MAN THINKS PLANKTON STOPPED HIS RARE CANCER
Tom Harper never dreamed his research
around phytoplankton would lead him to
a remedy for his cancer. The owner of
Cedar, B.C.-based Unique Seafarms was
simply looking for a way to extract phytoplankton
from the ocean and then recreate its
bloom in tanks.
Not only was Harper successful in his
research - he believes it may also be responsible
for halting the spread of a rare form of
lung cancer that was both inoperable and
incurable. In July 2004, doctors gave Harper
nine months to live. Today, he is alive and
well. Tiffany Haarsma, Harper's daughter,
says the process her Dad developed begins
with the extraction of a small amount of seawater
from the Georgia Strait through a
pipeline that sinks about 80-feet below the
water's surface. Using the seawater and
Harper's unique extraction technique, the
bloom process is recreated in tanks.
Haarsma said the company can now grow up
to 45-tonnes of bloom a day. Harper at first
was feeding the phytoplankton - microalgae
made up of 200 single cells, exclusively to
shellfish. One day, while standing among the
tanks at his business and contemplating
everything that had taken place, Harper took
notice of how well his clams were growing
since eating phytoplankton. That prompted
Harper to stick his fingers in the tank, having
decided to have a taste himself. "He literally
just started eating it," Haarsma said. "I
thought he was crazy for what he was doing.
I was actually a little bit worried about it. I
said to him, "You can't stick your fingers in
the algae and eat it." His response, "I'm
dying anyway so what have I got to lose."
Since eating the algae Harper says the cancerous
tumors in his lungs have stopped
growing and are now benign, something
Harper said has even puzzled his doctors. "They did 11 sites for biopsy and every one
of them is clear." Harper was also an insulindependent
diabetic. Since taking the algae he
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 no longer needs insulin. He is still off the
insulin and there is no sign of cancer anywhere
in his body," Haarsma said. "It is what
saved him. We really believe that. We have
no medical proof but we really believe it."
Haarsma herself has an under-active thyroid
and could not control her weight. She too
began taking the algae and in four months,
went from a size 12 to a size eight.
"My thyroid is functioning beautifully,"
she said, adding when she first started taking
the algae she didn't do it to lose weight, but
rather as a preventative measure.
At the time Harper began eating the algae,
he was very ill. In fact, Haarsma said she had
already began making funeral and burial
arrangements for her father. "Now when I
see him I still get all choked up," she said.
"He's still here!"
The focus of Unique Seafarms has shifted
from producing shellfish feed to meeting
human demand for the algae. The algae
product, named UMAC CORE, is now available
in health food stores in capsule and liquid
form, and is the only one available for
human consumption.
Haarsma explained UMAC-CORE is a
whole-food that is not missing any cofactors.
"Supplements are missing cofactors," she
said. "Nothing has been extracted from this
product. It is whole and complete."
Haarsma said she has been contacted by
many users of UMAC CORE who have told
her it has greatly improved health conditions
ranging from psoriasis, to sleeping disorders,
to Attention Deficit Disorder, to dandruff,
to boosting energy levels. "People's
energy levels are going up, especially among
the elderly," she said.
For more information about UMAC CORE
please call 1-888-504-1257.
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