What is Living Sea?
Living Sea is all-natural whole food sea vegetables in a capsule. According to the FDA, it is a “dietary supplement”.

What is a “dietary supplement”?
A dietary supplement is a pill, powder, or drink that is intended to nutritionally supplement (add to) your normal diet. It can be an individual nutrient like Vitamin C, a multivitamin, an herb or combination of herbs, or a whole food.

What are “nutrients”?
Nutrients are substances that can be used by the body to give energy and/or build tissue in order to heal or grow. Think of nutrients as the building blocks of life. On the most basic level, they are what allow us to live, breathe, think, talk, be in love, be happy -- or just be. Some examples of nutrients are vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. This is what our body is made of. Nutrients are the fuel of life.

Do I need more nutrients?
It is a well-known fact that the standard American diet does not contain enough nutrition. And there is evidence that our farm soils are depleted and don't contain the nutrients they used to. This means that even if you eat “healthy” things like vegetables, you may still not get enough nutrition. If you can't even get it from vegetables, you certainly can't get it from fast food or junk food!

What happens if I don't get enough nutrients?
You mean besides death? Without nutrition, the body cannot grow, heal itself, or fight disease. Drugs merely quiet the symptoms of disease; the body cures itself. Getting all essential nutrients is your best bet to prevent disease and live a long, healthy life. “An ounce of prevention equals a pound of cure.”

I take vitamins, so I'm good, right?
Vitamins play a very important role in health. They are essential to the growth of our cells, organs, and brain. But vitamins are useless without minerals. This means you need both vitamins and minerals in order to be healthy. But most vitamin supplements contain very few minerals, and those are usually in forms that are difficult for the body to use. This means your vitamins may be going to waste!

So what is a mineral, anyway?
Minerals are natural elements that are created by stars. Two or more elemental minerals combined together by natural processes here on Earth are called rocks. There are over 4000 known minerals, about 60 of which play a role in nutrition (called 'dietary minerals'). Your body is made of these chemicals, merging and mixing with other chemicals to create the foundation of life.

I see minerals listed in my multivitamin. What's wrong with them?
Those minerals in your multi-vitamin are usually in elemental form, which is basically ground-up rock. Rock ground up so finely it looks like a powder. But guess what? It's still just rock! How easily do you think your body could absorb the life-giving materials from ground up rock? Not very easily. In fact, scientists refer to this as "low bioavailability." Think 'low body availability'. Your body is not good at squeezing minerals from rocks. It is good at getting minerals from food (if they're there in the first place).

I eat salads and green vegetables all day long, so I'm healthy, right?
I wish you were, I wish WE were! But we're not. All those wonderful vegetables you're eating (or 'should' be eating) come from the soils of our farmlands, the very same soils that are plowed and planted over and over again every year with as many plants as the farmer can possibly cram in. Worse, farmers only put three nutrients back into the soil (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium) because this is the cheapest way to get the maximum yield. Remember, agriculture is all about profit, not nutrition or your health! So all the vegetables you love to eat are growing from only 3 nutrients -- but our bodies need more than 60 minerals alone! And this isn't a new discovery. In fact, researcher Rex Beach reported this to Congress in 1936!

Are minerals created when the vegetable grows?
It is true that plants can manufacture vitamins through photosynthesis. But minerals are inorganic; they cannot be made by plants and must be provided by what they grow in.

So I need vitamins & 60+ minerals to be healthy, but I'm not getting them from my multivitamin or the vegetables I eat. So where do I get them from?
Since the body is best at getting nutrition from food, the best choices are  vegetables grown in a place that has a virtually unlimited supply of minerals -- the SEA! For billions of years, land has fallen into the ocean and dissolved, giving the ocean a virtually limitless supply of minerals. Vegetables that grow in these waters (like seaweed) soak up nutrients like a sponge, and when the Sun shines down on them, they begin to make vitamins through photosynthesis.

All the vitamins we need + all the minerals we need = Living Sea. All the supplement we need!

Can I overdose on Living Sea?
We get that a lot! Well, can you overdose on, say, cucumbers? If that sounds silly you'll know why the idea of overdosing on Living Sea doesn't hold a lot of water. Think of Living Sea as a cucumber, a carrot, or a head of lettuce, grown in the sea. That's why we call it a sea vegetable. The Japanese consume an average of 14.5 grams of sea vegetables per day, which would be a lot of Living Sea capsules! But if you've never taken Living Sea before, we suggest you start off by taking the amount recommended on the label, just in case you have an unknown allergy.

For some reason, Americans tend to think dietary supplements are like drugs, potentially harmful chemicals that must be taken in small doses. That may be because the way of Western medicine is to take plants apart piece by piece, looking only for the individual compounds it contains that are “responsible” for the benefits — as though plants were nothing more than containers. (That's like buying a car in pieces!) We try to take Nature apart, looking for the magic ingredient, and then we throw the rest away. For example, Living Sea contains vitamin A. We could extract the vitamin A from Living Sea and sell it separately. But it would be absorbed by your body much differently. There's a chance that in large amounts it could even be toxic and cause you vomiting, diarrhea, nausea or worse. The next time you think about supplements, don't think about trying to take each thing your body needs. Think about everything your body needs. Don't buy lots of supplements, buy one with it all!

Can Living Sea cure me?
Only medical doctors and companies that give the FDA lots of money can claim anything cures you. In fact, according to the FDA, only a drug can cure a disease! (But didn't Nancy Reagan tell us to say “no” to drugs?) Living Sea is not a drug, it's a sea vegetable. However, if you listened to your Mom about eating your vegetables you'd already know they have health benefits. Living Sea goes beyond Mom's veggies by providing the full spectrum of nutrition your body needs, which in turn may help your body fight off disease and be healthy. Living Sea is not making you healthier, but rather helping your body keep itself healthy. The final word? Drugs deplete the body, Living Sea renews the body.

Living Sea is too expensive for me-- I'm not even sick!
Big pharmaceutical (drug) companies make a fortune treating symptoms of disease. But if there's no disease, there are no symptoms, therefore no profit for them. And in today's world of one-shot cures and quick fixes, there's far more money in a product that produces an effect NOW for someone who is already sick, than in a natural product that prevents the unknown. We say, “Maybe I'll get sick, or maybe I won't. I can't tell the future so why should I buy something that may or may not work?” But this is your life we're talking about! You spend hundreds on a warranty for that new television (to protect a window with moving pictures in it) but you won't spend a dollar a day to protect your life? Let's put things into perspective here and figure out what should matter most. Life first. Everything else second.