Discovering Seaweed Beyond Sushi
Seaweed can restore gut health, regenerate skin and might even save the planet — so why aren’t more of us using seaweed? PhycoHealth reveals how to integrate seaweed into our everyday lives.
Seaweed has one of the longest histories in human health and nutrition. It was favoured by Aborigines here in Australia as a part of their cultural activities, as well as having medicinal benefits and being a source of food. The ancient Greeks and Mesopotamians used it in their beauty regimes — seaweed was even used to provide nutrition for the Maori Battalion of soldiers in World War II.
Yes, seaweed has been essential to human health and nutrition from the beginning. So where did we lose it?
Seaweed and food
Seaweed was never just for sushi, but modern food manufacturing forgot about it as an ingredient. When we stopped using seaweed, we lost a valuable source of micronutrients including iodine and iron, complete plant proteins, B vitamins, and Omega-3, and the all-important sea fibres which support gut function, and a stable immune system and metabolism.
Seaweed can fill the gaps that the modern diet can miss, but we must all relearn how to eat seaweed beyond sushi. This is where PhycoHealth has done the science and made it easy for you.
For more than 20 years, Dr. Pia Winberg, the founder of PhycoHealth, has been researching different types of seaweed, their nutritional advantages and where they can fit into our diets. PhycoHealth has developed the technology for Australia’s first and only native seaweed farm for food production and has created a range of products to make it easy for you to reap the many benefits of this fabulous superfood.
Lashings of seaweed dukkha on smashed avocado toast not only taste good, but offer amazing health benefits. PhycoHealth’s gold medal-winning Phukka rivals any of the traditional herb-and-spice blends in flavour and comes with a side serving of health benefits that are hard to overlook.
The PhycoHealth muesli will leave you amazed at how good seaweed for breakfast can taste, and the seaweed-rich pastas, Phettuccine and SeaSpirals, are a great way to add some seaweed to your dinner.
Finally, snacking healthily was never as easy it is with PhycoHealth’s PhycoBites, Sea C’s or the very moreish Phycodamias, roasted with seaweed and a touch of wasabi.
Seaweed and Skin
What you eat impacts your skin. However, seaweed from the outside can be beneficial as well, from the ancient practice of seaweed baths to the use of seaweed gels in wound-healing products.
Different seaweed gels can be used to hydrate, protect and support skin structure. PhycoHealth seaweed gels can hold two thousand times their weight in water, making them a fabulous source of hydration. These unique gels are being used in research to anchor skin cells to protect collagen, elastin and other skin tissue proteins.
While research and development is ongoing, PhycoHealth has not hesitated to deliver the benefits of seaweed in other skincare products today. The PhycoDerm skincare range has a committed fanbase in both young and old. Negatively charged seaweed gels can strip away impurities. PhycoHealth uses this in their CLEANSE and PURIFY products, which offer moisture-laden care. SOOTHE is best suited for use after sun exposure and on oily skin, and NOURISH is perfect for winter or those with drier skin. SHIELD was designed to offer a thin barrier of seaweed and zinc, protecting users from the sun and environment throughout the day.
Seaweed and sustainability
Dr Pia’s seaweed journey started with sustainability in mind. She travelled from the chills of Sweden to explore the ecosystem benefits of seaweed in balancing over-fertilisation off tropical coastlines in Sri Lanka. Seaweed was able to buffer the oceans and clean up seawater nutrients, capturing CO2 rapidly to grow 50 times faster than most land crops. Little did she know that her 20-year journey would unlock molecular secrets for human health and wellbeing.
Although the science can tell us what should be done, until someone does it there is no solution. And so PhycoHealth was born, with a mission of finding a fun and flavoursome way to introduce the benefits of seaweed into your life. PhycoHealth is there to make it easy, one mouthful at a time, every day.
Your seaweed journey
To celebrate your seaweed journey, our new factory near the turquoise shores of Jervis Bay, and the fact that seaweed is a focus in this edition of Wellbeing magazine, PhycoHealth is offering our complete range as a special bulk bundle. Find where seaweed fits into your life. Use the code WELLBEING_SEASON for an additional 25 per cent discount at the checkout for our complete PhycoHealth Bundle.
Add seaweed to your life every day for better health for you and a better planet for us all.
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