Dr Mercola - What type of metabolic type "should" use seaweed?

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This is interesting! When I was a freshman in high school I moved to SE Alaska for a year and spent a lot of time with Tlingit Indians and eating the same foods they did. The first day there I regestered for school. As I was standing at the office window, the bell rang and lots of students poured from the classrooms. I thought they were all middle school students as they looked so young. Later I was shocked to discover these same students I saw exiting the classrooms were seniors!

I have long wondered what kept these students from looking the same age as their counterparts in the "lower 48". Perhaps it's a combination of the cooler weather and their diet, which, consequently, included a lot of seaweed, salmon, herring (including herring eggs on fir branches...not one of my faves), halibut, red snapper and rice. Potatoes and dairy products weren't regularly consumed as they were very expensive ( a gallon of milk approached $4 in 1976). On the other hand, living in the extreme North also deprived them of Vitamin D3, but perhaps they needed less due to the darker pigments in their skin and the fact that in winter when there was sun it was strongly reflected back from the snow (snowed from late Oct. to late May).