Nobody Believed in Algae Until This Founder Spent Seventeen Years of Research | Catharine Arnston

The INNER Estate with Bridget Ann Stuart · Sep 8, 2026 · 57m

What would make someone walk away from a successful corporate career, spend her savings, risk her financial security, and devote more than 17 years to something most people still think of as pond scum?

For Catharine Arnston, founder and CEO of ENERGYbits, it began when her younger sister was diagnosed with breast cancer. Searching for information that could help her sister opened the door to plant based nutrition and eventually algae. What started as research became a new direction for Catharine's life as she immersed herself in spirulina, chlorella, cellular health, and the science she…