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Back Talk with Judy K. Gray
This Month: Judy K. Gray is the founder and owner of North American Herb and Spice (NAHS), a company specializing in chemical-free, wild/organic whole-food supplements for the last 30 years. Gray is the author of books on achieving physical, emotional, and spiritual health, including Kids Need Care, and The Greatest Treasure of All. Gray and ...
Natural Eggshell Membrane: A Nutraceutical for Osteoarthritis and Exercise-related Pain
When it comes to nutraceuticals that promote joint health, the sky is the metaphorical limit. Choosing the “correct” nutraceutical for a given joint health customer is really a function of the criteria you set up as parameters. For example, if you only want to consider those nutraceuticals with human clinical research to validate their efficacy, ...
Weight-loss Miracles and Other Unicorns
Yes, I led with unicorns—because they are lovely and we all wish they were real, but they are not. The same thing is true about magic weight-loss products. There is no fast and easy way to lose weight. We all wish there was a pill that made our pounds disappear, but in truth, weight loss ...
Shilajit: An ayurvedic supplement for testosterone, cardiovascular health, energy, physical performance, collagen boosting and more
The ayurvedic medical tradition never ceases to amaze me. It is rich in so many fascinating natural remedies, which have been time-tested over thousands of years. Furthermore, quite a few ayurvedic remedies have also been the subject of modern scientific research which not only validate traditional use, but sometimes even provide evidence of new applications ...
Streptococcus salivarius K12: An Oral Cavity Probiotic
We all know about probiotics. They’re friendly bacteria that are delivered to the intestinal tract via supplementation or fermented foods, where they confer various health benefits such as digestive and immune support1—right? Well, only partially right. While probiotics certainly reside in the intestines, there are other areas of the body where they also reside. This ...
Sports Nutrition Continues to be a Compelling Category for Retailers
I consider myself a supplement nerd. I have been taking dietary supplements religiously for more than two decades. People laugh when they come to my home and see all the bottles and canisters lying around—I must take 75 pills a day along with powders of all kinds. My idea of fun is spending time in ...
Terminalia chebula
An Evidence-based Ayurvedic Herb for Joint Pain/Discomfort Whenever we see the words “joint pain” or “joint discomfort,” we immediately tend to think about nutraceuticals such as glucosamine, chondroitin, gelatin/collagen, and perhaps some herbal extracts such as boswellia or turmeric—and with good reason. These nutraceuticals all have varying degrees of research for treating arthritis-related joint pain, ...
Anxiety: Friend or Foe? Sometimes Both!
We all have a definition of what anxiety means to us personally. Maybe it is that tight feeling when you are late for work and you hit all red lights, or the butterflies you feel before having a serious medical test. The textbook definition is that anxiety is the sense of worry, apprehension and unease ...
What You Can Do About Alzheimer’s Disease
Does it seem to you that Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is increasingly common? That you have loved ones who are either struggling with serious memory changes themselves, or their older relatives are? That everywhere you look in the media, there are stories about Alzheimer’s? You are not mistaken. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, “The number of ...
Curcumin: An Update of 2015 Clinical Research
Curcumin, the primary active constituent found in turmeric, is responsible for the plant’s yellow color and for providing most of its medicinal qualities1,2—and like vitamin D, curcumin is one of those nutraceuticals for which research suggests a broad range of potential benefits. Likewise, turmeric has been used for as a traditional remedy in Chinese and ...
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