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Catharine Arnston, Expert in Algae Nutrition, Wellness Thought Leader · Ageless and Timeless Podcast®

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Good morning everyone. This is Michelle Hughes from Ageless and Timeless. Today,
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I have a guest that I've been speaking with for quite a few months and
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I've been so excited to have her come on the show. Her name is
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Katherine Arnstein, and she's the CEO of energy Bits, which we're going to
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talk about today because it's probably the only company that I would be able to
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recommend my viewers in the Algae, Spirlina and Corella business. So there are
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many many people out there doing algae, but this one you're going to find
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after you hear Catherine is the most efficacious and has the most scientific research behind
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it. So Catherine, welcome to Ageless and Timeless. Well, thank you
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for having me Michelle. And I know we sent you some products soully you've
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been using it and we'll get you some more. Well, that is so
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lovely because I'm running out now and I want to say right up front that
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this product and you know, I usually don't try to trump up any any
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promotion for because I want people to decide for themselves and I don't want to
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sound like I'm an advertisement for companies, and we do. We don't have
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any affiliation and in the financial sense, except that we're both very, very
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committed to longevity and health and we were brought together for a reason, Catherine,
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and we both know that. And you know, we have so much
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in common. We're both from Boston. I was originally from Boston. Of
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course, I've lived in not of course, but I've lived in San Francisco
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for my entire adult life. But I do recognize all the places in Boston,
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and I still have a lot of family there. So that's one thing,
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And the other is that we are, uh, we're just both you
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know, at the same age, Vince, and we're both vintage. We're
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vintage. You know, we wouldn't have met if it hadn't been for Kashif,
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But I probably would have found you eventually because it just meant to be.
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But Kashif Khan, if everybody remembers watching the DNA Company podcast, it
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was fascinating and then Dan he had me do the DNA test and when we
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got the results, he said, you know, Michelle is one company I
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need you to connect with it. Because I was asking him, you know,
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what protocols should I be using to follow up to improve my epigenetic profile,
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because you know, we can't really change our genes, but we can
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modify how they And so he said, there's one company and I want you
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to meet Catherine. And so that's that's how we got together. And I
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have to say thank you again to Kashif because he is a great connector.
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And I saw online that you were on his podcast. Yes, yes,
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yes, we're a good friend. And we're both actually Canadian as well.
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I mean I live in Boston, but I'm from Canada. He's still in
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Canada. I'm down here. I know you've been in Boston for what thirty
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years? Now? Yeah? Yeah, good memory? Remember that how you
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got into this? So let's let's go take a dive into that. Let's
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go through your background first, and how did you become the person you are
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today? Yes, well, it seems I'm the global expert on algae nutrition.
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There isn't anybody else talking about it. In Asia, it's quite common,
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it's well known and has been used daily and safely for sixty years.
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But because algae has not grown for consumption here in North America, virtually nobody
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really knows about its therapeutic benefits. You know, some people know about spirlina
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and they put a scoop of it and they're smoothie and they know it's a
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super food. But that's about all I know about it. And I'm hoping
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to help your community and everyone understand that algae is probably the one thing that
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will save your life, protect your life, ensure that you don't get chronic
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diseases, will slow down aging. It's literally as close to a miracle food
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as you're ever going to get. And so how did I become an algae
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expert? Well, I wasn't. I tell people. I didn't choose algae.
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It chose me. As I mentioned, I'm Canadian and I had an
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MBA and was doing international business, had a corporate career, twenty five year
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corporate career, which was satisfying enough. And then about fifteen years ago,
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my younger sister, who I'm very close to in Canada, developed breast cancer.
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Now, first of all, I want everyone to know that she completely
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healed and we celebrate her being cancer free every year. But as she was
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preparing for her chemotherapy, her oncologist, which is a cancer specialist, told
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her she needed to change her diet to an alkaline diet. Now, they
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didn't tell her what exactly it was or why it was good for her.
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And this recommendation to change her diet didn't come from her neighbor or her yoga
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buddy her. It was from her oncologist who happened to be a woman.
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And women just tend to be more open minded when it comes to nutritional interventions.
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And so we're very grateful that A it was in Canada and b it
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was a woman. And so my sister called me because she had no idea
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what an alkaline diet was. I didn't either, but I'm a very good
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researcher, so I said, I'll find out and I did. It was
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turned out to be a plant based diet because of the phytoonutrients and the chlorophyll
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that have been proven to build your immune system, and when you do chemotherapy
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it really messes up. It pretty much kills your immune system. So and
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also if anyone's done any research on alkaline diets and or cancer, there was
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a gentleman by the name of Auto Warburg who won a Nobel Prize back in
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the thirties. He was a German scientist and he discovered that cancer cannot exist
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in an alkaline environment and your cells need to be slightly alkaline, which is
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slightly is seven point one on the scale of zero to fourteen. So I
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think because of these two issues that my sisters on coologists knew that things like
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chlorophyll and fintal nutrients were proven to build your immune system and that cancer could
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not exist in a cell that was slightly alkaline, was why she wanted to
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have a dropped alkaline diet. So I found foods for her. She went
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through a chemo completely healed, and as I said, twelve years later,
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is still cancer free. But her life changed and so did mine because as
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I was reading about these plant plant based nutrition diet for her. This was
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fifteen years ago and nobody was talking about plant based nutrition like they are now.
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So I thought, boy, somebody needs to tell the world about this
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stuff. I have no idea how I could do it, but I'm going
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to give it a try. I had no nutrition background at all, zero
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so I enrolled in a school called the Institute for Integrade of Nutrition. I
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got a health coaching certificate. I taught plant based nutrition and this is what
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led me to Algae. I'm sorry, long story, but it's sort of
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is what happened. As I was teaching plant based nutrition at hospitals and corporations.
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I found out that everybody knows they should eat more vegetables, but it
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was too much work, or they didn't like vegetables, or they gave them
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gas, or they went bad before they could eat them, or there was
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arguments at the dinner table. I mean, the list was endless of why
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people weren't eating vegetables. So I thought, Okay, I know what plant
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based nutrition can do for people, and if I can't get them to eat
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more vegetables, I need to find a way to get the nutrition into them
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in a way that's effortless. So back to everything I found for my sister,
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and it was when I got to algae that the miracle happened, because
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it turned out that algae is the most alkaline food in the world. Is
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endorsed by the Unied Nations as having the highest concentration of nutrition in the world,
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a thousand times more than any other fruit or vegetable. It's been endorsed
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by Denied Nations for fifty years as being the answer to world hunger because it
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has three times amount of protein as any other steak or chicken. It's been
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used safely for sixty years in Asia where they take it every day. And
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here's the best part. Every it comes to little tablets like this, and
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every single tablet, which is about the size of a baby, aspirin has
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the same nutrition as an entire plate of vegetables. So when you take algae
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tablets you can most people swallow them. I chew them, but in seconds
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you are nourished. No cooking, no cleaning, nothing. Each one of
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these tablets, each tablet has the same nutrition as an entire plate of vegetables.
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So now you can get all the nutrition that you need in seconds.
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It's got forty vitamins and minerals, sixty four percent protein, highest chlorophill in
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the world, loaded with pitoonutrients, and it's effortless. You can swallow them,
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you can chew them, you could add them to trail mix, there's
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no contraindications. You can give them to newborns, children, teenagers, pets,
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grandparents, anybody. And because our world is so full of toxins and
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our soils are so damaged that nobody's getting the nutrition that they need, this
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is the answer. It's effortless nutrition. I love, I love what you're
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telling us, and it's so exciting to know that there's a true alternative to
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all the food that you have to digest and you have to go through the
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microbiomee and get you know, they sometimes the side effects even with plants,
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like people have described to you. However, why is it this is,
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you know, just a curiosity question, But why is it, Catherine,
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that more people in the United States until you appeared, had not or have
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not adopted using blue green algae everyday supplement just as a matter of course.
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I mean, you know, last night I was listening to h You know,
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I'm a podcast junkie, right, so I have to be to be
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competitive and to know what other people are doing, particularly in the longevity field.
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And I listened to David Sinclair listener, I listened to Peter Atia,
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and neither one of them. They were both asked the same question, what
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supplements do you take? And neither one of them mentioned bluegreen algae. I
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these powerful methods. So number one, algae isn't grown here. Ninety nine
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point nine percent of all algae, spirlin and corella are grown in Asia.
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So it's Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan. We grow ours in Taiwan,
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which is known as the gold standard for algae. By the way,
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algae is everywhere. It's in the oceans, the lakes, the rivers,
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the streams. There's blue green algae, there's green algae. There's macroalgae,
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which is seaweed that we're talking about micro algae, but it is not grown
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in America. So in Asia, Japan, any of the Asian countries,
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you can't drive your bicycle to school or drive your car to work without going
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by an algae farm. Here we drive by corn fields, wheat fields,
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tomato patches, strawberry patches. No algae. So number one, it's not
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part of our vernacular. Nobody here grew up knowing about or seeing algae farms.
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That's number one. Number two, Algae is a type of vegetable.
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We grow ours, as I mentioned in Taiwan, hydropon. That means in
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fresh water. It is not algae from the ocean. Yes, there is
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algae in the ocean, but our spilina and colorilla come from water hydroponic farms,
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which is how most of the spirillina and chlorilla is grown in Asia.
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But because it said basically a vegetable, you can't patent it. You can't
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patent broccoli, you can't patent carrots, and so biotech companies weren't interested in
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pursuing getting algae into the US market because there was no upside. There were
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not billions of dollars for them to be for them to make because you can't
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patent it. So that rules that group out. Food companies never start a
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new industry. And I remind people about ten years ago, you didn't know
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about macha or kiwa, or collagen powder, or chia or a lot of
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these other nutrients that have been used by indigenous groups for tens of thousands of
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years. Algae, by the way, has been used for two thousand years,
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and it was the first life on Earth four billion years ago. But
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until somebody in America decided to educate you about it, like Vital Proteins was
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the company that really put collagen powder on the market. Even though collagen and
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bone broth had been used around the world for centuries, it wasn't until they
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educated people about it that collagen powder took off. So so food companies wait
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until some entrepreneur has identified something like collagen powder in my case, algae and
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has proven that there's a need for it and an interest in it, and
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eventually they scoop up and acquire the companies and then take it national or global.
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And you know, that's probably one of the outcomes that might happen with
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us. So food companies aren't going to do it. Biotech companies or pharmaceuticals
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aren't going to do it. We didn't grow up with it. And here's
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the other sad part of the picture. Scientists live in silos. Our medical
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community lives in silos. Medicine medical doctors don't get any nutrition training at all
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during their residency, and their continued education is primarily paid for by pharmaceutical companies.
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The conferences that they go to. There is no nutrition education going on
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for the medical profession and when and scientists are just as siloed as medical professionals.
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So you have your heart specialists, you have your brain specialists, you
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have your vascular youth. So scientists are in their silos, and they are
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because they spend so much time in their silo to get recognized for their work.
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And David Sinclair is a very intelligent, very highly regarded I respect him
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very highly, but he's in a silo, and so there's no incentive for
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them to look outside of their silo. And I fell into this whole thing
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only to help my sister. And what is so interesting to me is that
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I came with no science background whatsoever. I call myself a citizen sigence because
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I'm completely self taught. Although I'm now going to be writing my exams to
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get a PhD. Because I know so much at this point, but because
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I come from an outside field and I read all the I've read, I've
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read about three to four thousand pub med aricles on various things that are helping
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protect the body from various chronic illnesses, inflation or inflammation or mitochondria, but
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because I didn't have a silo that I belonged to, I was able to
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connect the dots in a way that nobody else has. And so you won't
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hear anything about algae from any of these scientists because they don't know that it
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contains the nutrients that protect your health. They just know that certain nutrients will
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protect your health, but they don't know that they're in the algae because nobody
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has told them so. Obviously, Kashif Khan is an exception, as is
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Christian drip PO. I don't know if you know Christian. Yes, I
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know Christian well, and he has a mitochondria protection product that's based on algae
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as well, so you know he's but he's in he's in a certain stylo.
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I mean, you could say I'm in a silo too, I'm in
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algae. But my knowledge of how it applies to the body to prevent aging
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and improved longevity is widespread, Kashif, because DNA affects all aspects all parts
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of your body functioning, whether it's your immune system or your brain, your
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neurotransmitters. He's also got a very broad swath. But most scientists who and
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David Sinclair recently, I think he got three or four million invested in him
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by venture capital because he has some patents on his work. So and I've
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worked in that venture capital community, so I know what attracts them. And
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actually I kept them out of our company because I didn't want to have the
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focus beyond just executing sales because my job, my focus is trying to educate
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people with the benefits of algae and why ours in particulars is healthy. But
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one day, hopefully all these scientists will understand more about algae. But that's
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my job. My job is to get the word out, to show the
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science, to help them understand it, because people will only support and talk
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about something that they understand, and if they don't understand what algae does,
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there's no chance that they'll ever mention it included. It breaks my heart every
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time I see a chart of top ten antioxidants and algae is never mentioned.
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But you know, in another five or ten years it will be right up
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there with everything else because it's so applaud what you're doing in your passion.
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The one thing another he's another Canadian, of course, it's Christian, So
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we've got you cushy Christian all being you know the ones that understand the I
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mean all Canadians and all. Well, it's true Christians Canadians, So I
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forgot about that. Yeah, he's lived in the United States for over thirty
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years. His discovery of flickering algae and Klama's follow so there is the Oregon.
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Yeah. Well, I don't want to slam what Christian's doing, but
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the problem with growing algae in a lake like Klamath Lake or the ocean is
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that you cannot keep microtoxins out of it. They just so. Microtoxins are
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in any wild body of water, and algae will absorb whatever's in the water.
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So this is why the fact that we grow ours in triple filtered spring
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mountain water is really important. And we do third party lab tests to test
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for microtoxins, and of course we never have any, but there are scientific
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papers that I have read that tested the algae grown in Klamath Lake. Infact,
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they found microtoxins. It's just the way it is. And microtoxins,
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you know, attack your brain cells attack all sorts of sales are there and
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you find them in coffee, we eat, they're they're they're pretty much everywhere.
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So it's hard to avoid them. But I'm proud of the fact that
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we don't have them in our algae because we grow it so carefully in this
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triple field to spring mountain water. So uh, you know, I tell
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people, you know, when you consume algae, it's like anything, there's
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going to be poor quality and high quality. It's no different from shoes or
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beef. You know, you can get a I don't even hesitate and call
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it beef what you get from McDonald's, or you can get grass fed Kobe
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beef. And the differential is like night and day. And algae is not
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like growing broccoli. It's actually like growing wine, and the production process determines
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the quality and all the different attributes of the wine. Same with algae.
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The way you grow it in the water, the way you dry it.
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We don't use high heat when we dry our algae, which is why ours
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has is so high in its efficacy because we preserve nutrients that have been proven
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to prevent mitochondria damage, reduce inflammation, stop heart disease, Alzheimer's. And
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when you use high heat like most of the other spear len and chlural algae
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companies do to that are less expensive, the high heat, d natures the
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some of these nutrients, so they basically deactivate them. So yes, you
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can get lower quality, lower priced algae, but you're going to miss half
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of the powerful nutrients because of the use of high heat. So it's it's
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all these nuances that play into it. Oh no, they're critical. And
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I'm so glad you explained that because that's what I said in my opening that
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we were going to find out today. Why energy Bits it is a different
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it's a class of its own, and people need to understand that because I
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read all the reviews on Amazon and of energy Bits, you know, I
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went through everything, you know, almost to the team five star reviews were
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you know, the product really works, but several people said it was too
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expensive for them. So and I always think, well, something's expensive but
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worth it. You know, then if if you're dealing with your health,
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why not you know, skip that cup of coffee Starbucks sorry to say Starbucks,
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but you know, do something that's pay a little extra for the product
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that you know is going to be important to your health. So yeah,
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I'm really happy that you went through that. So let's talk. Can I
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just address the price thing, because I do want people to understand it,
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so we The most popular item that we sell are these large bags of algae
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tablets and they come with about a thousand tablets in a bag. I have
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another I can show you, but I took that quote from NASA that said
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one gram of algae has the same nutrition as a thousand grams of fruits and
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vegetables. So number one, each bag of our thousand tablets has the same
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as five hundred and fifty one pounds of vegetables. That's about thirty grocery carts
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of vegetables. So number one, it's very efficient nutrition. And also it
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never goes bad. We have to put an expiring date on three years,
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but you know what, vegetable will last forever because it technically never goes bad.
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So it's number one, very concentrated nutrition. Number two, and we
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have a twenty percent discount code we're going to share with your community at the
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end, so most people do use a discount code. A full bag of
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those thousand tablets, shure you size of it. The bag has a thousand
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tablets in it and it's normally one hundred and thirty dollars on our website energybits
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dot com. But when you use the discount code, it brings it down
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to one hundred and four dollars and people might go, oh wow, that's
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still a lot of money. But our regular for just maintenance purposes to fill
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your nutritional gaps preserve your health, we recommend ten tablets a day. So
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if you one hundred and four dollars out and you take ten tablets a day,
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you know what that works out too, a dollar a day, a
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dollar a day. But I said, and you can skip that coffee which
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is a dollar fifty or whatever for you know, even more for the lot
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des and so yeah, I mean this is where you have to make choices.
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And I always say on my podcast, your health is your responsibility,
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and it is your It's the sum total of your choices. Correctly. This
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is why I want people to be aware of you, because there's just a
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choice that a lot of people are not even cognizant of, except you know,
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if they happen to bump into you on one of your podcasts or or
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on Amazon. I'm so happy that you know you have that distribution because it
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does put a wider spread awareness of what you're doing. So the other thing
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is, you know, well, I always say you get what you pay
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for. So that's normally true, not always, but normally true. So
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but what let's let's go backwards a little bit. I want people to understand
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what these mitochondria do for us because we talk so much about cellular aging in
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all of my many of my podcasts, that you know, all aging begins
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in the cells. That's kind of a revelation that a lot of people never
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were still are not aware of that that really you have to look at what
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your cell, which is your mitochondria, which is the energy is the ATP
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of your cells. So that's the motor that runs the It's like the host
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computer. And so if you look at mitochondria, talk to us about why
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blue green algae or energy bits effects the mitochondria of the cells. And do
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the backdrop of what we're facing today, which is more toxins than we've ever
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known or civilization has ever known. Seven hundred average toxins in each of us.
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That's that's daunting to think about. I mean, how could you ever
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fight off and reduce aging when seven hundred toxins are streaming and floating around in
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your body? So, right, boxes the kind of a hot name a
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hot topic. But just go through and explain to us, Catherine, because
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people need to understand why is it that blue green algae is the can be
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an answer or at least a solution to these seven hundred toxins and the reduction
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and of course the mitochondrial health which will affect our aging. Yes, well,
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thank you. There's two. So there's two main things that are causing
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all this disease inflammation aging. One is, as you mentioned this, to
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the high load of toxins. Our bodies weren't made to support that level of
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toxicity, and so you need to get those toxins out because they lodge in
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your cell membranes, they lodge in the mitochondria, they prevent proper cellular communication,
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they prevent proper absorption of nutrition. And the way there are you know,
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there's two main I'm gonna sort of give you a little bit more of
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a background. There's two main algae that we sell or that you can you
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can find on it whole foods or target or anywhere. It's Spearlina, which
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is a blue green algae, and the other algae is Chlorrella, which is
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a green algae. And so the green one is the detoxing algae. We
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call ours recovery bits for that reason, because it helps you recover your health.
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And chlorrella has the highest chlorophyll in the world, which is why it's
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called chlorilla. And the reason why that's why chlorophyll is important is because the
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chemical composition of chlorophyll I'm going to show you a picture, is virtually identical
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to your hemoglob. Here's the chemical composition of chlorophyll. Here's the chemical composition
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of your humoglobe. They're virtually identical. So Number one, chlorophyll, which
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is found in plants, but not virtually not enough of it anymore because their
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soils are so damaged. Chlorophyll builds your blood, and when you have a
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healthy blood, you're going to have a healthier immune system, you're going to
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have a healthier gut, you're gonna have everything in your body is going to
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be healthier. So that's number one about chlorilla. Number two, it has
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a hard cell wall that attaches to toxins, lead, mercury, radiation,
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aluminum, glyphysate, pesticides, alcohol, lactic acid attaches to them and chelates
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them, which means pulls them out. So that's detoxing in its own right.
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And it also has fiber which feeds your gut biome, so that your
27:41
gut, in your gut, your immune system. Eighty percent of your immune
27:44
system is in your gut. So this is why chlorilla is known as a
27:48
detox immune health builder algae. It's cleansing, it's detoxing, and it builds
27:56
your gut. And so that is number one, getting rid of the toxin,
28:00
building your your immune system, and healing your gut. Now, that's
28:04
what chlorilla does, and that's why we call ours recovery bits because it helps
28:07
you to recover. The other piece of the equation is nourishment of your body,
28:14
your brain, and your mitochondria, and that is done by Spillina,
28:18
which is a blue green algae. It's called a blue green algae because it
28:22
has two pigments in it. It has a blue one that's called phychosynin,
28:27
which probably nobody has ever heard of before, and has the green one,
28:32
which is chlorophyll. So if you were to put some tablets of spillina into
28:36
a plate, this is the blue color that comes out. This is and
28:40
the and you spell phycosin and p h y co c y A n I
28:47
N. It does not exist anywhere else in nature only in spirialina. Uh,
28:51
and it disperses evenly chlorophyll, which is in chlorilla. It's also in
28:56
Spureleian clumps because it's a fat based pigment. But as we get into the
29:00
mitochondria in a deeper conversation right now, I want you to know that that
29:04
phychocyan, which is blue, has been proven to kill cancer cells. That's
29:11
pretty important and I can walk you through how that how that happens. But
29:15
anyway, so blue green algae which is Spillina is the algae that is recognized
29:21
for healing the mitochondria. Chlerella is the one that heals your gut and your
29:26
new system. So they work together and they do quite separate things. So
29:32
what exactly is oh sorry sorry, but I think people should know that the
29:37
body, if you say it doesn't make the body starts making these sood which
29:45
I'm sure you're going to talk about as psychosyon, and the body stops making
29:51
these nutrients at age of about thirty. Soially, I think it's like you
29:56
said in one of your podcasts, is because we were programmed to live,
30:00
you know, until age thirty. But guess what, we're living a lot
30:03
longer, and now our body stops making so many nutrients at that age,
30:08
so now we have to externally supplement. So keep going, but I just
30:12
can't chat. The body does support you until you're about thirty years old,
30:18
and then you notice that about thirty thirty five years old that some of these
30:22
things that you've taken for granted are not doing what they use to do.
30:26
Right, is where you have to start looking for other solutions. Right,
30:32
Okay, So back to the mitochondria. As you mentioned, they're what propels.
30:37
They create what's called cellular energy also known as ATP, and cellular energy
30:44
is needed for everything, not just going for a run run or doing your
30:48
errands. It's required for your newer transmitters, for your lymphatic system, for
30:53
your heartbeat, for your breathing, absolutely everything. And I tell people having
30:57
more cellular energy is like having more money. When you have more money,
31:02
you can do more things and you have more choices. And same with cellular
31:04
energy, you can do more things and you have more choices. The problem
31:08
is as we get older, the creation of this cellular energy, which is
31:15
made by the mitochondria, decreases, and because as we get older, the
31:19
mitochondria decrease, they get damaged, so they're not functioning as well. And
31:26
an analogy I make to for why you know what's happening is that imagine your
31:30
body is like a building, and when the new building is built, everything's
31:34
brand new, the offices are beautiful, and you've got lots of maintenance people.
31:41
So when you're born, same thing. Everything's brand new, everything's working.
31:44
As the building gets older, if it's not well maintained, the lights
31:49
go out and the offices get dirty, so the maintenance people have to come
31:52
in and change the lights and clean the offices. As you get older,
31:56
think of your cells like those offices. If they don't get and if somebody
32:00
and the mitochondria are like the light bulbs in the office. If somebody is
32:05
not turning the light bulbs back on, then you know you can't do any
32:09
work. Your cell can't function because it doesn't have light. So what you're
32:13
going to find out about spirillina is it effectively turns the lights back on in
32:17
your in your cells because it reactivates the mitochondria, just like the maintenance crew
32:23
would go in and replace any light bulbs that had died in an office.
32:29
So this is what spirillina does it turns the lights back on in your cells
32:32
so that your which are your mitochondria, so they can function better for you.
32:37
And when you have more cellular energy, it means your body has more
32:42
energy to fight a disease Fyta virus. Think faster, breathe properly, have
32:47
less heart palpitations, clean out your immune system. It just works better.
32:52
So let's take a look at what's really going on with these mitochondria. Why
32:57
are they getting damaged and when do they get damage and why exactly is algae
33:01
The answer that with nutrients not found anywhere else in the world. So I'm
33:06
going to walk you through a bit of a science class. Here. Here's
33:08
your cell, and inside the cell is your nucleus, and these little peanut
33:14
shaped things are your mitochondria. Now you have two million of these little peanut
33:17
shaped things mitochondria in your brain. Because the highest concentration of mitochondria are where
33:23
the greatest energy needs are. That's your brain, your heart, your muscles.
33:29
Inside the mitochondria, this is where the ATP is produced. But what
33:34
people don't tell you is that a byproduct of ATP producing all that energy are
33:39
free radicals and free radicals are damaging. And the problem is your mitochondria have
33:46
their own DNA which are located exactly where the free radicals are being released.
33:52
So your regular DNA is nowhere near where the free radicals are being produced.
33:58
It's just the mitochondria and your mitochondria DNA. There are thirty seven of them.
34:02
I know, there's only thirty seven compared to twenty two thousand regular DNA,
34:07
but those thirty seven control everything else. They control your regular DNA,
34:14
they control cellular communications. So when they get damaged by all these free radicals,
34:20
they either die or they send wrong signals. And when they die or
34:24
send wrong signals, this causes inflammation, which leads to disease. It doesn't
34:30
matter whether it's heart disease, Alzheimer's, autoimmune, et cetera. So you
34:37
say to yourself, well, you know what's really going on. I'm going
34:42
to give you a little bit more of a science lesson the way that the
34:45
ATP that cellular energy is produced. It's a bit complicated and it's called the
34:52
electron transport chain. And what happens is I'm sure everyone's watched a relay race
34:59
right right, Whether there's some a runner they have a baton, they pass
35:01
the baton to the next runner. That runner runs the next distance and hopefully
35:06
they cross the finish line and win. Well, it's very similar to the
35:08
way your cellular energy is made, except instead of passing a baton from one
35:15
runner to the next, what's passed are something called electrons, and instead of
35:20
winning the race, you get energy. But the problem is this is the
35:25
picture of how the So these molecules are like the runners, and they pass
35:30
electrons from one to the next, and then they generate cellular energy. But
35:34
when your mitochondria get damaged, what happens is those runners get basically get spread
35:42
out. They're further and further apart from one another when they're close. When
35:45
they're healthy, they can pass the electrons, win the race, generate lots
35:50
of energy. Everybody's happy. When you have damaged mitochondria, the mitochondria expand.
35:55
Now they can't transfer the electrons from one to the next. So what
36:00
happens. Two things happen. Because the electrons aren't being transferred, you are
36:05
generating cellular energy. So now you're fatigued, you have brain fog. You
36:10
don't have cellular energy to fight that virus or whatever. So that's number one.
36:15
Number two. Because the electrons aren't generating energy, they don't just disappear.
36:21
What happens is they leak out into the rest of the mitochondria and they
36:25
become free radicals. And free radicals cause inflammation. So as you get more
36:34
damaged mitochondria, the damage gets worse and worse and worse. Here's the picture
36:37
of a healthy mitochondria, and here's a picture of a damaged mitochondria with all
36:43
those little electrons that have leaked out and caused inflammation. So when you have
36:50
all this damage going on, you just get more and more tired, You
36:54
age faster, your skin gets wrinkles, your digestion doesn't work because you're just
37:00
not generating cellular energy. The good news is there's two ways to correct it,
37:06
and algae is the answer in both situations. The first way is to
37:09
reduce the free radicals that are being produced, and the second one is to
37:15
remove them. Let's look at the first one. The things that cause the
37:20
most free radicals to leak out are processed carbs. Processed carbs generate massive amounts
37:27
of free radicals. So the first and easiest way for you to protect your
37:30
health and protect your longevity is to reduce the number of processed carbs that you're
37:37
eating. You could do a keto diet, you don't have to, you
37:39
can just go glow carb. But even better is intermittent fasting or taking algae.
37:45
In both those cases there's virtually zero free radicals being produced. So that's
37:52
the easiest, doesn't cost you anything. Just reduce your carb lode and you
37:57
will have fewer free radicals to damage the mitochondria. The second way you can
38:02
protect your mitochondria and therefore your health, is to remove the free radicals.
38:07
Now we all have heard of antioxidants, right, and all this explained what
38:12
an antioxidant is. A free radical has an unpaired electron orbiting it, and
38:20
nature loves harmony. And so when you have an unpaired electron, that molecule
38:25
will try to steal electron from another molecule, which causes tissue damage. And
38:30
now that one's unbalanced, and so it will try to steal an electron from
38:35
the next one. And so this is what causes inflammation and damage. The
38:38
good thing is something called antioxidants have extra electrons. So it's like going to
38:44
school and someone stole your lunch. So then you steal someone else's lunch.
38:47
Well, an antioxidant is like someone who brought in a free lunch for you.
38:52
It donates the electron to the unstable free radical so that it neutralizes it
38:58
and is no longer damaging and so. But in the mitochondria there is a
39:05
free radical called superoxide. It has three unpaired electrons, so it is three
39:12
times as damaging, and so it really needs antioxidants to reduce that damage.
39:19
The problem is, your mitochondria is the only cell in your entire body that
39:22
has two membranes. All of your cells have something called a lipid membrane,
39:28
and mitochondria have a lipid membrane as well, and I'll tell you in a
39:30
minute where that came from. The mitochondria have a second membrane and virtually no
39:36
antioxidants can get in there. You could eat a room full of blueberries,
39:40
vitamin C, vitamin E, none of it will get into that inner membrane
39:45
of the of the mitochondria. So your traditional antioxidants, even drugs, can't
39:50
get in there. Don't stop the free radical damage. The good news is
39:53
there are a couple that do. Chlorophyll is one of them. Glutathione,
40:01
and one you already mentioned, superoxid disney tase, which is also known as
40:06
SOD. Those can all get into the inner membrane of the mitochondria and stop
40:12
free radical damage. And the great thing is Spirillina algae has the highest concentration
40:17
of all three. And if you ever had any doubt about the importance of
40:22
this nutrient called superoxid disneytase, there are twenty five thousand studies that have proven
40:29
that it stops heart disease Alzheimer's inflammation because of this unique ability to neutralize that
40:37
triple threat superoxide, which is a very unstable free radical that is generated as
40:44
a byproduct of ATP production. So the fact that spirillina has the highest concentration
40:50
of it, and scientists don't even know this because nobody's looking at algae.
40:53
They know that superoxide is important. They also know that it doesn't exist in
40:59
any other food in the world, any other food. I'm going to reemphasize
41:02
that except Spirillina algae. But there's two catches it. Superoxide. SOD is
41:09
normally an antioxidant. It is an enzyme, and anybody who knows anything about
41:15
nutrition knows that enzymes are deactivated at one hundred and fourteen degrees fahrenheit, and
41:22
virtually all the other algae companies use high heat to dry their algae because they
41:25
are lower priced algae and they have to get to market quickly, so by
41:30
using high heat they basically kill the superoxide dim taste. So you can go
41:36
and go to target by much less expensive spirialina. But I can almost promise
41:40
you that the sod that's in there won't do anything for your mitochondria. We
41:46
don't use high heat to dry our alergae. And the other thing we can
41:50
recommend is frozen or fresh spirillina because again it has not been exposed to high
41:55
heat, but it's messy, expires quickly, can't do anything with the taste,
42:00
and most people don't like it, and it's hard to find. So
42:05
this is why you know, we're talking to folks like the Gershan Institute and
42:07
the Hipocris Institute that use fresh spirillina when they're working with their patients who have
42:14
staged three and four are cancered, but once they leave the center, they
42:19
want an easier way for them to get access to the superoxidismutase from a raw
42:24
spirillina. Source and they were happy to find out that our spirillina is considered
42:30
raw because we don't use high heat. So now you have this imagine.
42:34
You know you're in a rain storm, but you've got your trustee umbrella and
42:38
it's protecting you from the rain. That's great, right, And that's what
42:43
superoxide disimutase does. It protects you from the rain storm and your body makes
42:46
it. As you mentioned, until the age of thirty. But biology thinks
42:52
that we're going to We've lived for two hundred million years in our biology and
42:57
our evolution thinks we're going to die at thirty because up until about two hundred
43:01
years ago, we did so. After the age of thirty, because you
43:05
have superoxide dismytase being generated by your body from the moment you're born until you're
43:10
thirty. By the time you're forty, your body doesn't have any superoxydismittase being
43:15
made. So it's like someone's pulled that umbrella away from you. Now,
43:21
your poor old mitochondria. There's there's still the cascade, the big storm of
43:27
prey radicals being produced as a byproduct of ATP, but you no longer have
43:30
that umbrella called superoxidentities to protect you, which takes spillina with the highest concentration
43:38
of superoxidentities in the world. It's like getting your umbrella back. Yeah.
43:44
There's one other one that the master antioxydant that you mentioned, which is glutacion
43:47
ione. Yeah, so with glutacione, and you know, this is what
43:53
people don't realize, you know, glutacyone is very very difficult to absorb into
43:58
the body. You really, if you go and take an IV it's gone
44:02
in a half hour. I mean, yes, he got to the mitochondria.
44:06
Maybe did some good in helping to do what you just described with respect
44:10
to these cells and the ATP, which is to get rid of free radicals.
44:15
But you lose it, and so I take it every day, but
44:20
I take it as a liposomal, you know, under the tongue, sublingual
44:24
and then now you can inject it. But again I don't know how long
44:29
the injection that I would be taking. I haven't started that yet. But
44:32
I just wonder am I wasting my money because the injection is not going to
44:37
last either? So right, well here's the great Yeah, this is why
44:42
I love spirolina so much, and you can to it. I too mine,
44:45
But you can also swallow it because spirillina is not even a plant,
44:51
and the reason why that's important. It's actually a bacteria. It's called a
44:54
sino bacteria. And the reason why that's important is because it has no selling,
45:00
this wall for your body to break down to get access to the nutrients
45:02
including glutathione, chlorophyll and superoxyd disney tasees. So when you choose spirillina and
45:08
I do, and if you like the flavor, I will warn people it's
45:13
very chewy because it has sixty four percent protein. It's low to essential fatty
45:16
acids. But if you do like it, you will get it will get
45:21
absorbed into your body within seconds because as you mentioned, it goes sublingually through
45:25
your mouth. Now, if you swallow it, and I'd say ninety five
45:29
percent of our customers do swallow it because they don't like the flavor, it
45:32
still gets absorbed so quickly because there is no selling, this wall to break
45:38
down, and all of the forty vitamins and nutrients, including the glutathione the
45:43
superoxy disney taste get absorbed into the bloodstream instantly, and so it gets directed
45:49
to the to the mitochondria and where it needs to go so it's not damaged
45:54
in the stomach digestive process. The gorilla does take longer because it does have
46:00
a celius wall, and in fact it's the hardest cellius wall in the plant
46:05
king and it takes about an hour and a half to get fully absorbed into
46:09
the system. So that's why, in fact, we're working with a lot
46:14
of ivy drip companies to stack the taking spiralina while their patients or their clients
46:20
are getting the drip because it will extend and deepen the effects of the glue
46:24
to thione drip because of the capability of it to be absorbed so quickly.
46:30
So it's pretty In fact, we're using we're working with cryotherapy and red light
46:35
therapy for the same reason because it really deepens and improves the quality of the
46:40
treatment and the life of the treatment. So it's it's pretty interesting. I
46:45
just got flagged that we only have five minutes, so I want you to
46:49
be able to talk about the other category, the beauty category, because I
46:52
know many of our viewers are very interested in anti aging from the aesthetic standpoint,
46:58
So can you tell us about your beauty bits. Yeah, So,
47:04
the funny thing about beauty Bits is it's exactly same as Energy Bits, and
47:07
it's one hundred percent spirillen organically grown spirillina. That one's Vitality Bits, which
47:13
is a blend of the two algae. Now, the reason why there are
47:15
two spirillina is because I started the company because of my sister, and we
47:19
found that women just did not like the blue packaging of the energy bits.
47:24
So my girlfriends literally said, here's your beauty bits. Canisder My girlfriend said,
47:30
you got to make it pick and give it a cute name. And
47:32
here's the really interesting thing. Spirillina has more collagen in it than collagen powder.
47:39
So if you're looking to build your in, collagen powder is necessary for
47:43
your skin and for your joints. So number one, it helps build collagen.
47:49
It also has nutrients in it, likes vitamin K two that removes excess
47:53
calcium, which can damage your elastin. The lastin is what holds your skin
47:58
structure up. It's sort of like scaffolding, and so when it gets damaged,
48:01
it collapses and that contributes to wrinkles, so speirlina helps protect you from
48:07
that. It also has, as I mentioned, as the highest protein in
48:10
the world. People tell us all the time. Their hair is growing so
48:15
fast they have to get Men hate the fact they have to get hair cuts
48:19
twice as often because their hair is growing so quickly. On the other hand,
48:22
it's a great news for as you get older, it's harder to maintain
48:27
healthy hair. You have lots of breakage. This will prevent that. It
48:30
also builds your nails. My my nails are as hard as nails. I
48:36
could probably open a my apartment door with my nails because there's there's there like
48:40
a rock. I don't get any you know, tips or anything. I've
48:44
never put that on, although you know you're welcome to if you want to.
48:46
So between the collagen, the alkalinity also uh prevents blemishes. Blemishes are
48:54
caused by bacteria, and bacteria is acidic. So back to that whole auto
49:01
Warburg scenario where cancer or any disease or bacteria can't exist in an alkaline state
49:07
seen with blemishes. By the way, chlorophyll and algae has the highest chlorophyll
49:13
in the world, five hundred times more than arugula and twenty five times more
49:16
than liquid chlorophyll. It kills bacteria. It kills it in your mouth,
49:21
It kills it in your skin. It kills in your colon, so very
49:23
cleansing from chlorophyll. And there's you know, may arugula goes yellow after day
49:29
three because there's hardly any chlorophyll in there any longer, So very good for
49:34
nourishing your skin. Keeping that doing this the strength of the collagen. I
49:38
did an analysis of the aminos in spillina compared to collagen powder, and we
49:44
have up to four hundred percent more of some aminos than found in collagen powder.
49:49
And collagen powder is not sustainable or eco friendly. You know, it's
49:53
made from melted down skin and bones and tendons of animals or fish. They
50:00
don't want you to know this, but they use chemicals to melt all that
50:02
stuff down, so it's not quite as good for you as they make it
50:07
to appear. And let's face it, it's you gotta stir it, you
50:10
gotta mix it. It doesn't I don't know anybody that likes the flavor of
50:13
it. With spirillina and chlorilla, they come in tablets. You can swallow
50:17
these tablets, no flavor, no repeat, like fish oil. So when
50:22
you take spirillina, because it's so nourishing, it will replace most supplements.
50:27
You don't need a multi vitamin, you don't need collagen, you don't need
50:30
fish oil, you probably don't need biotin co Q ten. And chlorilla,
50:36
which is again our recovery bits, has so much chlorophyll and fiber in it
50:40
you don't need to eat another vegetable again. And if you don't like vegetables,
50:44
you'll get all the nourishment you need from the chlorilla. So they replace
50:49
a lot of things their food. It's non supplements, which means your body
50:53
absorbs it. It's rapidly absorbed, very concentrated nutrition, very high value.
51:00
Ten tablets a day of each one costs you a dollar. And if we
51:06
can put a stop to this rise. And you know cancer, we didn't
51:08
talk about cancer, but cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's. Speirrilina is very
51:14
much a brain food when we're talking about Alzheimer's, and chlorilla is very much
51:19
a gut food. So the two of them aren't quite they are together.
51:22
And I would tell people and that are watching today and buy them together.
51:29
Don't don't do one it and not the other, because they really are complimentary.
51:31
They're like, yes, you know, they were like twins and you
51:35
don't want to those twins to get the least effects at the outcome. So
51:40
okay, one minute. Tell us how people can order energy bits. I
51:45
know on Amazon is one, but can they come to you directly? Oh
51:49
yeah, oh yes, Please come to our website energybits dot com. That's
51:52
E N E R G Y B I T S. And we have a
51:57
twenty percent discount code Ageless for all your listeners, and it works on all
52:01
of the products, so you don't have to panic, and it lasts forever,
52:06
so you can come back and use it again and again, and even
52:08
if you aren't ready to buy something, just come to the website. We
52:13
write a full blog every month, lots of scientific references. I didn't mention
52:17
this earlier, but there are over one hundred thousand studies documenting all of the
52:22
health benefits that I mentioned today, plus thousands more. So everything is scientifically
52:27
documented. It's just not well known. And as I tell people, algae
52:31
isn't new, it's just new to you, so do a little research.
52:37
It's here to stay. It's been here for almost four billion years, just
52:39
that nobody lifted the lid to explain to you what it does and why you
52:44
need it. So I hope this has been helpful, but do come and
52:47
visit us at energybits dot com. Use the discount code ageless for your twenty
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percent off, and I promise you'll. You know, it's good for children,
52:55
pets, grandparents, all ages. There's no no group that can't benefit
53:01
from algae and I hope you'll give it a try. And you know,
53:05
Catherine, and one other thing I would let people know if you're at all
53:09
apprehensive, Energy bits makes it easy for you because they provide you with a
53:15
smaller packaging that you can it's just show true, Catherine, and you can
53:20
buy the smaller one. Yeah, we have a sample pack on our website
53:23
where you get one of each of the four brands. Here's the four brands
53:25
behind me. Or you can buy the single pouches on Amazon for six dollars.
53:30
Try to take and each pouch has thirty tablets in it, so that's
53:36
probably if you have any doubts, go to Amazon. Just buy a couple
53:38
of pouches for six dollars each. It's a really small investment and then enjoy
53:43
a larger discount when you come to our website the twenty percent off with ageless.
53:47
But yeah, we just want people to feel comfortable with it, and
53:52
do try to keep them separately. Some people end up liking the Spillina more
53:54
than the colorilla, or vice versa. We do offer a product called Vitality
53:59
Bits, is a blend of the two algae, but you won't be able
54:01
to tell if there's one that you prefer. If you start with that one,
54:06
I would I would start you with either the Spillina, which is either
54:08
the energy Bits or Beauty Bits. I call them my twins because my brands
54:14
are like my children, and those are identical, just different packaging. So
54:16
Spirrillina is your energy bits or your beauty bits. Chlorella, which is the
54:22
wellness algae, is the Chlora is the recovery bits. It's a green algae.
54:27
And then Vitality Bits is the blend of the two algae into a tablet
54:32
that's perfect. And I can't I can't let us go without complimenting you as
54:37
I did when we spoke offline in the quality of your website and your product
54:45
packaging, and then you did share the secret with me that you had some
54:47
background in that world. So I just want to give you another two.
54:52
Oh, thank you. It's kind of you on everything you do all of
54:55
your collateral material, everything is is esthetically pleasing, so congratulations for that.
55:02
It makes it very pleasant for the consumer. Yes, while we're trying to
55:07
take the weirdness out of Algae, and I if I can't do anything really
55:12
well, I just don't do it at all. But I wanted the packaging
55:15
to reflect the quality of what Alga does inside your body. So I want
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the packaging to be as friendly and welcoming and energetic visually as what Aldi does
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internally. So I guess it sounds like I've achieved my goal. I want
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to say about a year because we're books solid, but in about a year,
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i'd like to have you back because you're every day you're accomplishing new frontiers,
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and I want our viewers to be kept informed of what you're doing,
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even just the you know, the I know you're going into what's it newman,
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Marcus, or you're getting into let's just say you mentioned that you were
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dealing with the IV practitioners, So let's just put on the table that a
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year from now we have to have you back and we're going to talk about
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everything that's we didn't get to today, which is a lot. And then
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then some with all the accomplishments, because every day your work so hard.
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I know you're accomplishing so much. So I have to say goodbye to you,
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but it's very bad to do so, because I'd love to talk for
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another I'm so happy that we do cross paths and we'll be seeing each other,
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I'm sure in the future in person. Thank you so much, Michelle,
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so great to work with you. All right, well, I'll be
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back absolutely, have a wonderful day. Thank you so much.