Why choose Seatone over other Green Lipped Mussel extracts?

Early research on green-lipped mussels showed that simply drying and encapsulating mussels did not produce a consistent product. Additionally, non-active components of the mussels diluted the activity. Healtheries uses two processes (developed in the early days by McFarlane Laboratories) to overcome this problem:

• a new processing method to remove the fresh mussel from the shell and quickly extract and stabilise the active component; and,
• freeze-drying to preserve and stabilise the product.

This process ensures there is a huge difference between Biolane GLME and other products marketed as GLME which are actually little more than ground up frozen or even frozen and cooked mussel powder. This kind of processing minimises and can even destroy the potency of the product. This can be proven by a special laboratory test specifically developed by Healtheries for proving that each production batch of GLME has an acceptable level of activity. There is one other mussel product currently being marketed as an extract, which is only the lipids (oils and fats) portion of the mussel which have been extracted through the use of a solvent. While this will have some of the activity found in genuine Biolane GLME, it is only one of the active fractions in Biolane and therefore much less effective than the whole extract.

Note: Most of the clinical research has been carried out on Biolane Green Lipped Mussel Extract which is produced only in New Zealand by Healtheries in a process which ensures the potency and consistency of the product. Biolane GLME is the active ingredient in the finished product Seatone.