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Nutraceutical Compensation for the Adverse Effects of GLP-1 Agonist Drugs
The use of GLP-1 agonist drugs—particularly for weight loss—are trending in a huge way. According to a new report,1 GLP-1s were the best-selling drug class in 2024, with approximately $50 billion in annual sales, and forecasted to surpass $100 billion by 2029 with an astounding compound annual growth rate of 19.2 percent. Certainly, anyone who ...
Your Store’s Mission and How to Practice It
Most businesses have a mission statement that, with varying degrees of earnestness, they try to live out in their daily transactions. The degree to which a business sincerely accomplishes that is one test of its true success. A health food store’s mission statement—and living out that mission—gets to the core of why we are involved ...
Katie Reneker, Founder, Carmel Berry Company
Katie Reneker is the founder of Carmel Berry Company, a certified woman-owned business, based in Carmel Valley, CA, making fresh pressed elderberry goods from 100 percent American-grown elderberry and elderflowers. Reneker has emerged as an advocate and mentor for elderberry farming in California, with grants and education for new elderberry growers’ part of the company’s ...
Polyamines for Cognitive Performance, Healthy Hair and More
Polyamines, including spermidine, spermine and putrescine, are synthesized in every living cell and are contained in many foods. They have many physiological activities, such as antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, cell and gene protection, and autophagy activation. They also have multiple demonstrated applications for health and wellness, including healthy aging,1-4 cognitive health,5-7 hair health8,9 and hormonal ...
The Natural Dentist: Natural Solutions for Oral Health
Cavities Regularly drinking green tea, or even just rinsing your mouth with it, leads to fewer cavities (Nutrition 2002). Theaflavins are flavonoid antioxidants found in black tea. You might also want to find them in your toothpaste. When adults brushed their teeth with toothpaste with or without added theaflavins, saliva samples showed that the toothpaste ...
The Women Sports Nutrition Category Explodes!
Women’s sports is on the rise – BIG TIME! All you have to do is turn on your TV. Stadiums and arenas are sold out. TV ratings are through the roof. With rock star women athletes like WNBA basketball star Caitlin Clark and Olympic Gold medalist sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, among others, leading the way, the ...
Tyrone Faverey, CEO & Co-founder, RevolutionaryFitness USA LLC
Known for his innovative approach and commitment to community empowerment, Tyrone Faverey is the founder and CEO of RevolutionaryFitness USA. He recently launched the New History supplement line, which has become an emerging name in sports nutrition with a special focus on serving the underprivileged and communities of color. A former Big East champion in ...
Turning One-Time Shoppers Into Lifelong Customers: Strategies for Retention in Natural Products Retail
In today’s hyper-competitive retail environment, where online giants and big-box stores reign supreme, the real challenge for independent natural products retailers isn’t just attracting new customers—it’s keeping them. Customer retention, often an afterthought, should be front and center for any retailer who wants to build a sustainable, profitable business. We all know that acquiring a ...
Herbs For Mood Support
Ever feel like your emotions are running the show—dictating everything from your mood and energy levels to your hunger, and even whether you’ll stick to those plans you made earlier in the week when you were feeling social and optimistic? You’re not alone. In a world that expects us to maintain endless emotional stamina, all ...
Parkinson’s and Other Neuro Disorders: The Broken Brain
There is nothing quite as scary as finding out your brain isn’t working properly. It is not an overstatement to say that many of us feel our brains house our identity, our mind, our personality. While we like to reassure ourselves that our thoughts and behavior are fully under our conscious control, having a brain ...
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