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Energize Your Mission With New Products & Promotions
Exploring new nutrients and formulas is exciting. It’s one of the reasons why we all love this mission. It helps refresh and energize the store, presents another reason to learn something new, and most importantly, provides the perfect reason to share that knowledge with our customers and community. But adding and promoting new products may ...
Jonny Bowden, PhD, Author
Jonny Bowden, PhD, earned a bachelor’s in music, a Master’s Degree in psychology, and a PhD in integrative nutrition. He is the best-selling author of more than a dozen books including The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth, The Most Effective Ways to Live Longer, Living Low Carb, and—with cardiologist Steven Sinatra—the controversial best-seller The Great ...
Pay Attention! Supplements and ADD/ADHD
When I was a child, no one had ever heard of attention deficit or attention deficit with hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD). These diagnoses were not in their current form until the late 1980s and were not frequently used until the 1990s. But there were always children (and adults) that were delightful whirligigs of constantly shifting thought ...
Natural Treatments for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common cause of chronic liver disease, and the numbers are on the rise—including in kids. NAFLD is now one of the most common causes of liver transplant. In NAFLD, fats, including cholesterol and triglycerides, collect in liver tissue. It affects as many as 30 percent of people, ...
An Independent Retailer’s Guide to Unreasonable Hospitality
How often do we find ourselves thinking, “Service just isn’t what it used to be,” as we go about our daily lives? As technology has advanced, the hospitality industry has made certain concessions. Human-to-human personalization has increasingly been replaced by personalization through technology. Yet the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, is often quoted as saying, ...
Nutraceuticals for Autism Spectrum Disorder
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about one in 36 children have been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).1 That statistic includes my son who has Asperger’s syndrome, an ASD. Although he is now a high functioning 26-year-old man who effectively manages his Asperger’s, it was a bit of a bumpy ...
Navigating the Brave New World of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become such a hot topic that it can be difficult to separate the hype—both for its use and against—from the reality. Since the field has grown so rapidly in such a short time, it’s worth investigating how AI can help your store become more productive and profitable, while retaining your personal ...
Building Voice of Customer Programs for Your Store
How well do you really know your customers? As an independent retailer, you probably greet familiar faces daily, but intuition only goes so far. You might think formal “market research” is something only big chains do, but even a single-store business can benefit tremendously from structured feedback. The surprising reality is that about 62 percent ...
The Case For L-5-methyltetrahydrofolate Over Folic Acid
Folic acid can reduce the incidence of certain birth defects (i.e., neural tube defects) of the brain and spinal cord by more than 70 percent,1 and the fortification of our food supply with folic acid has done much to help achieve this accomplishment. Nevertheless, there are potentially negative issues associated with folic acid intake for ...
CBD Usage Skyrockets Providing Profound, Science-Based Benefits for the Athlete
The use of CBD among athletes is becoming extensive. The Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (the “2018 Farm Bill”) exempted “hemp” from the definition of “marijuana” so that cannabinoids derived from hemp are no longer controlled substances under federal law. The law sets the THC limit for hemp at “not more than 0.3 percent on ...
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