{"version":"1.0.0","segments":[{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1.25,"endTime":4.67,"body":"I promised the universe I was going to bring algae to America."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":4.7,"endTime":11.48,"body":"I'll probably get to 100 at least, but my goal is to get algae into every home, help it"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":11.48,"endTime":15.53,"body":"feed the world, which, you know, the United Nations knows it can do."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":22.85,"endTime":28.82,"body":"Catharine Arnsten is something of an evangelist when it comes to the potent nutritional"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":28.82,"endTime":35.24,"body":"qualities of algae or algae, as I'm more used to saying in British English, I'll stick to"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":35.24,"endTime":37.1,"body":"algae for this interview."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":37.13,"endTime":43.49,"body":"Catharine is the founder and CEO of Energy Bits plant based tablets, little bits of food"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":43.49,"endTime":50.96,"body":"made entirely of this microscopic form of life that is algae grown specifically for us to"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":50.96,"endTime":56.48,"body":"eat. Could it also be a powerful tool in our pursuit of longevity?"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":56.51,"endTime":61.55,"body":"Hello again! Welcome to the Live Long and Master Aging podcast, I'm Peter Bowes."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":61.58,"endTime":66.38,"body":"This is where we explore the science and stories behind human longevity."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":66.41,"endTime":68.15,"body":"Catharine, it's good to talk to you again."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":70.4,"endTime":72.44,"body":"Good to see you, Peter. Yeah, it's been a while."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":72.44,"endTime":75.83,"body":"It's would you believe a couple of years since we did our last interview?"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":75.83,"endTime":80.81,"body":"And if anyone wants to listen to that interview, it was audio-only in those days."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":80.81,"endTime":85.67,"body":"There's a link to it in the show notes for this episode, but we're now video and thanks"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":85.67,"endTime":89.72,"body":"to YouTube. So I wanted to talk to you again, Catharine, really just to get an update on"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":89.72,"endTime":91.88,"body":"what you're doing. I know there's some new science."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":91.88,"endTime":97.46,"body":"There's there are new publications talking about algae in terms of it being a powerful,"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":97.46,"endTime":100.7,"body":"as I say, a powerful food that we can use in our diet."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":100.7,"endTime":103.07,"body":"And this is all about longevity, this podcast."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":103.07,"endTime":108.98,"body":"And I always say that the three pillars of longevity are sleep, exercise and diet."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":108.98,"endTime":110.03,"body":"It is what we eat."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":110.03,"endTime":112.13,"body":"So this falls exactly into that."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":112.13,"endTime":117.29,"body":"But maybe before we dive into it in a deep way, let's just go back to some of the basics."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":117.29,"endTime":122.57,"body":"Maybe you could explain to us again what algae is and why it is this, as I've already"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":122.57,"endTime":124.22,"body":"described, this powerful source of food."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":124.22,"endTime":128.48,"body":"And it's not just a powerful source of food, it's a powerful source of healing."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":128.48,"endTime":132.95,"body":"I know the FDA probably doesn't like me to say the word healing, but it has nutritional"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":132.95,"endTime":138.71,"body":"qualities and nutrients in it that aren't really available from any other source."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":138.71,"endTime":144.47,"body":"And that science have has indicated through, you know, 50,000 or more studies are"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":144.47,"endTime":149.81,"body":"critical to reduce inflammation and protect your mitochondria, which are what generate"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":149.81,"endTime":151.22,"body":"all your cellular energy."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":151.22,"endTime":157.68,"body":"So to answer your question, algae was, first of all, the first life on Earth almost 4"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":157.68,"endTime":160.07,"body":"billion years ago. And it's still here."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":160.07,"endTime":164.72,"body":"Two main types of algae there are Macro is macroalgae and microalgae."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":164.72,"endTime":166.79,"body":"We're going to be talking about microalgae today."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":166.79,"endTime":168.98,"body":"But let me tell you what macroalgae is."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":168.98,"endTime":174.05,"body":"It's that big stringy stuff that washes up on shore, also known as seaweed."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":174.11,"endTime":176.99,"body":"It's called seaweed because it's only in the sea."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":176.99,"endTime":181.97,"body":"And it's good for you because it has lots of fiber, but it has virtually zero nutrition."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":181.97,"endTime":186.02,"body":"Microalgae, which we're talking about today, is the complete opposite."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":186.02,"endTime":187.52,"body":"First of all, it's everywhere."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":187.52,"endTime":189.02,"body":"Not just in the sea."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":189.02,"endTime":194.45,"body":"It's in the lakes, the rivers, streams, the soil, your swimming pool, your aquarium and"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":194.45,"endTime":198.05,"body":"the sea. And the algae we're talking about doesn't come from any of those places because"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":198.05,"endTime":199.79,"body":"it comes from aquaculture."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":199.79,"endTime":203.3,"body":"We're talking about algae that's grown as an agricultural crop."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":203.3,"endTime":209.39,"body":"But microalgae is everywhere, and it's completely different from the macroalgae because"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":209.39,"endTime":211.49,"body":"it has virtually zero fiber."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":211.49,"endTime":217.55,"body":"In fact, spirulina has has zero fiber, but it is the most nutrient dense food in the"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":217.55,"endTime":219.83,"body":"universe. And that's not just my opinion."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":219.83,"endTime":223.76,"body":"It's been endorsed by the United Nations since 1974."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":223.76,"endTime":229.43,"body":"So that's 50 years as the answer to world hunger, because it has the highest protein in"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":229.43,"endTime":232.07,"body":"the world, it's 64% protein."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":232.07,"endTime":238.04,"body":"At least ours is. Nasa has endorsed it as the also as the answer to world hunger and just"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":238.04,"endTime":242.63,"body":"everything, because it has a thousand times more nutrition than any other food in the"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":242.63,"endTime":248.06,"body":"world. This is because microalgae is called microalgae because it's microscopic in size."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":248.06,"endTime":252.41,"body":"You could get something like a million of these cells on the head of a pin."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":252.41,"endTime":255.5,"body":"So when we consolidate it into these small tablets."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":255.5,"endTime":259.85,"body":"So we're going to talk about today that we affectionately call bits because they are bits"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":259.85,"endTime":264.14,"body":"of nutrition. You can start to understand the concentration of nutrition."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":264.14,"endTime":266.84,"body":"So to algae is a food."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":266.84,"endTime":268.73,"body":"It's virtually everywhere."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":268.73,"endTime":274.22,"body":"But the algae that we sell is grown as an agricultural crop in Asia."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":274.22,"endTime":277.91,"body":"It is a multi-billion dollar agricultural crop there."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":277.91,"endTime":280.13,"body":"It's almost as big as the beef industry is."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":280.34,"endTime":281.87,"body":"And you don't know about it?"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":281.87,"endTime":285.23,"body":"Probably because it's just not grown here, although I have plans to."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":285.23,"endTime":288.41,"body":"So it's never been part of your lifestyle, your diet."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":288.41,"endTime":289.79,"body":"No one's ever explained it to you."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":289.79,"endTime":291.77,"body":"Which is why I am here to do that."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":291.86,"endTime":293.84,"body":"But in Asia, everybody takes it."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":293.84,"endTime":297.95,"body":"They use it like we take chia seed or or quinoa or something."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":297.95,"endTime":299.57,"body":"It's just it's in everything."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":299.57,"endTime":304.6,"body":"And. And by the way, and they take it every day and it's a multi-billion dollar crop."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":304.6,"endTime":311.62,"body":"It's also been studied by scientists for over 100 years, and we have access to almost"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":311.62,"endTime":317.95,"body":"100,000 scientific papers documenting some of the amazing attributes of algae for"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":317.95,"endTime":319.48,"body":"protecting your longevity."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":319.48,"endTime":325.72,"body":"And just to emphasize, you describe the tablets that you sell the algae in that form."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":325.72,"endTime":329.44,"body":"We are talking about a food as opposed to a supplement?"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":329.44,"endTime":330.55,"body":"Correct. Thank you for mentioning that."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":330.55,"endTime":335.71,"body":"So the thing with supplements is they are made from extracts that don't exist like that"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":335.71,"endTime":339.64,"body":"in nature, and then they're compiled in a factory using high heat to blend them."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":339.64,"endTime":343.66,"body":"So this is all vitamins, dry greens, powders."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":343.87,"endTime":349.45,"body":"And so heat, detracts from the nutritional value of whatever's going in there."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":349.45,"endTime":352.42,"body":"And also extracts don't exist like that in nature."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":352.42,"endTime":356.71,"body":"So your body, when you take supplements, you end up absorbing about 10% of it."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":356.71,"endTime":361.3,"body":"That's why the numbers on those bottles are so high, because your body can't absorb most"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":361.3,"endTime":365.56,"body":"of it. Algae, at least our algae is grown in fresh water."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":365.56,"endTime":367.39,"body":"As I mentioned, it's an agricultural crop."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":367.39,"endTime":371.53,"body":"Here's a picture of an algae farm and here's a picture of a Chlorella farm."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":371.53,"endTime":376.42,"body":"We're unique because our water is triple filtered, so zero toxins."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":376.42,"endTime":381.07,"body":"We're also unique because we don't use any, any heat to dry our algae."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":381.07,"endTime":382.6,"body":"So it's a raw food."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":382.6,"endTime":387.1,"body":"So we grow it, we dry it into a powder, and then we press them into these little tablets"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":387.1,"endTime":388.24,"body":"that are called bits."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":388.24,"endTime":394.51,"body":"So because there's no high heat used to dry it and there is no processing, this is a not"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":394.51,"endTime":398.08,"body":"only a spirulina is not only a raw food, it's a live food."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":398.08,"endTime":401.62,"body":"So, nothing added and nothing subtracted."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":401.62,"endTime":406.45,"body":"And yet it has 64% protein, highest protein in the world, highest chlorophyl in the"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":406.45,"endTime":410.29,"body":"world, 40 vitamins and minerals, more collagen than collagen powder."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":410.29,"endTime":413.29,"body":"When you take algae tablets, you are taking food."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":413.29,"endTime":420.64,"body":"You are taking nourishment, that is unfiltered and, and no toxins, at least with ours."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":420.64,"endTime":424.72,"body":"And that's why we sell our algae tablets through doctors and functional medicine clinics"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":424.72,"endTime":425.92,"body":"and longevity clinics."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":425.92,"endTime":428.77,"body":"And the concentration is off the charts."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":428.77,"endTime":433.84,"body":"There's so much nutrition in one little tablet, it equals the same amount as an entire"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":433.84,"endTime":436.33,"body":"plate of vegetables. That's almost a pound of vegetables."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":436.33,"endTime":441.46,"body":"So if you or your kids or your family don't like vegetables, you find you're throwing"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":441.46,"endTime":445.42,"body":"them out all the time, or they give you gas, or you don't have access to them, or you"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":445.42,"endTime":447.91,"body":"don't have time to cook them, you can't travel with them."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":447.94,"endTime":449.47,"body":"Algae tablets are for you."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":449.56,"endTime":451.81,"body":"Pets love them. There's no contraindications."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":451.81,"endTime":456.46,"body":"It doesn't matter whether you have a newborn, a child, a teenager, a grandparent."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":456.64,"endTime":460.84,"body":"These are the easiest food to absorb."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":460.84,"endTime":464.2,"body":"You can swallow them, you can chew them, you can add them to smoothies."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":464.2,"endTime":466.93,"body":"I live on them. I mean, I eat real food once a day."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":466.93,"endTime":470.56,"body":"I do intermittent fasting, which is another great way to preserve your your health."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":470.56,"endTime":473.32,"body":"But algae gives you all of the nutrition that you need."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":473.32,"endTime":475.24,"body":"That's why I call especially spirulina."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":475.24,"endTime":476.77,"body":"There's two algae we're going to talk about."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":476.77,"endTime":480.31,"body":"Spirulina is a blue green algae and chlorella is a green algae."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":480.31,"endTime":483.52,"body":"And you're going to learn today that they do completely different things in your body."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":483.52,"endTime":487.96,"body":"Spirulina I call it your nutritional insurance because it gives you absolutely everything"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":487.96,"endTime":493.21,"body":"that you need. And you can, you could live on it forever if you wanted, but it means it"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":493.21,"endTime":497.08,"body":"takes the pressure off worrying about supplements or certain kinds of food."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":497.08,"endTime":501.73,"body":"And then Chlorella I call is your health insurance because it builds your immune system,"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":501.88,"endTime":504.43,"body":"pulls out toxins and builds your gut."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":504.43,"endTime":510.13,"body":"So they do completely different things, but they work together harmoniously to give you"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":510.13,"endTime":515.11,"body":"the best effect for longevity, health, and restore what what you may have lost."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":515.11,"endTime":519.4,"body":"Whether it's for your skin, for your digestion, your sleep, they're they're pretty"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":519.4,"endTime":521.86,"body":"amazing. And they're a gift to us from Mother Nature."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":521.86,"endTime":526.84,"body":"The process that you've just described, the manufacturing process, if that's the right"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":526.84,"endTime":530.14,"body":"word geographically, where does that happen?"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":530.23,"endTime":535.42,"body":"Well, we grow everything in Taiwan, as in those ponds where they're called ponds."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":535.42,"endTime":538.45,"body":"And everything happens there."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":538.45,"endTime":541.3,"body":"And then we do the packaging here in the United States."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":541.3,"endTime":546.13,"body":"So in the chlorella takes about three months to grow."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":546.13,"endTime":549.94,"body":"It's quite a complicated process."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":549.94,"endTime":556.21,"body":"Spirulina is actually easier to grow, but, everything is done in Taiwan and then imported"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":556.21,"endTime":560.23,"body":"in large on large cargo ships here to the United States."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":560.23,"endTime":562.48,"body":"And then we do all the packaging here."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":562.48,"endTime":568.27,"body":"But, I am exploring, looking into growing it in, probably in Florida, actually very"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":568.27,"endTime":574.87,"body":"similar climate.Drew the longitudinal line an hit the middle of Florida."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":574.87,"endTime":580.81,"body":"So it's going to take, uh, very large amount of money, tens of millions of dollars."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":580.81,"endTime":584.62,"body":"This the company that grows our algae forests, they're 60 years old."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":584.62,"endTime":585.73,"body":"They've been doing it."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":585.88,"endTime":587.44,"body":"both. We have two companies."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":587.44,"endTime":589.03,"body":"They've been doing it for that long."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":589.03,"endTime":591.28,"body":"It's it's the best in the world."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":591.28,"endTime":597.01,"body":"And I. I sampled algae for 2 or 3 years before settling on these companies to grow it for"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":597.01,"endTime":599.56,"body":"us. So, that's one of the other things that."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":599.76,"endTime":601.53,"body":"Differentiates us from other companies."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":601.53,"endTime":603.3,"body":"We don't sell anything else."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":603.3,"endTime":604.41,"body":"All we do is algae."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":604.59,"endTime":606.27,"body":"I've become an algae expert."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":606.27,"endTime":611.7,"body":"I am determined that people here in North America can enjoy the same health and longevity"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":611.7,"endTime":616.2,"body":"benefits that the Asians have been enjoying for the last 60 years."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":616.2,"endTime":620.22,"body":"And the reason we don't know about this is, as I said, it's not grown here and no one's"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":620.22,"endTime":624.99,"body":"explained it to you. So I take a lot of pride in making it the science of algae easy for"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":624.99,"endTime":629.07,"body":"you to understand, because when you understand something, it's you're not afraid of it."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":629.25,"endTime":633.42,"body":"And when you learn what a what I'm going to tell you about algae, you you'll know you're"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":633.42,"endTime":634.5,"body":"hearing the truth."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":634.5,"endTime":636.09,"body":"It will resonate with you."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":636.09,"endTime":641.58,"body":"And when you take algae, because it makes you feel so good and so clean, your body"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":641.58,"endTime":642.96,"body":"resonates with it as well."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":642.96,"endTime":644.97,"body":"It's it's pretty interesting."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":645.84,"endTime":648.48,"body":"You mentioned scientific papers."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":648.6,"endTime":655.32,"body":"To what extent has algae been studied in terms of peer reviewed science?"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":655.32,"endTime":660.36,"body":"Essentially the research that would back up your claims about the product."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":661.2,"endTime":667.14,"body":"Yeah. Well, algae was first discovered in the late 1800s by a Danish scientist, and that's"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":667.14,"endTime":670.53,"body":"when they first discovered it had such high protein."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":670.53,"endTime":674.16,"body":"And then the research moved over, actually into Germany."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":674.16,"endTime":678.12,"body":"And so during the 20s and 30s, they were doing extensive research."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":678.12,"endTime":683.76,"body":"There's a scientist by the name of Otto Warburg, who won a Nobel Prize, I think, in 1931,"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":683.76,"endTime":687.75,"body":"for discovering that cancer cannot exist in an alkaline environment."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":687.75,"endTime":692.28,"body":"And the way he was able to discover that is he was using Chlorella algae, which is one of"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":692.28,"endTime":693.69,"body":"the algae we sell."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":693.69,"endTime":701.07,"body":"So the Germans have been doing very extensive research on Chlorella ever since the 30s."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":701.07,"endTime":707.1,"body":"And then the research moved over over to Japan after the World War two."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":707.1,"endTime":710.91,"body":"And there's an interesting sidebar story I can tell you one time when he got a little bit"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":710.91,"endTime":715.8,"body":"more time. Um, so the research is, as I said, extensive."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":715.8,"endTime":720.84,"body":"There's about 60,000 studies on spirulina, about 40,000 on Chlorella."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":721.08,"endTime":726.87,"body":"They address everything from the nutrients that help prevent heart disease, like"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":726.87,"endTime":732.33,"body":"superoxide dismutase or the or how they protects your brain because it protects your"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":732.33,"endTime":735.18,"body":"telomeres, it reduces inflammation."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":735.18,"endTime":738.0,"body":"The high chlorophyl is very cleansing."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":738.0,"endTime":742.74,"body":"The research has been done for decades in every country around the world."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":743.01,"endTime":748.05,"body":"Algae still a little under the current because certainly here in America, for those"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":748.05,"endTime":752.31,"body":"reasons I've explained earlier, not grown here and there's nobody there's no incentive to"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":752.31,"endTime":757.35,"body":"educate you because there's no food company, not national food company selling it."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":757.44,"endTime":760.44,"body":"You can't patent it because it's a vegetable."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":760.65,"endTime":762.84,"body":"It's like you can't patent broccoli."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":762.84,"endTime":766.59,"body":"So the biotechs aren't interested in helping you understand what it is."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":766.59,"endTime":770.13,"body":"The pharmaceuticals companies want to keep you taking their drugs, so they don't want you"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":770.13,"endTime":771.18,"body":"to learn things like this."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":771.18,"endTime":775.8,"body":"Blue phycocyanin, the blue pigment and spirulina, which we can talk about in a minute,"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":775.8,"endTime":777.84,"body":"has been proven to kill cancer cells."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":777.84,"endTime":779.22,"body":"That's pretty important."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":779.22,"endTime":780.42,"body":"That's pretty interesting."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":780.42,"endTime":782.58,"body":"And that's also been proven in science."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":782.58,"endTime":784.56,"body":"So it's so extensive."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":784.56,"endTime":786.57,"body":"It's almost there's almost too much science."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":786.57,"endTime":788.22,"body":"And I think that's also the problem."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":788.85,"endTime":791.4,"body":"So what is the incentive then."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":791.4,"endTime":797.88,"body":"That's the phrase that you use having studied it and understood what algae is."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":835.44,"endTime":842.04,"body":"What is the incentive for an ordinary person to incorporate it into their diet?"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":842.04,"endTime":848.1600000000001,"body":"And you say that you yourself have an ordinary diet, at least ordinary meals as well as"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":848.1600000000001,"endTime":849.3299999999999,"body":"consuming algae."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":849.3299999999999,"endTime":855.96,"body":"So why would someone want to incorporate algae into their daily regime, and how would"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":855.96,"endTime":856.6500000000001,"body":"they do that?"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":856.6500000000001,"endTime":858.1199999999999,"body":"Yes, that's a great question."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":858.1199999999999,"endTime":863.04,"body":"So here's why you probably algae is probably the last chance for us to be healthy."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":863.04,"endTime":868.5899999999999,"body":"The reason why our cancer and heart disease and chronic illnesses are escalating are"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":868.5899999999999,"endTime":873.4200000000001,"body":"twofold. Our bodies are no longer being nourished by our food."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":873.4200000000001,"endTime":878.6400000000001,"body":"Our soils are so over cropped that they do not any longer have any minerals for the"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":878.6400000000001,"endTime":883.44,"body":"plants to pull up. So even if you are eating a lot of vegetables, they come from far away"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":883.44,"endTime":885.1800000000001,"body":"and the soils are so depleted."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":885.1800000000001,"endTime":887.01,"body":"So your food is depleted as well."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":887.01,"endTime":891.3299999999999,"body":"They contain calories and fiber, but not nutrition."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":891.3299999999999,"endTime":895.3199999999999,"body":"And as I mentioned earlier, supplements aren't the answer either because your body only"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":895.3199999999999,"endTime":898.8299999999999,"body":"absorbs a few a little bit of it and we can't."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":898.8299999999999,"endTime":904.05,"body":"You also don't have the time to constantly be eating all day long preparing healthy"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":904.05,"endTime":908.55,"body":"foods. So number one, we aren't getting the nourishment because our soils are so damaged"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":908.55,"endTime":911.8800000000001,"body":"and also because processed foods are everywhere."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":911.8800000000001,"endTime":913.29,"body":"They're tempting to us."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":913.29,"endTime":918.6300000000001,"body":"They're sold in all the stores, in all the airports, and of course, they're so over"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":918.6600000000001,"endTime":920.6400000000001,"body":"processed and that they don't have any nutrition either."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":920.6400000000001,"endTime":923.4000000000001,"body":"So number one, your body isn't getting the nutrients."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":923.4000000000001,"endTime":928.3800000000001,"body":"And the thing is, we know that our cell phone needs to be plugged in every night to be"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":928.3800000000001,"endTime":931.5899999999999,"body":"recharged, so it will properly function the next day."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":931.5899999999999,"endTime":933.54,"body":"Well our bodies are the same way."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":933.54,"endTime":938.2,"body":"And if you don't properly recharge your body with the nutrients it needs to function"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":938.2,"endTime":939.6099999999999,"body":"properly, it won't."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":939.6099999999999,"endTime":940.8399999999999,"body":"It's that simple."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":940.8399999999999,"endTime":945.1300000000001,"body":"And I'm going to explain to you what drives the your body to perform optimally."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":945.1300000000001,"endTime":950.26,"body":"And it's basically something called mitochondria that are in all of your cells and algae."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":950.26,"endTime":954.79,"body":"I will explain to you why particular spirulina helps those mitochondria work."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":954.79,"endTime":956.6800000000001,"body":"So number one we're nutritionally deprived."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":956.71,"endTime":959.3499999999999,"body":"Number two, we have too many toxins in our body."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":959.6800000000001,"endTime":964.72,"body":"I read some paper, a paper that said the average adult has now 700 toxins in their"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":964.72,"endTime":970.3900000000001,"body":"bodies. And our immune system simply weren't built to sustain that level of toxic load."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":970.3900000000001,"endTime":975.55,"body":"And when you have toxins in your body, whether it's glyphosate, pesticide, lead, mercury,"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":975.55,"endTime":981.19,"body":"alcohol, they interfere, they lodge into the cell walls, they interfere with all of your"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":981.19,"endTime":983.05,"body":"cellular communications."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":983.1099999999999,"endTime":985.3299999999999,"body":"Think of when you have toxins in your cell walls."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":985.3299999999999,"endTime":987.01,"body":"It's like someone's taken your parking spot."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":987.01,"endTime":991.69,"body":"So even if you are eating properly nourished foods and incorporating spirulina, for"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":991.69,"endTime":996.6700000000001,"body":"example, if you still have too many toxins in your body, that nourishment can't get in"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":996.6700000000001,"endTime":1001.3199999999999,"body":"because the toxins have taken the parking spot for what's called the cell receptor to"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1001.3199999999999,"endTime":1002.5799999999999,"body":"allow the nutrients in."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1002.5799999999999,"endTime":1004.8599999999999,"body":"So we have to get those toxins out."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1004.8599999999999,"endTime":1008.76,"body":"And this is not something you're going to do on a daily on an, you know, once a year or"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1008.76,"endTime":1011.1600000000001,"body":"even quarterly. This has to be done daily."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1011.1600000000001,"endTime":1015.27,"body":"And so chlorella, as you're going to find out, pulls out toxins, all of them, all the"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1015.27,"endTime":1021.0899999999999,"body":"heavy metals, lead, mercury, radiation, pesticides, glyphosate, mold spores."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1021.27,"endTime":1024.06,"body":"BMA it's it's crazy what it will pull out."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1024.06,"endTime":1029.7,"body":"And so you've got to get rid of those toxins and the reason so number one, you're going"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1029.7,"endTime":1031.26,"body":"to get nourished from the spirulina."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1031.26,"endTime":1034.92,"body":"So that will restore whatever has been missing in your diet."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1034.92,"endTime":1037.32,"body":"And Chlorella will pull out the toxins."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1037.32,"endTime":1041.04,"body":"And the best thing about them is I mentioned they come in these little tiny tablets,"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1041.04,"endTime":1043.26,"body":"which are effortless to take."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1043.26,"endTime":1047.4,"body":"If you can swallow water, you can get the nourishment you need in seconds."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1047.4,"endTime":1052.74,"body":"We're talking seconds, not hours in the groc, in the kitchen, not hours dragging home all"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1052.74,"endTime":1056.73,"body":"those groceries. And speaking of which, we sell our algae in large bags and there's a"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1056.73,"endTime":1058.08,"body":"thousand tablets in a bag."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1058.08,"endTime":1063.24,"body":"One bag has the same nutrition as 551 pounds of vegetables."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1063.24,"endTime":1065.73,"body":"That's about 30 grocery carts of food."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1065.73,"endTime":1067.98,"body":"And we have a discount code we're going to give your listeners."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1067.98,"endTime":1074.1299999999999,"body":"So when you they're normally a bag is $130, but with the code comes down to 100 and 104."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1074.1299999999999,"endTime":1078.6,"body":"If you took ten tablets a day, that's what we recommend ten spirulina in the morning, ten"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1078.6,"endTime":1081.87,"body":"chlorella at night. That works out to a dollar a day."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1082.05,"endTime":1087.96,"body":"And because there's so much nourishment in spirulina, it can eliminate you can eliminate"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1087.96,"endTime":1093.57,"body":"your multivitamin, your fish oil, your CoQ10, your biotin, probably your magnesium."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1093.57,"endTime":1098.04,"body":"Potassium. There's five oh, your collagen powder, probably your, uh, so that's there's"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1098.04,"endTime":1100.4099999999999,"body":"five other vitamins you can eliminate."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1100.4099999999999,"endTime":1104.6699999999998,"body":"So you're eliminating clutter, you're eliminating complexity."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1104.6699999999998,"endTime":1106.23,"body":"You're eliminating money."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1106.23,"endTime":1110.19,"body":"You're eliminating time all just from taking spirulina algae."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1110.19,"endTime":1114.36,"body":"And then when you take chlorella because it has so much chlorophyl 500 times more than"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1114.36,"endTime":1117.99,"body":"arugula, your arugula goes yellow after a couple of days because it doesn't have much"},{"speaker":"Catharine 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You'll just feel ready."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1248.3799999999999,"endTime":1250.06,"body":"That's how you will feel now."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1250.06,"endTime":1255.4299999999998,"body":"If you took it before a workout, you will either be able to run further, faster, lift"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1255.4299999999998,"endTime":1260.35,"body":"more, lift longer because you will because it's cellular energy."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1260.35,"endTime":1266.6799999999998,"body":"And so the energy that is generated from the spirulina is directed to where your body"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1266.6799999999998,"endTime":1268.6599999999999,"body":"needs it the most. At that moment."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1268.6599999999999,"endTime":1272.3799999999999,"body":"Some people take it before bed, and I actually wrote a paper about how you could take"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1272.3799999999999,"endTime":1276.94,"body":"spirulina before bed, and it won't keep you awake because it's not a stimulant."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1276.94,"endTime":1279.4299999999998,"body":"Stimulants speed up molecules."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1279.4299999999998,"endTime":1283.54,"body":"This improves the production of what's called ATP."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1283.57,"endTime":1285.4299999999998,"body":"That's cellular energy."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1285.4299999999998,"endTime":1290.6499999999999,"body":"And so the way that it does that is by improving the process by which that occurs and"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1290.6499999999999,"endTime":1295.24,"body":"also protecting the mitochondria, which is what generates that cellular energy for you."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1296.5,"endTime":1300.49,"body":"Just going back to what you were saying about taking these before you go to the gym."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1300.49,"endTime":1306.01,"body":"So you, you say you would be able to lift heavier, you'd be able to run faster."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1306.1,"endTime":1312.07,"body":"Are those claims supported by peer reviewed clinical studies?"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1312.07,"endTime":1314.08,"body":"Have experiments been done with athletes?"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1314.08,"endTime":1316.06,"body":"Your VO2 max increases?"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1316.27,"endTime":1319.84,"body":"Your inflammation level decreases."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1320.02,"endTime":1325.45,"body":"Your blood flow increases because spirulina has a very high amount of iron, which is what"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1325.45,"endTime":1327.07,"body":"carries oxygen in your blood."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1327.07,"endTime":1330.8799999999999,"body":"And you need oxygen to perform any kind of activity."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1331.09,"endTime":1337.6299999999999,"body":"It also stimulates the release of stem cells, stem cells, and also supports the"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1337.6299999999999,"endTime":1342.1,"body":"mitochondria, your mitochondria, because, again, they generate energy including in your"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1342.1,"endTime":1344.8899999999999,"body":"muscles. 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And your brain is, uh, has a very high percentage of fat."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1367.51,"endTime":1374.53,"body":"And so when you give your body and your brain the nourishment it needs from the oxygen"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1374.53,"endTime":1379.06,"body":"and the essential fatty acids and the nutrients, like the superoxide dismutase that"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1379.06,"endTime":1381.94,"body":"protect your mitochondria, everything works better."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1381.94,"endTime":1386.8,"body":"There's a book that was just released last year by Doctor Chris Palmer called Brain"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1386.8,"endTime":1388.33,"body":"Energy and the entire."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1388.33,"endTime":1391.72,"body":"And he's a psychiatrist at the Harvard Medical School."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1391.72,"endTime":1397.57,"body":"And the his entire book is about how all brain disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder,"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1397.57,"endTime":1400.33,"body":"anything is due to damaged mitochondria."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1400.33,"endTime":1405.58,"body":"And because spirulina has the nutrients that have been proven to support and protect the"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1405.58,"endTime":1411.61,"body":"mitochondria, the first way thing to do is to get your focus, prevent Alzheimer's is to"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1411.61,"endTime":1414.3999999999999,"body":"get those mitochondria functioning again better."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1414.3999999999999,"endTime":1417.55,"body":"And spirulina has been proven to help do that."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1417.9099999999999,"endTime":1419.08,"body":"Really wanted to dive in."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1419.08,"endTime":1422.44,"body":"And you've already started to I do that into mitochondria."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1422.53,"endTime":1427.9299999999998,"body":"Mitochondria are something that on this podcast we've talked about a lot because of the"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1427.9299999999998,"endTime":1431.5,"body":"and you've reflected this, but the basic understanding that they are so crucially"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1431.5,"endTime":1437.44,"body":"important to our overall health, especially in terms of energy, but muscle strength."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1437.44,"endTime":1442.6299999999999,"body":"And as we age, of course, muscle strength is so important with the potential for frailty"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1442.6299999999999,"endTime":1448.27,"body":"as we get older. Frailty reduces our ability to to stand up and and to walk straight and"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1448.27,"endTime":1453.61,"body":"to potentially fall over is one of those key issues that I think affects a lot of old"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1453.61,"endTime":1458.6499999999999,"body":"people, and sometimes can be the beginning of quite a rapid decline in health."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1458.6499999999999,"endTime":1462.07,"body":"So muscular strength is so important for that reason."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1462.07,"endTime":1466.51,"body":"And at the heart of all of this, and I'd like just you to elaborate a little bit, are"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1466.51,"endTime":1473.83,"body":"mitochondria and specifically our ability to repair and replace mitochondria mitophagy"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1473.83,"endTime":1479.98,"body":"the process of which every one of us is dependent, and that is the constant replenishment"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1479.98,"endTime":1481.57,"body":"of our mitochondria."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1481.57,"endTime":1483.58,"body":"Yes, absolutely."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1483.7,"endTime":1491.77,"body":"What I want to emphasize is that aging is inevitable, declining is not."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1491.77,"endTime":1497.86,"body":"As I mentioned earlier on, when we start, before we start recording, I'm going to be"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1497.86,"endTime":1499.54,"body":"turning 68 in a few months."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1499.54,"endTime":1507.28,"body":"So I'm inching towards 70 and I, am feeling the best of my life."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1507.28,"endTime":1512.2,"body":"I have my brain is working, my body is working, my skin looks great, my digestion is"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1512.2,"endTime":1519.04,"body":"great. And I attribute a large amount of this to algae because, I just don't look like"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1519.04,"endTime":1521.71,"body":"anyone else my age, and I don't."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1521.71,"endTime":1524.08,"body":"And I feel I've even had some tests done."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1524.08,"endTime":1529.9299999999998,"body":"I have my biological age, apparently is 30, and for a 68 year old to have a biological"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1529.9299999999998,"endTime":1536.44,"body":"age of 30, I want to shout out to Bryan Johnson, who's been spending $5 million so far,"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1536.44,"endTime":1541.82,"body":"to. knock off a year or two of his biological age and I say, hey, Bryan, I knocked 30 off"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1541.82,"endTime":1543.9199999999998,"body":"mine and I only took algae."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1543.9199999999998,"endTime":1547.76,"body":"And so you don't have to go do stem cell and all the stuff that he's doing."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1547.76,"endTime":1551.45,"body":"Just take algae and, you know, then you'll see, you'll see the results."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1551.45,"endTime":1552.95,"body":"But let's get back to mitochondria."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1552.95,"endTime":1557.78,"body":"Just to jump in there, just to explain to anyone who maybe doesn't follow the science"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1557.78,"endTime":1563.54,"body":"behind determining what your biological age is, how do you determine 30?"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1564.3799999999999,"endTime":1570.32,"body":"I had a test done by a company called Brain Tap, and they have a series of tests that they"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1570.32,"endTime":1577.3999999999999,"body":"run. They, uh, your, HRV, which determines the ability of your heart to respond, to get"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1577.3999999999999,"endTime":1579.86,"body":"back to a base level after being stressed."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1580.52,"endTime":1582.02,"body":"That's heart rate variability."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1582.02,"endTime":1587.24,"body":"Yes. I would have to go pull the papers because I'm not an expert on what their tests"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1587.24,"endTime":1590.3899999999999,"body":"were, but they've been doing these tests all over the country."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1590.3899999999999,"endTime":1595.25,"body":"Normally they test people before they do a test with them on their brain tap device, and"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1595.25,"endTime":1599.69,"body":"usually after the device that shows that they've dropped a couple of years off someone's"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1599.69,"endTime":1604.34,"body":"brain, because they've also found that when your brain is functioning better, guess what?"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1604.34,"endTime":1609.4099999999999,"body":"Apparently your body will absorb, it improves the ability of your body to absorb"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1609.4099999999999,"endTime":1611.1799999999998,"body":"nutrition by 30%."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1611.1799999999998,"endTime":1616.55,"body":"And so once again, because spirulina in particular helps with your brain functioning,"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1616.55,"endTime":1618.6799999999998,"body":"it's also going to have the same impact."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1618.6799999999998,"endTime":1621.26,"body":"It will allow your body to absorb the nutrients."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1621.26,"endTime":1624.05,"body":"And then the chlorella does help with gut health."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1624.05,"endTime":1629.6299999999999,"body":"So I can't go into those numbers because I don't have them just in the top of my head or"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1629.6299999999999,"endTime":1632.51,"body":"in front of me, but I can certainly get them for you if you want it."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1632.51,"endTime":1634.76,"body":"But HRV is one of the big ones for sure."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1634.79,"endTime":1636.8,"body":"Got it? Good. That's good to understand that."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1636.8,"endTime":1637.94,"body":"So I interrupted you."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1637.94,"endTime":1643.1,"body":"You were talking about obviously being in your in your late 60s and feeling great."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":1643.1,"endTime":1645.6499999999999,"body":"How long have you been consuming algae?"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1645.6499999999999,"endTime":1651.08,"body":"Well, since I started the company, which was 14 years ago, and I couldn't miss."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1651.08,"endTime":1652.8799999999999,"body":"I wouldn't want to miss a day."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1652.8799999999999,"endTime":1655.01,"body":"I don't think I have missed a day in 14 years."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1655.01,"endTime":1658.61,"body":"I travel with it. I have it in all my pockets, my handbags, my gym bags."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1658.73,"endTime":1660.1699999999998,"body":"I take it everywhere."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1660.1699999999998,"endTime":1664.34,"body":"And fortunately they come in little pouches, that you can carry with you."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1664.34,"endTime":1668.51,"body":"We also, as I'm showing you, these little tins, these tins come in with our, our"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1668.51,"endTime":1673.31,"body":"canisters so you can pop them in your, in your, pockets and carry them with you."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1673.31,"endTime":1678.08,"body":"So we make it as easy and effortless as possible to carry your algae tablets with you"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1678.08,"endTime":1681.86,"body":"wherever you're going, so that you don't have to just grab some carb that will give you"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1681.86,"endTime":1683.0,"body":"an insulin spike."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1683.0,"endTime":1687.9199999999998,"body":"And when you have insulin spikes, that causes damage, more damage to your mitochondria."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1687.9199999999998,"endTime":1692.72,"body":"And so, let's swing back to the mitochondria story, because it's very important for"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1692.72,"endTime":1695.69,"body":"people to understand what they are and why they you need to protect them."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1695.69,"endTime":1698.1799999999998,"body":"And when you protect them, they will protect you."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1698.1799999999998,"endTime":1702.5,"body":"So the first thing to help you understand what they are is I tell people, you know, your"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1702.5,"endTime":1704.24,"body":"body is like a building."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1704.24,"endTime":1709.7,"body":"Think of a new building, and in the building you have offices, and in the offices you"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1709.7,"endTime":1713.33,"body":"have lights that allow people in the offices to do their work."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1713.33,"endTime":1717.9199999999998,"body":"Well, if your body was the building, think of your cells as the equivalent of the"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1717.9199999999998,"endTime":1720.95,"body":"offices, because in the cells, that's where all the work is done."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1720.95,"endTime":1724.76,"body":"And the thing that allows the work to be done are the mitochondria."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1724.76,"endTime":1728.3899999999999,"body":"So think of the mitochondria as the lights in an office."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1728.3899999999999,"endTime":1733.04,"body":"Now, in an office, when the lights go out, maintenance people come and replace them."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1733.04,"endTime":1735.62,"body":"So there's no interruption of work."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1735.62,"endTime":1740.3899999999999,"body":"The problem is in your body when your mitochondria die or get damaged as they do as you"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1740.3899999999999,"endTime":1745.1299999999999,"body":"get older, particularly after the age of 30 or 40, if you're not doing something like"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1745.1299999999999,"endTime":1747.98,"body":"taking algae, your lights never get replaced."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1747.98,"endTime":1749.3,"body":"They just go out."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1749.3,"endTime":1754.07,"body":"And as you have fewer and fewer mitochondria, it's a great analogy because you have less"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1754.07,"endTime":1758.12,"body":"and less energy, less and less cellular energy, because that's what they make."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1758.12,"endTime":1761.75,"body":"And when I talk about cellular energy, I'm not talking about the energy just to run to"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1761.75,"endTime":1762.8,"body":"the grocery store."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1762.8,"endTime":1766.49,"body":"The cellular energy is what keeps you alive."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1766.49,"endTime":1769.22,"body":"Cellular energy is used for everything."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1769.22,"endTime":1774.3799999999999,"body":"It's for your heartbeat, for your lungs to breathe, for your neurotransmitters to move,"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1774.3799999999999,"endTime":1778.73,"body":"for your lymphatic system, for your digestion, for your skin turnover."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1778.73,"endTime":1782.1499999999999,"body":"Absolutely everything requires cellular energy."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1782.1499999999999,"endTime":1787.37,"body":"If it helps you think about cellular energy, like money, when you have more money, you"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1787.37,"endTime":1789.95,"body":"can do more things and you have more choices."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1789.95,"endTime":1795.2,"body":"When you have more cellular energy, you can do more things and you have more choices."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1795.2,"endTime":1800.03,"body":"So the key to living long is to have more cellular energy."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1800.03,"endTime":1805.9099999999999,"body":"And the way to do that is to have more mitochondria and to protect the ones that you"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1805.9099999999999,"endTime":1812.1299999999999,"body":"have. Now, the unfortunate thing about mitochondria is that they get damaged in the"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1812.1299999999999,"endTime":1815.31,"body":"process of generating that ATP for you."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1815.31,"endTime":1818.94,"body":"Again, ATP is the cell terme for cellular energy."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1818.94,"endTime":1820.02,"body":"They get damaged."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1820.02,"endTime":1824.49,"body":"So when they get damaged they're not going to generate as much cellular energy."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1824.49,"endTime":1826.47,"body":"And eventually they will die."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1826.47,"endTime":1832.9199999999998,"body":"And then this is what begins this downward spiral of having brain fog, bad digestion, not"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1832.9199999999998,"endTime":1834.03,"body":"being able to sleep."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1834.03,"endTime":1839.8799999999999,"body":"So the key to getting you back to health or protecting what you have is to keep your"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1839.8799999999999,"endTime":1843.6599999999999,"body":"mitochondria healthy and as numerous as possible."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1843.84,"endTime":1845.58,"body":"But there's a problem."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1846.3899999999999,"endTime":1850.02,"body":"Your mitochondria have something called their own DNA."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1850.05,"endTime":1852.24,"body":"You know, you have 22,000 regular DNA."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1852.24,"endTime":1854.73,"body":"Well, your mitochondria have their own DNA and there's only 37."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1854.73,"endTime":1858.03,"body":"And you think, oh, how important could 37 mitochondria DNA be?"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1858.06,"endTime":1864.1799999999998,"body":"Well, those 37 control all the other DNA, the 22,000 and everything else in your body."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1864.1799999999998,"endTime":1867.03,"body":"Think of them as the airport control air controllers."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1867.03,"endTime":1871.11,"body":"There's only a few of them, but they control everything that comes in and out of the out"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1871.11,"endTime":1874.5,"body":"of the airport. Your mitochondrial DNA are the same thing."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1874.5,"endTime":1877.59,"body":"They control everything that goes on in and out of your cells."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1877.59,"endTime":1881.94,"body":"And when they get damaged, your cells, your body, and your health crashes."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1881.94,"endTime":1883.6499999999999,"body":"Just like at an airport."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1883.6499999999999,"endTime":1888.48,"body":"A plane crash might happen if your air controllers weren't on their game."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1888.48,"endTime":1890.37,"body":"And how do they get damaged?"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1890.37,"endTime":1894.3,"body":"Well, I'm going to give you a bit of a science lesson because I want you to understand"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1894.3,"endTime":1899.4299999999998,"body":"this. In the cell, you have your mitochondria, you have your nucleus, and then you have"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1899.4299999999998,"endTime":1901.9199999999998,"body":"these little peanut shaped things that are your mitochondria."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1901.95,"endTime":1907.9199999999998,"body":"Now remember, there's 2 million of these little guys inside each cell in your brain."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1907.9199999999998,"endTime":1914.1599999999999,"body":"And there's also, I think, 9000 ish in each cell in your heart."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1914.19,"endTime":1919.71,"body":"Now, inside the mitochondria, which are again inside the cell, this is where that stuff"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1919.71,"endTime":1921.12,"body":"called ATP is produced."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1921.12,"endTime":1922.8,"body":"That's the cellular energy."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1922.8,"endTime":1929.22,"body":"But what most people don't realize is that a byproduct of ATP are free radicals, those"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1929.22,"endTime":1930.3899999999999,"body":"bad boys, right."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1930.3899999999999,"endTime":1932.76,"body":"We all know that. Well, maybe you don't know what free radicals are."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1932.76,"endTime":1937.29,"body":"So let me tell you, free radicals are a molecule that is unbalanced."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1937.29,"endTime":1939.8999999999999,"body":"And Mother Nature loves balance and harmony."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1939.8999999999999,"endTime":1945.24,"body":"So when you have an unbalanced molecule, it means that there's an electron in the outer"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1945.24,"endTime":1948.33,"body":"orbit, that there's only one of them in it, and it needs to be paired."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1948.33,"endTime":1953.37,"body":"So just like a kid who didn't get lunch that day, they go steal someone else's lunch."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1953.37,"endTime":1958.86,"body":"That, free radical will steal a molecule from another molecule, which causes tissue"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1958.8899999999999,"endTime":1961.6499999999999,"body":"damage. And now it's unbalanced."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1961.6499999999999,"endTime":1964.59,"body":"So it goes and steals somebody else's lunch."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1964.59,"endTime":1969.1499999999999,"body":"So something called antioxidants have extra electrons."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1969.1499999999999,"endTime":1975.09,"body":"It's like someone came in with, all the lunches for everybody and donates these electrons"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1975.09,"endTime":1979.59,"body":"to those free radicals so they calm themselves down, they leave you alone, and"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1979.59,"endTime":1980.61,"body":"everybody's happy."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1980.61,"endTime":1985.1699999999998,"body":"So the problem is, when you have ATP and you have all these free radicals that are"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1985.1699999999998,"endTime":1989.97,"body":"causing all this tissue damage, it damages the mitochondria DNA because guess what?"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1989.97,"endTime":1994.56,"body":"They're located right inside where the free radicals are produced."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":1994.56,"endTime":2001.6699999999998,"body":"Now, when they get damaged, this is when they start, not behaving properly, not"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2001.6699999999998,"endTime":2003.95,"body":"generating ATP or dying."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2003.95,"endTime":2005.12,"body":"And there's nothing."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2005.12,"endTime":2007.55,"body":"This is just the way the process is."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2007.55,"endTime":2011.3,"body":"When the ATP is produced, free radicals are produced."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2011.3,"endTime":2016.31,"body":"Now, Mother nature is very clever because when you are born, you have something called an"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2016.31,"endTime":2022.1299999999999,"body":"antioxidant. The most powerful antioxidant for your mitochondria is is called, superoxide"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2022.1299999999999,"endTime":2027.05,"body":"dismutase because the most damaging free radical is called superoxide."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2027.05,"endTime":2030.1699999999998,"body":"And it's damaging because it has three unpaired electrons."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2030.1699999999998,"endTime":2036.56,"body":"So Mother Nature was so kind to us because when we were born, we started we generate this"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2036.56,"endTime":2042.3799999999999,"body":"thing called superoxide dismutase, which protects you from the rain of free radicals."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2042.3799999999999,"endTime":2043.61,"body":"Think of it this way."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2043.61,"endTime":2047.1499999999999,"body":"You know, if you're stuck in a rainstorm and you got one of those honking big golf"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2047.1499999999999,"endTime":2048.17,"body":"umbrellas, right?"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2048.17,"endTime":2049.76,"body":"You're laughing, you're covered."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2049.76,"endTime":2051.05,"body":"You're protected from the rain."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2051.05,"endTime":2052.37,"body":"Doesn't matter. You're good."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2052.37,"endTime":2054.62,"body":"That's what superoxide dismutase does."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2054.62,"endTime":2060.62,"body":"It protects you from the rain of free radicals that are caused through this production of"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2060.62,"endTime":2061.82,"body":"cellular energy."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2061.82,"endTime":2067.94,"body":"But as you once you hit about age 30, that umbrella, your body stops generating less and"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2067.94,"endTime":2069.5,"body":"less of the superoxide dismutase."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2069.5,"endTime":2073.85,"body":"It's like now having one of those little mini tote umbrellas not going to protect you"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2073.85,"endTime":2076.16,"body":"like the big honking golf umbrella."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2076.16,"endTime":2079.04,"body":"Okay, so by the 30 you're not getting as much protection."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2079.04,"endTime":2082.13,"body":"So there's more free radical damage getting to your mitochondria."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2082.13,"endTime":2087.68,"body":"By the time you're 40, your body is making virtually zero superoxide dismutase."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2087.68,"endTime":2093.32,"body":"That big golf umbrella is now about the size of a cocktail umbrella in your drink, not"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2093.32,"endTime":2094.58,"body":"protecting you at all."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2094.58,"endTime":2101.39,"body":"So now all the protection that you used to have is gone, and this speeds up the damage"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2101.39,"endTime":2104.06,"body":"being done to your mitochondria DNA."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2104.09,"endTime":2105.95,"body":"This is my theory."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2106.07,"endTime":2109.52,"body":"About why aging occurs at such escalated levels."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2109.52,"endTime":2110.93,"body":"Why chronic disease."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2111.29,"endTime":2114.89,"body":"Happens at such escalating levels after the age of 40."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2114.89,"endTime":2119.42,"body":"It's because our mitochondria aren't protected any longer, and your mitochondria are what"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2119.42,"endTime":2120.59,"body":"generates cellular energy."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2120.59,"endTime":2124.5499999999997,"body":"And cellular energy is what protects you from inflammation."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2124.5499999999997,"endTime":2127.58,"body":"It protects you from heart disease, Alzheimer's."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2127.58,"endTime":2130.85,"body":"Everything comes down to looking after your mitochondria."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2130.88,"endTime":2135.98,"body":"Now, the problem is, as I mentioned, your body's not making superoxide dismutase after"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2135.98,"endTime":2140.33,"body":"the age of 40. And the other problem is you basically can't get it from virtually any"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2140.33,"endTime":2146.15,"body":"other food. With the exception, I found out recently that, wheatgrass has a little bit."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2146.15,"endTime":2147.29,"body":"But guess what?"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2147.29,"endTime":2152.7799999999997,"body":"Spirulina and chlorella algae have the highest concentration of superoxide dismutase in"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2152.7799999999997,"endTime":2157.79,"body":"the world. spirulina has twice the amount as Chlorella."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2157.79,"endTime":2163.07,"body":"And because spirulina is a bacteria, it means it has no cellulose wall, but it's absorbed"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2163.07,"endTime":2166.31,"body":"almost instantly, so it's 99% bioavailable."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2166.31,"endTime":2171.41,"body":"That superoxide dismutase is absorbed and directed immediately to the mitochondria."},{"speaker":"Catharine 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the superoxide dismutase."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2193.88,"endTime":2196.85,"body":"Yes, you'll still get some chlorophyl and yes, you'll still get some protein, but you"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2196.85,"endTime":2198.56,"body":"will not get the golf umbrella."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2198.7999999999997,"endTime":2205.5499999999997,"body":"You only get the golf umbrella from algae or from taking, frozen or fresh spirulina"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2205.5499999999997,"endTime":2208.2799999999997,"body":"because, again, they have not been exposed to high heat."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2208.2799999999997,"endTime":2213.74,"body":"So when you take spirulina, what it does is it's protecting your mitochondria from that"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2213.74,"endTime":2215.5099999999998,"body":"rain of free radicals."},{"speaker":"Catharine 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those studies produce."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2244.31,"endTime":2249.41,"body":"Like I said, there's 60,000 on spirulina and there's lots of studies about that."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2249.41,"endTime":2256.19,"body":"We even did our own little clinical trial last year with a small group of veterans who"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2256.19,"endTime":2258.83,"body":"had been discharged because of mental issues."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2258.83,"endTime":2262.1,"body":"And they were all in their, you know, 40s, 50s."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2262.1,"endTime":2264.35,"body":"We had one gentleman who was like 72."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2264.35,"endTime":2269.21,"body":"And, this group that we worked with for the clinical trial, they're they're a nonprofit"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2269.21,"endTime":2275.21,"body":"called the Gray Team, and they exist to help stop suicide rates of military veterans,"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2275.21,"endTime":2278.66,"body":"which is now at about 35 to 50%."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2278.66,"endTime":2281.12,"body":"This organization is based in Florida."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2281.12,"endTime":2283.16,"body":"It's the great, great team org."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2283.16,"endTime":2287.33,"body":"They're a great organization and they're doing everything they can to turn this around."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2287.33,"endTime":2292.52,"body":"So they wanted they met me at a number of biohacking shows and conferences."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2292.52,"endTime":2294.59,"body":"So we did this small trial."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2294.59,"endTime":2295.97,"body":"Only five people."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2296.06,"endTime":2299.7799999999997,"body":"We did brain scans before we started."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2299.7799999999997,"endTime":2304.64,"body":"We gave them some devices to connect, when they were at home to measure their sleep and"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2304.64,"endTime":2308.12,"body":"the HRV and these other metrics."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2308.57,"endTime":2314.96,"body":"And all we did was give them a pouch of the spirulina, which has 30 tablets in it a day."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2315.38,"endTime":2317.6,"body":"They were told not to change anything else."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2317.6,"endTime":2321.32,"body":"Don't change their diet, don't do extra exercise, nothing."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2321.32,"endTime":2327.2599999999998,"body":"And after 30 days, we measured their brain again with this, uh, EEG, I guess."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2327.2599999999998,"endTime":2332.18,"body":"And, it showed and I have the I have the some images I can show you."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2332.18,"endTime":2338.15,"body":"The inflammation completely disappeared in 30 days, and I think it would have disappeared"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2338.15,"endTime":2342.0499999999997,"body":"within 15 if we had done the brain scan after 15 days."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2342.0499999999997,"endTime":2345.65,"body":"There's endless amounts of research about this."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2345.65,"endTime":2347.63,"body":"This is what I'm trying to explain to people."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2347.63,"endTime":2351.83,"body":"The, the. But the trouble is, scientists don't like to talk to consumers."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2351.83,"endTime":2353.57,"body":"That was a study of five people."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2353.87,"endTime":2355.2799999999997,"body":"Yes. So it was a very small study."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2355.34,"endTime":2356.09,"body":"Not huge, obviously."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2356.09,"endTime":2357.92,"body":"No, I know, but we're a very small company."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2357.92,"endTime":2363.0499999999997,"body":"And but my point was that there's lots of evidence and there's lots of science, except"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2363.0499999999997,"endTime":2369.0499999999997,"body":"the science has not been shared because, as you know, scientists, God bless them."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2369.0499999999997,"endTime":2372.74,"body":"Because if they didn't do the science, I wouldn't be able to be here now talking to you"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2372.74,"endTime":2374.6,"body":"about the results of the science."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2374.6,"endTime":2380.09,"body":"But they are they live like the medical industry does in silos, and they do talk to each"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2380.09,"endTime":2383.15,"body":"other, but they don't talk to the general public."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2383.27,"endTime":2388.97,"body":"they're very,smart and they're very they have a lot of jargon."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2388.97,"endTime":2393.41,"body":"And I call myself a citizen scientist because I didn't start this."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2393.41,"endTime":2397.19,"body":"I only started this company because my sister had breast cancer, and her oncologist told"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2397.19,"endTime":2398.99,"body":"her to change her diet to an alkaline diet."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2398.99,"endTime":2401.75,"body":"I helped her figure out what that was, which turned out to be a plant based diet, which"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2401.75,"endTime":2404.81,"body":"led me to algae, which is the most alkaline, nutrient dense food in the world."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2404.81,"endTime":2405.89,"body":"Anyways, the point is."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2406.11,"endTime":2407.82,"body":"I didn't come from a science background."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2407.82,"endTime":2409.23,"body":"I taught myself everything."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2409.23,"endTime":2413.04,"body":"Although I'm now at a going to get my PhD."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2413.07,"endTime":2414.6,"body":"Hopefully this year, but might be next year."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2414.6,"endTime":2415.62,"body":"We'll we'll figure it out."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2415.62,"endTime":2422.37,"body":"so I know what it feels like not to know the science, but the science is there if you"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2422.37,"endTime":2425.94,"body":"learn how to look for it in PubMed and on Google."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2425.94,"endTime":2430.65,"body":"And so there's plenty of science, but you don't know what you don't know."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2430.65,"endTime":2436.5299999999997,"body":"Nobody would know that they could go learn about the medical health benefits of algae"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2436.5299999999997,"endTime":2441.81,"body":"because they don't even know algae exists, let alone has medicinal properties, but I do."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2443.19,"endTime":2448.35,"body":"I suppose a cynic is going to say, well, if the science is there, and you started by"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2448.35,"endTime":2452.94,"body":"saying that people still, especially in this country, the United States, don't know about"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2452.94,"endTime":2457.35,"body":"algae. If the science is there, why hasn't it emerged?"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2457.35,"endTime":2460.71,"body":"You'd think, if it was so remarkable that it would."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2460.71,"endTime":2461.79,"body":"Well, it has emerged."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2461.79,"endTime":2465.69,"body":"But in Asia, in Asia, everybody knows about it."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2465.69,"endTime":2470.58,"body":"It hasn't emerged here because it's not part of the daily diet."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2470.58,"endTime":2475.59,"body":"It's not part of your lifestyle in in Taiwan or Japan you can't ride your bicycle"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2475.59,"endTime":2478.89,"body":"anywhere without going by an algae farm or driving to work."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2478.89,"endTime":2482.82,"body":"Here we go. Drive by wheat farms or or."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2483.93,"endTime":2486.33,"body":"Strawberry patches, but we certainly don't see any algae."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2486.33,"endTime":2490.92,"body":"There is no reason for anybody to even be aware of algae, period."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2490.95,"endTime":2493.86,"body":"A lot of people don't even know that spirulina is algae."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2493.98,"endTime":2495.87,"body":"Most people don't even know about chlorella."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2496.02,"endTime":2501.66,"body":"But it's it's because it's just not part of our lifestyle as it is in Asia."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2501.69,"endTime":2509.1,"body":"Now, there's all kinds of really valuable foods and things from Asia or other countries"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2509.1,"endTime":2512.43,"body":"that have been used by indigenous peoples for centuries."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2512.43,"endTime":2518.25,"body":"And until someone introduced them and explain them to Americans, they weren't known here"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2518.25,"endTime":2523.65,"body":"either. You probably didn't know about chia or quinoa or matcha or or CBD or collagen"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2523.65,"endTime":2529.62,"body":"powder until maybe ten years ago, when somebody decided to try to get them into the US"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2529.62,"endTime":2530.85,"body":"diet and lifestyle."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2530.85,"endTime":2533.88,"body":"And I'm doing the same thing for algae."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2533.88,"endTime":2539.04,"body":"I try to tell people what we're sort of doing is sort of what Lululemon did for yoga."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2539.04,"endTime":2542.94,"body":"You know, yoga had been around for centuries, but it hadn't been in the mainstream in"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2542.94,"endTime":2547.68,"body":"America until they started designing very fashionable, fun yoga wear."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2547.68,"endTime":2551.0099999999998,"body":"And suddenly more people felt it wasn't so weird."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2551.04,"endTime":2553.65,"body":"I'm trying to help people understand algae is not weird."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2553.65,"endTime":2558.09,"body":"It is probably the most powerful, critical, nutrient dense food in the world."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2558.09,"endTime":2559.23,"body":"Not probably. It is."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2559.23,"endTime":2560.58,"body":"And the science proves it."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2560.58,"endTime":2565.77,"body":"It's just that it has not been explained outside of Asia and the science is there."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2565.77,"endTime":2567.93,"body":"But that has not been explained either."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2567.93,"endTime":2569.61,"body":"So it's it's nothing woo woo."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2569.61,"endTime":2570.72,"body":"It's nothing weird."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2570.72,"endTime":2575.37,"body":"It's just something that you didn't grow up with and just like other things that, you"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2575.37,"endTime":2578.88,"body":"know, until somebody explained it to you, you wouldn't know about them either."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2579.21,"endTime":2581.46,"body":"Catharine it's always fascinating to talk to you."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2581.46,"endTime":2585.96,"body":"You mentioned a little earlier, if anyone listening to this, watching this wants to try"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2585.96,"endTime":2586.98,"body":"for themselves."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2586.98,"endTime":2589.38,"body":"You're offering a little discount code."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2589.38,"endTime":2591.33,"body":"Yes. We have a discount code."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2591.36,"endTime":2594.12,"body":"LLAMA"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2594.12,"endTime":2595.59,"body":"Is LLAMA. Live Long and Master Aging."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2595.59,"endTime":2605.46,"body":"Yes. So all you need to do is go to energybits.com energy bits and type that 'LLAMA' into"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2605.46,"endTime":2607.35,"body":"the discount code box."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2607.35,"endTime":2608.85,"body":"We have the large bags."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2608.85,"endTime":2610.11,"body":"We have individual pouches."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2610.11,"endTime":2614.04,"body":"We have gorgeous canisters that allow you to shake the tablets out into your hand."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2614.04,"endTime":2616.14,"body":"You have to put your hand in the bag."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2616.41,"endTime":2619.62,"body":"and if you're not ready for buying anything, that's cool."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2619.62,"endTime":2623.7599999999998,"body":"We write a full blog every month with lots of science references."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2623.85,"endTime":2628.5,"body":"And you can also go to Amazon and just buy a pouch or two if you want."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2628.5,"endTime":2629.79,"body":"They're only $6 each."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2629.79,"endTime":2634.11,"body":"There's 30 tablets in each one, and that way you can experiment and see if they do"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2634.11,"endTime":2635.16,"body":"exactly what I tell them."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2635.19,"endTime":2636.45,"body":"Tell you they do."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2636.9,"endTime":2640.38,"body":"And then come back to the website and make your purchase."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2640.38,"endTime":2645.9,"body":"But I started this company as a labor of love to help my sister."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2645.9,"endTime":2650.5499999999997,"body":"And then I gave up my corporate career and went back to school and got a health coaching"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2650.5499999999997,"endTime":2657.09,"body":"certificate. And then I've just spent 14 years learning about algae and learning the"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2657.09,"endTime":2662.43,"body":"science and the cellular biology, and why trying to understand what's preventing people"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2662.43,"endTime":2666.12,"body":"from getting healthy, what's preventing them from preserving what they have."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2666.12,"endTime":2670.7999999999997,"body":"And I am 100% convinced that algae is the answer."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2670.7999999999997,"endTime":2675.21,"body":"And there are organizations all around the world that also agree, except that they're not"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2675.21,"endTime":2681.06,"body":"mainstream. So this knowledge has not gotten out into the mainstream, and I'm doing as"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2681.06,"endTime":2684.18,"body":"much as I can. I invite you to do some research."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2684.21,"endTime":2688.7999999999997,"body":"I mentioned a couple of things, like this blue pigment called phycocyanin proven to kill"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2688.7999999999997,"endTime":2693.81,"body":"cancer cells. The chemical pharmaceutical companies are using it already."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2693.81,"endTime":2696.2999999999997,"body":"But who was ever going to tell you about that?"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2696.2999999999997,"endTime":2701.46,"body":"So so I'm here to help move the needle, get us back to health."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2701.64,"endTime":2707.67,"body":"whether it's somebody else's algae or frozen spirulina, just, you know, educate yourself,"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2707.67,"endTime":2711.42,"body":"learn about it, because, it's going to be very big."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2711.42,"endTime":2713.79,"body":"It's going it's effortless to take."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2713.79,"endTime":2716.67,"body":"You can, like I say, you can swallow the tablets, chew them."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2716.7,"endTime":2721.62,"body":"Our NHL players take 75 spirulina before a game and 75 of the chlorella after."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2721.62,"endTime":2723.6,"body":"I have over 100 a day."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2723.63,"endTime":2725.22,"body":"But you don't need to take that much."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2725.22,"endTime":2726.33,"body":"At least take ten."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2726.33,"endTime":2729.15,"body":"And, that will get you on the back, on the road."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2729.15,"endTime":2734.46,"body":"And if you have a health condition now 30, our tablets are what we recommend as a"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2734.46,"endTime":2740.1,"body":"medicinal quantity, but they're effortless, nutrient dense, safe, third party, lab"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2740.13,"endTime":2744.0,"body":"tested, endorsed by doctors, endorsed by international agencies."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2744.0,"endTime":2747.09,"body":"You can't get any better than the world, than the United Nations and NASA."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2747.12,"endTime":2750.7799999999997,"body":"So. And used for 60 years safely in, in Asia."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2750.7799999999997,"endTime":2753.2999999999997,"body":"So, give it a try."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2754.29,"endTime":2758.31,"body":"Well, I will put all of those details that you mentioned, the discount code into the show"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2758.31,"endTime":2759.9,"body":"notes for this episode."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2759.9,"endTime":2762.72,"body":"There will also be a transcript of this conversation."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2762.72,"endTime":2766.62,"body":"And you've mentioned all of the scientific studies, peer reviewed studies."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2766.62,"endTime":2771.75,"body":"I'll put some details in the show notes as to where people can go to look independently,"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2771.75,"endTime":2776.67,"body":"to really check out what have you been saying and look at some of that extensive"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2776.67,"endTime":2778.71,"body":"research. Catherine, really good to talk to you."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2778.71,"endTime":2780.72,"body":"One final question. What is next for you?"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2780.72,"endTime":2783.09,"body":"You say you're working on your PhD."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2783.34,"endTime":2785.71,"body":"Hopefully that's going to happen in the next year or two."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2785.74,"endTime":2788.68,"body":"Do you have any other big goals that you're working towards?"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2788.71,"endTime":2793.54,"body":"Well, I'm trying to grow algae in, in America."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2793.84,"endTime":2798.5,"body":"So looking at land as we speak."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2798.5,"endTime":2801.88,"body":"we're talking, you know, substantial amounts of money."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2801.88,"endTime":2804.79,"body":"It's these are not little farms in your backyard."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2804.79,"endTime":2808.39,"body":"This is a 20, $25 million kind of investment."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2808.39,"endTime":2813.7,"body":"But, it's I think it's absolutely essential that we grow it here in America."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2813.7,"endTime":2818.56,"body":"If I'm going to move the needle, get people feeling comfortable learning more about it."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2818.56,"endTime":2822.7,"body":"So, yeah, that's, that's my big next project."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2823.6,"endTime":2825.49,"body":"And actually I said that was the final question."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2825.49,"endTime":2829.45,"body":"Just one more. You're approaching 70 fairly soon, a couple of years."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2829.45,"endTime":2832.12,"body":"What is your longevity goal?"},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2832.12,"endTime":2835.96,"body":"What are your aspirations in terms of growing older yourself?"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2835.96,"endTime":2839.71,"body":"Well, I promised the universe I was going to bring algae to America."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2839.71,"endTime":2845.35,"body":"And so, I'm going to just keep I'll probably get to a hundred at least."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2845.35,"endTime":2853.6,"body":"But my goal is to get algae on into every home, help it feed the world, which, you know,"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2853.6,"endTime":2855.99,"body":"the United Nations knows it can do."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2855.99,"endTime":2860.82,"body":"everything I do is with that in mind."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2860.82,"endTime":2868.48,"body":"It's been not an easy task, I will say, but, I'm not someone who gives up easily either,"},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2868.48,"endTime":2869.5299999999997,"body":"so I'm."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2869.5299999999997,"endTime":2871.09,"body":"I'm full speed ahead."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2872.77,"endTime":2874.12,"body":"I can tell that. Catharine."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2874.12,"endTime":2877.48,"body":"All the best. With everything that you do, I'm going to follow your work with interest."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2877.66,"endTime":2878.68,"body":"Good to talk to you again."},{"speaker":"Catharine Arnston","startTime":2878.68,"endTime":2879.85,"body":"Thank you so much, Peter."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2880.42,"endTime":2884.2,"body":"I Live Long and Master Aging podcast is a healthspan media production."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2884.2,"endTime":2886.72,"body":"We'll be back with another episode very soon."},{"speaker":"Peter Bowes","startTime":2886.72,"endTime":2889.33,"body":"In the meantime, thanks so much for listening."},{"speaker":"DISCLAIMER","startTime":2889.33,"endTime":2894.64,"body":"This podcast is for informational, educational and entertainment purposes only."},{"speaker":"DISCLAIMER","startTime":2894.64,"endTime":2897.16,"body":"We do not offer medical advice."},{"speaker":"DISCLAIMER","startTime":2897.16,"endTime":2902.5,"body":"If you have health concerns of any kind or you are considering adopting a new diet or"},{"speaker":"DISCLAIMER","startTime":2902.5,"endTime":2906.22,"body":"exercise regime, you should first consult your doctor."}]}