Catharine Arnston's sister's breast cancer diagnosis led her to study alkaline plant-based diets and eventually spirulina, an algae she calls the densest nutrient source available. The UN, NASA, and Carnegie have endorsed it as a solution to protein deficiency and world hunger.
I'm actually Canadian and my younger sister in Canada developed breast cancer and her oncologist told her she should change her diet to an alkaline diet because it would help her heal. And she didn't know what that was. So she called me. And I'm a very, I'm pretty good at research. So I said, I have no idea what it is either, but I will find out. And basically it's a diet based on plant based foods which are alkaline. And because the alkaline nature of greens and actually almonds and green tea are also alkaline. They provide your body with oxygen and phytonutrients, all of which support your immune system. And when you're going through something like chemotherapy, which really hurts your immune system, it's really strong to aid your body in every way that you can. So I gave her some tips. She changed her diet, she went through a chemo, and eight years later, she's still free of cancer. However, in the process, I learned about the power of green nutrition. I read about 20 books and I thought, my gosh, I think I'm changing my career because other people need to know about this. So I did give up my career. I have an MBA and 30 years work experience, went back to school, studied nutrition to get this board certified certification. And then I taught nutrition for a year trying to get people to eat greens. But I learned in that process that most people don't either like greens or it's too much work or whatever. So then I thought, okay, I'm not moving the needle. I need to find a way to help people get this green nutrition in them. Because if you have the proper alkaline balance in your body through your diet, it's less likely that you will get any kind of illness of any kind, whether it's, you know, cancer or heart disease or anything, diabetes, acne, you name it. So I started researching more things. And one of the things along the way I'd found for my sister was algae. But I had never given it a second look. It was just, you know, one of many things I'd found for her. Right. But then I started digging into the research and I couldn't believe what I found. It was the most alkaline food in the world has more chlorophyll than liquid chlorophyll, you know, has all the 40 nutrients. It's endorsed by the United nations, it's endorsed by NASA, endorsed by Carnegie Institute. It's a multibillion dollar. What's that? What's that? Mean, it's endorsed that they have spent time researching it as well, and written white papers about it as well, and have publicly declared through various mediums, whether it's the newspaper at the time or television or whatever, or reports that it is the most nutritionally dense food in the world. So, for example, the United Nations, I think it was in 1974, they held a world conference on spirulina. And I have the proceedings from that conference and their conclusion in 1974 or 1976, I can't remember the exact date, was that spirulina algae was the answer to world hunger because of the incredible nutrient density that it held, particularly the high concentration of protein, because that is what is causing so much illness and so much devastation globally is this lack of protein. Whenever you see a child, Sam.
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