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Red Marine Algae - Information on Red Marine Algae
What is Red Marine Algae?
Red Marine Algae is more commonly known as marine seaweed. Seaweed has been utilized
as a source of superfood for centuries. Seaweeds come in a variety of colors which
gives rise to their variety of uses.
What does Red Marine Algae do?
This therapeutic superfood provides the body with a full array of nutrients including
complete protein, complex carbohydrates, essential fatty acids, fiber, vitamins, minerals,
trace elements, enzymes, and sulfated polysaccharides. Red Marine Algae's medicinal
properties are thought to enhance the immune system's regulatory response, indicating that
it is an immuno-modulatory/antiviral agent.
Why is it needed?
Poor diet, environmental imbalances and our stressful lifestyle have left our bodies in a
state of nutritional deficiency, resulting in a myriad of physiological imbalances, one of
the most dangerous being an impaired and weakened immune system.
How does it work?
Upon digestion, this whole food complex with its synergistic nutrients is rapidly
assimilated and absorbed. In particular, the sulfated polysaccharides are thought to
support the immune systems's antiviral response by activating lymphocyte production. This
induces the formation of antibodies which boost T-cell production, inhibiting viral
pathogenesis. Red Marine Algae has been shown to support the body's specific immune
response to control and reduce the Herpes Simplex Virus population, stopping or lessening
the occurrence and severity of outbreaks.
How is it made?
This all natural whole food algae is harvested from the waters of the United States. The
Red Marine Algae is carefully cleaned and dried to maintain its quality, purity and
nutritional/medicinal integrity. Since most life derived from the sea, one can think of
the ocean as a vast nutritional soup that lies untapped as perhaps our greatest medicinal
resource.
Scientific research has established a link between nutrient-rich sea plants and the body's
immune system response. This growing interest in marine life as a source of nutrients and
botanically based medicines has created a new demand for algae. We are only at the
threshold of unlocking the nutritional and medicinal secrets of red marine algae. As new
applications for using algae have developed, the demand for research has increased. Marine
biologists are searching diligently to understand the effects of varying temperatures,
salinities, depths, pressures, currents, and other physical and chemical conditions that
create the fascinating world of underwater algae.
Red Marine Algae as a Super Food:
Red marine algae has been used by people as a food staple for thousands of years. In the
Chinese Materica Medica, a volume dating back to 600 B.C., we find the following
statement, "Some algae are a delicacy fit for the most honorable guest, even for the
king himself." (Porterfield, 1922). In China, Japan, and the Indo-Pacific region,
several dozen species of red algae are used. Upon digestion, Dumontiaceae's broad
spectrum of nutrients is rapidly assimilated and absorbed by the body. A nutritional
analysis of this Red Marine Algae shows it to be composed of carbohydrates, proteins and
fatty acids.
The unique combination of nutrients found in Red Marine Algae is important in the
following ways:
* It is a complete protein with all the essential amino acids-unlike most plant foods.
Complete proteins are crucial because they are involved in all major metabolic processes
such as energy production, rebuilding, and enzyme production.
* It has a high carbohydrate content. It contains both simple and complex carbohydrates
which affect a quick but sustained release, providing the body with an excellent source of
additional fuel for its many constant energy needs. In particular, the sulphated complex
carbohydrates are thought to enhance the immune system's regulatory response.
* It contains an extensive fatty acid profile, including Omega 3 and Omega 6. These
essential fatty acids also play a key role in the production and availability of body
energy.
* It has an abundance of vitamins, minerals and trace elements in a naturally-occurring
synergistic design. For example, it contains an excellent magnesium to calcium ratio of
2:1, and a potassium to sodium ratio of 4:3.
Further information about Red Marine Algae can be found at the following:
Red Marine Algae and the immune system Red Marine Algae as an alternative medicinal treatment Red Marine Algae general information
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