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May Yamada-Lifton, Chief Executive Officer, Maypro Group
May Yamada-Lifton brings 20 years of leadership experience from the pharmaceutical, data science and finance industries to Maypro, a branded ingredient supplier. She holds undergraduate degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Tokyo. She completed her MBA with honors from Columbia Business School. Before joining Maypro, her career experience included roles ...
Nurturing Health, Nourishing Experience: The Key Role of Customer Experience in Independent Health Food Stores
In an era of heightened health consciousness, the natural products industry has experienced a substantial surge. Consumers everywhere are actively seeking out natural solutions, and the competition in the retail of natural products has reached a feverish peak. Online platforms have taken note, selling more products than ever while expanding their education and awareness programs. ...
Better Brains, Better Lives
We all know that the brain is the seat of our consciousness—it contains our thoughts, memories, emotions, problem solving skills, and artistry. In DaVinci’s brain, there lived the Mona Lisa, and in Harper Lee’s brain it turns out that To Kill a Mockingbird was stored. You could not love your children, watch a movie, tie ...
A 360-degree Approach to Weight Management With Natural Ingredients
Are you overweight or obese? If so, you’re not alone. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. obesity prevalence is 41.9 percent.1 But what constitutes obesity? The CDC indicates that an adult who has a BMI between 25 and 29.9 is considered overweight, while an adult who has a BMI ...
Optimizing The Store Experience
Any retailer can relate to the idea of their store being not just a physical space of bricks and mortar, but an experience. From a customer’s point of view, it’s this experience—the appearance, attitude, selection, and overall feeling that they get—that will keep them coming back. But I think it can also be easy to ...
Stay In the Game Longer! 6 Supplements for Endurance and Rapid Recovery
For most of us, life is a balancing act. In a perfect world, we’d all have time during our day to devote to our health. But in the real world, 24 hours a day doesn’t seem like nearly enough time to fit in work, school, family and the plethora of responsibilities that life throws at ...
Synergism Among Nutraceuticals: Black Seed Oil, Omega-3, Astaxanthin & More
I previously wrote an article on “Evidence-Based Uses of Standardized Black Seed Oil” for the June 2023 issue of Vitamin Retailer. In that article I highlighted the research demonstrating the effectiveness of black seed oil (BSO) standardized for its thymoquinone content. In this article, I’m going to take it a step further and examine that ...
Saffron: Powerful Help for Mental Health
Saffron has been used as a medicinal herb since ancient times. But it is not until only very recently that it has caught the attention of modern science. And caught its attention it has! Saffron may be one of the most versatile and valuable of all herbs for mental health. An Assyrian botanical dictionary from ...
Dr. Darrin Starkey, Director of Education, Trace Minerals Research
Dr. Darrin Starkey has been a board-certified naturopathic physician since 2000 and is a member of the American Alternative Medical Association (AAMA). He has worked for Trace Minerals since 1991 and is their vice president of training and education. Starkey is considered an expert in the field of mineral and trace mineral nutrition, balance and ...
Sibyl Swift, PhD, Chief Science Officer & Vice President Regulatory Affairs at cbdMD
Sibyl Swift, PhD, is the chief science officer and vice president of regulatory affairs for cbdMD and the co-chair of cbdMD Therapeutics. She also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for cbdMD. As CSO for cbdMD, she directs the company’s research partnerships and clinical trials, advises on regulatory matters, guides new product ...
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