Our formulas are blend of microalgae, the oldest form of food on the planet. Fossils exist of cyanobacteria blue-green algae that are over 3.5 billion years old. There are over 70,000 algae of various species on earth. Some are extraordinary whole foods such as spirulina and dunaliella as contained in our formulas. Our formulas are not conglomerations of separate, isolated vitamins and minerals, or extracted and concentrated ingredients bound together and compressed with fillers in a pill. Our formulas are whole food product containing four whole micro-algae.

Proprietary blend, private blends

Of all nutrients that health science knows about, few are not found in our formulas. Our formulas contain nutrient dense algae selected amongst thousands of algae on earth. For example, during earlier research conducted in Russia, over 200 different strains of blue-green algae were investigated by researchers. The rationales for the selection of which algae in the blend will become clear as you read on.

There are thousands of known nutrients in our formulas, and many unknown

Our blends contain four whole microalgae (whole as in whole food), each containing thousands of nutrients that can be detected with the latest laboratory equipment. Additionally our blends contain hundreds of other micronutrients that are too small to be seen with our current microscopes, but that will likely be identified in the years to come. For example a few decades ago we identified licopene in tomatoes even though it had been present in tomatoes for thousands of years.

The blends contain four microalgae:

Spirulina is a microalgae that cannot be seen by naked eyes, being multi-cell blue green algae, grown in warm and brackish water, with the properties as alkaline. The most researched strain researched in more than 30 countries and involving thousands of scientists worldwide, is platensis. The root of the name “spirulina” comes from Latin as helix which means the whirl or spiral shape, as the German scientist Deurben, named it as spirulina in 1927.

Spirulina as helix or spiral

Spirulina is generally found in fresh water, brine and brackish water. It consist of 60-70 % protein in dry weight. Its protein elements include 18 types of amino acids, several vitamins, such as vitamin A, B, E, H and minerals, thousands of enzymes and several essential and non-essential fatty acids.

Dunaliella Salina is a single celled, salt-water micro-algae that accumulates massive amounts of carotenoids under appropriate growth conditions. It is characterized by its ability to accumulate very high concentrations of beta-carotene. Concentrations of up to 14% of dry weight have been reported (Aasen et al., 1969; Borowitzka, LJ et al., 1984). The green unicellular flagellate Dunaliella salina also accumulate very high concentrations of glycerol (Borowitzka, LJ and Brown, 1974; Borowitzka, LJ, 1981 b).

Dunaliella's rich beta carotene

Natural mixed carotenoids found in Dunaliella salina are among nature's best antioxidants, containing a variety of carotenoids including beta carotene, alpha carotene and xanthophylls like zeaxanthin, cryptoxanthin and lutein. Natural mixed carotenoids belong to a family of naturally occurring yellow, orange and red pigments, which are also found in various fruits, cruciferous, yellow and dark - green vegetables as also abundantly in certain microalgae.

Haematococcus Pluvialis is believed to be by far the world's richest known source of astaxanthin, a unique natural carotenoid pigment and biological antioxidant. When compared with vitamin E, astaxanthin’s potency as an antioxidant ranges from approximately 80 times to as much as 900 times greater. Additionally, when tested against a wide array of ROS and nitrogen-reactive species, astaxanthin appears to be the most effective in scavenging this wide variety of harmful products. Astaxanthin is known to be able to span the lipid/protein bilayer of biological membranes, imparting a powerful antioxidant effect.

Haematococcus richest source of astaxanthin

Haematococcus Pluvialis' mixed carotenoids combination yields superior potency and versatility for an ideal antioxidant. Additionally, because its astaxanthin appears to enter the central nervous system better than many other antioxidants, its utility in many central disorders hold significant promises.

Our blends are nutrient rich
Find next a summary list of the nutrients of the algae that compose our blends. You can also find a detailed list of those nutrients.

The detailed list of nutrients in algae like spirulina and chlorella are frequently made available by the grower of these algae and in the scientific literature. The first thing you will note is that they are never the same. Anyone is welcome to make a blend of algae as there are a few others on the market. But I urge you to consider the research involved with our products. Like grand mother's soup, making a blend of microalgae is both art and science. Either it will result in a nutritious soup or be a disaster if you don't know what you are doing. Our blends are hundreds of times more complex and may likely deliver many more nutritional benefits than soup.

The exact quantity, weight or values can never exactly the same

As with any vegetable or fruit or meat, when dealing with whole food you can never achieve the same exact nutritional values. No two tomatoes can grow with identical vitamin or mineral content. That is the way nature is. With the micro marine life as is the case with the microalgae in our blends we have even less control of the specific ingredients. But as in most foods the value will tend to be approximately 80% the same given the same growing environment and technologies applied. During our growing and processing we employ the most advanced and rigorous algo-technologies in order to maintain stability, quality, continuous potency and results.

Many of the nutrients in our blends are impossible to measure with our most advanced instruments

As with most microalgae, thousands of nutrients in our blends are known, but many are too small and / or not identified. But as experience proves it, all nutrients are important. In Natural life its rarely about quantity; rather it's about quality and functionality. We have identified over the last century hundreds of nutrients that are essential to healthy life, for example Vitamin C.

As our technology and knowledge advances we are continually discovering new phytonutrients and their importance to life. A good example is aluminum which until recently was thought to be useless to life processes. It is now thought to be involved in the action of enzymes such a succinic dehydrogenase and d-aminolevulinate dehydrase (involved in porphyrin synthesis). And microalgae are the furthest (smallest) frontier of exploration in nutrition and where we will discover many phytonutrients in the future.