About PhycoHealth
PhycoHealth makes it easy to include the beneficial properties of seaweed in your life.
From the pure oceans of South East Australia, the PhycoHealth is committed to improving global gut health from sustainable and safe seaweed production.
As featured in Science journals and Industry reports to ABC Landline, ABC Catalyst, BBC World Changing Ideas and Coast Australia, PhycoHealth is focusing on the promising opportunity of seaweed dietary fibres in shifting western gut disorders that are leading to many chronic diseases such as psoriasis, arthritis, inflammatory gut conditions and even mental health:
PhycoDigest: Supplements for gut health
"The most surprising part of the biobelly wellness study was the clearing up of my Palmoplantar keratoderma (psoriasis of the hands) and it’s relationship to gut health. As soon as I start taking seaweed, I notice an immediate difference.” – Tania
More about the gut: The gut is the largest organ in the body, hosting all sorts of nutritional and immune processes over an area of 30m2. It is also the frontline of your immune system and thousands of signals and processes are continually approaching, connecting, being deflected and crossing into your blood stream and metabolism all the time. But it isn’t just an organ – it is an ecosystem, and you need to support it with the right nutrition. Seaweed hosts a plethora of molecules, including dietary fibres, that the World Health Organisation has identified are typically deficient in the Western Diet in terms of amount we ingest everyday as well as the diversity of types.
Your opportunity in this campaign: So many people from all over the world wanted to be a part of our clinical studies exploring gut health and skin disorders such as psoriasis. That was logistically impossible to do - but now you can learn more about your gut yourself, make some changes in your life including a daily intake of seaweed dietary fibres, and then test your gut again. In our partnership with uBiome - this is an exciting opportunity for your to take charge and learn more about this most important organ and ecosystem in your body, driving your wellness.
What are the Seaweed capsules and how do they differ from other seaweed supplements?
PhycoHealth has been doing research for the last decade on which seaweeds are of interest to gut health, and that can be eaten in adequate amounts without overdosing iodine. Our unique seaweed and extraction process means that you get capsules with concentrated seaweed dietary fibre, plus we have blended in marine Omega-3 as well so that you get both of the western dietary deficiencies covered at once. Both are important for reducing inflammation and both are commonly deficient in the western diet.
How does the gut test kit work?
Our partners at uBiome have made it easy for you to now test your own gut health and learn how it works with you and your health. In some perks in this campaign, and because we are making links between gut health and skin, you will have access to a multi-site swab test kit where you simply swab a skin site and/or toilet paper and send the sample to uBiome. In 6-weeks you will get results online that give you an overall fingerprint of your gut fingerprint and an index of wellness compared to known healthy guts.
These are not diagnostic tests but they provide insights into how your own gut is working, and how your gut changes when you change things, like eating seaweed capsules or using skin products. So in this campaign perk you get a second kit to test yourself again after you have eaten capsules or used skin product for a couple of months.
"I'm hanging out awaiting arrival of Seaweed Capsules to get me back on track.
I had a fantastic reaction to Seaweed Fibre during the trial. I believe this treatment will improve my life into the future" – Charlie
PhycoDerm Skincare: Natural restoration and nourishment of skin from the ocean
FIRST OFFER EXCLUSIVE TO THE CAMPAIGN
Human skin cells recognise and attach to molecular signatures on our PhycoDerm extracts. Some people with psoriasis or eczema found our skin cream prototypes to be helpful, and so we have developed a new range of gentle cleansing to nourishing skin care products. In addition to nourishing skin, we have been researching the secret of seaweed molecules and their effect on wound healing. We found the highest form of human skin cell affinity with our specific species of seaweed extracts, and we are developing medical grade wound healing materials and bio-inks with Professor Gordon Wallace at the University of Wollongong in Australia.
PhycoDerm® extracts mimic the defensive and protective properties of human connective tissue and are key ingredients in our skincare range.
Why Seaweed?
Health Benefits
Environmental Benefits
• Converts the nutrient loads pouring out from over developed coastal zones
• Catches CO2 rapidly
• Buffers the effects of ocean acidification
We all understand that accessing adequate nutrition from food is difficult from the supermarket shelf, but PhycoHealth is about changing that.
The ask: $400,000
This will be used to:
- secure a matched government grant to commission our new seaweed refinery
- introduce new technology for a smart seaweed production system
- scale up our manufacturing
- meet product manufacture costs like packaging
- take on more staff
What you get:
By pre-ordering products from our rewards packages you become a first-in, first-serve PhycoHealth customer and you join us on a journey to better health. Be confident that your choice is good for you and good for the planet. We are founded in science and growing with your health.
The Impact
By purchasing PhycoHealth products as part of this campaign, you will become part of a collective movement to challenge the current food paradigm and take a stand for better health.
Risks & Challenges
We will reward your faith in us. Our products have already won awards and are backed by solid science. We know this campaign is risky, but we have achieved so much with so little so far, that we know we can meet the challenge of scaling up.
We will start to roll out the crowd funding orders from July through to December this year, and we will show you your scheduled delivery time every step of the way. We will fulfill orders on a first in, first serve basis.
We will introduce you to the new staff we bring on and tell you about the new scaled production processes we are able to achieve with your support.
Be assured that campaign customers are our priority and we will only turn our online shop back on when all your campaign backer orders are delivered.
Other ways you can help
If you are unable to contribute, that doesn't mean they can't help:
- Spread the word out and make some noise about our campaign
- Use the Indiegogo share tools.
That's all there is to it!
Testimonials
“I have been taking the seaweed extract capsules for over 6 weeks now, and am extremely pleased to report back stunning results. Most importantly, for me, I have been able to wear a skirt and shorts for the first time in over 10 years! My legs and arms are so clear, that I no longer receive side glances at my nasty inflamed sores. As a woman, being able to wear fashion with confidence is paramount and extremely satisfying! I thank you for the opportunity to test the seaweed product, and wish you all the very best for its future.” – Karla