Until recently seaweed had two places in my life - wrapped around a spicy tuna roll or lightly coated with sesame oil in a salad. Any other encounters with oceanic vegetables were frankly disconcerting. Take my last run-in with a sea plant. I was blissfully strolling into the ocean when I felt this cool slimy creature wrap itself around my right ankle. I leapt into the air convinced that an overly aggressive jellyfish had attacked me. Needless to say, it took a small leap of faith for me to imagine slathering myself with kelp or algae or seaweed, but the truth is, sea veggies are incredibly conducive to healthy skin and a big part of many natural moisturizers and lotions.

Move over echinacea and elderberry, there's another supplement attracting attention for its immune enhancing potential. Limu moui is a brown algae from the South Pacific that