099: Orlo Nutrition - Omega-3 Evangelist Corinna Bellizzi Talks Carbon Negative Nutrients Using Algae
A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast
Marjorie Alexander
4.6 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Corinna Bellizzi, MBA is a natural products industry executive and omega-3 expert who pioneered the growth of Nordic Naturals from less than $1 million to over $100 million in annual sales. Given her concern for the future health of people and the planet, she shifted her focus from fish-sourced omegas to algae in 2016. An activist at heart, she launched her podcast, Care More Be Better, in 2021 to cover social and ecological issues that affect us all. Today she leads Orlo Nutrition, a new brand that features the world's first carbon-negative omega-3s. She hosts a new podcast, Nutrition Without Compromise, to support that effort. She covers health topics without compromising your ethics, or the health of our home planet.
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In this episode Marjorie and Corinna discuss:
- What it takes to create the world's first carbon-negative Omega-3
- What role Omega-3 play in the body and why they are so essential to overall health
- The benefits of algae-based Omega 3's over traditional fish-based products
- Advice for entrepreneurs looking to get into the sustainable or plant-based product space
- Corinna's two podcasts, Nutrition Without Compromise and Care More Be Better
Resources mentioned in today's episode:
- TheCarbonUnderground.org - regenerative agriculture
- Regeneration.org - Project Regeneration from Paul Hawken and "punchlist" page
- Eat to Beat Disease by Dr. William Li (publisher link)
- AirProtein.com - Meat made from Air, based in Walnut Creek
Connect with Corinna and the Orlo Nutrition Team:
- Orlo on Facebook: facebook.com/orlonutrition
- Orlo on Facebook: instagram.com/orlonutrition
- Orlo on Facebook: twitter.com/orlonutrition
- Orlo on Facebook: tiktok.com/@orlonutrition
- Parent company of Orlo: linkedin.com/company/vaxa-technologies-ltd/mycompany/
- Corinna on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/cbellizzi
- Corinna on Instagram: instagram.com/caremore.bebetter
- Corinna on TikTok: tiktok.com/@corinnabellizzi
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- Twitter: Twitter.com/SustainableMind
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| 0:00.0 | The potential of the world's first plant, microalgies, I mean, they have been around for billions of years, right? |
| 0:08.0 | The power of these microalogy is really incredible because they don't have to spend their time and energy and effort as an organism on creating wood or fibers. |
| 0:18.0 | They've just got their little single cell lives to live so to speak and |
| 0:21.3 | so they put all of that energy into creating powerful nutrients and so what we're |
| 0:27.2 | able to harness out of the algae strains that we're growing is incredible in fact |
| 0:32.6 | we've identified a 19 different amino acids that are vital amino acids that we need in our diets |
| 0:39.0 | present in this algae. So 10 years down the road, maybe even less, I think we're looking |
| 0:46.1 | at a world where we can literally feed people the protein they need to thrive and have |
| 0:51.6 | it come exclusively from algae. |
| 1:12.7 | This is a sustainable mind where we delve into the minds behind today's most impactful environmental campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental change makers of tomorrow. I'm your host, Marjorie Alexander. |
| 1:18.9 | Today we are joined by Karina Belizei, the Natural Products Industry Executive and Omega-3 |
| 1:26.5 | expert who pioneered the growth of organic |
| 1:29.5 | naturals from less than $1 million to over $100 million in annual sales. Given her concern for the |
| 1:36.9 | future health of people and the planet, she shifted her focus from fish-sourced omega's to |
| 1:42.7 | algae in 2016. An activist at heart, she launched her podcast, |
| 1:49.0 | Care More Be Better in 2021, to focus on social and ecological issues that affect us all. |
| 1:56.0 | Today, Karina leads the Orlo Nutrition brand, a new brand that features the world's first carbon |
| 2:03.2 | negative omega-3s. She hosts a new podcast, Nutrition Without Compromise, to support that effort |
| 2:09.6 | as well. She covers health topics without compromising your ethics or the health of our home |
| 2:16.7 | planet. So Karina, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for |
| 2:20.8 | joining us. And thank you so much for sponsoring your episode. Sponsoring episodes of a sustainable mind |
| 2:27.0 | really helps us to spread the good word of what people are doing at home and in their own communities |
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