I was delighted to discover something even more remarkable than their capacity to absorb. It’s their capacity to create. Sea sponges don’t just expunge toxins. They also produce biochemicals that protect and promote life with anticancer, antibacterial, antiviral, and anti-inflammatory properties. Substances from a Caribbean sea sponge spurred breakthroughs in the treatment of HIV, herpes, and leukemia. Compounds from a Japanese sea sponge have been developed into a chemotherapy drug that has extended the lives of women with advanced breast cancer by blocking cell division. And a peptide from
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