QUEENS (NY) COLLEGE SQUEEZES BY LADY BULLDOGS 72-71 IN DOUBLE OVERTIME

FLUSHING, N.Y. – Sophomores Bria Robinson and Channell Mackey combined for 30 points but it was Queens (N.Y.) College's Bria Jackson's 49 points that keyed the Knights to a 72-71 come from behind double overtime victory over the Lady Bulldogs.

Queens, outmanned from the start, with only eight players in uniform, fell behind early as the Lady Bulldogs jumped to 13-2 lead over the first eight minutes of game action.  Bowie State pushed the lead to as many as 16 points when senior Cortney Baynard hit a pair of free throws at the 3:32 mark of the first half to make the score 33-17.  Bowie State led at the half, 35-25.

The Knights began to chip away at the deficit early in the second half as Jackson scored Queens’ first four points of the period to narrow the BSU lead to 36-29.  Queens got as close at two points, at 36-34, when Marie Byrnes notched the first of two foul shots at 15:05.  From there, Bowie State (3-5) built its lead back up to eight points when Robinson netted one of her team-best 17 points, to make the score 51-43, with just over five minutes remaining in regulation.

Queens (4-5) used a 12-4 run over the final five minutes to force overtime and Jackson was personally responsible for all 12 of those points, with none bigger than three-point field goal as time expired to tie the score at 55-all to force overtime.

The first overtime opened with Robinson giving Bowie State the lead with a pair of foul shots.  Kristen Korzevinski promptly evened the score with a layup for Queens.  About two-and-a-half minutes later, the Knights took their first lead since 2-0 on a pair of free throws by Maria Byrnes at the 2:42 mark of the first overtime period to make the score 59-57, Queens.

The closing seconds of the first overtime saw the Lady Bulldogs take a one-point lead as senior Jasmine Jacobs sliced through the paint for a layup.  The Knights responded by getting the ball to Lisanne Comeau who made one of two free throws with four seconds remaining to force a second overtime.

Mackey (13 points) gave Bowie State a little breathing room at 67-64 with 3:24 left.  A layup by Joya McFarland on the very next Queens possession pulled the Knights back within a point at 67-66.  BSU’s Mackey responded with a pair of free throws and a 69-66 lead. However,  Jackson closed out the game with a pair of buckets and two foul shots to ensure the one point win for the Knights.

In terms of team stats, Bowie State shot 24-of-59 from the floor (41 percent) compared to 22-of-75 from the floor (29 percent) for Queens. The Lady Bulldogs shot a blistering 63.2 percent in the first half (12-of-19) and were led in the first 20 minutes by junior Brooke Miles with nine points (12 overall). The Knights out-rebounded the Lady Bulldogs 54-41 and forced BSU into 21 turnovers.

Bowie State returns home to open conference play on Thursday (January 3), hosting Livingstone College as part of a doubleheader with the men. The Lady Bulldogs and Lady Blue Bears will tip at 5:30 pm in BSU’s A.C. Jordan Arena.

UDC Women's Basketball Defeats Felician, 67-51

 

December 29, 2012

Video | Live stats | Recap | Box Score                                                                 

Stingy Defense Sends Firebirds to 67-51 Victory Over Felician

Junior point guard Teara Shaw had nine points and a game-high eight assists.

Final	1	2	T
Felician (4-8)	26	25	51
Dist. Columbia (6-5)	36	31	67
Washington, D.C.

Felician	Dist. Columbia
Pts: Jac'Quel Saunders - 13	Pts: Janelle Junior - 15
Reb: TEAM - 11	Reb: TEAM - 8
Ast: 2 Players (#15, #24 - 2)	Ast: Teara Shaw - 8

Team Statistics	Felician	Dist. Columbia
Field Goal %	28.6% (14-49 )	40.7% (24-59 )
Rebounds	41	39
Assists	7	14
Turnovers	32	21
Pts off Turnovers	17	32
2nd Chance Pts	7	8
Pts in the Paint	8	24
Fastbreak Pts	0	0
Bench Pts	20	25

full stats

WASHINGTON, DC – The Firebirds led wire-to-wire as they used a strong defensive effort to push past non-conference foe, Felician College, 67-51 on Saturday afternoon in the second game of the D.C. Winter Classic hosted by the University of the District of Columbia.

Earlier in the day, No. 18 Shaw University handed No. 26 Assumption College a 63-44 loss in the first game of the tournament. Tomorrow features No. 18 Shaw vs. Felician at 1 p.m. and host District of Columbia vs. No. 26 Assumption at 3 p.m.

The Firebirds (6-5) held the Golden Falcons to 29-percent field goal shooting and forced 32 Felician turnovers. The Golden Falcons, who had won three of their last four, fell to 4-8 overall this season.

Senior guard Janelle Junior (Administration of Justice – Riverside, CA/La Sierra HS) led three Firebirds in double-figures, scoring a game-high 15 points on 7-of-10 from the field. Also, sophomore guard Denikka Brent (Mechanical Engineering – Chesapeake, VA/Booker T. Washington HS) came off the bench to register 11 points, a game-high five steals and four rebounds, and junior guard Julissa Anderson (Criminal Justice – Greensboro, NC/Southeast Guilford HS) scored eight points in the second half to finish with 10. Junior point guard Teara Shaw (Health Education – Bronx, NY/John F. Kennedy HS) also had a very productive offensive day with nine points and a game-high eight assists.

Jac'Quel Saunders was the only Golden Falcon to score in double-figures as she scored 13 points to lead Felician. Sierra McDuffie led the team in rebounds with eight.

Five different Firebirds scored during an 11-2 march to start the game over the first 3:35 of action, including a game-opening three-pointer by Junior. Felician would answer with a 7-0 spurt to cut the deficit to two after a jumper by Eliana Scanlon at the 15-minute mark, and later, a conventional three-point play by Saunders would bring the Falcons within one, 13-12 at the 13:07 mark. Leading 18-16 nearing the 11-minute mark, District of Columbia used an 8-0 run over the next four minutes to take a 26-16 advantage. Twice, Felician cut that lead down to five, but the Firebirds ended the first half on a 5-0 run to take a 36-26 lead into intermission.

The Firebirds took their biggest lead of the afternoon, 44-26 when they held Felician scoreless for nearly the first five minutes of second-half play as they went on an 8-0 surge. The Falcons did not go away though, as they mustered an 11-1 run over the next 4:23 to pull within eight (45-37) on a pair of Ashley Morris free-throws. District of Columbia regained a 12-point lead after a layup by junior forward Robin Keke (Biology – Bowie, MD/Bowie HS) and a pair of free-throws by Shaw, but Felician answered right back with a 5-0 run to shrink that lead to seven at the 7:13 mark.  A three-pointer by Anderson at the 6:26 mark put the Firebirds up by 10, and they would maintain a double-digit lead the rest of the way before ultimately winning by a final score of 67-51.

District of Columbia out-shot their guests 41-percent to 29-percent from the field and was far better in assist/turnover ratio (14/21 to 7/32). The Firebirds turned the 32 Felician turnovers into 32 points compared to just 17 points off turnovers for the Falcons, and they outscored Felician, 24-8 in points in the paint.

Queens (NY) 72 - Bowie State 71 (2 OT) (WOMEN'S Bb FINAL)

FLUSHING, N.Y. - Bria Robinson and Brooke Miles combined for 29 points but it was Queens (N.Y.) College's Bria Jackson's 49 points that keyed the Knights to a 72-71 come from behind double overtime victory over the Lady Bulldogs.

In terms of team stats, Bowie State (3-5) shot 24-of-59 from the floor (41 percent) compared to 22-of-75 from the floor (29 percent) for Queens. The Knights dominated on the glass as well, out-rebounding the Lady Bulldogs 54-41.

Complete story and stats to come later

Bowie State vs Queens (NY) (12/29/12 at Fitzgerald Gym - Flushing, NY)

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Box Score Play-by-Play 1st Half Box Score

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Official Basketball Box Score

Official Basketball Box Score
Bowie State vs Queens (NY)
12/29/12 1:00 pm at Fitzgerald Gym - Flushing, NY


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VISITORS: Bowie State 3-5
                          TOT-FG  3-PT         REBOUNDS
## Player Name            FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF  TP  A TO BLK S MIN
1  MACKEY,Channell.....    4-11   1-2    4-7    1  2  3   2  13  3  0  0  2  17
3  BAYNARD,Cortney..... g  2-4    0-0    2-2    0  2  2   3   6  1  1  0  4  41
5  BURLEY,Alisha.......    1-1    0-0    0-0    0  0  0   0   2  0  0  0  0   2
11 DAVIS,Sandra........ f  0-2    0-0    1-2    1  1  2   0   1  0  1  0  1  22
22 MILES,Brooke........ g  4-7    3-6    1-2    0  4  4   4  12  1  4  0  2  30
23 McINTOSH,Jasmine....    2-10   1-4    0-0    2  3  5   3   5  0  3  0  0  32
24 JACOBS,Jasmine......    3-4    1-1    1-3    0  6  6   1   8  0  2  0  0  21
32 ROBINSON,Bria....... f  6-12   1-3    4-5    0  7  7   5  17  2  4  0  2  37
34 FLORES,Alessandra...    1-3    1-2    0-0    0  1  1   1   3  1  1  0  0   9
55 GOODMAN,Moriah...... c  1-5    0-0    2-2    1  3  4   5   4  0  3  1  0  39
   TEAM................                         1  6  7             2
   Totals..............   24-59   8-18  15-23   6 35 41  24  71  8 21  1 11 250


TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 12-19 63.2%   2nd Half:  7-28 25.0%   OT:  5-12 41.7%   Game: 40.7%  DEADB
3-Pt. FG% 1st Half:  6-10 60.0%   2nd Half:  1-6  16.7%   OT:  1-2  50.0%   Game: 44.4%   REBS
F Throw % 1st Half:  5-6  83.3%   2nd Half:  5-11 45.5%   OT:  5-6  83.3%   Game: 65.2%    4



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HOME TEAM: Queens (NY) 4-5
                          TOT-FG  3-PT         REBOUNDS
## Player Name            FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF  TP  A TO BLK S MIN
05 Comeau,Lisanne...... g  0-4    0-1    3-4    3  2  5   2   3  1  3  0  3  25
11 Jackson, Bria....... g 14-27   5-13  16-18   0 11 11   2  49  4  3  0  1  50
13 Pastor,Catherine.... f  0-4    0-1    1-4    4  5  9   2   1  2  2  0  1  38
22 McFarland, Joya.....    2-8    0-2    0-0    2  1  3   2   4  3  2  0  0  35
33 Korzevinski, Kristen f  2-12   0-6    0-0    1  4  5   3   4  1  1  0  0  44
34 Byrnes, Marie....... c  2-13   0-5    3-4    3  4  7   5   7  0  3  0  0  31
44 Fearon, Tara........    2-6    0-0    0-2    4  4  8   2   4  0  4  0  1  27
   TEAM................                         4  2  6
   Totals..............   22-74   5-28  23-32  21 33 54  18  72 11 18  0  6 250


TOTAL FG% 1st Half:  9-32 28.1%   2nd Half:  9-32 28.1%   OT:  4-10 40.0%   Game: 29.7%  DEADB
3-Pt. FG% 1st Half:  1-15  6.7%   2nd Half:  4-11 36.4%   OT:  0-2   0.0%   Game: 17.9%   REBS
F Throw % 1st Half:  6-8  75.0%   2nd Half:  8-12 66.7%   OT:  9-12 75.0%   Game: 71.9%    5



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Officials: Reginald Fowler, James Grillo, Fran Forenza
Technical fouls: Bowie State-None. Queens (NY)-None.
Attendance: 100
Score by Periods                1st  2nd   OT  OT2   Total
Bowie State...................   35   20    7    9  -   71
Queens (NY)...................   25   30    7   10  -   72
NEXT BOWIE STATE GAME: Thursday (1/3/13) vs. Livingstone - 5:30 pm

Points in the paint-BSU-W 28,QUEW 28. Points off turnovers-BSU-W 26,QUEW 18.
2nd chance points-BSU-W 2,QUEW 12. Fast break points-BSU-W 6,QUEW 4.
Bench points-BSU-W 31,QUEW 8. Score tied-6 times. Lead changed-8 times.
Last FG-BSU-W OT2-00:03, QUEW OT2-00:48.
Largest lead-BSU-W by 16 1st-05:04, QUEW by 3 OT2-00:22.

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Half of all doctors admit they lie about this

Has Your Doctor Ever Fooled You
with Fake Medicines?

    You go see your doctor and he writes you a prescription…

    You fill it, pay for it, bill it to insurance, and take it as prescribed. Several months later, you realize the pills aren't doing a thing for you.

    So did your doctor misdiagnose you — or lie to you?

    The truth is darker than you may imagine…

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    If your doctor prescribed "Obecalp" or "Cebocap" to calm your headache, reduce your stomach upset, or relieve your pain… did it help?

    Probably not.

    Obecalp and Cebocap are placebos — a fancy name for a fake drug. Obecalp is "placebo" spelled backwards. "Cebocap" is a pill made from sugar.

Does your doctor pass this off as real medicine?

    This isn't exactly new news, but that doesn't make it any less disturbing.

    An international survey reported that more than half of all doctors in the U.S. regularly prescribe placebos to their patients — without telling them, of course.

    Ditto for doctors in England, Israel, New Zealand, Sweden, and Denmark.

    A study of all Chicago area primary care doctors saw 45% of them admit they prescribed placebos for their patients.

    So, how do they manage to dismiss their patients with the brush of a hand and a fake med?

• 34% introduce placebos to the patient as "a substance that may help and will not hurt" (technically, this is true; many people do experience relief from placebos)
• 19% said, "It is medication."
• (Only) 9% called it a placebo.

    One-third of doctors gave their patients other info such as, "This may help you but I am not sure how it works."

Your doctor may even think you're the fake

    Doctors admit to prescribing placebos to try to find out who's faking their symptoms, or who's a hypochondriac.

    This is worse than ironic — you doctor lies to you to see if you're lying.

    The doctor might say something like, "This is a medicine not typically used for your condition but [that] might benefit you." It sounds like an off-label use of a prescription drug, but it's a placebo.

    This is particularly common for pain med prescriptions. The chronic pain disorder fibromyalgia has had doctors baffled and flustered for years because many of them think it's psychosomatic (i.e. it's all in your head). So they prescribe dummy pills and send the patient off into the wild blue yonder.

    Shockingly, a recent study in the British Medical Journal showed that nearly two-thirds of all doctors thought it was permissible to give fake medicine without telling you.

    The website HealthDay quotes a Stanford psychiatrist as saying, "The basic rule is: First, do no harm. If there is no toxicity and it does some good, evidence supports its use… You can tell people that the treatment might benefit them."

Your doctor's hired accomplice

    Not surprisingly, your doctor could never pull this off without a willing accomplice. And they have just the partner they need — your pharmacy. And behind them, the major drug companies.

    Can fake meds really be prescribed and purchased from your local pharmacy? You bet! CVS, Walgreens and others have them listed.

    With half the doctors pushing fake meds and using pharmacies as their accomplices you have to wonder — has YOUR doctor done this to you?

    This atmosphere of distrust between doctors and their patients exposes an insidious problem in Western medicine. Wouldn't you rather your doctor told you he had to do a little more research and get back to you about an issue, instead of just telling you to pop a sugar pill?

    Maybe we should ask our doctors about their thoughts on these issues…

• How do they expect your health to improve with fake sugar pills?
• Does absence of toxicity justify them lying to you?
• If your doctor can't diagnose your problem, does he default to thinking your symptoms are in your head?
• What if you really are having a heart attack but get sent home with a fake prescription?
• Are they liable for malpractice if they misdiagnose or fail to diagnose, and you die?

    In my opinion, placebo prescriptions are a medical cop-out, and do nothing to help trust between doctors and patients.

    True, sometimes they help a patient. But whether real or imagined, pain is pain, and ALL symptoms should be looked into… not just cast aside as inconsequential or all in the head.

    But as I said…

Some placebos really help patients

    Even when no real medicine is consumed, some patients feel better. Their pain or symptoms do go away.

    In carefully controlled studies with placebos as a control, certain patients progress just because they think they're getting real medicine.

    That's why "the placebo effect" is now front and center in discussions on the mind-body connection popularized by Eastern medicine. Even many adherents of Western medicine are starting to embrace the mind-body connection for its therapeutic value.

    I love one study we came across: Researchers gave runners tap water, claiming it was oxygenated. The runners with this "special" water ran faster and longer than their counterparts.

    Does that make the "placebo effect" legit?

    An estimated one third of all people can improve via the placebo effect…

    Studies now show that sugar pills work as well as antidepressants to beat depression. And with far fewer side effects!

    Even sham knee surgery was equal to the real thing! In this rare surgery-related placebo study, 180 participants were randomly assigned to have arthroscopic surgery for osteoarthritis, or sham surgery with incisions.

    Tests of knee function showed that those who had the placebo surgery reported feeling just as good as those getting the real operation. While the surgery worked for many people, the sham did also.¹

    Upon discovering these startling results, one of the doctors involved said, "I hate to tell you this, but surgery may have the biggest placebo effect of all."

    This is rather amazing testimony to the power of your thoughts to bring about healing changes in your body. Just think how much money you'll save replacing a $5,000 surgery with your brain's healing power!

    In fact, brain scans do suggest the placebo effect is the work of endorphins — your body's natural pain killers.

But some people experience the opposite. . .

    Sometimes you get the reverse effect — unpleasant "side effects" like headaches, nervousness, nausea, or constipation, to name a few. The improvement is called the "placebo effect". The reverse is the "nocebo effect".

    Researchers think the nocebo effect can be partially explained by a substance that sends messages through your nerves to your brain. When you're anxious, this substance is activated, making you feel more pain than someone who's calm.

    The resulting nocebo effect shows up in brain scans too. Brain imaging studies suggest your pain is more intense when you expect more pain versus if you expect less pain.

    Together they comprise the expectation effect... what you expect will happen. You expect to feel better, so you do. Or you get this giant pill and imagine it's a very strong medicine, so you get "side effects".

    I find it very easy to understand the nocebo effect because I've experienced side effects from quite a few drugs and supplements. The most common for me are feeling hyper and having trouble sleeping. So I tend to be nervous and to anticipate a problem when trying a new supplement, and my fears may bring on the problem.

    In controlled studies ALL drugs and supplements induce side effects in some of the participants. The most common side effect is stomach or intestinal upset. I suspect that in most cases it's all in the patient's head — the result of feeling nervous or apprehensive about taking a substance.

Conventional medicine and placebos

    According to the medical literature, placebos do not cure, at least permanently. In fact, the placebo effect doesn't last very long for most patients, and they go back to experiencing the same symptoms that got them to go to the doctor in the first place. (Yet doctors willingly lie with placebos on the grounds that they "help." Hmmm…I guess short term relief is better than none.)

    In studies on tumor shrinkage, placebos seem to have little or no effect (conventionally speaking)… but may still offer symptomatic relief, calm the patient's anxiety, reduce pain, and improve sleep.

    Some people think placebos work because certain illnesses improve over time without treatment. Or maybe people take better care of themselves while they think they're receiving a doctor's care…

Can "remembered wellness" heal you?

    Certain research shows your brain may also respond to an imagined scene as it would to something actually seen. Your imagination may help you recall a time before symptoms, evoking a chemical change — a theory called remembered wellness.²

    Some doctors call alternative therapies placebos. In reality, what you believe in can help for awhile and sometimes for a long while.

    Certain health problems may also improve on their own — including the so-called Stage Zero Breast Cancer.

So, can you talk yourself into getting well?

    Some people get the placebo effect without any pills, shots, or procedures, just by visiting someone they think can help.

    Incredibly, scientists now believe patients can benefit from sham drugs even when they'retold there are no active ingredients in them. Meaning doctors can skip the deceit.

    To test these limits, Harvard Medical School ran a test³...

    They divided 80 patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) into two groups — one received no treatment and the other got dummy pills twice a day.

    The "dummy pill" group was explicitly told:

• They were getting placebo pills with no active ingredient (sugar pills)…
• That these pills were clinically proven to give significant improvement in IBS symptoms through the mind-body self-healing process…
• That they didn't have to believe in placebo effect at all — just take the pills…

    And the word "placebo" was even printed on the bottle!

    The patients were monitored for three weeks. Here are the amazing results, published in the scientific journal PLoS ONE.

• The placebo group experienced improvement both at the midpoint and end point compared to the non-treatment group.
• By the end point, nearly twice as many placebo patients had adequate symptom relief compared to the non-treated group.
• Patients in the placebo group doubled their average rate of improvement compared to those given the most powerful IBS medications.

    The researchers were surprised and encouraged, and hope it'll discourage deception in clinical practice. However, they also warn that more study is necessary due to limitations in the size and length of this study.

    Lead author Prof. Ted Kaptchuk says, "…these findings suggest that rather than mere positive thinking, there may be significant benefit to the very performance of medical ritual... Placebo may work even if patients know it is a placebo." (Emphasis mine.)

    Makes me think of primitive shamans or medicine men or "witch doctors": just performing an elaborate ritual can make a patient feel better.

The bottom line

    The mind-body connection and the placebo effect are hot topics in medicine today. As for hard and fast answers, we're not there yet. But still, here's what you can do today:

1. Don't throw out the baby with the bath water. Your brain is very powerful, and just because we don't know "everything" doesn't mean a placebo can't work for you. However…
2. Your key strategy is always to stay as healthy as possible so you don't need the placebo. Eat organic raw foods daily, exercise 30 minutes a day, slash stress… and all the basics you've heard before. Oh, wait! Maybe those are all placebos. . .
3. If your doctor prescribes medicine, ask if it's a placebo. Look it up online or in thePhysicians' Desk Reference to be sure it's "real". Then ask your pharmacist if it's a placebo. This isn't a carte blanche approval for prescription meds, but a plug for honesty in medicine.
4. Become a better informed medical consumer. Aggressively research and evaluate your own medical care — or find a trusted person to help you. No one cares more about your health than you do. Not even your doctor!

More Powerful than Fish Oil, Resveratrol and Chlorella

More Powerful than Fish Oil,
Resveratrol and Chlorella

Dear Nathan,

You may have heard how “superfoods” like chlorella, acai berries and resveratrol can help you lose weight, reverse aging and feel energetic all day long.

Well –

Scientists have recently discovered a nutrient that is 100 times more potent and powerful than all these superfoods... combined.

This one nutrient gives the body a jolt of pure, natural energy like nothing else you've tried before.

But that's not all --

It also has the power to “stimulate” your body to create trillions of healthy, new cells… clears your body of toxins… feed you hundreds of essential nutrients…

After 30 years of research -- and tens of millions of dollars invested -- a team of European doctors, microbiologists, and marine scientists have discovered a species of micro-algae (out of hundreds of thousands that exist in the ocean) that contains...

The Highest Nutritional Values of any Food on Earth!

This amazing new discovery is a special strain of marine phytoplankton called Nannochloropsis gaditana.

This unique variety contains more than 100 nutritional properties, including all the essential amino acids, all the healing essential fatty acids (omega 3's -- EPA/DHA), plus a wealth of vitamins, key minerals and trace elements, rare antioxidants, phospholipids, electrolytes, nucleic acids, enzymes, and co-enzymes.

This is Pretty Amazing by Itself, But...

Researchers report that this particular strain contains all of these nutrients in the ideal proportions, making it uniquely effective in aiding the human body in the repair and regeneration of cells.

They report that each of these "nano-sized” nutrients is able to go directly inside a human cell and nourish it at a mitochondrial level. (The mitochondria are a cell's energy factories. A substance that nourishes them directly is priceless.)

DNA Rocket Fuel Power Packed in Every Cell

In addition, this plankton's cell wall is instantly digestible in the human body, so it immediately releases all these nutrients at the cellular level providing your cells with rocket fuel at the DNA level.

This newly-discovered cell is so tiny that it would take five of them to equal the size of one red blood cell. Yet there's an incredible concentration of life energy stored in every single cell (more than 10 billion cells in a single drop)!

Heals Chronic Illness?

And this nano-quality makes it ideally suited to aid the healing process.

According to Dr. Jerry Tennant, founder and director of the Tennant Institute of Integrative Medicine, who has treated thousands of people with chronic diseases...

"Because these marine phytoplankton are so microscopically tiny, they immediately enter a sickened digestive system or liver, and are able to begin restoring neurochemicals and minerals immediately ...often producing significant results within days.”

A "Super” Source of Omega-3

In addition, Nannochloropsis gaditana is the richest source of EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) there is.

Its EPA is converted to DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) by the human body as needed. (EPA and DHA are crucial for brain function and vision).

Over the last three decades, researchers have determined that EPA is the most important part of omega 3.

According to Dr. Mehmet Oz, marine phytoplankton is the "parent source” of omega-3 fatty acid in fish oil -- and "the most important food supplement you can take.” (Fish eat phytoplankton and transform it into omega-3-rich fish oil.)

Dr. Oz has publically stated that he prefers to get his omega-3 from "the source” (meaning phytoplankton).

And You Can Too

Now, with just a few drops in a glass of water or juice, you can get all of these health-boosting nutrients at one time, instead of swallowing a handful of separate supplements.

1. This is a live food. It isn't freeze-dried (like spirulina, barley greens, chlorella, and other green foods). Freeze-drying destroys much of the potency of these green foods.

2. It isn't harvested from the oceans. As you know, many of the harvested forms of fish oil (except squid-based products) upset the food chain in the ocean, robbing entire species (such as whales and dolphins) of their primary food supply. This form of marine phytoplankton doesn't -- because it's "farmed” in tanks on land.

3.  There's no worry about ocean toxins (such as mercury and PCBs) and other pollutants, because this phytoplankton is bred in FDA-approved fresh-water tanks.

The Only Source of Live Marine Phytoplankton

As of this writing, there is only one source of living Nannochloropsis gaditana phytoplankton.

It's from Ocean's Alive

As you might imagine, there's much more to the marine phytoplankton story.

If you'd like to discover more about Ocean's Alive concentrated marine phytoplankton, click here.