I would not touch that algae in any case.  One day I received an email from
a top SBGA distributor (in earnings) who confessed to us (as we have a
daughter as well) that he does not, and would not, give his daughter SBGA
because he was well aware that SBGA is not Spirulina and that all of the
studies that people quote were done on Spirulina and not on aphos-aqua
(sp?), which is what SBGA is.  Further, some of you are aware of this,
aphos-aqua was not used in scientific studies because it is well known
amongst those scientists doing the stuides that aphos-aqua contains a
microtoxin that afffects the liver.  So many people experience side-effects,
such as vomiting, which the SBGA distributors are told to handle by saying
it is a detox reaction (I've seen one of their training tapes and that is
what they are told to say, which they probably, in all honesty, believe).
In any case, my daughter started on Spirulina when she was six months old
and still loves it.

Ellie writes:
>> According to D.F. Horrobin (in a recent Medical Hypotheses article,1998,
>> 50; 269-288)about the fatty acids AA, DHA, DGLA and EPA..."there are
>> only four practical sources of these EFAs: eggs (yolks), meat
>> (especially organ meat), algae of marine or alkaline lake origin, and
>> water-based animals, fish, crustacea or molluscs higher up in the food
>> chain which directly or indirectly consume the algae."

>I recall one of the more prominent Cell Tech "Super Blue Green Algae"
>MLM distributors claiming that a competitors product, Klamuth Lake
>Blue Green Algae contained crustacea, and was not a vegetarian product,
>as KL's "filters" were not discriminating enough when harvesting the
>algae from the lake. Of course, the other brand was widely available
>in health food stores for a fraction of the cost of Cell Tech's products.
>I wonder what kind of crustacea filters Cell Tech uses, or what other
>forms of life could be hidden in that algae ?
>David

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