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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, ...
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 ...
Store Success in Difficult Times: Merging Brick and Mortar With Online Retail
One of the biggest challenges to retail business has been the development of online sales— especially in the midst of COVID-19. With restrictions on store capacity and your local shopper’s own uncertainty, you may have wondered about whether—and how—to incorporate online sales as an adjunct to your own brick-and-mortar business. It may not seem obvious ...
Greg Cumberford, Vice President Science & Regulatory, Natures Crops International
Greg Cumberford Vice President Science & Regulatory Natures Crops International P.O. Box 248 12682 Route 6, Kensington, PE, Canada, C0B 1M0 Phone: (902) 836-3332 Toll Free: (844) 404-4244 Greg Cumberford is vice president science & regulatory with Natures Crops International. He has a 30-plus year career in co-evolved botanical natural wellness products research, innovation and ...
The Endocannabinoid System & Phytocannabinoids
The popularity of CBD, or cannabidiol, has exploded and CBD sales are rapidly growing year after year. In fact, a report from the Brightfield Group predicts that the CBD market will hit $22 billion by 2022. Whether or not this turns out to be an exaggeration, there is no question about the unprecedented growth of ...
The Pandemic: Driving Growth of Plant-based Products
As 2020 comes to a close, we can reflect back on a year that has been challenging for us all. The coronavirus pandemic has drastically changed the way we work, live and socialize. It’s also changing the way we think about nutrition. Nearly one-quarter of all Americans are going more plant-based. Every week it seems ...
Gold and Diamonds, or Energy?
Let me start by saying I like the sparkly stuff as much as the next person. But I would trade every piece of jewelry I own in a heartbeat for limitless energy. Imagine getting up in the morning with energy and optimism and the physical endurance to do anything you want to do. Head for ...
Detoxification Support Nutraceuticals
In her 1962 groundbreaking book, Silent Spring, Rachel Carson wrote: “For the first time in the history of the world every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.”1 Of course humans have always been exposed to potentially harmful chemicals from plants and other sources, but ...
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