The powers of seaweeds have been drawn upon for centuries for their ability to prolong life, prevent disease, impart beauty and health. Worldwide research is continuously being done and brown seaweed has been found to be the most beneficial type. The soft inner part of the brown seaweed is squeezed out of the leaves and made into dry powder using a simple cold-temperature extraction process that retains the important organic elements. When taken with plenty of water, our natural products deliver all of the naturally occurring minerals and vitamins of Laminaria japonica in a soluble, bio-available form that is easily digestible.

This seaweed is harvested from the Kuril Islands, where it grows the largest. Here the cold water flowing down from the Arctic meets the warm water from the south in a great swirl that forms the best habitat for all types of seafood, from the smallest shrimp to the largest whales. Our divers bring the seaweed to shore, where the huge Laminaria japonica leaves are hung across wooden fences to quickly dry in the sun in the traditional Japanese way. The seaweed is then transported to a plant where it is soaked in fresh water, which is retained so as not to lose the water-soluble polysaccharides. Within about eight hours the leaves return to their original size and the outer skin can be removed. All the heavy fivers are disposed of, and the remaining inner part is ground up. The resulting thick, rubbery substance is dried in a vacuum chamber without using heat so as not to lose any of the original nutrients. The benefits of brown seaweed have been known for centuries past by those cultures who use it. Our brown seaweed products are produced exclusively from the Laminaria japonica species. This species contains high levels of:

ALGINATES - are extremely effective organic elements that assist the body with detoxification.

ORGANIC IODINE - can boost the immune system and help support a healthy Thyroid gland which controls metabolism and can therefore assist with weight loss.

FUCOIDAN - can eliminate harmful cells, such as cancerous cells from the body.

LAMINARIN - A polysaccharide which can help in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

Today, Fucoidan is the subject of more than 600 unsolicited, independent, third-party scientific studies that all validate its astonishing life-sustaining, immune-supporting properties. It's hailed in such reputable medical journals as:

• Anticancer Research
• Infection and Immunity
• The British Journal of Pharmacology
• Nutrition and Cancer
• Developmental Biology
• The Journal of Molecular Immunology
• Journal of Neuroimmunology
• Antibiotics and Chemotherapy
• Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Working on both a cellular and sub-cellular level, FUCOIDAN boasts an almost endless list of health benefits. Based on the research, FUCOIDAN may just be the most powerful immune-supporting nutrient ever discovered!

BIOFILAM is not just a regular dried seaweed product. It is a highly concentrated and specialised extract of kelp (Laminaria japonica). Forty five pounds of raw seaweed goes into making just one pound of BIOFILAM. Basically, a 5 gram teaspoon of powder is like eating 1/4 kilogram of raw kelp. That's around an entire plateful of super-healthy seaweed in one small spoon!

Our brown seaweed is harvested from the clean, pristine waters of the Northern Pacific Ocean, around the Kuril Islands. Every batch is tested for impurities such as heavy metals and radioactive isotopes to ensure its purity.

The low-temperature processing of BIOFILAM causes sloughing off of the heavy outer fibers of the seaweed, while retaining the essential properties of the plant. This process further enhances its bio-availability, making the Laminaria more digestible. Forty five pounds of raw Laminaria are required to make one pound of BIOFILAM. Eating 8 capsules of extract a day provides the same amount of good, organic micro- and macro-elements contained in entire plate of this nutrient-rich seaweed. And, it is not cooked.

The oldest Japanese recipes of preparing seaweed tell us to eat seaweed raw, rather than cooked. Modern science affirms that an anti-cancer substance called Fucoidan, as well as beneficial polysaccharides, will break down if the seaweed is cooked. This was determined when studies were performed on the Japanese island Okinawa, known for its lowest cancer death rate in Japan.

The combination of active ingredients in Laminaria Japonica make it an extremely effective detoxifier of heavy metals and radioactive elements. Together, these ingredients are ideal absorbers of toxins because they bond with these contaminants and promote their disposal outside the body.

The toxins that we absorb from our environment can be linked with many diseases. For example, it is suspected that an accumulation of excess aluminum may contribute to a brain deterioration known as Alzheimer's disease. Radioactive particles from nuclear fallout, inadequate nuclear waste disposal, and from the disaster at Chernobyl and more recently Fukushima, can contribute to cellular distortion, leukemia and other forms of cancer, birth defects, anemia and other diseases.

The natural substances found in Laminaria Japonica were first used in Chernobyl to treat victims of radioactive fallout with great success. Today research and testing is continuously done all over the world, confirming the beneficial nutritional and medical uses of brown seaweed. In fact, more and more beneficial uses for it are being discovered. It can protect against Thyroid cancer and other cancers, help decrease high blood sugar and cholesterol levels. It can detoxify the body from radioactive elements and other bio-chemical pollutants, over-processed foods infused with unnatural chemicals as well as the affects from use of drugs and alcohol. It can help with negative affects of poor nutrition and an unbalanced diet, weight loss, hair and nail growth, and much more.

It is important to note that prior to 2008 BIOFILAM® was known as Modifilan®. I After extensive investigation into the matter (since we used to sell and use Modifilan), it is our understanding that after a disagreement, the US trademarks where taken by the (then) US distributor of (pre-2008) Modifilan. This meant the creators of the product had to rebrand it, and now use the name BIOFILAM®.

BIOFILAM® is the original Russian patented inner gel extract of Laminaria japonica (Japanese kelp / Kombu). BIOFILAM® (originally, "MODIFIed LAMInaria", or "MODIFI-LAN") was developed and named in Russia by Russian scientist Maslyokov Yuri Pavlovich in 1991 (PATENT RU# 2030885 and RU# 2019981). He worked in the State Rehabilitation Institute, where victims of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe underwent treatment. The healing qualities of seaweed had been known for centuries, so the Russian government instructed scientists to find an effective and powerful remedy for the radiation poisoning of that particular population. After trying out various forms of algae, one type yielded the best scientific data for this purpose. It was the brown seaweed known as Laminaria japonica, which grows wild in the northern Pacific Ocean off the coast of uninhabited seashore far to the east of Russia (in the Kuril islands).