Amazing Anti-Stress Herb

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Bob McCauley

By Bob McCauley, CNC, MH

Valerian is an herb that has been cultivated and used for centuries for relaxation and to relieve stress.  The acids found in Valerian act on the brain in such a way as to provide it with the nutrients it requires to be balanced.  When the brain does not get sufficient amounts of the nutrients it requires the result is sometimes depression, bipolarism, schizophrenia and/or anxiety.

Other brain herbs are Ginkgo Biloba (ginkgolic acid), Goto Kola (asiaticocide acid) and bacopa (bacocide acid).  The brain’s primary nutrients are acids, especially those that come to us with fatty acids.

The root is used of the Valerian plant and the acids are extracted or concentrated.  As Valerian root ages, it produces a substance known as isovaleric acid. This compound and another acid known as valerenic acid are the active chemical ingredients that are present in the volatile oils (fats) that are found in Valerian root.  These fatty acids (volatile oils) are responsible for Valerian’s ability to relax the central nervous system and remove stress.  This, in turns, helps promote a good night’s sleep.

Valerian root has been used for tension headaches and muscular pain because of its ability to act as a muscle relaxant.  It is also known to improve menstrual flow and cramps, and as an aid with symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Valerian can also help relieve palpitations, nerve pain, lower back pain, vision problems, other problems with the central nervous system and spinal cord, dizziness, chronic skin problems, muscle spasms. It improves circulation and reduces mucus from colds, relieves irritable bowel syndrome and lowers blood pressure.

It’s naturally calming effects have caused many to refer to Valerian Root as natural valium.  Valerian extract is available in capsule form.  It tastes absolutely awful (Bacopa and Ginkgo are much worse) and cannot be taken by itself in powder form unless you are willing to eat anything.  The best way to consume Valerian is to take it in tablet form by combining Valerian extract with a food such as Chlorella in a 9:1 ratio (90% Chlorella/10% Valerian.  This will with enhance its effects because the protein in Chlorella will help the body absorb the valerian more effectively.

 

 

 

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Mercola Draws a Crowd and Big Yawn

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Bob McCauley

by Bob McCauley, CNC, MH

I attended the Health Freedom Expo in Schaumburg, IL, June 2011, and had the chance to listen to some of the speakers.  Jonathan Emord, the FDA attorney, was incredible.  The work he is doing is absolutely invaluable to the natural health movement and in helping to protect us against the dangerous duo of the FDA and FTC.

Mike Adams was informative and entertaining, but he was on video, taped earlier, so there was no interaction.  He was the warm up for Dr. J. Mercola, the medical doctor of www.mercola.com, one of the largest natural health websites on the internet.  Mercola was amazingly bland and boring.  He mumbled incoherently from time to time.  He ran through his slide show refusing to take questions, and each slide was a way to introduce another product that he sells. Everyone has to make a living, and I don’t call Mercola a sellout for selling products.  I do the same thing and I like Mercola’s information and his website for the most part.

But the big problem with Mercola is that he sees health the same way all doctors see health.  Stay on a diet of mostly cooked foods, use meat, fish, eggs and/or dairy for your protein and take supplements.  In other words, go ahead and live like everyone else does, get sick like everyone else does and then, instead of handing yourself over to the medical establishment, take supplements and you will be healthy or something like that.  The incredibly boring debate between Mercola and Gabriel Cousens is a good example of people making health boring by talking about the minutia of nutrition as if anyone cares.

Getting healthy by using the medical establish is unobtainable for the average person after the age of 60.  From the age of 60 on is simply a battle to stay alive, not be truly healthy.  And all the studies that are done demonstrating that this nutrient or that vitamin help us determine what “might be right for one person, but not necessarily right for another.”

I don’t buy any of that.   Dr. Mercola, who is supposedly well informed and savvy about health, but the truth is he does not understand the fundamentals of health.  As I often say, health is simple to understand, but not easy to do.

Health is simple: Drink lots of Water, preferably Alkaline Ionized Water, consume Spirulina and/or Chlorella for your protein, consume only raw fruits and vegetables, consume probiotics, angstrom minerals, exercise vigorously daily and maintain a positive mental attitude.  Mercola promotes very little of this.  He is a huge detractor of Alkaline Ionized Water. He sells chlorella but has problems with it because it has “too much iron”.  He suggests that we eat raw fruits and vegetables, but not exclusively and he is not passionate about the concept.  He also talks a lot about eating cooked foods.  He promotes taking probiotics, but speaks little about the critical necessity of staying mineralized.  He certainly doesn’t promote angstrom minerals, which he should because minerals are the keys that start the engine of our health.  He does promote regular exercise, but we differ because I promote cardiovascular exercise daily for 15 – 30 minutes.  He is a detractor of running marathons, as I have always been.  It simply is not healthy to run as hard as you possibly can for 2 – 4 hours.  Maintaining a positive mental attitude is critical for being healthy, but Mercola barely mentions it on his website.

Dr. Mercola is a typical example of doctors who NEVER get to the core of how we can be truly healthy.  Doctors like Mercola talk and talk, referring to study after study, and none of their pretentious pomposity never results in what they say they are supposedly there to promote: True Health.

 

 

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Who Should You Take Health Advice From?

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Bob McCauley

by Bob McCauley, CNC, MH

Someone asked me recently: “Why should I take any health advice from you?” Good question.   Why should you trust anyone’s health advice?  I have been in the natural health business since 1996 and I have met hundreds of health professionals, some self-proclaimed, others accredited in some way.

I am a Certified Nutritional Consultant and a Certified Master Herbalist.  I have certifications to perform Live Blood Microscopy.  I’m currently (2011) studying to become a Naturopathic Doctor.  I have learned a lot from taking these courses and seminars.  It has made me read books and watch videos that I would not have done otherwise.   And it gave me a formal background in human physiology and how the body actually works.  It’s a good thing for someone like me to know.  In particular, I have studied the human digestive system because all disease begins in, and ultimately stems from, the digestive tract, in my opinion.  All disease comes from our diet.  We inherit none of it.  Understanding the digestive tract is to understand the source of disease.

I have also talked to many people about health.  I had a radio show for 2.5 year, Achieving Great Health, the first radio show ever to promote a raw food diet and completely natural health.  I had over 150 guests, some several times.  David Wolfe, Dr. Gabriel Cousens, Viktoras Kulvinskas were all on several times.  Peter Ragnar was on 20 times and we created a CD set from our sessions.  I also talked to Peter for more than 20 hours off the air.  I learned so much from all of them.

But what I really have learned and know about health is that which I have experienced myself.  Every health guru that I invited on my radio program as a guest said the exact same thing.  We know it because we do it and it’s amazing.  We are not lucky.  Happenstance has not been kind to us because we have authored our health.  And if you are sick you are the author of that disease.

If you want to be healthy read lots, study, watch videos, documentaries and talk to people. But how do you know who to take advice from?  The answer is to look at how healthy the person looks to you.  What does their skin and hair look like?  Are their eyes clear or hazy? Do they look haggard or tired?  Are they clear thinking?  Over the years I have seen some of the most ridiculously unhealthy people trying to explain to me how to be healthy.  The MLM crowd is particularly amusing because many are promoting genuinely healthy products such as noni or mangosteen and yet they do virtually nothing else to be healthy, thus they look terrible.  Some of the people I have run into at health expos look ridiculous.  I’ll never forget the grossly obese guy in the Solgar booth at the Natural Products Expo a few years ago.  I wanted to ask him what he was doing so I could avoid doing it.

I’m not perfect, but for 53 I look far better than most people my age.  I can still run six minute miles, and I am no one special.  Anyone can do what I am doing if they are determined.  It only takes doing it.

If you are looking for health advice from someone, wonder to yourself if you would one day hope to look as healthy as they are now.

 

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Coca Cola Takes Our Dietitians to School. Literally.

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Bob McCauley

by Bob McCauley, CNC, MH

I have always referred to formally trained dietitians, as food Nazis because of their inflexibility and insistence that they know better than anyone about what we should eat.  Here are a few of the things you can expect to hear from the mouths of dietitians when you run into them:

  1. They seem to love to insist that we should all eat dairy products.
  2. Where else would we get our protein other than from meat, fish and eggs?
  3. Always steam your vegetables to kill bacteria.  Always wash your cutting board every time you use it, especially after cutting meat on it.
  4. Do this because your kitchen is a dangerous bacteria laden environment that will infect you if you don’t.
  5. Jell-O is a good food right after major surgery.
  6. Frozen vegetables retain 90% of their nutrition compared to fresh foods.

I have found that it’s almost impossible to hold a conversation with a dietitian because all they know how to do is tell you what they know is true about the human diet and don’t argue with them because they are training, registered and certified.  So shut up.  Just listen to them and do what they say.  They’ve been “trained” and you haven’t.

For the record, what the body requires is raw fruits/vegetables and water.   Pythagoras, one of my heroes, was a raw foodist who encouraged people to only eat raw foods and drink water.  This is called the Pythagorean Diet.

While researching this creepy news I discovered that Coca-Cola Beverage Company actually has an Institute of Health and Wellness.  How about that?  The company that produces one of the most harmful products found on the market actually has an Institute of Health and Wellness.  The arm of the American Dietetic Association that issues credentials to dietitian, the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR), has approved a program created by the The Coca-Cola Company Beverage Institute for Health and Wellness.   Now that is gutsy, doubling down against anyone who might label their product unhealthy.  Next will be drug dealers opening rehab centers.   If you are looking for irony regarding Coke, the World Headquarters for Coca-Cola is kitty corner to the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, GA.

Cocoa-Cola is instructing dietitians that some of coke’s worst ingredients: Fluoride, Sugar, high fructose corn syrup, Artificial colors, aspartame and other Nonnutritive sweeteners “have been carefully examined for their effects on children’s health, growth, and development” according to Dr. Ronald Kleinman, physician-in-chief at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, chief of the Pediatric Gastrointestinal and Nutrition Unit, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.  This guy ought to know what he’s talking about.  I’ll have a Coke after all.  And here I thought it was bad for you all along.

Make no mistake: Coke is poison and their collusion with the American Dietetic Association is yet another indication of how the medical establishment has absolutely no clue as to how a person can be healthy.  My advice is to avoid both Coke and dietitians.

References:

http://www.beverageinstitute.org/en_US/pages/webinar-childrensdietary-cpe.html

http://www.anh-usa.org/dietitians-are-buying-cokes-line/

 

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Natural Skin Care

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Bob McCauley

by Bob McCauley, CNC, MH

The function of the skin:

  1. It is our largest organ
  2. Protects our internal organs from injury and infection.
  3. Protects us from dehydration.
  4. Helps detoxify wastes through perspiration.
  5. Protects our body from sunburns.
  6. Provides an important line of defense against infections – barrier to viruses  and bacteria.
  7. Protects us against extreme changes in temperature between us and the environment.
  8. Produces and stores vitamin D, which is important to our immune system.
  9. Sensory perception.
  10. Gives information to our brain so you can react to it for self-preservation.

What I recommend to do to care for your skin:

  1. Alkaline ionized water for drinking
  2. Far Infrared Sauna
  3. Acid Ionized Water
  4. Showering – hot and cold water
  5. Skin brushing
  6. Dermatological wash cloth or a loofah
  7. Volcanic ash – clay – ex-foliation.
  8. Chlorella powder with CGF Powder
  9. Witch Hazel (plant extract).
  10. Shea Butter for a moisturizer.
  11. Snow Fungus – THE BEST!!  Soak in water a few minutes and then apply to the skin.  I love it.
  12. Internally: Angstrom silicon, sulfur (MSM), olive oil, coconut oil.
  13. Foods: avocado, raw nuts.  Raw potato juice There are also lots of other foods and herbs great for the skin.

Snow Fungus (Dry)

 

Wet Snow Fungus

 

 

 

 

 

One of the worse things are commercial beauty products such as Lancôme, Clinique – They are full of chemicals such as parabens.

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“We want our money back!” On the Dangers of Selling Supplements

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Bob McCauley

by Bob McCauley, CNC, MH

I don’t sell supplements.  I don’t think they are necessary to live a healthy lifestyle.  I sell wholefoods such as chlorella and spirulina.  However, first, let’s define what a supplement actually is.  I consider a supplement a nutrient that has been isolated from a whole food, such as Vitamin C from rosehips, or synthesized meaning that it has been chemically recreated.  Synthetically created nutrients should be avoided at all costs in my opinion.

When you consume a wholefood such as chlorella you are consuming something that comes directly from nature and has not be “tampered” with.  Supplements are a whole other story.  For instance, when you have low iron your doctor will recommend an iron supplement.  However, the problem with that is iron supplements are not in the correct form therefore it builds up and becomes toxic, especially to the liver.  Supplements sometimes have side effects because they don’t come directly from nature.

The danger when you sell supplements is that you become answerable to things that happen when supplements don’t work.  This is what happened to Dr. J. Mercola when he spoke this last weekend at the Health Freedom Expo in Schaumberg. IL, June 11, 2011.  Mercola has written a lot about Vitamin D (which is really a hormone) and he asked how many in the audience took a Vitamin D supplement.  I was amazed to see 80% of the audience raise their hands.  Mercola said “No, no, no.  Don’t, do not, take a Vitamin D supplement.  It’s wrong.” The audience members rebelled and yelled back at Mercola who was sadly shaking his head.  Someone shouted: “We want our money back!”  Mercola ignored the comment completely and went on with his talk.  Everyone heard the comment which drew several laughs from the audience.  And this is the problem when you sell supplements such as Mercola does. He sells lots of them.  I don’t know if he ever sold oral Vitamin D supplements, but ignoring the comment the way he did made him look like he had once promoted Vitamin D oral supplements.  It was a long, very long, very awkward moment.

If Dr. Mercola did not sell supplements at all he wouldn’t have people yelling to have their money refunded from the audience.  I don’t often have people yell at me from the audience when I do talks, but if anyone wants to argue with raw wholefoods they can take it up with the producer: God.

 

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Why Getting Water from a Spring Doesn’t Make Sense

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Bob McCauley

by Bob McCauley, CNC, MH

Raw foodists and natural health advocates ignored the importance of water to our health completely until quite recently.  Most barely mentioned it and when they did they bowed to the notion that purified water was the best water to drink because it was “pure”, which it is.  That’s the problem with it: pure water leaches minerals from the body.

The latest fad is “Harvesting Raw Water from a Wild Spring”. And this is a fad indeed.  I wrote about this about a year ago and I find more and more people are doing it and when you challenge them things get nasty quick and they start insulting you.    The raw food community as embraced natural spring that can only be taken from the actual source in glass jugs and carboys.  Essentially I have nothing against the practice other than I find it to be an absolute waste of gas and time, even if you live close to the spring itself.  Not to mention I wouldn’t consider consuming unfiltered water unless it was the only water I could find, which I could only imagine would be an emergency situation.

There are four of these public springs in Michigan.  I live in Lansing and the closest one to my home is 1:15 minutes, next is 1:25 mins. Am I supposed to drive 2.5 hours and waste 3 hours every week or even once a month?   As though I have nothing better to do than to drive for hours for water when I have something far better coming from my tap.  I have a 200 ft rock well at my house that draws water from the sandstone Saginaw Formation.  I triple filter it and you will not find better water.

I have had 18 years in the bottled water business. My father held an MIT Doctorate in Environmental engineering and I learned the business of water from him (12 years with Wolverine Engineers, Mason, MI).  I am a Certified water specialist D5/S5 in the State of Michigan.  In all my years in the water business never heard the term Raw water or Wild spring until the last couple years.  These terms have been invented by individuals who want to sound like they have found something new, when in fact they have found something quite old and outdated for the most part.  The civilized world said goodbye to unfiltered water many years ago because filtration is to water what antiseptics are to open wounds.  When antiseptics were invented it was a giant leap forward toward stopping infection and filtering water removed all the stuff that you find in water that doesn’t belong in the body.

The days when we use to have travel some distance to get water ended first with the Romans then again by The West beginning in the 19th century.

Filtration has become a BIG “No No”. Spring water is not filtered, which all water should be.  Water filtration is one of the greatest advances in the last 50 years.  We have been filtering water for 4000 years because people understood that we require clean water.  Filtration has now become a dirty word because the same people such as David Wolfe and Daniel Vitalis are both promoting as well as selling it.  I did a video rebuttal to some of David’s ideas about water, which I find absolutely absurd. I also see others in the raw food movement being duped into believing that going into the middle of nowhere to get water from a spring will actually make you healthier.  If you look up Raw Water in Wikipedia you see that in its definition it warns: “Raw water should not be considered safe for drinking or washing without further treatment.”  Since the term was recently invented there are no citations and almost no information about Raw water.  And just because it comes from a spring does NOT by any means suggest that it automatically is high quality.   You will have no idea what you are actually drinking unless you see the analysis.  And if you want to know if it is contaminated you need to do a full spectrum analysis (such as I do on the well source of the water I sell every three years), and that will cost you $3000.

Those who promote drinking unfiltered water do so because they claim that water spins from deep within the earth as it reaches the surface and there is no truth to this.  It would be nearly impossible to prove that water actually spins as it rises to the surface.  They also say the water as Victor Schauberger stated that nature creates vortices as a result of a tremendous and sudden release of energy.  A tornado is a good example of this.  But water spinning as it rises toward the surface of the earth is unfounded and improvable.  It’s another idea that has been invented out of thin air.

Harvesting Water: Another Invented Term. While you are inventing new terms such as “Wild Spring” and “Raw Water” why not invent the term “Harvesting Water” from nature.

Glass vs. Plastic. Another thing being pushed is that the water should be “harvested” in glass.  Glass is recommended and desirable, but incredibly impractical given their weight and how dangerous they can become if you drop one.   Again we seem to be going back in time before plastic had been invented.  There was the BPA (Bisphenol A) scare with polycarbonate but now the standard is BPA-Free.  The amount of plastic that could possibly leach into the water is a minuscule amount of toxins compared to breathing the air at the gas station while you’re filling up or riding behind a diesel truck or bus.

The Incredible Weight of Glass.  A 5 gallon plastic bottle weighs less than one pound, 43 lb filled with water.  A 5 gallon glass bottle (carboy) weighs 32 lbs, 75 lbs filled with water.

Completely Misleading. It is essentially misleading to suggest that ONLY unfiltered spring water should be consumed.  Water has been filtered for more than 4000 years because people understood that the importance of taking stuff out of water that doesn’t belong there is quite important.  Now we are told that only unfiltered water should be consumed.  It’s ridiculous to suggest it should not be.  Any bottled water sold in the United States MUST be filtered.  I entered the bottled water business in 1993 it was the first thing I learned.  Water that will be bottled must be ozonated and filtered.

Water does not levitate. There is a false claim that water “magically and mysteriously” levitates to the surface by “fructagenic” energy only understood through sacred geometry.  It derives from a misunderstanding of the work of Viktor Schauberger’s work on energy found in nature.

“Water is Alive” is a concept embraced by many people out there and I’ve found that stating an opposite opinion to that sentiment brings howls of derision and bitter, nasty personal comments.  The reason for this is that these people have made a religion out of water and you are attacking their religion.  I am a Christian and when you attack Christianity I don’t reply to the personal vituperative attack.  Turning an inanimate object into a god or an otherwise living being is called animism.  Water is not god.  It is not living and it does not have consciousness.  David Wolfe has stated that “water has more consciousness than Jesus or Buddha.”  It certainly does not.  Daniel Vitalis goes along with this notion and it’s an absurd Gaia concept that promotes the inanimate as something living. Water is the healthiest substance we can consume, but it does not levitate, it is not alive and it does not have consciousness.  I’m tired of hearing that it does.  And I’m tired of people making a religion out of it.

 

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Astaxanthin in the News – Combined with Spirulina

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Bob McCauley

By Bob McCauley, ND

Dr. Mercola appeared on Dr. Oz.’s television program about Astaxanthin, a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory, which I have written about before.  Astaxanthin is derived from the micro-algae Haematococcus pluvialis

  • Spirulina is one of two complete foods found on the market with protein, carbohydrates and fat in the correct ratio to one another for a whole food.
  • Astaxanthin comes from Heamatacoccus green algae, which is produced in order to protect itself with astaxanthin where it gathers or “hyper-accumulates” on the algae and then can then be harvested.  It is not easy to grow.  By comparison, cultivating and producing Spirulina is child’s play.
  • Astaxathin is a pigment – pigments are antioxidants.  Blue, yellow, orange, purple, red – all pigments that have antioxidant properties – astaxanthin is red.
  • Pink flamingos and salmon get their color from astaxanthin from consuming algae.
  • Astaxanthin is an extremely powerful antioxidant, one of the most powerful in the plant kingdom.  However, it is extremely unstable and oxidizes instantly.
  • It is one of most effective anti-inflammatory nutrients known.
  • Inflammation is a result of and, more precisely, the reaction to disease.   It’s the body reacting to disease that is inflicting it due to the substances that do not belong in it.  There are two types of inflammation – regular and silent.
  • Astaxanthin is a nutriceutical that helps bring down inflammation so that the body is put into a position where it can heal itself.
  • When you combine it with Spirulina, you have a complete food with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory qualities.  Spirulina has GLA – great for arthritis.  Great for working out.

 

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Can the body get enough water from eating raw foods exclusively?

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Bob McCauley

By Bob McCauley, CNC, MH

Raw Foods are full of water compared to cooked foods.  There are so many processed and cooked foods such as bread and crackers that absorb the precious water that our body requires to digest the foods we consume.

It is difficult for the body to get water from any other source than water itself.  Tea, coffee, beer and soft drinks are all diuretics, meaning they steal water from the body.

The body requires one gallon per day on average, which is one reason why going out to get spring water is not practical.

Why does the body require so much water?

  1. Water is used in every metabolic process in the body.
  2. We need to flush our digestive system between meals.
  3. We need to hydrate every cell of our body.

Dr. Batmanghelidj stated in Your Body’s Many Cries for Water that “Chronic cellular dehydration is the number one reason for chronic disease.” I agree with that statement.  If we don’t keep our cells properly hydrated they are not functioning to their capacity.  They cannot communicate within themselves and with other cells in the body.

Cellular health equals human health.  If your cells are not healthy you will not be healthy.  It’s impossible to be healthy without having healthy cells.  Health begins with our body’s cells – which are the foundation of health.

The only way to stay hydrated and achieve great health is to drink sufficient amounts of water to constantly keep our cells healthy.  Eating raw foods alone will not accomplish this, only consuming water can properly hydrate the body.  Purified water, either Reverse Osmosis or Distilled Water, is not a healthy drinking water.  Spring water is the next best thing to Alkaline Ionized Water.

 

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Blue Green Algae: Wild Crafted vs Cultivated

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Bob McCauley

by Bob McCauley, CNC, MH

My Video about Wild vs Cultivated Blue Green Algae

  1. AFA Klamath Blue Green Algae known as Aphanizomenon flos–aquae – (AFA) and Spirulina platensis are cyanobacteria.   Not true algae – but half animal and half plant.  They don’t have a nucleus such as chlorella.  It grows end to end like pearl – Spirulina spiral shape growth pattern.
  2. All plants on earth evolved from Chlorella algae billions of years ago.
  3. Nothing evolved from cyanobacteria species – because nothing can evolve from their hybrid of animal and plant.
  4. Cyanobacteria and chlorella have similar nutritional profiles, protein – carbs – fats in about the same ratio, similar nutrients.
  5. However they are very different foods, which is why we should consume both of them.
  6. AFA is a good nutritional food.  It has some neurotoxins, Ana-Toxin A for example.  Spirulina and Chlorella don’t have this toxin or any neurotoxins.
  7. I prefer Spirulina because precisely because it is grown in a controlled environment, and is not harvested from a lake. Although some Chinese Spirulina is grown and harvested from lakes in the north of China.  I would be wary of consuming that.
  8. Klamath Lake, Oregon is a recreational lake with boats and a migratory pathway. The bacteria count is extremely high.  Chlorella is less than 300 per gram whereas they are 100,000 per gram, which is considered acceptable, but not by my standards.
  9. Also, what are you harvesting with the AFA – other algae species, aquatic species and unknown elements.   Same reason I don’t like marine phytoplankton.  Harvest other algae species with it.
  10. If they cultivated AFA the way Spirulina is, I would be willing to consume it regularly.  But essentially it is nutritionally identical to Spirulina – a true superfood that is grown in a controlled environment under natural sunlight.

 

 

 

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