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I’ve worked in the business side of the nutrition and supplement field for several years, so I try to keep track of what’s happening in the supplement product world as best I can. (I also work with bank portfolio management software and dairy cow nutritional feed ingredients, so sometimes I’m a bit limited in time [...]
When I was on the staff of a nutritional ingredient company several years ago, I observed a marketing focus group in Chicago in which a panel of 12 or so people were asked about their intake of dietary supplements. One woman in the focus group said she took 30 supplements a day. What??!!! That kind [...]
I recently posted a piece (last Tuesday) on a media tour supposedly featuring Dr. Stuart Reeves. Well, I got it all wrong.
The tour is still happening (with updated appearance dates below), but the topic and featured expert are not what I originally wrote and posted. Here’s the real scoop.
The media tour will discuss the Medicine [...]
Every so often we see a report published that basically says: “It’s a myth that vitamins and supplements actually work.” The report makes sweeping claims that vitamins and supplements “don’t add years to lives, don’t prevent disease and may actually cause more health harm than good.
The most recent assault on supplemental nutrition is in Slate [...]
I’m seeing some local news stories this week announcing an oversupply of H1N1 vaccine, available free in most places, and being distributed to anyone and everyone, not just kids and young adults. In Iowa, there some 60,000 doses available right now and more in the supply chain. The Iowa state epidemiologist has stated that nearly [...]
As I write this, I am 2 days back from a trip to Florida with my kids’ high school marching and jazz bands. We took three buses with 119 students and some 15 adult chaperons. We drove 27 hours each way, from Des Moines
A good time was had by all…
to Orlando, with stops at every [...]
I’ve been writing about stress lately and nutritional intakes that might help mitigate physical symptoms of stress. The EpiCor I take has a rich mixture of nutritional compounds contained with its proprietary natural fermentate complex. Within that mixture are B-vitamins. B-vitamins have been described in health literature as aiding against stress. The EpiCor ingredient doesn’t [...]
Several years ago I worked with a researcher at a supplement ingredient company who may have been one of the absolute smartest guys I’v known. He was a Univ. of Florida Ph.D. food nutritionist. When we were sitting in acompany conferernce room and looking at the Biochemical Pathways chart, which looks like the schematic for [...]
I’ve been doing some writing for an electronic newsletter distributed by Embria Health Sciences, which also supports this blog. The topic for the holiday season newsletter is none other than…summer allergies. Kinda hard getting my hay fever and balmy weather groove on this time of year. But the ingenious thing about it is, talking about [...]
I read some interesting stuff in a new post from a fellow member of the Wellsphere online health community. Her name is Cindy and she is beginning a series of 15 treatments using NAET: Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques.
As she wrote in her Wellsphere post after a visit to her integrative medicine clinic: “I ran [...]
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