WHAT IS BLUE GREEN ALGAE?

One of the most nutrient-dense balanced whole foods on this planet. It provides a full spectrum of vitamins and minerals, plus it contains protein, trace minerals, enzymes, chlorophyll, and essential fatty acids necessary for good health.

 

WHY EAT ALGAE?

Most of our current food supply is grown on nutrient deficient soils, which is a serious problem concerning today's health. The human body requires essential nutrients to promote good health. Blue Green algae can help to fill the nutritional gaps in our food by providing many of the missing nutrients in a form which is completely natural and fully balanced.

 

POTENTIAL PERSONAL BENEFITS!

The benefits to you could be substantial: dramatically lower medical costs, lasting health, and a more active role in your own vitality and well being.

 

Aphanizomenon flos-aquae

AFA Blue Green Algae contains almost all of the vitamins, minerals and amino acids present in nature. Aphanizomenon contains as much as 60+% pure assimilable protein. Its amino acid profile (including those that we apparently cannot synthesize for ourselves) is very similar to our own. We now know that blue green algae has been found to enhance assimilation of other proteins consumed, particularly for those eating raw foods, vegetarian, or macrobiotic diets. It is a tiny, graceful, single celled organism that is one of the simplest life forms on this planet, yet it is extremely nutrient dense. It is also one of the richest known sources of antioxidant A, carotenoids, vitamin B-12, chlorophyll, and phytonutrients. It has significant sources of essential fatty acids and is enzymatically active. New research continually shows us the increasing nutritional value of Blue Green algae. Synthetic and artificially derived vitamins do not compare or equal what nature has provided. The algae is much more digestible or utilized by the human body than the synthetic vitamins and minerals. The algae actually seems to increase the absorptive capabilities of the digestive system and actually helps to improve certain function of your body. These in turn help the nervous system, the immune function and the cardiovascular system. It helps to promote normal cholesterol levels through its natural source of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. Perfect cellular balance depends on giving your body proper cellular nourishment. Algae is one of the most efficient chlorophyll producing organisms in existence. Aphanizomenon's chlorophyll content is about two to three times that of alfalfa, a common source of dietary chlorophyll.

 

Blue-Green Algae

Among all the algae families, blue-green algae are the most efficient in photosynthesis, making them particularly critical to maintaining a balanced and life-sustaining food chain. They are extremely rich in chlorophyll content. Blue green algae also are unique among algae in that they possess the characteristics of all three kingdoms of life-plant, animal and bacteria.

They are like plants because they photosynthesize and produce chlorophyll - yet unlike plants which have indigestible cellulose cell walls, the algae has a digestible wall.

They are like animals in that they have a digestible, nutritive cell wall-composed of a starch our bodies use as food-yet, containing chlorophyll, obviously they cannot be considered animals.

They are like bacteria in that they have a phenomenal adaptability and the ability to freely exchange genetic information and "knowledge"-yet again, their chlorophyll content makes them different than bacteria.

Algae are classified by color, which is an indication of their nutrient range and their capacity to absorb different spectra of light waves-in other words, their color shows their particular "sunshine diet." These families include blue-green, green, red, brown, golden and other algae. Blue-green algae are the most ancient of the many thousands of species of ocean and fresh water algae. They truly belong in a family by themselves.

 

Algae types

Algae flourish today in more than 40,000 species. They exist wherever there is water, or even moisture: in the ocean (where they are a major constituent of plankton), lakes, rivers streams, hot springs with a high mineral content, ponds-even rain puddles. They may be found living on the bark of trees, on rocks-and even within the bodies of higher plants and animals or under the soil.

They range in size from tiny micro algae to macroalgae found in the sea. These are best known as the giant sea kelps, which can attain lengths of several hundred feet. However, algae such as these differ from true plants, in not having root, circulatory, and other complex transport systems. However, each cell is self-sufficient and will retain its viability.

Even today, algae is the most highly efficient photosynthesizers on the planet, utilizing light energy, carbon dioxide from the air, and hydrogen and oxygen from the water to synthesize a high-energy combination of proteins, carbohydrates (starches and sugars), lipids (fats), nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), vitamins, chlorophyll and other pigments.

At the very foundation of the food chain and directly responsible for about 80 percent of the world's oxygen, algae are found in every drop of water and every inch of fertile soil, transforming the minerals, gases and sunlight of our environment into viable foods for all other species of life. The algae is truly a miracle food.

 

How Do Blue Green Algae and Spirulina & Chlorella compare?

Blue Green Algae from Klamath Lake is unique because no other environment on earth duplicates the wild and fertile ecology of Klamath Lake. When compared, commercial freshwater Spirulina and Chlorella must be grown in man-made ponds, under artificially controlled conditions. In these ponds the algae receives a smaller quantity of minerals and a narrower range of nonorganic minerals. Klamath Lake Blue Green algae is grown naturally under the most ideal conditions and is harvested so that the nutritional integrity is not compromised.

When you consider Blue Green Algae's mineral-rich growing environment, it is no surprise that it is power-packed with nutrients, the kind of nutrients that aid in achieving good health.

 

Processing

Most of the methods for drying the algae utilize high temperatures (as much as 500 - 600 degrees F). The best method uses freeze-drying so that the quality of the algae is not compromised and remains intact. Not all freeze-drying methods are equal though. The methods that use high temperatures destroy the precious nutrients and the enzymatic activity. Our company uses low temperature drying and quick processing to preserve the heat and light sensitive algae's nutritional content.

 

Note: This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.