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Talking Immune Health With Kerry’s Dr. Niamh Hunt
Nutrition Industry Executive (NIE) reached out to Dr. Niamh Hunt, PhD, manager, immune health, for Beloit, WI-based Kerry, with a few questions about immune nutrition, and here’s what she had to say. NIE: Bringing the gut microbiome into the mix, how important are pre-, pro-, post- and synbiotics, and why? The gut microbiome is essential ...
What Consumers Want
Unsure what consumers are looking for when it comes to hair, skin and nails? A 2022 study by Spate showed that individuals look online for specific solutions when it comes to this category. • Skin: Barrier repair including internet searches for solutions to things like rosacea, dermatitis and eczema. This is searched an average of ...
Elan Sudberg and the New “Dr. Oz Effect” on TikTok
Nutrition Industry Executive (NIE) reached out to Elan Sudberg, CEO of Garden Grove, CA-based Alkemist Labs and asked him about the latest supplement and ingredient “craze platform,” TikTok. Here’s what he had to say: NIE: It seems to many that video clips on TikTok are creating a buzz about berberine for weight loss similar to ...
Steve Fink, Vice President of Marketing, PLT Health Solutions, Discusses the Weight-management Category
At PLT, we have long said that weight management is the single biggest thing that people can do to live happier, healthier lives. An unhealthy weight is a contributor to many of the chronic health conditions that Americans and people around the world experience. As a society, we’re not doing well in this regard, with ...
Study Suggests Mediterranean Diet Reduces Risk of Dementia
Researchers in a new study found that individuals who ate a Mediterranean-like diet had up to 23 percent lower risk for dementia than those who did not. This research is one of the largest studies of its kind as previous studies have typically been limited to small sample sizes and low numbers of dementia cases, ...
Talking Bone and Joint Health With Angie Rimel
Nutrition Industry Executive (NIE) spoke with Angie Rimel, marketing communications manager – North America for Sioux City, IA-based GELITA to expand on the topic of bone and joint health. NIE: Speak to the different consumer targets for bone-and-joint health ingredients and supplements today? Active nutrition, sports nutrition, recovery, repair? Rimel: Bone and joint health needs ...
SPINS Data—Mood Support Trends: Vitamins and Supplements Offer Solutions to Boost Mental Health
The stress caused by the pandemic has had an enormous impact on dietary supplement consumers. According to SPINS, “More people are working from home. Stress levels are high. Health is constantly on shoppers’ minds (and in the news). Brands are offering more products with functional ingredients as well as vitamins, minerals, and supplements to address ...
Botanicals Today … Continued
NIE: What is the most important clinical study of (or review on) an herbal, algal or fungal-derived ingredient or formula has come out over the last couple of years? Eng: A six-month randomized controlled trial (RCT) investigated the sexual performance effects of supplementation with LJ100 Tongkat Ali in 45 middle-aged men with androgen deficiency of ...
Talking Herbs and Sustainability With Anand Swaroop, PhD, Founder and President of Somerset-NJ-based Cepham
NIE: According to the American Botanical Council’s Sustainable Herbs Program, sustainability is about producing herbal remedies “that are good for people and good for the environment” and involves taking steps to ensure that companies “are also working to sustain livelihoods and the earth.” Please discuss. Swaroop: We are learning and using the traditional knowledge from ...
Who Drinks Energy Drinks?
A meta-analysis of 71 studies across many countries, published between 2007 and 2021 and included males and females aged 16 to 53 sought to quantify who was the biggest consumer of energy drinks (ED) and why. According to the authors, most studies (37) found that ED consumption was done for studying and exams. In some ...
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