VR 2021
Link Between Depression and Heart Health Significant
According to a recent article by the American Heart Association, “People with depression fare worse in heart health study,” there is a greater risk of individuals suffering from depression to also experience heart-related issues. And it’s a two-way street: those who suffer from heart problems are more likely to deal with depression as well. The ...
State of the Heart
Supplements believed to maintain and promote heart health continue to grow in 2021. In February, thoughts turn to love—whether platonic, romantic or familial. As Americans celebrate Valentine’s Day, however, perhaps a box of fresh vegetables or visitor passes to the local gym would be more appropriate than the typical gifts of roses and chocolates to ...
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 ...
Chitosan Oligosaccharide: A Blood Sugar Management Nutraceutical
Diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by high glucose (blood sugar) levels resulting from an inability to make or use sufficient insulin.1 When high blood glucose levels remain high and largely uncontrolled for a long period of time, the result can be a variety of serious complications. These complications include, but are not limited to, ...
Natural Doesn’t Always Mean Harmless
Vitamin Retailer spoke with Vancouver-Washington-based physician Zora De Grandpre, ND, who serves as an expert for Leafreport, which is based in Tel Aviv, Israel, www.leafreport.com. She offers some general cautionaries for retailers and the natural products industry, at large: While most natural products have mild to moderate adverse effects, it is obviously incorrect to think ...
Deborah Kesten, MPH
Holistic Nutrition Researcher Founder Whole Person Integrative Eating Phone: (415) 324-4158 Email: [email protected] Website: www.integrativeeating.com Deborah Kesten, MPH, is an international nutrition researcher, award-winning author, and medical/health writer, with a specialty in preventing and reversing obesity and heart disease. Kesten is the founder of the Whole Person Integrative Eating, a science-backed program for halting—even reversing—overeating, ...
Building a Bulletproof Immune System
OK, maybe not 100 percent bulletproof, but able to deflect and dodge projectiles galore! In the midst of a serious viral outbreak, people can feel overwhelmed and vulnerable, but there are so many ways we can help protect ourselves and the ones we love through nutrient interventions. Whether it’s the basics like vitamin D, or ...
Pepper Oil Extract/ Beta-Caryophyllene: A Non-cannabis Phytocannabinoid for Pain and Inflammation
If you are alive in the United States today, there is a good chance that you’ve heard of phytocannabinoids—at least THC and CBD. If you are part of the dietary supplement/natural products industry, it would be near impossible for you not to have heard of phytocannabinoids. Likewise, you almost certainly have heard the myriad claims ...
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 ...
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