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The Cannabinoid Revolution
In honor of National CBD Month, VR looks at addressing the endocannabinoid system. Panelists: Rich Barnes, COO and Founder, Slumber CBN, Denver, CO, www.slumbercbn.com Ramona Billingslea, Marketing Manager, Betsy’s Health Foods, Houston, TX, www.betsyhealth.com Zora DeGrandpre, ND, Leafreport, Tel Aviv, Israel, www.leafreport.com Yasamine Farshad, ND, CH, Practitioner Education Manager, Wise Woman Herbals, Creswell, OR, www.wisewomanherbals.com ...
Keeping Joints Mobile, Healthy and Strong
Will the joint health segment continue to grow? Picture this: the alarm goes off but you have to get out of bed in increments. First, you swing your legs over the side of the mattress. Next, you put your hands on your thighs and give yourself a push upward. Then, you stand in place for ...
Vitamin Retailer’s 2020 Best New Products
For the 13th consecutive year, Vitamin Retailer, with the guidance of a retailer panel, assembled the year’s best new natural products. Thirteen 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 ...
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 ...
Healthy Blood Sugar Products: Not Only for Diabetics, Healthy Blood Sugar Products Experience Growth in the Marketplace
With a focus on maintaining healthy blood sugar through lifestyle changes, is there still a need for healthy blood sugar supplements? The answer to that question is a resounding “yes.” Issues with Blood Sugar Health According to the ADA (American Diabetes Association), healthy blood sugar should be in the range of 80 to 130 mg/dL., ...
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 ...
A Healthy Mix of Minerals
Zinc, selenium and other essential minerals offer multiple benefits during a pandemic and beyond. As noted in this month’s Association News (page 20), this past September, the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) released the results of its 2020 CRN Survey, which noted that 98 percent of supplement users reported using the combination of vitamins and ...
The Quest for Immune Support
Caring for one’s immune system now is more critical than ever. Manufacturers are doing their part to provide support. At present, society has been living in a pandemic due to COVID-19 for more than six months, and still, many questions remain unanswered about the virus. Amid the speculation, retailers and manufacturers alike are unable to ...
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 ...
Pets Take Center Stage
Pet health product sales soar during COVID-19. “Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.” This quote, made famous by George Eliot, a Victorian novelist, aptly describes the relationship many Americans have with their pets. Be it a hamster, rabbit, cat, dog or any other four-legged friend, Americans love their companion ...
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