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Antioxidants for Cognitive Health and Optimal Athletic Performance
Researchers agree that mental health and well-being are essential for optimal performance within all areas of life, including sports, academics and relationships. This means being proactive about wellness and preventing mental illness, not being reactive. However, it is important to develop an understanding of the implications of mental illnesses on athletic performance in order to ...
High Potency Ashwagandha Withanolides for Improving Sleep, Stress, Mood, Testosterone and Vitality
In Africa, the Mediterranean and India, the indigenous, small, woody shrub known as ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) has been used in ayurvedic medicine1 for more than 3,000 years. In 78 AD book Kitab-ul-Hashaish, Dioscorides described ashwagandha as a “Rasayana”—meaning a rejuvenator “that promotes a youthful state of physical and mental health and expands happiness.”2 Likewise, ashwagandha ...
Brainstorming the Cognitive Support Market
Opportunities for retailers to help customers feel in mental control have never been better. Here’s a data nugget from Nutrition Business Journal’s 2021 Condition Specific Report: In 2020, vitamin D experienced a significant sales spike not for immunity but for mental health, notching a 162.1 percent sales gain in this sector. In the brain/cognitive/mental support ...
Sleep, Stress and Everything In Between
If you are a functioning human living in the 21st century, then I would argue you have likely experienced the effects of a stressful day (or maybe the last year has really put stress on the front burner for you and your family) or the aftermath of a few sleepless nights. The good news is ...
Welcome to the Land of Nod
For millions, sleep and the ability to physically and mentally relax is more elusive than ever. Here’s how to help them restore healthy sleep. Mass insomnia is not a new phenomenon. Pandemic, terror attacks, world wars, acts of an angry Mother Nature, all create an internal environment where relaxation and sleep are impaired. Josh Axe, ...
What’s Driving Digestive Un-health?
Vitamin Retailer interviewed Dr. Mark Drucker, advisor for Torrance, CA-based Sun Chlorella (sunchlorellausa.com), and we asked him: With reportedly 60 million Americans with heartburn and another 4 million with frequent constipation, very briefly what are the main drivers of digestive un-health today — poor diet, medications, stress, ingredients in food, or other factors? Drucker: There ...
Women’s Prerogatives
Empowering women of all ages and types is a continually strengthening message: their health is at the core. There was a time just a few decades ago when women were referred to as “the weaker sex.” But indeed, women have come a long way, baby—to recycle a legendary ad slogan to support the women’s movement ...
Indian Gooseberry: An Effective Cardiometabolic Nutraceutical
Distributed throughout tropical and subtropical India, wild or planted, Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica L. syn. Emblica officinalis), is a deciduous tree, commonly known as amla in India. It yields a fleshy fruit more than 1.5 cm in diameter, light greenish-yellow, and quite smooth.1 It has played an important medicinal role for centuries in ayurveda, with ...
Stress and the Gut-brain Factor
In addition to feelings of nervousness, anxiety and/or nausea, stress can impact your gut health. That feeling of uneasiness in the stomach can actually be quite serious—it could potentially literally alter your gut. According to a 2017 study by Brigham Young University published in Nature Scientific Reports, when subjects were exposed to stress their gut ...
Stress & Anxiety on the Rise
Nutritional supplements have a role in helping the nation relax. Stress and anxiety are at an all-time high. Some experts even say it’s a national epidemic. Factors including work, money, social life, appearance and other responsibilities are all culprits of the rapid rise—and that’s where supplements to help reduce stress and anxiety come in. Among ...
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