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Hey folks, this is Ben Greenfield and we've talked about nutrient density a few times on

the podcast before, but what we're going to talk about today kind of goes to the next level

when it comes to nutrient density and I was actually completely unaware until almost

exactly a year ago of what we're going to talk about until someone actually handed me a bottle

of this extremely dark green substance that you're going to learn more about today.

And it's some very, very interesting stuff intrigued me. I found out more about it and I finally

got the guy who founded the company that makes this stuff on the call today. Ian Clark is my guest

and he has studied high, high level health concepts for the past couple of decades.

He's the owner and the CEO of activation products and the pioneering founder of something called

Oceans Alive Marine Phytoplankton. So Ian, thank you for coming on the call today.

Hey Ben, yeah, thank you for having me. It's a pleasure.

So I'd like to start right here because I think this is kind of a woo-woo concept for a lot of

people. This whole plankton type of thing. Can you explain from a scientific or biological

standpoint exactly what marine phytoplankton actually is? Yeah, very few people on the planet really

know what it is. They may have heard the term NASA did a big study on it. Jack Gusto talked about it

for decades, but sort of in passing on documentaries. A major study was done in Europe starting in

the 60s when they found out that marine phytoplankton, which is a microscopic microalgae that grows in

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