You mentioned that GlycoMarine is an extract of the GLM. There are several products on the market which boast GLM content, are these all the same extract with the same properties as GlycoMarine?
A4. No, unfortunately there are several “imitation” products which do not have the beneficial properties I have described, for reasons which I will explain. This is a very important question, because people could be spending their money and hoping for relief by way of one of these products, which has no therapeutic value whatsoever! Unfortunately, the customer is not able to tell by the appearance, smell or even the nutritional analysis whether the product is the genuine extract or simply freeze-dried (lyophilised) whole mussel meats ground into a powder. The only way the customer can be sure that they are getting the genuine product is by requesting it by the brand name, GlycoMarine. The reason that these imitation products (which are essentially just freeze dried whole mussel powder) do not perform the functions I have described for GlycoMarine, is that the anti-inflammatory activity of the mussel decreases at a rapid rate when the mussel dies. Additionally, if the extract is not sta
