EP. 139: Algae 101 | Catharine Arnston of Energy Bits

On this episode of the Dr. Tyna Show, I am sitting down with Catharine Arnston, the Founder, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of Energy Bits, makers behind the small but mighty algae tablets. My mentor was big into the health benefits of algae as a supplement, but I’ve never given it the attention that it deserves. Recently I was looking into it again as a food source, as I am not a huge fan of vegetables. I am transitioning out of a largely meat-based, carnivore diet and back into a more variety type diet now that my gut and immune symptoms are more under control, and algae seems like a perfect fit for this. As luck would have it, I was connected to Catharine and I couldn’t wait to get her on the show and pick her brain. This was a fascinating conversation and I learned a lot, I know you will too.

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On This Episode We Cover:

• 01:10 - Energy Bits and Catharine Arnston’s background
• 04:47 - Algae is the most nutrient dense food in the world
• 07:42 - Algae is a superfood
• 09:30 - Algae is friends with everybody and every diet
• 11:20 - Algae is its own food category with subcategories - macroalgae and microalgae
• 13:38 - How Energy Bits farms and creates their tablets
• 15:30 - Health benefits of Spirulina and how it works
• 18:55 - Damaged and limited mitochondria and how to correct it
• 20:58 - Best way to absorb nutrients
• 23:27 - Understanding your body and why algae is beneficial
• 23:50 - Spirulina is good for mitochondrial health
• 24:01 - your brain has the highest concentration of mitochondria per cell
• Spirulina is brain food
• 24:46 - Chlorella health benefits
• 27:37 - Chlorophyll is beneficial for carnivore diets 
• 32:12 - Using Chlorella 
• 35:53 - Chlorella sobers you up removes risk of hangover
• 37:28 - Why people don’t know about algae
• 40:00 - The cleanliness of algae
• 53:21 - Spirulina and long term health
• 57:16 - Processed carbs create the most free radicals
• 58:26 - Mitochondria and the inner membrane
• 01:00:41 - Endosymbiotic Theory
• 01:02:47 - Using SOD as a supplement
• 01:04:25 - Sleep and algae are the keys to longevity
• 01:08:38 - Spirulina and the elderly
• 01:11:34 - Algae is mother nature’s breast milk
• 01:15:07 - Algae helps stimulates peristalsis 
• 01:17:17 - Brain and beauty benefits of algae
• 01:23:36 - Using high quality algae
• 01:24:30 - Spirulina fills out the nutritional gaps and chlorella pulls out the toxins

Check out Catharine Arnston:

• Website
• Instagram
• YouTube

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