The Longevity Formula

Why Your Body Thinks You’re Dying at 30 (Even When You’re Not) with Catharine Arnston

• Dr. Brandon Crawford • Season 2 • Episode 47

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What if the secret to a sharper mind, boundless energy, and a longer life has been around for billions of years? In this transformative episode of The Longevity Formula, Dr. Brandon Crawford sits down with Dr. Catharine Arnston, founder of ENERGYbits®, to unveil the profound power of spirulina and chlorella algae.

Prepare to dive deep into how these incredible "bits of food" act as your body's ultimate offense and defense for optimal health. Dr. Arnston, with her unique background and recently acquired PhD in natural health, shares the compelling science behind:

Dr. Arnston shares compelling success stories, from enhancing athletic performance in NHL players to improving neurodevelopmental conditions in children, and even offers personal insights into her own vibrant health at nearly 70. This episode will not only inspire you to rethink daily nutrition but equip you with the knowledge to make algae a foundational element of your holistic longevity and regenerative health journey.


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Dr. Brandon Crawford: What if the secret to better brain health, more energy and a longer life was as simple as adding a tiny bit of food to your day? Catherine Ton joins us today to share how spirulina and chlorella algae packed with chlorophyll, antioxidants, and neuroprotective compounds can help clear brain fog, boost mitochondria, balance hormones, and even support the gut brain axis.

I mean, that's amazing.

This episode is not about complicated supplements or expensive technology. It's about going back to a nutrient dense, sustainable food that's been used for thousands of years, and how it's quietly making waves in modern longevity science. If you're curious about biohacking with food managing brain fog, or simply want to upgrade your daily nutrition without the hassle, Catherine's story and science are a must hear.

So Catherine, thank you so much for joining us today. You have an amazing background. You have a PhD, you have the BA, you're an amazing person. Can you tell us a little bit about you? 

Catharine Arnston: About me? Yeah. I usually like to talk about algae, but Sure. I'll give you a little bit about me. The two of us are almost inseparable at this point, right?

So, I'm actually Canadian by birth, although I've lived in Boston, Massachusetts for 35 years and recently relocated to Miami so I could be warm all year round. And I mentioned the Canada piece because I, my corporate career with an MBA was focusing on international business, nothing to do with nutrition or wellness or longevity.

And then 17 years ago, outta the blue, my younger sister, who I'm very close to, developed breast cancer. Now I wanna assure everyone that she completely healed. And we'll tell you a little bit about her story as she was preparing for her chemotherapy. Her oncologist, which is a cancer specialist, told her to change her diet to an alkaline diet because it would be important for her healing.

But she didn't tell her specifically what an alkaline diet was or what specifically it did. So my baby sister called me 'cause of course I love her. And I've just, I've always, all my life, I've always just been a good researcher. I just like finding out the why. Mm-hmm. So I had no idea what an alkaline diet was, but I said I will find out.

And I did. And it was primarily a plant-based diet for two reasons. One, plants are loaded with phytonutrients and chlorophyll, which are, have been proven to build your immune system. And she was gonna go through chemotherapy. So she wanted, my oncologist, sister's, oncologist, wanted her to have a strong immune system.

But I also learned about this alkalinity situation. And there was a German scientist back in the thirties by the name of Otto Warberg Yes. Who discovered that cancer or any chronic disease cannot take hold or flourish in cells that are alkaline. And there's a scale of zero to 14. So, so you wanna, you have your cells slightly alkaline, which would be 7.1.

So I'm sure she wanted her to have the alkaline diet so that it would prevent additional cancer from growing into other cells. So I learned all this stuff. I gave her some tips on foods to eat. She did change her diet. She did go through chemo. She completely healed. We celebrate being her being cancer free every year.

But in the process, this is 17 years ago, remember? So that's very close to 20 years ago. Nobody was talking about plant-based nutrition and the healing properties that it held. Everybody knows about it now, but 17 years ago they didn't. And I'm just a very hands-on person. When I find a solution, I need to, I always just feel compelled to do something about it.

So when I learned about the power of alkaline diets and plant-based nutrition, I thought, man, somebody has to tell the rest of the world. Now, remember, I had no nutrition background, but I had this, this voice in me said, you've got to do something. So I gave up my 25 year corporate career. I went back to school.

I went to a school called the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City, which gave me a small amount of nutritional knowledge. Not a lot, but it gave me a certificate. And then after that, I. Put my own curriculum together, teaching plant-based nutrition at corporations and hospitals. And this is what truly led me to algae because as I was teaching the importance of eating vegetables, people started laughing at me saying, oh, my mother's been trying to get me to eat more vegetables since I was a kid, but I don't like them.

Or they give me gas, or my kids won't eat them. Or they take too long to cook or they're too heavy. A thousand reasons why people weren't eating vegetables. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah. 

Catharine Arnston: So once again, me being the problem solver that I am, I thought, well, I need to find something that will give people the nutrition of vegetables without any of the headache, without any of the flavor, without any of the gas, without, without any of the work, yada, yada, yada.

Didn't know what I was gonna find, but I went back and I lifted the hood on everything I discovered I'd found for my sister, and just did a deeper dive. Nothing was working until boom. I got to algae. First of all, it's the most alkaline food in the world. So that box was checked. It is the most nutrient dense food in the world.

That's not my opinion. NASA has endorsed al spirulina and chlorella algae for 50 years, and we have a quote from them saying it has a thousand times more nutrition than any other fruit or vegetable. It's been endorsed by United Nations for 50 years because it has the highest protein in the world.

Three times the amount of protein at steak or chicken or fish. There's a hundred thousand studies documenting the health benefits of Al. We're gonna talk mostly about the brain benefits today. It's been used safely in Asia daily for 60 years, where it's grown as an agricultural crop. So first of all, people need to know algae as tablets.

'cause they come this, I'm getting to the best part of it all. They come. They they're, they, they're used in Asia and have been, and it's as big of a agricultural crop there as the beef industry is here. Amazing. It's enormous. So, but the best part of all is that they come in these tiny little tablets.

The spirulina is the darker one. It's a blue-green algae. Chlorella is a green algae, so it's a lighter one. There you go. Look at that. We're having an algae kiss on zoom. So each one of these tablets, 'cause I use that quote from nasa, each one of these tablets has the same nutrition as an entire plate of vegetables.

And here's the best part of it all. If you swallow them like I just did, I just had a plate of vegetables, I too mine. But I will say most people swallow 'em. If you can swallow water, you can get your body and your brain the nutrients they need, including antioxidants and, and pigments that aren't found in any other food in the world.

Instantly. This is the future of fast food. So if you, you need at least 10 to feel a difference, 15 or 20 or 30 years better. But here's the thing, you never have to eat another vegetable in your life if you are taking these every single day. There you go. And most men and kids find that amazing. They last for three years.

There's no absolutely no taste if you swallow them and no repeat. And they are the safest, purest, concentrated food in the universe. By the way, they were first life on earth 4 billion years ago. And I can tell you more about that later on. So that, that's how I fell into algae. It kind of picked me 'cause I was just minding my own business with my career.

And then all I wanted to do was help my sister recover from cancer. And then I realized it could help more people. And then I've discovered algae and it became the platform. I. For me to get the message out, how easy it can be to protect your health, protect your brain, or recover it if you've lost brain health, metabolic health, mitochondria health because we are in a bit of a crisis right now, nutritionally, health-wise and also environmentally and remarkably algae will solve virtually all three and more.

Mm-hmm. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah. No, that's quite amazing. I mean, man, number one, I love talking to you already. You're, I love your energy. You deliver some really good information. You know, the first thing that kind of resonates here is at, it's really cool that the oncologist even recommended an alkaline diet for your sister, first of all, because.

That's really not. How amazing is that? I know, exactly. I mean, 

Catharine Arnston: well I think it was, 'cause it was in Canada and it was a, she was, the college list was a woman, and women tend to be a little bit more open to nutritional issues. So yeah, we, it was like a, the perfect storm, but in a good way. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah. Well, definitely glad she's doing well and glad she had you to, to help navigate.

So, that's amazing. You know, as I was researching your product energy Bits, which I absolutely love we're setting up a wholesale account, we're gonna be recommending this to patients. I mean, there's, you know, when I see something and it's like, okay, there's so much upside and there's like no downside, I'm like.

Okay. It'd be kind of negligent if I didn't recommend this to, to patients. You know what I mean? So that's kind of my mindset. But I absolutely love the things that you sent for me to read. And the thing that really caught my eye, I didn't tell you this earlier, is the word love. The word love is all throughout this content in so many different ways.

So I have a company called 5 28 Innovations. I use the number 5 2 8 because of 528 Hertz is a frequency of love. And so I'm all about the love frequency. I'm all about this concept of love. But the first page caught my eye. It says, love is ancient. So as algae, algae was the first life on earth, and you already kind of mentioned that.

Tell me about that and why it's important. Yeah. 

Catharine Arnston: Well, before before algae, there was just gas and water on earth. And by the way, this is all proven in scientific theory called endos symbiotic theory. And this is the evolution of mitochondria. So it's a really, I don't usually start that where I'm going, but it's a really great, it is a great way to start.

So Earth was just gas and water, no oxygen, no life. Nobody knows why this single cell anaerobic cell, which was a cyanobacteria, started growing, but it did. And spirulina is a cyanobacteria. I always say there's something very spiritual about being the first life on earth. So I now refer to spirulina as Lina.

Dr. Brandon Crawford: There 

Catharine Arnston: you go. But anyways, back back to the anaerobic cell. So it started growing and it generated oxygen as a byproduct of a TP. So after a billion years, there was now oxygen on earth, so other aerobic cells could grow. And they were larger than this little tiny anaerobic cell, but they apparently did not generate a TP as well.

So I kind of say you know, amusingly, I can imagine the conversation between the large cell and the little cell, which was now struggling because it was an anaerobic cell, so it did better without oxygen. So the big cell probably said to the little cell, Hey little guy, I see you're struggling down there.

How about you? And we're not generating a TP as well as you. How about we join forces? You come and make a TP for us and we'll protect you from all that oxygen. And that's basically what happened because the little cell that started as an anaerobic cell, I'm trying to show you my little, it was a cyanobacteria got absorbed by the bigger cell, but instead of being digested it, it stayed and coexisted and became your mitochondria.

Now this is again all proven in a theory called Endosymbiotic Theory, which was developed in the sixties by an MIT professor. She was ridiculed for 10 years by all her colleagues until they realized she was right. So if you look at any my historical evolutionary science about where the mitochondria came from.

It all came from sp this cyanobacteria theory. Now, the reason why this is gonna be important when we get to the mitochondria is because we're gonna talk about the a TP production, which is mm-hmm. Cellular energy, which is necessary for everything. Your neurotransmitters, your lymphatic system, your heartbeat.

You can't live without cellular energy, and it's referred to as a TP and mitochondria are what create it. But what most people don't talk about, or maybe you don't even know, is that a byproduct of a TP are free radicals. Mm-hmm. And we all know that free radicals are damaging, they have an unaired electron.

So to, and mother nature likes strives for balance. So a, a free radical will will steal an electron from a neighboring molecule to balance itself out, which causes damage. And so now that molecule is unbalanced and so it steals from molecule, et cetera, et cetera. Fortunately, there's things called antioxidants that have extra electrons, which they donate to a, a free radical to neutralize it so that it's balanced without having any inflammation or tissue damage.

But here's the problem. Most antioxidants cannot get into the inner membrane of the mitochondria. And where did that inter, because mitochondria are your only cell, and I'll show you another picture in a minute, are the only cell in your body with two membranes. All of your cells have what's called a lipid membrane, and the mitochondria has that as well.

But it also has an inner membrane that is impenetrable by virtually all the antioxidants. There's been lots of studies done with vitamin C and vitamin E to see if it would, either one of them would improve longevity, and the conclusions were always no. And the reasons why they were no is because they can't get into the inner membrane.

They were testing the wrong antioxidants. The only antioxidants that can get in there that I've found so far are chlorophyll, which by the way, algae has the highest concentration of glutathione, which by the way, algae has the concentration of, and the most important one is called superoxide dismutase, which we'll talk about in a minute.

But, and these are all found in algae. And so the irony is, the reason why I think they can all get in there is because your mitochondria. Came from algae. So when, when you give it the products that are nutrients that are in it, it's sort of like, you know, the mitochondria are going, Hey bro, welcome back where you been?

Get in here. But this is where that inner membrane came from, that second inner membrane, when it was an original cell by itself, and then it got absorbed, that inner membrane, that first one never disappeared. It just got covered by a lipid membrane. Yeah. So, so that's why most antioxidants, in fact, drugs can't get in there either.

But this one, and we're gonna talk about it a lot called super Oxid dismutase which is the most powerful antioxidant for the mitochondria, and I'll explain why. And this is, so, it literally protects the mitochondria from free radical damage so they can start living again. They can, they can regenerate, there's neurogenesis and and or not get damaged at all.

Yeah. So this is why it, to me, is the number one reason. Why you need, need to be taking spirulina particularly 'cause it has the highest concentration of the siddim mutase for your brain health and for your mitochondria health. 'cause it has this antioxidant that can't be found in any therapeutic amounts in any other food in the universe.

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Absolutely. Man, you, you hit the nail on the head there. I'm a. Sold. I mean, I, I'm huge on mitochondria. Obviously. I've, you know, developed laser therapeutic lasers for rehabbing complex neurological disorders. And what I found early on is that, you know, when I'm working on a case, whether it be a genetic disorder or brain injury or whatever it may be, you know, I can do all of my functional neurology training.

I can activate the brain, I can do all of these different things. But I kept on hitting a plateau. And when I added photobiomodulation I was, you know, really noticing that we would break through those plateaus, which is that simple addition. And so I started asking the question, you know, why? And all this kind of stuff and everything points back to the mitochondria.

Yeah. And so that was, of course, the first thing that caught my eye was, you know, there was love. And then there was all this discussion about the mitochondria. And I had never seen algae and mitochondria connected. 

Catharine Arnston: Nobody has. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah, because 

Catharine Arnston: there's, and, and the irony is, and we're gonna talk about super oxy dismutase in a minute.

There are 25,000 studies documenting the healing properties of super oxid dismutase for reducing inflammation, protecting the brain pro, preventing Alzheimer's, preventing heart disease. The list is endless, but unfortunately nobody knows yet that it's sourced can be found. The greatest concentration is an algae.

And so this is why I get so excited. It's like people look over here, right? Look at algae. It's got what we need. It's got what's missing, and I'll explain why we're missing it and why these diseases kick in. And you, you mentioned something, some new research, well, it's old research, but I discovered it recently about the photo bio photo.

Photobiomodulation. That's a mouthful. Yes. Why again, this super oxy oxygenase and the red light therapy will be an easier way for me to say it. Works so hand in hand. And it has, it's related to easy water, which is the there you go. Exclusionary water. So, which is creates its own energy through its own little what do you call it?

Tunnels, I guess. Yeah, exactly. It's, it's hydroelectric. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah. 

Catharine Arnston: It's, yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy. All So let's go there. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: You, you're now you are, you are now speaking my language. Anytime someone starts talking about exclusion zone water, I get excited. That was the whole purpose that we created. The 9 75 wavelength was the increase god species on water.

Oh, oh, 

Catharine Arnston: oh. You, you, are, you, you, the world needs you and they need algae too. So the two of them work so closely together. So, so 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: let, let's connect those loops. 

Catharine Arnston: Okay, so here's the situation. 'cause most people don't, and I didn't either. By the way, I recently got my PhD in natural health because after 15 years of, of teaching myself cellular biology, 'cause I had to know why algae was working so well.

I finally decided I need to prove to myself and the world that I actually know my stuff. And so I did finally get my PhD last year. So I, I want people to feel confident that I have the, the street cred to talk about this stuff. But most of my, my knowledge was. Gained on my own. So here's the situation that about your body.

Mother Nature has, first of all, our bodies are just the most refined, complicated pieces of equipment, but like any piece of equipment, you have to look after it whether it's your car or your cell phone. And unfortunately we've been indoctrinated by you know, food that's not good for us. And so our bodies are not performing optimally.

A lot of it's not our fault. It's been what's we've been exposed to in terms of toxins and what we're not getting in terms of proper nutrition and algae cells. Both of those, and I'll tell you why in a minute. But the other thing is Mother Nature has provided for us all these nutrients that our bodies need to perform optimally with.

If there wasn't all that, you know, noise from all the toxins, things like hormones, we know we have hormones in our body. But but for women, especially as you get into. Perimenopausal menopause, the key hormone, estrogen starts to slow down and eventually stops. Also, as you age, something called melatonin starts to Dr.

Drop. We have it since we're born in the, but when, by the time you're 40, it starts to drop and by the 50 you may not have much at all, which is why a lot of people have trouble sleeping. And sleep is is your, is the time when you repair and you detox and you repair. So sleep is very important. So the thing is, we have all these things in our bodies from the moment we're born, but for some reason, once we cross that threshold of the age of 30, and then we approach 40 these things that had made sure our bodies were working optimally start to disappear.

And why is that? Well, turns out we've been on earth for 2 million years and until about 150 years ago, we died at 30. It's just evolution. Our bodies are preparing us for death at the age of 30. It slows down on a lot of things, the melatonin, the estrogen, 'cause it's saying, Hey, you're not gonna be living much longer.

So they certainly don't need these things 'cause you're not gonna have any more babies. And one of the things that also slows down is this antioxidant that most people have probably never heard of before called superoxide dismutase, also known as SOD. And what is this stuff called? Super. What does it actually do?

What? Well, it protects your mitochondria from free radical damage. And how is it that that's working well in your body? You have your cells. I'm gonna show you a little science lesson here. You have your cells and inside the cell are a bunch of things like your nucleus, but you also have these little peanut shaped things that we're gonna refer to that are mitochondria.

And inside the mitochondria, that's where the cellular energy is created. And as I mentioned earlier, it's called a TP, but what most people don't realize is that your mitochondria have their own DNA you. We all know we have our other regular nuclear DNA. There's about 22,000 of them, but your mitochondria.

Have their own DNA and there's only 37 of them, and you think, oh, well, how important could 37 be? Well, they're sort of like air controllers at an airport, not many air controllers at an airport, but they control everything. That's a great example. Not many mitochondria, DNA, but they control everything. They control all your regular DNA, all your cellular communication, everything.

But because they are located exactly where the A TP is produced, which is exactly where the free radicals are produced, they are always being damaged because they're ringside to where all the, the byproduct of free radicals are and the most damaging free radical. Is made in the mitochondria. It's called super oxide.

And what makes it so damaging is that it has three unpaired electrons. So it's three times as likely to be reactive and cause tissue damage. So that's why superoxide dismutase and dismutase means to dim. You think about dimming a light, so superoxide dismutase, DD dilutes, neutralizes, that superoxide.

And what does it do? It turns it into harmless water and oxygen. There is one more little step along the way. It turns into hydrogen peroxide peroxide, which then turns into, into water. But super oxy dismutase protects your mitochondria, DNA, from damage, from free radical damage. And it, so think of it this way.

I've come up with a great analogy. You know, if you've ever been out in if you ever golfed or you know, you see people with those big golf umbrellas, whether you're golfing or shopping, if it, you get caught in a rainstorm, you pop that big golf umbrella up, boom. You're protected from the rain. You can get five or six people under there.

Now think about it. You didn't stop the rain, but you stopped getting wet. Nice. Super oxidase is the same thing. It does not stop the rain of free radicals, which are a natural byproduct of a TP, but what it does is it protects the mitochondria by converting it into oxygen and water. And so this is how your mitochondria stay alive and you're, it's keeping them alive until you're 30.

But as you age, your body goes, oh, you're, you know, we're getting you, getting you ready for death. So it slows down the production of that. So now your big golf umbrella is about the size of a totes umbrella. So your mitochondria in your thirties is getting a little damaged. By the time you're 40, that golf umbrella is the size of a cocktail umbrella, virtually gone.

This is when you're 45 and 50. This is exactly when menopause hits. This is exactly when brain fogs is exactly when chronic disease, heart disease, cancer weight gain, everything hits. These diseases hit when you're 45 and 50 and they just get worse. And I believe it's because your mitochondria are no longer being provided protection from the free radical damage.

However, spirulina, and to a lesser degree, chlorella is a natural source of superoxide dismutase. But there's a catch because superoxide dismutase is also an enzyme. And so if you heat en any enzymes with fair over 114 Fahrenheit, you deactivate them. So not just any algae will work, you have to have algae that's never been dried with high heat.

And almost all the lesser expensive lower quality algae use high heat because they, they're cheaper, so they have to get to market quickly. So they use high heat to cut corners, and that deactivates the the super oxy mutate. Same with green powders. There's lots of green powders out there, but guess what?

What they use. To mix everything. High heat. So I tell people it's like getting a great deal on a car, but you lift the hood and there's no engine in there. You want spirulina That has not been exposed to high heat. Ours, we have never used high heat for ours, which is why it works so well. You could also use frozen or fresh spirulina, but.

They expire quickly. They taste terrible. You can't avoid the flavor, and they're very expensive and you can't travel with them. So the, our little tablets are much easier to use to, and I very much am bullish not only on the spirulina because it has the more, three times the amount of super oxy taste as chlorella, but also because remember, it's a cyanobacteria.

And why is that important? There is no cellulous wall for your body to break down, to get access to all the nutrients, the 40 vitamins, minerals, the high protein, and the super oxidase. You don't have to wait long to get benefits, 20 minutes and your, your lights will start turning back on because you'll have more focus.

The regenerative capabilities are, are, are healing. Your mitochondria average lifespan is only 10 days because they're constantly being damaged and dying. Yeah. Because of the free radicals. Just to compare your nuclear DNA lasts a lifetime. So we can, we can start protecting your mitochondria. As easily as just swallowing a mouthful of spirulina in the morning and you are good to go.

It's, it's, and, and all thanks to Mother Nature. I can't take credit for this. This was her brilliant concoction. I will take credit for growing it so carefully to preserve all the nutrients Yeah. So that you can get the maximum value of it. But it, it's almost a miracle if it wasn't so solid in its science foundation.

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Right. You, you do a, a great job of explaining these things. You know, you can definitely tell that you have been heavily researching this. I mean, you literally touched on Doug Wallace's work and even Fritz Pop's work, you know, and how the mitochondrial DNA signals to your nuclear DNA right to, to give you that communication for the expression of the genetic code.

And you know what a lot of people don't realize is. That's done via bio photons and that's Fritz Pop's work. But then Doug Wallace thing came on, you know, not that long ago and started outlining the concept of mitochondrial hetero plasm, which is what you are, you know, describing with, as the mitochondrial DNA begins to be damaged.

This drives mitochondrial hetero plasmic, what drives inefficiency. And then once you hit a certain point of hetero plasmic, then you start to experience symptoms. Then you start, start to experience disease. Yeah. And so this can also be a an inheritable type of thing, right? Where that mitochondrial hetero plasm rate.

Is inherited. And so this process could have started one or two generations ago. Oh, 

Catharine Arnston: oh, absolutely. Yeah. It doesn't matter whether it's DNA or environmentally. And so, and, and I do wanna get into the easy water 'cause I am sure you know about Dr. Pollock's work in what state? Washington. So, so, so it gets really even more interesting.

So first of all, you're getting this big golf umbrella back to protect the damage, to prevent the damage of the mitochondria so they can, they can regenerate. 'cause everything in your body will regenerate. Doesn't matter whether it's your skin or your mitochondria. So that's the good news. The good news is, and the bad news is whatever health condition you have.

Is not guaranteed. That's good news. If you're sick, you, you, you can regain your health. Maybe not so good if you are healthy. 'cause it's not a guarantee. You have to protect what you have as early as possible. And I would say as early as in your thirties for sure. So the way that this whole a TP is produced is very, is again fascinating, and it's through something called the electron transport chain, which the best way I can just help people understand it, it's sort of like a relay race.

We've all seen relay races where you have the runner run a distance and they pass a baton to the next runner, and then that runner runs a distance and they hope to cross the finish line faster than anybody else. Well, it's sort of like that, the way that the a TP is produced except instead of elect runners.

You have these molecules, you have four of them, and instead of passing a baton from one runner to the next, they're passing electrons and there's a, there's two helper molecules. One's called coq 10, and one's called the cytochrome C. But the final stage, which is cyto cytochrome C oxidase, is where the.

Actual A TP is produced. Now there are nutrients found in spirulina again that speed up that process. One is this little helper molecule called cytochrome C. Now in a healthy cell, the blue pigment in spirulina, which is why we package our spirulina in blue. To give you clue, it's a blue green algae, and we'll talk about the difference in a minute.

But that blue pigment, which is called FICO science, speeds up that little helper cell so that the electrons can move along faster. This is one of the reasons why spirulina gives you energy. It generates more a TP 'cause of that cytochrome C molecule. But here's the interesting thing, if you have a senescent cell, which is a cell that's subdivided so many times, it, it's not doing anything.

It's inflammatory, but it should really be dead, but it's not dying. Or a cancer cell, the blue pigment in the spirulina called FICO signin detects that it's a cancer cell or a senescent cell, and instead of. Beating up that cytochrome C molecule, it ejects it, which kills the cell. Cancer cells are notorious,

Dr. Brandon Crawford: oh, I just lost your audio.

Catharine Arnston: Cytochrome C molecules. Very, very important. But back to the electron transport chain, you have these four molecules embedded that are like runners. And they're carrying electrons. Now, when the mitochondria get damaged, what happens is they, the mitochondria swells, and so those little molecules that are like the runners get further and further apart from one another.

So it's like the runner can't pass the electron because they can't get close enough to the next runner. And so what happens is. They drop the baton. What happens in your electron transport chain when the, when the molecules get so far apart from one another, they can't pass the electrons, the electrons drop.

This has two impacts. This means they can't make the pass, which means you're not getting as much cellular energy. I. Number one. Number two, those electrons don't disappear. They turn into free radicals, which elevates and escalates the damage that's going on. So the mitochondria get more and more, they get, they swell and they, and then they explode, which is called necrosis.

And all the free radicals and all the junk that's in there spreads to the rest of the molecules cell in the mitochondria. So you get more damage. So, so that is why if we can just in interfere, we can stop that damage. The mitochondria will start shrinking again. So the electron transport chain and the mal and the electrons can be transferred better.

That's when you start having healing. But it gets even more exciting for me, and this is where we get to the easy water. Remember when I mentioned that Super oxy de mutase turns the free radical called superoxide into water and oxygen? Okay. Right. Water and oxygen. What keeps a cell healthy? Water and oxygen.

The oxygen is particularly necessary for the health. But what does the water do? Well, remember the electron transport chain, the what's called the rate limiting factor to make sure that those electrons can get to the final station and cross the finish line is water. Now, if you aren't having your super, that free radical being reduced to water and oxygen, your cell isn't getting enough water so your cell can't have that final stage where it's making a TP.

So when you don't have super oxidase, not only do you not have the protection that's necessary for the mitochondria, you also are reducing your ability to generate. A TP because you don't have enough water. And this water that's in your cell, it's called Easy Water, which is a special kind. It's a fourth stage of water.

We all know about gas. Which is the most fluid. Then we have water. Then we have ice. But there's a fourth one. It's called Easy water, which is called just what's exclusion? Exclusion zone water exclusion. WA gel. It's kind of like a gel. Yes. And so what this gel does is it, it's very effective in generating its own energy.

They're real, it's sort of like photosynthesis and it creates its own tubes of, so you get energy from the A TP, but you also get energy from the water. But you have to have enough water, so you don't have this easy exclusionary water, gel water to create energy if you don't have enough being produced by the super oxid diss mutase.

So you can see how it goes full circle, right? So once you start bringing back your mitochondria to life and having super oxid diss mutase in there again, you're also gonna have more water. You're also gonna have more oxygen. And guess what? That makes your cell and your mitochondria healthy and happy.

And when they're healthy and happy. You are too. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. You need that exclusion zone water, especially during times of injury to create, you know, more electrons and actually regenerate the mitochondria to help shrink it back down to normal size. It's so important. One question I have, you know, 'cause, 'cause I see a lot of pediatrics.

At what age do we need to start consuming the superfood? 

Catharine Arnston: Pregnant mothers should start consuming it, it should be before birth and especially spirulina because it's a bacteria. So no, no fiber. You can be putting this in your baby's water bottle. You'll have to grind it up. 'cause it doesn't, it doesn't dissolve very easily.

And in fact, in, in, in Japan. They found that preemie babies if they were having difficulty digesting mother's breast milk, they would give, the only thing that would keep them alive was spirulina in water. No way. And I was really, yeah. And I have, I have a book reference for that and I was really curious about that until one day I saw the amino acid profile of mother's breast milk and I thought, gosh, that looks awfully familiar.

Sure enough, it's exactly the same aminos in exactly the same proportion as spirulina. Hmm. So. You can't have mother's breast milk after the age of two, and we all know it's the perfect food. So literally spirulina is your number two perfect food. I call it mother nature's breast milk because everybody can have it.

Right? The other thing about spirulina is, and this is good for brain health as well, which is particularly for children. One of the important nutrients in mother's breast milk is a incentified acid called GLA gammalin acid. And why is it so important? Well, it helps the baby's brain develop. Now the only place that has.

More GLA than spi than spirulina is mother's breast milk. Mother spirulina is number two. And so this is an another essential fatty acid along with Omega-3. And we haven't even talked about chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is actually a fat based pigment, so it behaves like an Omega-3 or an A vitamin D or a vitamin A because it's fat based, which is very important for all of your cell walls, but particularly your brain, which has the highest concentration of fat.

So for children, you can give them any amount, but we, we try to give people some guidance and so I, I've come up with an easy one, give them half or their the number of tablets that is half their age or their full age. So if they're four, give them two to four tablets a day. If they're six, give them three to six.

But if you're trying to correct any kind of health condition, go on the higher dosage amount. Same with adults. The entry level would be. 10 tablets of spirulina in the morning or the afternoon or before a workout. But for therapeutic amounts. So if you're trying to correct something, we really encourage you to take the 30 because then you'll get maximum value.

Now, spirulina and al and chlorella are food. I want you to understand you're not taking a supplement when you take these algae tablets. There is algae in the ocean and rivers and the soil, but the spirulina and chlorella that we grow, and quite honestly, if you buy it from Target or Whole Foods, it's all pretty much grown as an agricultural crop.

Here's a picture of a spirulina farm and a chlorella farm. They're different shapes. The they're grown in, ours are grown in triple filtered spring mountain water. And the reason why that's important is 'cause algae will absorb whatever's in the water. That's why you don't want algae never eat algae from a lake or an ocean because it'll absorb whatever's in the water.

And we know there's microtoxins and there's micro microplastics that you can't keep out of algae. So, so we are very, very cautious. We that's why we are the only algae sold by doctors clinics. We do third party lab tests. But it's a, it's a food. And the reason why this is important is 'cause your body, we're from nature.

Food is from nature. So your body will recognize all the nutrients, enzymes, coen, enzymes, factors, co-factors, easily in from food. So, and algae is big spirulina with no cous wall. It's absorbed, it's bioavailable. It's not just what you eat, it's what you absorb. And a lot of people who have health issues have compromised digestion.

Also as you get older, you have compromised digestion. If you're on a medication you also get constipated and we'll talk about that in a minute. So, this is a way to get proper nutrition in It's spirulina. If you chew it, it's absorbed literally in seconds 'cause it's absorbed through your mouth.

And if you swallow it, maybe

Dr. Brandon Crawford: nice. So along those lines, I do have this question. I'm, I'm always looking for the max dose and I'm the guy that like, like I was talking to Christian Draper from Ergen. I was like, what do you take? And he was like, I take six at a time, you know? And I was like, great. So I started taking six at a time.

So is there a max dose to this magical stuff here? Like can I just down the whole bag right now? 

Catharine Arnston: Ab you could, you'd probably have a little diarrhea. And, and we've had people say, 'cause pets, by the way, love this stuff. They'll do anything once you've given them some, they will do anything on this one.

Intern who worked for me, she had a little lap dog and that little lap dog jumped up onto the counter and got to the full bag of a thousand tablets and ate the entire bag. And she was horrified. She says, is he gonna die? And I said, no, no, no. He'll be fine. He'll probably throw up and poop green for a couple of days, but you know, he'll be fine.

So just think of a little lap dog eating a thousand tablets. Oh, our NHL players take 75 spirulina before a game. Why? Because hockey's a fast sport. They want lots of focus. They want lots of energy. So that's what spirulina gives you. It's, I call it brain food for, because of that reason. And then they, we'll talk about chlorella in a minute.

They take 75 chlorella after a game to pull out lactic acid because chlorella pulls out all kinds of toxins including galactic acid. So 10 is 10 tablets is your starter amount. 30 is therapeutic. But, you know, I have three times as much. I mean, I have been taking this every single day for, since I started 15 years ago, and I have at least a hundred a day.

Yeah, between the spirulina and chlorella, I mean, I do eat real food and I, I eat whole food. People ask me, are you vegan?

Every day. And it gives me energy and focus. So you could easily have a hundred, you could have 200 if you wanted. It will replace so many of your other supplements, by the way, it does not, I, I know Christian personally and I, he has a great company and a great product. But spirulina and I just pulled out a couple more scientific papers.

It's been studied and proven to stimulate stem cell circulation. Okay. Which of course. Stem, stem, stem regen. That's their, that's their specialty is increasing. Yes. And it works really well, but you can also get it from spirulina in, and they have a bluegreen algae in their in their blend, just by the way.

So, you know, 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: that's awesome. Yeah. I, I do, I I am familiar with that. And we see phenomenal results with Ergen. I've been using it for over a year, clinically. Yeah. And I'm very excited gonna start using your product here. Energy bits. It's, it's interesting because it's a very easy delivery system.

So you can blend it, you can chew it, you can swallow it. I love that. So that's going to be much easier to implement clinically. So we'll definitely, you know, get, get back to you on that and let you know what I'm finding. Yeah. 'cause we see some really complex, you know, neurological disorders yeah, can, so, 

Catharine Arnston: and, and adding, 'cause you talked about photo modulation earlier.

So when you stack spirulina and chlorella with any, any of the biohacks photo, bio red light there, be able to say, it's easier to say Sure. Or saunas or re cold plunges. But let's talk about red light. So. Red light gets into the mitochondria and reduces inflammation and increases that ease that exclusionary zone water, which is very powerful for generating more energy and for healing the mitochondria.

And when you sta and I've got scientific papers, we'll send you some when you add red light. And chlorophyll, it's, it's like one plus one equals a hundred. Nice. It just escalates that process in a crazy way. And one of the ways that it does it, and this is really what's so cool, is that this process stimulates and recirculates the coq 10 molecule, which is that other helper molecule that I mentioned earlier in the electron transfer chain.

There's two helper molecules. One is coq 10, and the other was cytochrome C. Now I, me, remember I mentioned cytochrome C earlier and how it's triggered by the blue pigment called FICO signin, which is a fat based pigment. But guess what? Coq 10 is a water-based pigment and it's stimulated, sorry. FICO sign is a water-based pigment.

Coq 10 is a fat based pigment, and it's stimulated by chlorophyll, which is a fat based pigment. Okay, so here's Mother Nature again at her best. Yeah. So when you, again, stack the, the algae, we always recommend spirulina before any treatments because it gets into your bloodstream so much quicker. Okay.

And then whatever you're doing, whether it's the cold plunge or the sauna or the red light. What's happening while you're having those treatments is you're getting efficiency in what's called autophagy, which is the cleaning up of the cell. Think of it as if you have teenagers. I, I don't have any, but if I know people who do, I do.

I do. And the teenagers are in and out and in and out, and they're throwing clothes on the floor and Yeah. They destroy 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: the house quick. Yeah. 

Catharine Arnston: And, and after a few days, you know, you can't even see anything in their, in their room. So it's, it's a mess. Finally, mother puts her foot down and her father and says, you gotta clean up your room.

So there's this process called autophagy, which is cleaning up of the cells, like telling your teenager, get rid of those clothes in your, in your, on the floor. But the, the, the cell has a difficulty doing that if it's not healthy. Or if it's constantly having to process all these things that you're eating, this is why intermittent fasting is so good, or why things like coal plunges and saunas are good because it, it speeds up the ability for the cell to go through this autophagy.

So it's, it's more efficient and will be able to generate a TP better. And so when you take the spirulina before any of those processes, you'll speed up that process and then in that cleanup, you know, maybe you're. Teenager found some, you know, fast food containers that need to be put out into the trash.

Well, a byproduct of all that autophagy is trash. There's free radicals, there's toxins. And guess what the cleanup crew is. Chlorella. Chlorella attaches to toxins, glyphosate, pesticides, heavy metals, alcohol, lactic acid, and chelates them and pulls them out. So this is why. So it's the cleanup crew. In fact, it's the cleanup crew and the beaches as well.

People get mad at algae 'cause it's closing their favorite beach. And I tell say, well, you know what, it only shows up because there were toxins and, and, and bacteria there, which you could not see. So algae shows up because it will kill the bacteria and absorb the toxins. So it's the cleanup crew, and it's the same thing in your body.

So when you're using it on your own, when we usually recommend the chlorella at night.

Think of spirulina as putting nourishment in, and chlorella is pulling toxins out in and out. And another way to think of it's 'cause of all these, your mitochondria, your brain has the most mitochondria and it gets getting nourished by the SDIs, mutase and all the other nutrients. So think of spirulina as brain food, and we'll talk about chlorella in a minute.

Chlorella pulls out toxins and speeds up bowel movements. It's a gut and it has fiber that feed your gut biome. Think of it as a, as gut food. So, spirulina brain food, chlorella gut food, and I 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Perfect. 

Catharine Arnston: You know, you wanna remember the colors. The spirulina is the blue green algae. So brain food chlorella is the green algae.

Gut food. Perfect. Or think of it as AM and pm. So, so those, those helps people remember when to take them. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah, that's great. I was actually gonna ask you about the timing because you, you know, your content is very specific about when to take which product. And so last night, you know, before bed, I took a handful of 30 actually.

I did stack it and I didn't even realize that was a good thing. I took a handful of 30 and then I was in front of my LED panel. I was using the laser on my brain. I was, you know, nice, you know, just kind of doing my thing. Didn't even realize that was working together there with the Chlorellas. So, you, you've mentioned Chlorella several times.

Can you give us a little bit more information on that? 

Catharine Arnston: Sure, sure. And just as a recap, so Spirulina is a bluegreen allergy known for energizing your brain and your body and your mitochondria satisfying your hunger. If anyone's on a GLP one or weight loss, this is your answer or is a pre-workout. We work with NFL players teams NHL teams, Olympic teams, they rely on this as a pre-workout and then chlorella.

Is your wellness detoxing algae? That's the energy is why we called our spirulina energy bits. Got it. Chlorella is a wellness detoxing algae, so it helps you recover your health, which is why we called it recovery bits. So how is it doing that? Well, a couple of ways. Spirulina is known for having the highest protein in the world, three times more than steak or chicken.

Chlorella is known for having the highest chlorophyll. It's called chlorella because of the chlorophyll. And there the trouble is we don't have anymore. There's not enough therapeutic. Chlorophyll in any of our vegetables anymore 'cause our soils are so damaged that they can't pick up any, any nutrients.

So your, your arugula goes yellow after a few days. This has 500 times more chlorophyll than arugula. That's a number from the Linus Polling Institute, by the way. And it has 25 times more chlorophyll than liquid chlorophyll, again from the Lion's Poly Institute. So there's nothing in the world with more chlorophyll than chlorella.

And why is chlorophyll so important? Well, a couple of things. First of all, as I mentioned earlier, it's a fat based pigment, so it'll heal your cell walls. But check this out. This is the chemical composition of chlorophyll over, over here. And the chemical composition of your hemoglobin, notice that they're virtually identical.

Yep. The only difference is that your hemoglobin has iron in the middle, and that's what carries oxygen. Chlorophyll builds your blood full stop. And when you have healthier blood, you're gonna have better circulation of blood, which will bring more oxygen to your brain, which will help your brain, which is also, remember, oxygen is very important for keeping the cells alkaline and reduces inflammation.

So chlorophyll is very, very important for building your blood and which he helps with your brain. Now the other so that's also chlorophyll kills bacteria. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Oh, nice.

Catharine Arnston: And what you, what you have in your mouth gets into your body, right? So if you've got lots of bacteria in your mouth, it's gonna be going through your entire body systemically. So, and it kills it in your colon. Chlorophyll, only about 10% of chlorophyll is absorbed in your stomach. The rest of it travels through your liver and through your colon.

So it's killing bacterial and absorbing toxins at the same time. This is why it's so, so healing. So this is, so it's very, very important to have the chlorophyll, but the toxin piece gets an even more interesting because chlorophylls very cleansing. But the detox piece comes from the hard cell wall that's in the chlorella.

It's so hard. It attaches to all these heavy metals, glyphosate, pesticide, all spores from mold. This is a great mold correction protocol. There's a doctor by the name of Dr. Klinghardt who's been supporting Chlorella for 30, 40 years. He has a clinic up in Seattle. He and I are the.

Big proponents of chlorella, but you do have to take enough of it or it won't attach and hold on to the toxins. So you need, that's why you need at least 20 or 30 for the detox benefits. You'll still get immune building benefits from 10, but the detox benefits come from the higher quantity. So it's very, very important.

Now, the other interesting thing about chlorella is that it stimulates what's known as peristalsis a fancy word for a bowel movement. So it's not just what nourishment you can put in from the spirulina, it's what the toxins that you pull out and what is sitting in your colon, stuff your body didn't want.

That's where all the toxins are. That's all the garbage, that's what I call your junk in your trunk. And so you don't want to have that sitting there because if it's not moved out the blood will circulate around and pick up those toxins and, and it's like having a garbage truck parked in front of your house permanently, which nobody wants, right?

'cause it smells pretty bad. So Chlorella will. Stimulate bowel movements. Now, it's not a very popular topic, but if you're on medications, if you're traveling, if you're stressed, if you're eating dairy, a lot of carbs, and that's about 95% of the population, I can almost promise you you're not having a daily bowel movement.

This will solve the problem for you and it's does it naturally and easily. So it's really great for, for improving that situation. And also it has fiber, which heals your feeds your gut biome so they can create what's called short chain fatty acids. And so this is why very much, it's very much a gut health algae now.

This is why we want you to take it when before bed. You can take it after meals, after workouts other times a day. But please always take it before bed 'cause that's when your body goes through a detox repair cycle. So while you're getting your beauty rest, you're having the cleanup crew in there getting rid of the aluminum in your brain and the glyphosate in your cells.

It's stimulating tel still stem cell production. It has the highest glutathione in the world, which is a very important antioxidant to, to cleanse your liver. It also has the highest tryptophan in the world, which if you're not familiar with tryptophan, it's a precursor to melatonin. Beautiful. Which helps you get into deep sleep and serotonin, which is your happy, happy mood transmitter.

So they worked very, very well together. Spirulina, as I mentioned, is to get the nourishment in and chlorella is to get the toxins out and just think about how these work together. I used to, I've been living in Boston for 35 years, as I mentioned earlier. And in the wintertime it's really hard to park your car.

So lots of people block areas for themselves to park. 'cause when there's too much snow, it's, you can't park. But some people will just take someone else's parking spot. If someone's taken your parking spot. You can't park your car. If you have, if you have toxins sitting in your cell, what's called a receptor cells, you can't get the good nourishment in because someone's blocking your way.

The chlorella will pull out the toxins outta the receptor cells so the good nutrition can get in. And that's so, they're like your superheroes. So, they really work really well together. And of course, spirulina again, is the brain food. Chlorella is the gut food, and they're joined by something called the vagus nerve.

Nice. Which is a very, very important roadway for communication between your brain and the rest of your body. So, so they're very, they work very well together. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Nice. So, as I'm navigating these cases, we always, we, more often than not, we'll check for heavy metal environmental chemicals, mold, mycotoxins, all these things.

So if I'm working with someone with a high heavy metal load or a high mold mycotoxin load, what is the dosage here? Do we just go to bowel tolerance? Do we say increase it until bowel tolerance? Or do, is there, what, what's the dose here? 

Catharine Arnston: Well I guess it's based on severity and time timeline. We've had people who were given two weeks to live, they showed us they would send us their biomarkers for, you know, liver cancer or something.

And they would take 60 to a hundred chlorella tablets a day. And literally within a day, their, their, the markers started dropping and they lived, they lived, they didn't die after two weeks. So, so, and also regarding vaccines I don't wanna get political, but there are medals in vaccines and so. If you need to take a vaccine, I would urge you to take Chlorella at least a week before the vaccine, and certainly a week or two after the vaccine.

And I would be taking 30 for sure. Regardless of what your age. Yes. So you can pull out those, those any metals and pot potentially diminish poten potential problems. So, and, and with the children, as I mentioned earlier, 'cause I'm sure a lot of your patients are children, you know, we mentioned half or, you know, one per age, but that's just a road, that's just a general suggestion.

I've had children who have been raised on spirulina and chlorella. I was at a trade show a number of years ago. Dr. Wolfson Jack Wolfson, he and his wife, he's a heart surgeon and his wife is a chiropractor. Yeah. They've been giving their kids, they have like four children that their, they've been giving their children our al since they were born.

And this, at the time, the, their daughter was I think 16 months. She was like.

Pictures of her with all the green on her mouth. She just loved this stuff. Finally, I just said to her parents, I think she's probably had enough. 'cause I just didn't want her to get diarrhea or anything. But she, you know, it's just, it's, she loved them. So if, if you're having a, a life death scenario, take as much as you can.

I would get a hundred in there to start pulling the toxins out. That's awesome. But, and also if you are, I mentioned weight loss. I know it's not your area, but if you are on a weight loss program, think about it. Where does your body store the most? Toxins in your fat. In the fat. And so if you are losing weight, guess what's being certain?

Getting dumped toxins. So you need to be taking chlorella to pull the toxins out. And also that's why when you're doing all these other biohacks, you want to be pulling, using chlorella. Every single time because you're dumping toxins and you don't want them circulating to be reabsorbed. Yeah. Chlorella is your cleanup act.

It will, it will clean up whatever's not supposed to be there, whether, and alcohol is one of them, by the way. I don't drink my myself very much, but occasionally I'd like to have a nice Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand. And as you get older, your, your sensitivity increases and it's harder to feel okay.

The next morning you'll be sober in an hour and a half with Chlorella. If you take 30. Every single time. Really? Every single time. Yep. Doesn't matter. That's if you're a huge person and you drank like a, you know, for hours and hours, you might need a few more, but and you will never have a hangover because your body converts alcohol to therm, like a type of aldehyde and it's just acetaldehyde to aldehyde.

Yeah. So it, so, so your body just detects it, it detects it as a toxin and out it goes. So, boom. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Okay. That's really cool. I don't, I don't drink a whole lot these days. But I might have to just try that. Yeah, 

Catharine Arnston: yeah, yeah. Well, you road test it. Absolutely. You, we want people to. Experience this for themselves.

And so we give guidelines of, you know, what protocols to follow. Sure. But there's always exceptions. And it's food. Mm-hmm. So like I tell people, well, some people get full on with one egg and some need four. Right. So it's really the situation, your age, the condition which you're facing if you're protecting your health or trying to regain it, the quantities increase for sure.

But it replaces. Spirulina will replace a multivitamin, a fish oil, a collagen powder has more collagen than collagen powder. Coq 10, biotin. And Chlorella can replace your vegetables. Honestly. If you don't like vegetables, you're traveling. And you know when, even when you're traveling and you're eating vegetables, where do those vegetables come from?

Right? We, we, like, we have to play, and I came up with this analogy for the sports community 'cause we work so much with them. Now you have to play offense and defense. And if you're in a athletic, you know, NFLs soccer, any kind of team sports, you know, the playbook for offense is different from the playbook for defense.

And you need offense and defense to win the game. Think of spirulina as your offense. This gives you the energy, the focus, the mitochondrial health to get out there in the game of life. Period. And then chlorella is your defense. It builds your immune system, pulls out stuff that you don't want, toxins garbage that's in your drunken, your trunk.

So it keeps you healthy so you can get back out into the game. So spirulina is your de offense. Chlorella is your defense, and the quantities that you take will depend on the situation and your age and your health condition, for sure. That's 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: great. So something I I want to ask you about, you know, we've talked about a couple of different conditions.

So my my fellowship is in childhood neurodevelopmental disorders, and so naturally I see a lot of autism. Do you have any case reports of people giving this to autistic kiddos? 

Catharine Arnston: Oh, I, and I can send you some scientific papers. Unbelievable for autism at the fo engagement increases, focus increases.

And again, it's the mitochondrial part of, it's the mitochondrial brain improving, yeah. Health improvement. A DHD, anybody on the spectrum? A lot of adults have a DHD children. It's, you know, autism is like one in 12 in California now. It's just it's really crazy. So very, very good for autistic, especially the spirulina.

But again, the chlorella works in conjunction with pulling out the toxins. But if you had to choose one, definitely the spirulina for sure. And I'll, I'll make a note to send you some scientific papers about that because it's beautiful. There's, there's a fair amount about autism and spirulina. Yeah.

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Well, again, I'm definitely gonna be diving in pretty hard here with different types of cases. Do Okay. One question along the line here. Do we need to be worried about drug interactions? Algae. 

Catharine Arnston: There's, there's the great thing, zero drug interactions, absolutely zero in 70 years of documentation, not a single drug interaction at all.

Now I will point out that Chlorella pulls out toxins including metals, okay? So this could be good news or bad news. I don't think there's metals in any prescription drugs. But as I mentioned earlier, there are some in, in your vaccines. Yeah. So, if you, if you are aware of any metals in your drugs and we don't want to interfere with the operation of your, you know, whatever prescriptions you're being given, take them two hours before or after your medication.

But I'm not aware, quite honestly, other than vaccines of heavy metals being in pharmaceuticals. So, with that as an isolated situation. Zero drug interactions. And, and since you brought it sounds like you work with a lot of children. I was on your site as well. Kids love this stuff, you know, and you know why, why they like to chew it.

Really? 'cause it turns okay. Turns their tongue green. Perfect. They think it's hilarious. And so you, if you moms and dads, if you can turn this into a bit of a game with, for your children, they say, who has the greenest tongue? We've had parents call them the green, their green crackers or their green veg their green vitamins.

They, they turn it into a game for them. They make a little happy faces on their plate in the morning for them to, to take. Or they give them the spirulina before their soccer game. Their focus will be off the charts. That's awesome. So, so, a lot of kids they won't eat vegetables, but they'll eat this stuff.

That's awesome. I like to pair it with the nuts. Pistachio nuts are my favorite. There's a brand called Wonderful. It's got a flavor that's salt and vinegar and the salt and vinegar with the chlorella, it's. Awesome. It's the best snack ever. And if you wanna uplevel it even further, and as a brain guy, you'll appreciate this, have the chlorella with macadamia nuts, which of course is loaded with a mega, I think it's a omega fours really great for your brain, and it tastes like potato chips.

When you mix chlorella with a make with the macadamia nuts, I honestly, you think you're eating potato chips. It's, it's crazy that, that's crazy. You're making trail mix 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: with your energy bits with, 

Catharine Arnston: yeah, yeah. Well, I, I do have a plan eventually to do macadamia nuts and chlorella, and guess what I'm gonna call it?

I've already registered the name. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: What is it? 

Catharine Arnston: Mac and bits. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Right? That's awesome. 

Catharine Arnston: Anything to get the kids eating this because 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: yeah. 

Catharine Arnston: Our children are, are really at risk right now. Yes. And and we have to turn, we have to help them. And so if you can turn it into a bit of game, and I, I can't say that all algae tablets will be as pure and safe as ours, but again, we do our third party lab tests here in FDA approved lab and we sell through doctors.

I can, I can stand here and tell you this is the safest, purest food you will ever give to your children, your family, your pets. Please give it to your grandparents too. They're probably not eating very well. Right. Whether they're a nursing home or on their own, and it's effortless if they can swallow water.

These things are the size of a baby aspirin, A green baby aspirin any amount will improve their, their mitochondria health. We can turn people's lives and health around honestly. And, and I have to make a. Statement here. 'cause I'm not saying algae will solve or correct or prevent any disease, but what I can tell you is the nutrients found in algae have been documented to do that thing that like super oxidative documented to prevent a Alzheimer's and dementia and heart disease chlorophylls been documented to be cleansing and heal your help heal your immune system.

Fico cyan has been documented to kill cancer cells. So it's not the algae, it's the nutrients found there if it's a raw food not exposed to high heat. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Absolutely. Well, you're full of so much information. I know we're kind of coming up on time here. I think one thing to point out. To my listeners, if you want as much energy as Catherine here, start taking handfuls of energy bits.

I think that she made that abundantly clear, but, so as we're as we're wrapping up here, is there anything we didn't really touch on you really wanted to tell the audience? 

Catharine Arnston: Well, a couple of things. First of all, I want people to know that algae isn't new. It's just new to you. And like a lot of things you probably didn't know about, like collagen or chia chia or matcha or bone broth but they had been used in other countries for centuries.

It took somebody to introduce it to you so that you could learn about its benefits. Same with algae. It's first life on earth. You can't argue with that. The Egyptians used it 2000 years ago. It fed the Aztecs in Mexico 250 years ago. It's been used safely daily in Asia, Japan, China, Korea.

Grown here for mass consumption. We have wheat farms and corn farms and soy and tomato patches, but not big algae farms In Asia, you can't ride your bicycle to school or drive your car to work without going by an algae farm. It's a huge agricultural industry. That's interesting. Multi-billion. Now we grow our in Taiwan, which is known as having the highest quality.

It's the gold standard for, for for algae. And guess what? I drew drew a line from Taiwan across the globe, across America, and got to Florida. Florida has exactly the same climate. As Taiwan, my plan, it's a five to 10 year plan, is to build a massive algae agricultural industry here in America.

And it will be in Florida because it has the same climate and there's no reason why it can't be done. It's just so, it's so, number one, you don't know about it because it's not grown here. Number two, nobody's told you about it, right? Except me because it's a food. So the biotech companies won't, there's nothing to patent 'cause it's like broccoli.

So the, and the food industry doesn't launch new products. They wait till some entrepreneur has. Proven that there's a need for something and then they usually acquire them. So there's no, no incentive. But the science has been around for 75, a hundred years. Algae was discovered by, as a highest, have the highest protein in the late 18 hundreds by Danish scientists.

And then the Germans started doing all the research and they won all sorts of Nobel prizes 'cause they were doing really cool stuff. And then it all moved over to, to Japan. That's why the algae industry is, is consolidated in Japan. So there's been no incentive for anybody. And the scientists know a lot about their science, but they, and they know, or they know a lot about algae, but they haven't connected the dots of algae.

Correcting health conditions until I did. So it's, it's, it's, it just is what it is. And I only, I'm doing this 'cause I wanna help you. I wanna help the world get outta this hole that we're in for nutritional crisis. Health crisis. So it's not, so again, it's not new. It's not your fault just not grown here.

Nobody told you about it. Right. The other thing, as you were mentioning about how much energy is, I want people to know how old I am because it's not like I'm 30 and I'm naturally high energy. Although I have been relatively high energy most of my life. I turn 70 next year. That's seven zero. Okay, look at that.

This is my own skin. No Botox. This is my own hair. No, no extensions. Someone asked me recently, is it my own teeth? Yes. My own teeth. I sleep well, I poop well. I have millennials working for me. I travel nonstop. I got my PhD last year. I want people to know that we do not have an expiry date stamped on our foreheads, particularly women.

Ladies, listen up. Society tells us that after 50 it's a, it's downhill. And sadly for a lot of people it is because they start to have health conditions and they lose energy and they have brain fog and they have weight gain. And so they start withdrawing from life and as they withdraw, they even less energy.

We can turn that around for you. I can get your health back, I can get your brain fog gone. I can get your energy back on track. We can help you lose weight 'cause your metabolism will start healing. Then you'll be more engaged in life again. And you can do as much as you want. But it does take energy to engage in life.

So. I'm here as a sole representative, sample size of one to tell you that taking algae is incredible. My biomarkers are all amazing. I have zero inflammation. I have no medications. I take no other vitamins except algae. I do take other than vitamin C 'cause I don't eat a lot of fruit. That's it. That's all I have is spirulina and chlorella every single day.

And then I eat whole food. That's amazing. I just want the same for everybody else because it's achievable and it's effortless. If you can swallow water, boom. Down the hatch. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah. Your mission is amazing and, and I'm very appreciative of everything that you're doing for the world. I think my viewers are very appreciative.

I mean, your message is strong, your passion is clear. Can you tell everyone where they need to go to learn more? 

Catharine Arnston: Yes, absolutely. So our website is energy bits.com. E-N-E-R-G-Y-B-I-T-S. By the way, we call them bits 'cause they're bits of nutrition, nothing else in there. One ingredient. So energy bits.com and we do have a 20% discount code for your listeners.

It, it will last forever. It's called Longevity Formula and it will work on everything. Awesome. We have big bags. The best value are the large bags. There's a thousand tablets in a bag, and if you did take 10 a day.

Is worth a dollar a day. And then take, take the chlorella as well. So the bags are the best value, but we also have fun canisters and we have single pouches. And we're very active on social Instagram. Our handle is energy bits. So come and visit us there. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah. Well, thank you so much for the, for the discount code.

So again, 20% off. Use the code longevity formula. Very nice of you guys. All one. 

Catharine Arnston: No, no. Yeah, no space in between. It's just all one word. Perfect. Yeah. Upper case, lower case. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: I, I, I thoroughly believe guys, like, if you try this stuff, you're going to, you're gonna feel the difference. I felt the difference.

Everyone that's tried it around me has felt the difference. This stuff is amazing. Not just now it makes you feel, but what the science says that it does for you and what we know that it does for you. This just makes sense to me, and it just makes sense from a scientific perspective. So, if you've been listening, if you feel like this content was helpful to you, I.

Please, like, share, subscribe, all those things. But Catherine and I are coming together today because we want to help people. That is the point of us spending time talking to one another like this. So please, if there's someone that you know that can benefit from this information, send this to them, maybe give them some energy bits and send it to 'em to try.

Who knows? But please, you know, share this content as a whole purpose of being here. Catherine, you're just amazing. I would absolutely love to talk to you more. Ab absolutely. Maybe we could collab on. Maybe we do a clinical trial, I don't know. But all I know is that love that, you know, people, you know, need, need, this product can definitely benefit from something this safe, yet this effective.

So I definitely appreciate that. The cleanliness, the clean cleanliness of the product, and then also the intention behind it, which is vitally important. So once again, thank you so much for your time. I'm so appreciative of you coming in today. Yeah, and I'm really, I, I wanna talk again because you're, you're fascinating.

Catharine Arnston: Well, algae is fascinating. I'm just the voice. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: All right. Well thank you so much. 

Catharine Arnston: Alright. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Crawford.


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