BIO ACTIVE MEANS LIFE Pollutants in our air and water, and other toxins we take in through everyday living, deplete our bodies of important nutrients and decrease our resistance to disease.  That's why it's necessary to increase our intake of antioxidants and other nutrients. Poor agricultural practices and food processing take much of the nutritional value from our food, making it nearly impossible to get enough of important nutrients just from what we eat each day.  Studies clearly show the importance of taking supplements.  But the supplements are only useful if they are bio-available.  In other words, be sure they are in the forms your body can recognize and use. Bioactive, bio means life. So Bioactive means life is available and, in this case, it means life giving nutrients are available for the body. Our body needs living food, not dead food.  Food that is not bioactive is dead food, just as if you are eating minerals from rocks and dirt. How well our bodies absorb food and supplements depends on the physicochemical properties of such food and supplements.  In order to be effective, nutrients must be soluble in gastro-intestinal fluids and also possess permeability properties for good membrane diffusion in order to reach the bloodstream. Some forms of nutrition should be combined with other nutrients or chemicals in order for your body to recognize, absorb, and utilize the nutrients effectively.  It is most important to consume foods as whole-foods, not extracts. Sea Weeds are relatively simple living aquatic organisms that capture light energy through photosynthesis, and use it to convert inorganic bio-inactive substances into organic bio-active matter.  Our Sea Weed Asparagus is the whole plant freeze-dried to protect the nutrients from decomposing.  We call this product Olakai (Hawaiian word for "Health from the Ocean"). Olakai is a special formulation that boosts oxygenation in the body while delivering highly bio-available trace elements, enzymes and amino acids, as well as containing other vitamin support factors.  By using these bio-availability factors, we may get up to 90 percent delivery into the blood, roughly comparable to intramuscular injection without the needle. The calcium and minerals in Olakai are bio-available (highly absorbable) to your cells.  Olakai Calcium and other minerals are in a biological form derived from Sea Weed. Therefore, Olakai is a 100% bioactive calcium and mineral and does not have to undergo the digestive, ionizing process to which the other non bio-active calcium and some supplements must be subjected. The average American diet of meats, refined grains, and soft drinks (high in phosphorus) has been documented to contribute to increased bone loss in adults.  It is important to remember that proper calcium absorption absolutely requires an adequate level of vitamin D.  Sea Weed contains an ideal level of vitamin D for consumption.  Sea Weed provides, in organic (bio-active) form: sodium, calcium, riboflavin, iodine, magnesium, copper, vitamin A, vitamin B2, vitamin B12 an energy booster) vitamin C, iron, potassium, and dietary fiber. Poor bioavailability limits the benefits of nutrition by making it necessity for you to consume a much higher quantity of nutrients than we would if the food and supplements we consumed were readily absorbed.  This can create problems related to the cost of food and overeating.