Fucoidan & Seaweed
Seaweed is where this shop started, and fucoidan is the compound most of the interest is about. These pieces cover what the research supports, what it does not, and how to tell a considered seaweed supplement from a well marketed one.
Everything We Know About Fucoidan: Benefits, Research and Safety
Fucoidan is the compound brown seaweed is best known for, and there is a genuinely unusual amount of research on it. Here is what that research is, what it is not, and what is worth knowing before you buy any of it.
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Fucoidan Is Now For Pets? Everything You Need To Know
An Australian biotech is selling seaweed extract for animal feed. What the product is, why pet supplements are regulated even more loosely than human ones, and what to ask before buying any.
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Seaweed 101: Separating Fact from Fiction
Seaweed attracts more confident nonsense than almost any other food, and some of it used to be on this page. Here is what is actually established, what is exaggerated, and what is simply wrong.
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Exploring the Benefits of Adding Seaweed to Your Diet
Seaweed is genuinely one of the more nutrient-dense things you can eat. That is a smaller claim than most articles on the subject make, and it is the one that holds up.
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Spirulina and Detox: What It Is, and What Your Liver Already Does
Spirulina is a genuinely good food with a modest evidence base. The detox framing around it is marketing, and the real safety story runs the opposite way to the usual claim.
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A Buyer's Guide to Seaweed Supplements
Seven seaweed and algae supplements worth knowing about, only one of which we sell, plus the four questions that tell you more than any label will.
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All About Limu Moui Seaweed
The brown seaweed LIMU Original was built on grows off Tonga at up to two feet a day and has been eaten there for a thousand years. What it is, how it is harvested, and what is actually known about it.
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How To Harvest Seaweed on the Oregon Coast
When the season runs, what the daily limit is, which species are worth taking, how to cut without killing the plant, and how to dry it once you get home.
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