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Administration Provides Tariff Relief for Certain Botanical Ingredients

by Eric Munson | November 24, 2025

As part of an executive order issued on Nov. 14, President Donald Trump revised and expanded the set of commodities in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) that are exempt from reciprocal tariffs. These changes, which are reflected in updates to Annex II and Annex III partially target commodities that cannot be sourced within the United ...

AHPA Responds to Annex III Tariff Rules for Herbal Commodities

by Eric Munson | September 15, 2025

On Sept. 5, President Donald Trump passed a new executive order taking a range of actions regarding the tariff policies. The changes include the addition of Annex III, which contains commodities that may be exempt from the reciprocal tariffs. According to the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), the herbal commodities in Annex III include those ...

The Natural Dentist: Natural Solutions for Oral Health

by Linda Woolven and Ted Snider | December 1, 2024

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 ...

Want to Live a Long Time? Polyphenols Will Help Get You There

by Cheryl Myers | September 1, 2024

There is a huge amount of marketing around anti-aging interventions: creams, potions, diets, medications, devices, surgeries, fasting, exercise programs—all with a claim to turn back the hands of time. There is no perfect and easy answer, but there are some things you can do to slow down the damage that is done as we age, ...

Study Investigates Supplement Use Among Transmasculine People

by Eric Munson | April 1, 2024

More than 1 million people in the United States identify as transgender, but there is limited research on nutrition-related health outcomes for this demographic. However, Eli Kalman-Rome, a graduate student of nutrition at George Mason University, wanted to investigate the common motivations of dietary supplement use among transmasculine people. The study defines “transmasculine” as people ...

Customizing Energy Enhancement

by Lisa Schofield | April 1, 2024

The energy category has branched out but can be confusing. Here’s how to pair the right product with each customer. Face it, nobody likes to feel drained and unable to muster up enough power to move beyond a snail’s pace. But embracing the day with ASAP vigor is the reason why the energy enhancement category ...

Want to Live a Long Time? Polyphenols Will Help Get You There

by Cheryl Myers | May 1, 2023

There is a huge amount of marketing around anti-aging interventions. Creams, potions, diets, medications, devices, surgeries, fasting, exercise programs—all with a claim to turn back the hands of time. There is no perfect and easy answer, but there are some things you can do to slow down the damage that is done as we age, ...

Brain Boosters!

by Linda Woolven and Ted Snider | July 1, 2022

The Best Brain Booster of Them All The best brain booster of them all is the herb Ginkgo biloba. Ginkgo helps healthy people keep their cognitive powers, and it helps people with Alzheimer’s to fight for them. Several double-blind studies show that ginkgo helps cognition in seniors (Human Psychopharmacol Clin Exp 2002;17:267- 77), including significantly ...

Drinking Green Tea and Coffee Daily Linked to Lower Death Risk in People With Diabetes

by Shari Barbanel | October 26, 2020

Drinking plenty of both green tea and coffee is linked to a lower risk of dying from any cause among people with type 2 diabetes, suggests research published in the online journal BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care. Drinking four or more daily cups of green tea plus two or more of coffee was associated with ...

Green Tea Cuts Obesity, Health Risks in Mice

by Hilary Daninhirsch | April 30, 2019

Green tea cut obesity and a number of inflammatory biomarkers linked with poor health in a new study. Mice fed a diet of 2 percent green tea extract fared far better than those that ate a diet without it, a finding that has prompted an upcoming study of green tea’s potential benefits in people at ...

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