Yoho Mekabu Fucoidan Capsule

Seaweeds are such valued commodity throughout Japanese history that they were even traded as tax payment some 3000 years ago in the Jomon era.

Japanese population has one of the longest longevity in the world. Japanese diet and eating habits is accounted for most of this fact.

Japanese diet consists mainly of products from the sea. Miso soup which is a daily staple in most households contains some kind of seaweed but usually wakame.  In researching the benefit of seaweeds, and verifying the accentuated longevity in the island of Okinawa, various scientists found the functionality of fucoidan, a unique sulfated polysaccharide that supports good health and long life.

Fucoidan is extracted from various kinds of seaweed but our product is extracted from powerful MEKABU and MOZUKU kinds.

Mekabu is the flowering part of wakame seaweed. The ruffled, flowering sprout of wakame just above the root. It has a sticky feel to it and has a mellow sweet flavor.

For the longest time, this part of Wakame seaweed was ignored as a less favored food ingredient but eventually, it was found that Mekabu is indeed a treasure chest of nutrients, extremely rich in a functional compound called Fucoidan. Because of its nature as a flowering bud, Mekabu has the highest concentration of beneficial polysaccharide sulfates than any other seaweed.

Mozuku, is another kind of seaweed very popular in Japan. The people in Okinawa were found to consume the highest per capita amount of mozuku in the world.

Okinawa has more people over 100 years old per 100,000 population than anywhere else in the world

• The lowest death rates from cancer, heart disease and stroke (the top three killers in the US)

• The highest life expectancy for both males and females over 65

• Females in Okinawa have the highest life expectancy in all age groups