What is the history of the Green Lipped Mussel?
The benefits of consuming fresh green lipped mussel have been known for centuries. Green lipped mussel has been part of the regular diet of New Zealand’s indigenous people – the Maori – ever since they first settled it shores more than a thousand years ago. To this day the Maori people understand the many health giving properties of green lipped mussel and, under this nation’s customary rights, collect and eat it regularly from the sea. Many current promoters of green lipped mussel extract blatantly claim that Maori people do not suffer from arthritis or joint pain as a result of eating this shellfish in their everyday diet, but I believe that to be an over simplification and misleading information. Maori people today suffer from just as many of the ills of the western world as the general New Zealand population. Having said that – I do still believe that those using green lipped mussel extract to treat arthritis naturally have a real advantage over those who are not (see my personal e
