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What is ALGAE?

BASIC ALGAE FACTS:

Algae was the first plant life on earth almost 3 billion years ago and is considered a superfood because it contains virtually every nutrient. It has over 60% protein content, over forty vitamins and minerals and a more complete amino acid profile than beef or soy beans. It is also one of the best known food sources of beta carotene, B vitamins, antioxidants and chlorophyll. Spirulina algae is a cultivated algae which has been consumed for thousands of years by the indigenous peoples in Mexico and Africa. It has the highest concentration of protein earth – triple that of steak as well as the second highest concentration of an Essential Fatty Acid called GLA (second only to mother’s milk). Its nutrient profile is so similar to mothers milk, it is considered a “perfect food.” Chlorella algae is harvested in fresh water tanks and has been used for over fifty years in Asia. It has a remarkable ability to help remove toxins and help build the immune system. All naturally. Chlorella contains over 40 nutrients including all the B vitamins, vitamin C, zinc and many minerals. It offers so many benefits we would never have enough room here to list them all.

What is Chlorella?

Chlorella is a strain of green algae that grows in fresh water. We grow ours organically in Taiwan in carefully monitored tanks. This super food first appeared on earth over 540 million years ago, and is related to spirulina algae – the very first form of plant life found on earth over two billion years ago. There are even fossils from the pre-Cambrian period that indicate the presence of chlorella from these early times. In fact, many scientists credit chlorella for oxygenating the planet so other life could grow. If chlorella could do that for the earth, just imagine all the great things it can do for your body. Chlorella is an oxygen based algae. Oxygen is known to kill bacteria and viruses which is great news. So when you take RECOVERYbits®, algae which are 100% chlorella, all the great oxygen that is in the chlorella goes to work killing bacteria in your body while its high concentration of antioxidants fight free radicals and high concentration of chlorophyll sweeps through your immune system to give it a boost. Taking chlorella is almost like having an entire medical team working for you, on the inside 24/7.

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Chlorella Health Benefits :

Helps Athletic Recovery
Helps Build Immune System
Helps Prevent Hangovers
Helps Longevity and Wellness
Helps Detox and Cleanse
Helps Digestion

Chlorella is known as Nature’s perfect superfood because it contains the widest range of essential nutrients available from any single food source. It contains over forty nutritients, including potassium, all of the B vitamins, magnesium, zinc and iron, eighteen amino acids, beta carotene, lutein, RNA, DNA and so much more. Some say chlorella has over a hundred nutrients but we stopped counting after forty. Chlorella also has five times the amount of chlorophyll as wheat grass. Chlorophyll has long been recognized as one of the best nutrients in the world due to its immune building and cleansing abilities. Just image how supercharged your health will be when you start taking chlorella, which has five times the cleansing power of wheat grass.If this wasn’t enough to crown chlorella as the superhero of super foods, consider that chlorella is 60% protein. German scientists won the Nobel Prize in the early 1900’s for discovering it had the highest concentration of protein in the world (other than spirulina which has 64% protein), a concentration of protein that is almost three times that of steak. In fact, chlorella algae contains so much nutrition that forty years ago, the World Bank and the United Nations both declared it the healthiest food in the world. Even NASA says “1 gram of algae has the nutritional equivalent of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetables” Wow, that’s a lot of groceries! To get the same amount of pure nutrition found in one bag of RECOVERYbits® chlorella tabs, we estimate you would have to spend at least $500 and purchase 50 lbs – 100 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables, consume tens of thousands of calories and spend at least 30 hours in food preparation! This is one of the many reasons why we are so excited and hope you will RECOVERYbits®. They not only save you time and money but they make it so much easier for you to be healthy and nourished.

What is Spirulina?

Spirulina is a fresh water blue green algae that was the first plant life on earth almost three billion years ago.

Spirulina is so concentrated with nutrition that forty years ago the United Nations declared it to be the healthiest food in the world.
Algae’s nutritional profile is so impressive that the scientific, nutrition, sports and medical communities have conducted over 100,000 scientific studies about its health benefits.
Spirulina provides the highest concentration of protein in the world, all in the form of essential amino acids for muscle, health and cellular growth. It’s over forty nutrients ensure complete nutritional health and its natural nitric oxide provides immediate and enduring physical and mental energy.
Spirulina is nature’s equivalent to an energy drink – but since it comes straight from nature (not a lab or production plant), it’s much better!
Our organically grown spirulina is NON GMO, 100% natural, 100% green, carbon neutral, has only ONE calorie per tab and contains no sugar, no caffeine, no chemicals, no gluten, no soy, fillers or anything artificial. It is the richest source of protein in the world (64%), has more beta carotene than carrots, more iron than spinach or liver, more chlorophyll than liquid chlorphyll, more antioxidants than any other food and the second highest concentration of an essential fatty acid called GLA (that behaves like Omega 3), second only to mothers milk. GLA is critical for brain health.
Spirulina is also rich in all the B vitamins, all the electrolytes and other minerals you need to be healthy, including zinc and magnesium. In short, spirulina algae is your green dream and green team come true. Taking our spirulina tabs is the easiest and fastest way to be revived and energized. Even better, unlike energy drinks or protein drinks, spirulina tabs don’t need to be served cold; unlike gels they don’t cause stomach distress and unlike protein powders they don’t need to be mixed. Nope, all you need to do with our ENERGYbits® or SKINNYbits® spriulina tabs is open your tin or bag, shake a handful into your mouth, swallow and you are done! Instant and enduring energy that fires up your brain and body. Guess that’s why spirulina has been a favorite of Olympic Athletes and NASA astronauts for decades. It’s your turn now.

Spirulina Health Benefits

Helps Improve Athletic Performance
Provides Physical Energy
Provides Mental Wake up
Helps Build Muscle
Helps stop Fatigue
Helps stop Hunger
Helps with Weight Loss
Helps stop Cravings
Healthy High Protein Snack
Helps wellness and longevity
Great replacement for animal protein or greens
Helps strengthen skin, hair, nails and bones

Nutritional highlights of Spirulina:

Ten times the amount of bio-available protein as steak
Contains 64% protein compared to meat (22%)
More beta carotene than carrots
48 times more iron than raw spinach
12 times more iron than beef liver
Richest source of antioxidants – necessary for health, and anti-aging
Richest source of vitamin A (which helps your eyesight)
Richest plant source of GLA (an Essential Fatty Acid similar to Omega 3)

Athletic Performance: Why does Spirulina improve Workouts and Athletic Performance?

Spirulina is a nitrogen based algae which naturally releases nitric oxide in your body.

You may be wondering what nitric oxide is and why is it important …so hang on and we’ll tell you. The merits of nitric oxide supplements have only recently come to the attention of the athletic community. What follows is a quick guide to one of the most important molecules known to professional athletes and now you!

What Is Nitric Oxide?

Nitric Oxide is a compound made up of one nitrogen atom and one oxygen atom. In order for the body to create Nitric Oxide, it needs arginine (an amino acid) and a family of enzymes called Nitric Oxide synthase (NOS). When arginine and a NOS enzyme come in contact with each other, the reaction produces Nitric Oxide along with citrulline (another amino acid).

What Does Nitric Oxide Do?

Nitric Oxide travels freely from cell to cell in your body directing and ordering a wide variety of functions within the body. Depending on the situation, Nitric Oxide can act as an intracellular messenger, a hormone, or a neurotransmitter. However, for the purpose of athletes, we’ll focus on the role of Nitric Oxide as an intracellular messenger regulating one of the body’s most important processes – blood flow.

How Does Nitric Oxide Work?

Nitric Oxide is produced within the cells that line the inside of blood vessels. When these cells are stimulated–such as when the muscle contracts–it synthesizes and releases Nitric Oxide.
Once released, Nitric Oxide diffuses across the cell membrane into the adjacent smooth muscle tissue of the blood vessels, causing them to relax and widen (a process called vasodilation).
The result is an increase in blood flow to the stimulated area, which ultimately causes your muscles to get pumped and stay that way for around forty minutes afterwards. But it helps everything in your body get more blood flow.

So why do your muscles get stronger when you work out?

blood, which is the body’s primary transport medium, carries all the vital nutrients (e.g., amino acid, creatine, glucose, and oxygen) which are required for energy production, growth, and maintenance.
Exercising causes more of this to occur.
Additionally, blood carries away the by-products of metabolism (e.g., carbon dioxide and lactic acid) that fatigue the muscle and inhibit performance.
Increasing blood flow to the muscle enhances growth, strength development, and recuperation.
Spirulina has been shown to improve vascular tone by increasing the synthesis and release of nitric oxide, which is what helps your muscles get more blood, oxygen & nutrients brought to them so you get stronger and recover more quickly!

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