NCNs) are naturally occurring  compounds that your body is programmed to absorb and use to function and stay healthy.
  • essential vitamins, trace minerals and electrolytes like magnesium/calcium/potassium, plus macronutrients, including carbohydrates (both “simple” and “complex”), proteins (amino acids) and different types of healthy fats

  • The human body recognizes natural complex nutrients - they have been our prime source of nutrition for millennia. 

  • Natural complex nutrients only occur in foods and superfoods.

  • Our body is so efficient at utilizing natural complex nutrients that we need only small doses to maintain optimal health (Source).

  • Isolated Synthetic Nutrients (ISN) - used to make supplements - are not natural. They are never found by themselves in nature.

  • ISN are not recognized by your body
  • Taking these isolated nutrients - especially at the ultra-high doses found in supplements today - is more like taking unregulated and uncontrolled drugs.

  • Studies show the body treats these isolated and synthetic nutrients like xenobiotics (foreign substances).
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Spirulina provides whole complex natural nutrients.
Natural Vitamin C, for example, is a complex of eight components that work together: Ascorbic Acid, Ascorbigon, Tyrosinase, J factors, K factors, P factors, Rutin and Bioflavonoids – plus associated living active enzymes that combine to provide vitamin C's protective and healing benefits.
Only natural grown foods provide whole complex vitamins – not supplements.
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Spirulina's Natural Nutrients

Spirulina's Natural Nutrition

How complete is fresh spirulina nutrition?
Is it possible to live eating only fresh spirulina superfood and stay healthy - does it provide all the nutrients we need? 

  • Spirulina treatment has been used in dozens of poor countries for 50 years to quickly heal malnourished pregnant women, infants, and children and restores optimal health within 1 or 2 months. 

  • In America fresh spirulina 'fasts' in which paople eat only fresh spirulina for 30-days or even 100 days are gaining popularity as a health rejuvenation therapy.

    Participants report increased energy, improved mental focus, improved skin and hair, weight loss, feeling and looking better, and vibrant overall health. Learn more about spirulina fasting.

These real-world results seem to confirm research claims that spirulina provides all the nutrients we need for optimal health.

Here's a list of the nutrients that fresh spirulina provides:

Protein

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Spirulina is the highest and most digestible source of protein on earth. (Source).
Here's a comparison of protein content:
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Spirulina for vegan and plant-based diets

Amino Acids

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Fresh spirulina provides 18 organic amino acids (already included in living cells) that can transfer directly into your bloodstream:
All 8 essential amino acids (we need to get from food):
  • ISOLEUCINE (Makes hemoglobin, improves endurance, builds muscle, speeds muscle healing) 

  • LEUCINE (Provides skeletal muscle energy during exercise)
     
  • LYSINE (Important for proper growth, lowers cholesterol) 

  • METHIONINE (regulates metabolic processes, immune system, digestive functioning) 

  • PHENYLALANINE (Produces norepinephrine, nervous system signaling, alertness) 

  • THREONINE (Collagen and elastin formulation for skin and connective tissue health, stops bleeding, immune booster) 

  • TRYPTOPHAN (Melatonin and serotonin production, DNA production) 

  • VALINE (Enhances energy, boost endurance and muscle tissue recovery and repair) 
Three conditionally essential amino acids:
  • CYSTEINE (for making collagen, nails, skin, and hair health)

  • HISTIDINE (for protein synthesis, regulates sleep-wake cycle and cognitive function)

  • TYROSINE (Important for epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine production)
Seven non-essential amino acids:
  • ALANINE (energy for muscles and central nervous system) 

  • ARGININE (Heart, lung, immune, digestive health and cancer protection) 

  • ASPARTIC ACID (Energy production, healthy nervous system) 

  • GLUTAMIC ACID (Optimal brain communication, learning) 

  • GLYCINE (Antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, immune booster) 

  • PROLINE (Metabolic health, wound healing, antioxidant, immune booster) 

  • SERINE (Protein synthesis, neurotransmission, folate and methionine cycles)

Sources: Learn more

Vitamins

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Natural Vitamins are Superior to Synthetic Ones

Vitamins are organic substances that are essential in small amounts for human health, growth, reproduction, and maintenance. 

They must be included in the diet since they cannot be synthesized at all or in sufficient quantity in the body. 

Each vitamin performs a specific function so one cannot replace another. 

Vitamins originate primarily in plant tissues and we get them from food. 

Synthetic vitamin isolates are not naturally included in the diet, they do not necessarily originate primarily in plant tissues, and have not all been proven to safely and fully replace all natural vitamin activities. 

Synthetic vitamins are not food, even though they are often called “natural” and are sometimes added to foods.

They are synthesized, standardized chemical isolates. 

In nature vitamins are never isolated: they are always present in the form of food vitamin-complexes. 

There are important physiochemical differences between natural vitamins and synthetic ones.

Natural vitamins have no side effects and you cannot overdose on them, while synthetic vitamins have many side effects and taking large doses can hurt your health.

Do not try to trick your body into health by taking chemical copies - always get your vitamins from natural foods. 
Fresh spirulina is a natural food that provides all the vitamins that adults, children, seniors, pregnant moms and babies need for vibrant health.

ORGANIC VITAMINS LIST
  • VITAMIN A (Β-Carotene) - Important for vision, immune system, reproduction, growth and development, helps your heart, lungs, and other organs work properly, prevents muscle cramps and spasms, prevents osteoporosis 

  • VITAMIN C COMPLEX – Important to form blood vessels, cartilage, muscle and collagen, important antioxidant, anti-cancer, anti-ageing, prevents heart disease, vital to wound healing

  • VITAMIN D - Helps absorb and retain calcium and phosphorus for building bone, reduces cancer cell growth, helps heart, lungs, and other organs work properly, helps control infections, reduces inflammation

  • VITAMIN E (Alpha-Tocopherol)– Powerful antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, inhibits platelet aggregation, boosts immune function, coats and lubricates blood vessels, dilates blood vessels and inhibits platelet aggregation

  • VITAMIN K – Helps blood clot, important for bone health, reduces osteoporosis, reduces menstrual flow and pain, regulates blood sugar, relieves nausea during pregnancy, protects immune system, prevents hemorrhage in babies
NATURAL B VITAMINS
  • VITAMIN B1 (Thiamine) - Plays critical role in energy metabolism, in the growth, development, and function of cells

  • VITAMIN B2 (Riboflavin) - Play major roles in energy production, cellular function, growth, and development; and metabolism of fats, drugs, and steroids

  • VITAMIN B3 (Niacin) – Converted in the body to NAD and NADP – required by all body tissues to catalyse more than 400 enzymes

  • VITAMIN B5 (Pantothenic Acid) - Essential for fatty acid synthesis and degradation, transfer of acetyl and acyl groups, and a multitude of other anabolic and catabolic processes

  • VITAMIN B6 (Pyridoxine) - Involved in more than 100 enzyme reactions, mostly for protein metabolism, also involved in amino acid metabolism, involved in gluconeogenesis and glycogenolysis, immune function, promotes lymphocyte and interleukin-2 production and hemoglobin formation

  • VITAMIN B9 (Folic Acid) – Important in the synthesis of DNA and RNA and the metabolism of amino acids, required for proper cell division

  • VITAMIN B12 Complex - Required for the development, myelination, and function of the central nervous system, healthy red blood cell formation, required for the formation of almost 100 different substrates, including DNA, RNA, proteins, and lipids (provides four times higher than raw liver)

Omegas

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Spirulina is the richest food 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. 

Spirulina is a rich source of very-long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (VLCPUFAs) and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs).

Eicosapentanoic acid (EPA) and docosahexanoic acid (DHA) are the two most important long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids required for human health, and their precursors stearic acid, linoleic acid, and gamma linolenic acid are found in high concentrations in Spirulina. 

It provides clean omega-6 - γ-linolenic acid and arachidonic acid - and omega-3 fatty acids - EPA and DHA - in the ideal 1.5 to 1.0 ratio.

Spirulina platensis is a rich source of gamma linolenic acid (GLA) – it is the richest source of GLA on earth after breast milk - and provides small amounts of Omega 9.
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. 

Breast milk is the only other food source that contains such large amounts of essential fatty acids.

OMEGAS FROM FISH OILS

Fish do not make omega fatty acids but rather store omegas that come from spirulina and other microalgae. The DHA and EPA present in fish, fish oils, and krill oils, are synthesized by microalgae.

When fish consume phytoplankton that consumed microalgae, they accumulate the omega oils in their tissues [Source].

Sadly, fish absorb high levels of toxins and heavy metals from the ocean – especially lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, copper, zinc, manganese, and nickel – which can contaminate omega oils extracted from fish.

Fish do not make omega fatty acids but rather store 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 fish. When fish consume phytoplankton that consumed microalgae, they accumulate the omega-3s in their tissues.

Fish oils are tainted with mercury and other heavy metals and toxins from the ocean.

USER RATINGS

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. 

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Minerals

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Spirulina contains all the necessary minerals and is the best source of iron on earth.

Minerals are vital components of our food. They fulfil a wide variety of functions, such as providing building materials for our bones, optimizing our immune function, maintaining good muscle and nerve function, and regulating the body's water balance. They are important components of our hormones, enzymes, and other biologically active compounds.

THREE TYPES OF MINERALS

It is important to understand the difference between these as this defines their nutrient value:
  • ORGANIC COMPLEXED MINERALS We get organic minerals from food – they are readily absorbed by our body.
    Having been incorporated into living cells - organic minerals are complexed with carbon-containing organic agents like amino acids, proteins, and carbohydrates, and are called complexed minerals.

  • INORGANIC MINERALS
    Inorganic minerals have never been part of a living cell - they have not bonded with carbon.
    Our body cannot absorb them until they have been converted into organic minerals by plants through photosynthesis.
    Soil contains 16 inorganic minerals, but our body cannot absorb them.

  • SYNTHESIZED MINERAL SUPPLEMENTS
    These are inorganic minerals that are synthetically bound with a chelating agent, such as synthetic organic or amino acids, to increase absorption.
    Mineral supplements are not as readily absorbed as organic minerals and there are serious questions about their efficacy and safety.
    They are not recommended except in isolated cases where increased levels of a particular mineral are required and cannot be supplied by available foods.
MINERAL DEFICIENCY

The concentration of minerals in whole foods has decreased steadily over the last century, making it increasingly more difficult to achieve the full benefit of minerals from regular food.

Increased mineral intake may be required to treat or prevent vitamin deficiency due to poor diet, during illness and recovery, pregnancy, for babies and children, and in over-60's.
SPIRULINA’S ORGANIC MINERALS 

Fresh spirulina superfood is an excellent source of important organic minerals including potassium, calcium, chromium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorous, selenium, sodium, boron, molybdenum, and zinc.

It also provides traces of more than 50 micronutrients that promote health.

Spirulina is far more efficient at photosynthesis than plants which means a higher concentration of minerals than plants and plant-eating foods can can provide.
MINERAL BIOAVAILABILITY

The organic minerals in spirulina are extremely bioavailable due to the soft cell wall that readily releases nutrients for direct absorption into the bloodstream.

Organic minerals in plant cells and other microalgae are encased in hard cellulose (wood) cell walls that our stomachs cannot digest, resulting in generally low bioavailability.

Synthetically modified inorganic minerals in supplements are even less bioavailable.
MINERAL DEFICIENCY The concentration of minerals in whole foods has decreased steadily over the last century, making it increasingly more difficult to achieve the full benefit of minerals from regular food.

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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.

Spirulina has a iron concentration of approximately 58 times that of spinach and 18 times that of meat. (Source)

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Dietary Fiber

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Fiber intake is important for overall metabolic health and correlates directly with lifespan and mortality – it boosts gut microbiome health, helps regulate appetite, and can reduce chronic inflammation. 

Low fiber intake can drive cardiovascular disease, colonic health problems, constipation, and colorectal cancer.

Most South Africans don’t get enough dietary fiber – largely due to eating processed and ultra-processed foods.

DIETARY FIBER IN SPIRULINA

Dietary fiber from spirulina has been found by research scientists to be of high nutritional importance.

Spirulina fiber and polysaccharides of fibrous nature provide higher levels of fiber than terrestrial plants or vegetables.

Spirulina provides 25% soluble and 75% insoluble dietary fiber – both important for optimal gut and microbiome health.

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Get Your Nutrition from Living Food/Superfood Not Supplements

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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.
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. 
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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.
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VITAMIN ISOLATES 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.
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VITAMIN ISOLATES CAN HARM 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
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MIS-LABELLING ASCORBIC ACID AS 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.
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WHAT ABOUT OTHER NUTRIENT ISOLATES?

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.
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THE DANGER OF ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSAGE

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.
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WHAT ARE VITAMIN ISOLATES SYNTHESIZED 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.
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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.
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SUPPLEMENT 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. 
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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)
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LEARN MORE

Here's a selection of articles where you can learn more about the downsides of synthetic supplements:
Here's a selection of articles where you can learn more about the downsides of synthetic supplements:

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.