Category: Deep Dive

There’s a small handful of places on Earth where the ocean seems to light up on command. Wade into the water at night, drag a […]

Algae has a weird relationship with pop culture. It shows up constantly as shorthand for something gross, primitive, or vaguely apocalyptic, and yet it also […]

If algae is where DHA actually comes from, a reasonable question follows pretty quickly: why not just eat the algae? Skip the extraction, skip the […]

Ask most people to picture how algae oil is made, and you’ll probably get some version of the same mental image: a pond, a net, […]

Say the word “algae” to most people and the first image that comes to mind probably isn’t a softgel capsule. It’s more likely to be […]

Algae as a health food can feel like a fairly recent idea, something that showed up alongside kale chips and green smoothies. In reality, several […]

Salmon gets all the credit. Walk down any supplement aisle or read any nutrition article and you’ll see the same message: eat fatty fish for […]

“Algae” gets treated like a single ingredient, the way “fish” gets treated like a single ingredient even though a sardine and a swordfish have almost […]

It’s easy to think of algae as a minor supporting character in nutrition, something you take in a capsule alongside vitamin D and magnesium. But […]

If you take an algae-based omega-3 supplement, you’re swallowing a small piece of space history. The strain of algae that makes the DHA in your […]