Always Cold Hands and Feet? What Circulation Has to Do with Omega-3
You’re sitting in a perfectly warm room, maybe even under a blanket, and your fingers are still icy enough to make other people flinch when […]
Is It Safe to Take Omega-3 Before or After Surgery?
You’ve got a surgery date circled on the calendar, a pre-op checklist from your surgeon’s office, and somewhere on that list, in fairly generic language, […]
Does Omega-3 Interact With Blood Thinners or Other Medications?
You’ve heard the warning somewhere, maybe from a pharmacist, maybe from a worried relative: don’t mix fish oil with blood thinners. It’s the kind of […]
Can Algae Farming Help Fight Climate Change?
Algae absorb carbon dioxide through photosynthesis just like land plants, and headlines periodically claim that farming algae at scale could meaningfully offset industrial emissions. The […]
The Global Race to Scale Algae Oil Production for a Growing Market
Twenty years ago, algae oil was a laboratory curiosity with almost no commercial footprint. Today it is a multibillion-dollar ingredient category with facilities on three […]
Inside the World’s Largest Algae Bioreactor Farms
An algae oil softgel does not reveal much about where it came from. Behind that capsule is typically one of a small number of large, […]
Algae and the Future of Food Security in a Changing Climate
The math behind global food security over the next few decades is not particularly encouraging. The world’s population is projected to reach somewhere between 9.3 […]
The Beaches That Glow Blue at Night, and the Algae Responsible
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 […]
Pond Scum, Soylent Green, and Space Farms: Algae’s Strange Life in Pop Culture
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 […]
Could You Skip the Supplement and Just Eat Algae? We Did the Math
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 […]