Episode 543: Dave Watumull: The One Algae Your Supplement Stack Has Always Been Missing

Habits and Hustle

Jen Cohen

Entrepreneurship, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Business

4.5 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Did you know that the molecule behind the pink color of salmon and the red of flamingos is also one of the most potent antioxidants ever studied? It has 4,000 peer reviewed papers behind it. Based on studies, it extended lifespan by 12% in the most rigorous government funded study ever conducted. But almost nobody has heard of it. Astaxanthin is not a trend or a buzzword but a potent natural antioxidant waiting to be discovered by many. It is a marine-derived substance that is thousands of times more potent than vitamin C, crosses the blood brain barrier, and does what no other antioxidant on the market can. Dave Watumull has been working with astaxanthin since high school, watching microalgae turn bright red in the Hawaiian sun as a defense mechanism against UV light. He has spent 25 years figuring out how to bring it to the rest of us. In this episode of Habits and Hustle, Dave breaks down why your supplement stack is missing the one foundational ingredient that makes everything else work better and why it stayed hidden for so long. The most powerful antioxidant in the world was never hidden. It just never had a celebrity behind it. Let's dive in! What's Discussed: (1:43) The marine super nutrient most people have never heard of. (4:04) How microalgae in Hawaii sparked 25 years of research. (5:46) Why something this powerful stayed under the radar. (8:14) What makes it thousands of times stronger than vitamin C. (13:18) The supplement mistake most people are silently making. (20:54) The cheapest beauty hack nobody is talking about. (26:16) The Harvard study that proved no other antioxidant compares. (41:39) NR, resveratrol, green tea, omega-3s on extending lifespan. (42:06) Why most longevity supplements are mostly nonsense. (46:35) Why AX3® absorbs three times more than leading competitors. (1:02:42) Dave's father late 70s case study, tennis in the Hawaiian sun, still going. (1:17:24) What astaxanthin cannot do and the boring truth about longevity. Thank you to our sponsors! AX3®: Visit www.AX3.life to get a 20% discount on your first order with promo code HUSTLE at checkout. Air Doctor: Head to www.AirDoctorPro.com and use promo code HUSTLE to get UP TO $300 off today! AirDoctor comes with a 30-day money back guarantee plus a 3-year warranty, an $84 value FREE! Find more from Jen: Website: https://jennifercohen.com Instagram: @therealjencohen Books: https://jennifercohen.com/books Speaking: https://jennifercohen.com/speaking-engagements Find more from Dave: Website: www.ax3.life AX3® Instagram: @ax3.life YouTube: @ax3life Dave’s Instagram: @davewatumull

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0:00.0	Hi, guys. It's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle. Crush it.
0:07.2	Hi, everybody. Welcome to Habits and Hustle. We have a very special guest today. We have Dave
0:12.4	Wadamall, who is the co-founder and CEO of AX3 Life. Now, you might be wondering what that is.
0:18.9	And what that is is, is it's an astazanthan company.
0:22.9	So Dave is on a mission to bring astazanthan to the world.
0:26.6	It's a marine supernutrient that supports your whole body's health and longevity.
0:31.8	It has captured his imagination for more than 25 years of research, development, and commercialization. He is the co-founder and
0:39.4	CEO of AX3 Life, a consumer health company dedicated to Assizanthan products, education, and
0:46.5	community. Now, just for your information, I just said that, we typically don't even do,
0:51.1	I don't usually read a bio, but I wanted to kind of get it out because I needed to practice the word estesanthin.
0:56.5	Yeah, yeah.
0:57.3	And I find, this is why I wanted to do this podcast is because I was saying to you off camera that is one of these things that are so unknown, but yet probably one of the most effective, most powerful antioxidant there is. And so when there's something that
1:12.3	hasn't been totally just kind of just spoken about at nauseam, I really want to deep dive,
1:18.6	because that to me is when it's really the most interesting, right? It's kind of like we all hear
1:23.2	of vitamin C, we all hear of like even like risveratrol, right? But not very many people. Like even
1:29.7	me, I was saying to you guys, I didn't even know what this was until like maybe two years ago
1:34.4	or maybe a year and a half ago, Max Lugavir was here. And he was talking about it to me. And I was
1:40.4	like, wow, that's something I, and so I did my own little deep dive and then I started taking it.
1:45.8	And now, like I told you, I noticed it much more because I'm aware of it.
1:50.6	So with that little extra intro, tell me like what made you, like who you are and why you started a company just on this particular thing and kind of like give us a little bit
2:02.0	of your origin story. Yeah, so I've been working with Azizantan for virtually my whole life
2:08.2	since high school. Initially as a summer job, I went to the big island of Hawaii, went to Kona,
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