Growing Sustainable Health and Nutrition Products From Algae ADAPTED BY ALISHA BROWN FROM ORIGINAL STORIES BY ANDREW DAHL, PRESIDENT AND CEO, ZIVO BIOSCIENCE
Non-GMO, sustainable, natural, superfood, antibiotic-free and hormonefree. These are all buzzwords used by the beauty, nutrition, and fitness industries. 12
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Consumers want products that they can feel good about putting in, or on, their bodies. Politicians and regulators want to ensure that those products are free of harmful side effects. Businesses want products that can be produced at a consistently high-quality at the lowest possible cost. ZIVO Bioscience has such a product. Formerly Health Enhancement Products, Inc, ZIVO Bioscience is a Michigan-based company dedicated to the study, development and commercialization of natural nutritional compounds and bioactive molecules derived from its proprietary algal strains. The company is committed to creating products that are beneficial to consumers, through promotion of
health, beauty, and wellness, free of harmful side-effects, and sustainably produced. For more than a decade, ZIVO Bioscience has worked in partnership with Arizona State University and Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (SGI) to optimize, through natural selection, a largely unknown, wild freshwater algae strain for commercial phototrophic production. The strain, which can be produced in shallow ponds made of readily accessible materials, grows rapidly, uses significantly less water-that can be recycled multiple times-than soybeans, can be harvested year-round, and requires significantly less energy to produce than corn or grass-fed beef, making it agriculturally and environmentally viable.
