Message from VRM Media about Coronavirus  

To our readers and business partners, In these challenging times for all businesses and individuals operating within the natural products community, we at VRM Media — publisher of Vitamin Retailer, Nutrition Industry Executive, Natural Practitioner and Fitness Trainer — want to first express our sincerest wishes for the best of health and well-being to all industry members and their families. As we are all quite ...

Vitamin Retailer’s 2019 Best New Products

For the 12th consecutive year, VR, with the guidance of a retailer panel, assembled the year’s best new natural products. Twelve years ago, Vitamin Retailer (VR) magazine decided to honor the year’s top products, and to do so by asking for the opinions of natural product retailers. Now, the objective remains the same, as these ...

NOW 2019 Science of Supplements: Winter Issue

References: 1. Feng X, Sureda A, Jafari S, et al. Berberine in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases: From Mechanisms to Therapeutics. Theranostics. 2019;9(7):1923-1951. 2. Firouzi S, Malekahmadi M, Ghayour-Mobarhan M, Ferns G, Rahimi HR. Barberry in the treatment of obesity and metabolic syndrome: possible mechanisms of action. Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy. ...

Sponsored Video: ParActin – HP Ingredients

Hame Persaud, executive vice president of HP Ingredients, discusses the benefits of ParActin, the company’s patented extract of Andrographis Paniculata. For more information, visit hpingredients.com.        

2019 Vity Awards

Vitamin Retailer (VR) magazine once again polled its retailer readers on their top-selling products and best sales and merchandising support to compile its 2019 Vity Awards. After all, who is better qualified to determine the industry’s bestselling products than the people who sell them? What started in the 1990s has evolved into one of the ...

Paul Schulick

Pioneering, paradigm shifting entrepreneur, master herbalist and formulator, Paul Schulick’s passion for natural healing began as a child while accompanying his pediatrician dad on house calls. In the early 1970s, Schulick embarked on a formal study of alternative health and formalized his master herbalist training at The School for Natural Healing. In 1986, he formulated ...

A Quarter Century of Retail Success

Organic Marketplace (Gastonia, NC) Organic Marketplace (OMP) has been a retailer for 25 years, and during that time, the size of the store has adapted and grown, along with its business strategies. “We started in 800 square feet doing supplements only, [and] over the years people needed food to support their health programs—the grocery stores ...

Sponsored Video: ParActin® Latest Osteoarthritis Published Research

Industry Update 1994-2019

Vitamin Retailer’s 25 Years & 25 Top News Stories The dietary supplement industry has gone through a number of changes since Vitamin Retailer’s (VR) debut in 1994. In honor of the magazine’s 25th anniversary, we looked back at 25 of the industry’s major milestones, and reflect on the impact, challenges and evolution of the dietary ...

Essential Formulas Incorporated (EFI) SOS Winter References

References: Miriam Webster Online Dictionary, www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/microbiome Pelton R. Postbiotic Metabolites: What They Are and Why They Are Important, https://essentialformulas.com/postbiotic-metabolites/. Research carried out and reported by many different scientific laboratories. Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience. Chapter Two: The Apollo guidance computer: Software. https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch2-6.html. Mayer E. The Mind-Gut Connection. New York, NY. Harper Collins, 2016, p. ...