Articles by Lisa Schofield
Herb Associations Announce Updates
Research is an ongoing process, and in the discipline of how herbs impact human health, research continues to accelerate. Areas of study also include toxicity, pharmacology, extraction technology and more. An esteemed association collates the most significant research updates on commonly marketed and consumed botanicals. The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) has announced it recently ...
Peak Time for Botanicals!
Because of the pandemic, herbal products are “in season” with consumers! There is indeed a silver lining to everything, even something as universally reviled as the pandemic. COVID-19’s sliver of silver is the fact that people worldwide are not only paying much more attention to their health, they are switching to a preventive mindset and ...
Does Having Children Age Women?
In a new study, researchers examined several different measures that represent how a woman’s body is aging and found that people who had few births—or many—seemed to have aged quicker than those women who had given birth three or four times. However, these effects were found only after a woman had gone through menopause. “Our ...
Women’s Prerogatives
Empowering women of all ages and types is a continually strengthening message: their health is at the core. There was a time just a few decades ago when women were referred to as “the weaker sex.” But indeed, women have come a long way, baby—to recycle a legendary ad slogan to support the women’s movement ...
Brain Teaser: Study Seeks Adulterated Products
The stated objective of a study published recently in the journal Neurology is “To identify the presence of unapproved pharmaceutical drugs in over-the-counter dietary supplements marketed to improve memory and cognitive function.” And its findings were supportive of that objective. It also caused a kerfuffle and the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) responded. In the ...
Think About It
Zinc, selenium and other essential minerals offer multiple benefits during a pandemic and beyond. Some fogs are evocative—billowing in a valley on a hot summer morning or a pre-Halloween night, for example. But brain fog is not a fog that inspires anyone. Enhanced cognitive abilities is a growing desire among supplement users of all ages—it’s ...
CBD News
There is a lot happening with CBD products. Here is a roundup of recent news that collectively illustrate the liveliness and vigor of the space. Kadenwood, LLC, a California-based consumer seed-to-shelf CBD company, announced the acquisition of EcoGen Laboratories, the leading global manufacturer and supplier of hemp-derived CBD materials and formulations. The deal effectively establishes ...
Endocannabinoid Support: Outlook 2021
The endocannabinoid system, still new in health sciences, has been the muse for CBD and other products. This area is only going to grow. Still somewhat dewy fresh in the spotlight of human biological systems, the endocannabinoid system (ECS) has been the focus of dramatic product development. After all, its existence was discovered only 30 ...
Do Children Spread COVID-19?
Two recent studies have different conclusions about children spreading COVID-19. First, a commentary published in the journal Pediatrics, concludes that children infrequently transmit COVID-19 to each other or to adults and that many schools, provided they follow appropriate social distancing guidelines and take into account rates of transmission in their community, can and should reopen ...
Thinking of the Children
Children’s health and well-being take center stage as back-to-school season is fraught with unprecedented disruption. Here’s how to do your part to help keep the community of kids healthy. Raising children is never easy for any generation, but arguably, parents today have a challenge their parents didn’t. And this challenge, of course, is COVID-19. While ...
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