You may already know that a
plant-based diet goes a long way to help protect you. But I bet you can’t guess what is actually the *most alkaline, plant-based food in the entire world* (here’s a
few hints)…
🧬…it’s a single cell organism
👵…it’s 4 billion years old
🌌…it’s endorsed by NASA and the United Nations!
In case you’re wondering, the answer to the above is ALGAE and we can’t wait to tell you more about this amazing superfood on this week’s episode of the The Low Carb Athlete Podcast.
Now, we know what you’re
thinking….*algae*???
Isn’t that the stuff I feed my fish? Well yes but algae is also the
most nutrient-dense, chlorophyll-rich, alkaline food in the
world. It strengthens your immune system, helps fight off viruses, it helps heal your gut,
liver, body and brain, gives you energy and satisfies your hunger. And that’s just for starters!
Algae has
been a closely guarded secret of celebrities
and athletes for decades. But now it’s your turn to learn about it and benefit
from it. On today’s The Low Carb Athlete Podcast episode, we interviewed Catharine Arnston the Founder/CEO of ENERGYbits, the algae
company that is making headlines and leading the algae movement! You
don’t want to miss this interview as Catharine shares incredible
facts about algae’s super-powered nutrients and how it is a game
changer for your health. Keep reading to get a few quick tips AND our 20%
discount code (at the end of this email).
Let’s face it – we’re all busy people here. It can be so hard to
find the time to prepare the green and healthy food we *know* we
need.
Sooo, just how powerful are ENERGYbits®
algae tablets?
✔They have over 60% protein and 40
vitamins/minerals
✔They are PLANT-BASED, has ONE
ingredient and ONE calorie
✔They are vegan, keto, raw and
unprocessed
✔They are 99%
bio available, easy to digest and provide energy without sugar or
caffeine
✔ They strengthen your immune system and help you fight off viruses – so important with the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic
✔They
are a Toxin Terminator (remove all toxins
and support your cell walls)
✔They help prevent chronic illness with dense,
alkaline nutrition
Here are just a few more of algae’s benefits:
✨ Great for boosting your immune system so you stay healthy all year long
✨ Great for intermittent fasting or staying trim
✨The perfect way for
you or your kids to get your greens
✨ Fits perfectly into your keto plan or gym bag!
What keeps most of us from eating healthy? Even when we want to??
Time, of course!
Our crazy busy lives often keep us from having the time to find, prepare and eat nutrient-dense foods we know we need.
Catharine realized this when she created ENERGYbits® 10 years ago after helping her younger sister heal from breast cancer using an alkaline diet. That’s when Catharine learned about the power of green nutrition but she knew that cooking, cleaning and eating greens was challenging for most. Fortunately she came up with a simple solution- algae tablets. Algae contains the highest concentration of green nutrition in the world and all you need to do is swallow or chew a few each day and you’re good to go! Fast and easy. One and done.
Want to learn more? Check out THIS intro to algae video or her Instagram but be sure to keep reading to get that 20% discount code we promised you!!
There are two types of algae, spirulina and chlorellaand they are VERY different:
• For increased physical and mental energy, controlling hunger, and immune support take ENERGYbits® spirulina
• For health, wellness, immune support, longevity and daily detox take RECOVERYbits® chlorella
• For improved skin and hair take BEAUTYbits® spirulina
If you’re ready to feel healthier, energized and more nourished naturally (like we were!) and if you want to save some money, visit www.energybits.com to grab yourself some algae tablets and be sure to use our 20% discount code THELOWCARBATHLETE. Just type the discount code into the coupon box when you checkout and don’t forget to listen to the podcast!
Algae was the first life on earth over 4 billion years ago but its results are immediate and last a lifetime. So don’t wait too long to try them! Your best and healthiest life is waiting for you! Your body says thank you!
Enjoy them each day as I have been doing for building my own health!
Bites of Energy, Nutritional Therapy and your Microbiome Diversity
As I review my BiomeFx lab interpretation manual and nutritional recommendations to improve the microbiome diversity in order to optimize health and strengthen the immune system – I am starting to see a trend.
When I study nutritional therapy tricks to boost our immune system– I am starting to see a trend with specific nutrients we can get from real food to boost our immune system along with health building lifestyle habits as we discuss in my manual, book and coaching program.
There are so many nutritional therapy benefits with superfoods as spirulina, algae and chlorophyll…
Health Building Lifestyle habits to build our health, immune system and resiliency are also a consistent trend and similar to my eight+ elements of “The WHOLESTIC Method” program.
As with our interpretation of the BiomeFx for practitioners- we suggest:
- MOVE more! Engage in moderate exercise 30-60 minutes a day- ideally outside, lift weights/heavy objects and do some sprints.
- Get outside as often as possible every day or as I say “breakfast, lunch and dinner” times now mean GET OUTSIDE and MOVE!
- Reduce sleep disturbances by practicing relaxation techniques and avoid screen time before bed
- Avoid exposure to toxic chemicals as glyphosate and consider taking spore based probiotic when traveling to high altitudes
- Stop or limit smoking!
- Relax more and practice stress reduction techniques
- Disconnect and spend more time in nature …goes back to the first few tips as get outside and play.
- Create a healthy toxic/chemical free environment while avoiding excessive sterilization at home
- Get dirty! Spending more time outdoors can enhance exposure to beneficial microbes in the environment
- Unplug- disconnect to connect with you! Practice breathing exercises, meditation, yoga, massage and acupuncture
- Hydrate! Drink filtered water
- Build muscles! Be consistent with regular moderate exercise but make time to lift weights/heavy items, HIIT training when appropriate
- Sleep 7-9 hours…quality deep sleep by practicing new de-stress routine before bedtime.
- Intermittent fasting and stop eating three hours before bed (as well as drinking alcohol and caffeinated beverages!).
- Eat real nutrient dense whole foods that balance your blood sugar to burn fat and improve metabolic flexibility
- Supplement as needed to boost immune system as with Vitamin C, D, Zinc, EFA and more – including Energybits and Recoverybits (or Vitalitybits are a combo package)
Meet Spirulina that you find in ENERGYbits
- Spirulina is a blue green alga that has been consumed for thousands of years by indigenous peoples around the world and grown in Asia for fifty years, where it is a multi-billion-dollar agricultural crop.
- Spirulina is endorsed by the United Nations and NASA as the most nutrient-dense food in the world and ours has such high nutrient density that one bag of our 1,000 spirulina algae tablets has the equivalent nutrition of 551 pounds of fruits and vegetables (approximately 30 grocery carts).
- Spirulina is prized for its 40 vitamins and minerals, essential fatty acids, antioxidants, phytonutrients and most importantly, it has the highest concentration of protein in the world – 64% protein (this is 3 x more than steak).
- Thousands of scientific studies have validated spirulina’s ability to improve physical energy, mental focus or performance, reduce inflammation, satisfy hunger, boost skin and hair and provide the body and brain with optimal nutrition.
- Recently, scientists have discovered that the blue pigment (phycocyanin) found in spirulina has a unique ability to improve immune function and suppress viruses.
- During these challenging times caused by the coronavirus, a strong immune system is more critical than ever and may be one of the most important reasons yet to take spirulina every day.
Meet Chlorella that you find in VITALITYbits and RECOVERYbits
- Chlorella is a green alga that supports health and the immune system.
- Chlorella is multi-billion-dollar agricultural crop in Asia where it has been grown for fifty years and is prized for its wellness, detox and longevity benefits.
- Chlorella is well known by NASA and there are hundreds of scientific studies confirming it’s wellness, detox, longevity and immune benefits.
- These benefits include improved immune response, detox of heavy metals, removal of toxins, reduced inflammation, improved gut-biome and better faster athletic recovery.
- Chlorella’s high concentration of nutrients differ from those of spirulina but similarly include 40 vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, phytonutrients and protein.
- Our chlorella is so nutrient dense that one bag of our 1,000 chlorella algae tablets has the equivalent nutrition of 551 pounds of fruits and vegetables (approximately 30 grocery carts).
- Most importantly, chlorella has the highest concentration of chlorophyll in the world (200 x more than spinach and 25 x more than liquid chlorophyll).
- Chlorophyll is a green pigment used for centuries for healing.
- Chlorophyll’s chemical composition is virtually identical to hemoglobin blood.
- During these challenging times caused by the coronavirus, chlorella offers a natural, plant-based solution that helps support and protect your wellness and well-being.
CORONAVIRUS AND ALGAE
- Bits® are tiny nutrition tablets made purely of algae – a sustainable whole food crop that supports your body and immune system.
Here is a very detailed article about spirulina and coronavirus and how algae can help…
“Stopping or slowing the growth of the virus depends on a lot of things but primarily on how strong your immune system is. A strong immune system can identify and disarm/stop the virus BEFORE it has the chance to enter your cells. A weakened immune system may not be able to do this, but it still may be able to identify and stop the virus AFTER the virus has invaded your cells. The way it does this is with special immune cells (invisible to you) that include Killer cells, T- cells, B-cells, macrophages white blood cells etc.
A severely weakened immune system may not be able to do either of these things which allows the virus to spread rapidly and unabated, causing so much damage that even medical intervention may not be enough to protect you from eventual organ failure. That’s why you need a strong immune system.
Use code thelowcarbathlete to save 20% on your Energybits!
To be strong, your immune system needs nutrients to build these immune cells. It gets these nutrients from the food you eat. If you don’t eat nutrient-dense food, it can’t operate optimally. Spirulina algae is the most nutrient dense food in the world with over forty vitamins and minerals including the anti-viral nutrients your immune system needs. That’s why spirulina algae is ROCKET FUEL for your immune system.” – read the rest here https://www.energybits.com/about-algae/spirulina-and-covid-19.html
HOW SPIRULINA ALGAE CAN HELP YOU
1. Builds a Strong Immune System
2. Helps Stop Growth of Viruses including coronavirus COVID-19
“A strong immune system will help protect you from getting the COVID-19 virus or stop it. But to have a strong immune system, you need good sleep, moderate exercise, minimal stress, good water and most importantly, good nutrition.”
Approximately 80% of your immune system is in your gut.
This is because your gut is where the food you eat is converted into antibodies, T cells, B-cells, Killer Cells etc. so your immune system can defend you.
If you want a strong immune system, you need to provide it with the nutrients it needs to do its job.
Or simply take spirulina algae tablets every day …https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2515351/
Learn more in my recent podcast interview with the founder of ENERGYbits, Catharine:
Watch here – https://youtu.be/QnNlMe_7mms
Debbie Potts chats with Catharine Arnston, the founder of ENERGYbits and RECOVERYbits.
Use our special discount code and save 20% of each purchase when entering in code THELOWCARBATHLETE at check out!
Let me know what you think and how you feel after 30-days of taking ENERGYbits in the morning and RECOVERYbits post workout and/or before bedtime!
Catharine started ENERGYbits after her sister was diagnosed with breast cancer and advised by her oncologist that an alkaline diet would help her heal. Catharine immediately sprang into action to help her sister research alkaline foods and in the process, she discovered algae. When Catharine learned that algae was the most alkaline, plant-based, nutrient-dense food in the world and had been used for fifty years in Asia to improve health and longevity, she knew she had discovered something big (and yes, her sister fully recovered – thanks for asking).
As Catharine dug into the science of algae, she learned it has 64% protein, 40 vitamins/minerals and was endorsed by the United Nations and NASA as the most nutrient dense food in the world.
She also discovered there were 100,000 studies documenting its long list of benefits and it was the most sustainable, eco-friendly food crop in the world. And yet algae remained virtually unknown outside of Asia. How could this be possible? Catharine knew algae could be a game changer for our health, our children and our world if she could only convince people it wasn’t weird. And so ENERGYbits was born.
Is chlorella and spirulina for you?
Alright… so I am bothering you with more nutritional therapy recommendations and research to help you GET HEALTHY and BUILD you immune system as well your resiliency. Even in an article this morning on the vaccine said the vaccine isn’t the only solution as in the https://www.theskimm.com/world/2020-12-01-62WVXsCw8TnqtgRK0Sabtv
theSkimm
“Moderna and Pfizer’s vaccines are already breaking records and getting FDA approval would be an unprecedented achievement. But before you bring your jeans back out of storage, health experts warn a vaccine isn’t the end-all and be-all solution to combating the virus. And that wearing masks may be in style for a while longer.” … why can’t we add a sentence or two after this about the research on vitamin D levels in those with more severe reaction to CV?
My thoughts… Who are our “health experts” and what is their background and training in how the immune system actually works? OR are they trained in pharmaceutical drugs and developing vaccinations? How do masks improve our immune system? Don’t they just slow the spread? Do masks really stop the virus and end our pandemic when combined with a vaccination? Hmmmm.
As in one of the many research articles here-
“Hospitalized COVID-19 patients who were vitamin D sufficient, with a blood level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D of at least 30 ng/mL (a measure of vitamin D status), had a significant decreased risk for adverse clinical outcomes including becoming unconscious, hypoxia (body starved for oxygen) and death. In addition, they had lower blood levels of an inflammatory marker (C-reactive protein) and higher blood levels of lymphocytes (a type of immune cell to help fight infection).
“This study provides direct evidence that vitamin D sufficiency can reduce the complications, including the cytokine storm (release of too many proteins into the blood too quickly) and ultimately death from COVID-19,” explained corresponding author Michael F. Holick, PhD, MD, professor of medicine, physiology and biophysics and molecular medicine.
Do you know what I am doing now for work as we moved from Bellevue, WA to North San Diego this summer?
I am helping ambitious, driven, high performing individuals, who are trying to do all the right things, get their body and vibrant self-back again by running a full comprehensive investigation, including functional lab testing, to collect the missing pieces of their health puzzle back together again so they can lead a happy vibrant life filled with vitality and resiliency!
What is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® (FDN) Health Detective Coach �?
“FDN is a holistic discipline that employs functional laboratory assessments to identify malfunctions and underlying conditions at the root of most common health complaints. FDN provides a step by step method that embraces metabolic individuality and allows you to achieve repeatable, consistent and successful clinical outcomes. “
As an FDN-Practitioner health coach mastering the investigation into your unique, individual case of “Metabolic Chaos®”, we will learn work together to how several of the chronic-stress related dysfunctions that lead or are a result of what FDN founder, Reed Davis has dubbed, Metabolic Chaos®.
In the coaching process and new journey, you will gain awareness to your specific hidden internal stressors contributing to your body system malfunctions or dysfunctions.
You will learn how you can opt-in to self-treat to resolve your contributors to your imbalances and rebuild vital reserves.
Some of the hidden causes of Metabolic Chaos® that will be assessed include:
• HPA Axis/Adrenal-related dysfunction
• Circadian rhythm disruptions
• Poor nutrient breakdown and absorption
• Pro-oxidant/antioxidant imbalances
• Dysbiosis and gut malfunction
• Systemic inflammation
• Immunodeficiency
• Detoxification problems
In our investigation into your case of Metabolic Chaos® – we will work together to identify your unique underlying conditions such as the ones above.
The FDN approach to solve Metabolic Chaos® will take you to a whole new level of optimizing your health from a cellular level to burn fat, optimize your mitochondria function and improve performance in daily life.
Your motivation level and commitment to following your own specific FDN “D.R.E.S.S. for Health Success” protocol will be the key to your success. This is a trademarked process that uses diet, rest, exercise, stress reduction and supplements to “coach up” vital reserve in your clients and “coach down” metabolic chaos.
Test and not guess if you are actually healthy on the inside and out!
Check out one of my favorite functional lab tests for clients – BiomeFx here for info as well as the Organic Acids Test, Vibrant Wellness Zoomers, GI Map, and DUTCH hormone test.
Schedule a time to chat with me here to learn about my three different comprehensive coaching packages to help you live your best life and be your best self every day!
I look forward to speaking with you soon!
Debbie Potts
The WHOLESTIC Method Coaching Program
Transform the WHOLE you from the Inside Out!
Burn Fat. Optimize Health. Improve Performance
