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More Than Immune Health
How the pandemic has fundamentally redefined attitudes to functional nutrition. New Insights Into the Impact of COVID-19 It’s no longer news that the pandemic has massively increased interest in immune health, and demand for functional foods and beverages that offer to boost it. However, a far more fundamental shift has taken place over the last ...
A Starting Point for DEI: Seek Similarities Before Differences
Having a diverse team is not enough. You can hire people of different genders, races and ethnicities, ages and educational backgrounds and appear to have a diverse team, but your company will not truly be diverse until you begin to see the similarities before the differences. It is when we see what we have in ...
Vitamin D & Me!
Your source of in-depth information on vitamin D & COVID-19. In January 2021, former U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS, sounded a clarion call in an op-ed published in Medpage Today. Carmona argued that as the U.S. was breaking records in the number of daily deaths due to COVID-19, we did not ...
Cosmetics Containing CBD—How Regulated Should They Be?
Cosmetic products containing CBD are everywhere! Lotions, bath salts, serums, powders, shampoo, makeup. Deciding which ingredients to include in a product, how and where to manufacture, and what marketing claims to make are important and at times difficult decisions for a company to make. When considering the inclusion of CBD in a cosmetic product, the ...
Bladder Health
Known to affect sleep, reduce quality of life, and be associated with depression in both men and women, lower urinary tract symptoms are a silent problem for many that natural ingredients can address. Bladder concerns are a hidden problem and much more prevalent than people realize. They can start early in life and often progressively ...
Natasha Dhayagude, CEO and co-founder of Chinova Bioworks
Chinova Bioworks 50 Crowther Ln., Ste. 100 Fredericton, NB, Canada E3C0J1 Phone: (506) 262-1348 Chinova Bioworks is a food technology company that was founded in 2016 to develop natural, clean-label preservatives extracted from mushrooms for the food and beverage industry. Chinova is headquartered in New Brunswick, Canada, and 90 percent of the team is made ...
Revisiting The Green Imperative
What does it mean to be green? Sustainability should not be about marketing hype or embracing the latest contemporary zeitgiest. Sustainability must be a business model first and a branding strategy second. And, by now, it should be abundantly clear to any lucid decision-maker that sustainability is here to stay. What began as an article ...
Nutrition for the Digital Age: Designing Dietary Supplements for Today’s Esports Athletes
The traditional definition of sports is changing. Athletes no longer belong exclusively on courts or in the gym—they are now also behind computer screens and consoles. The esports market is currently worth $150 billion globally, a figure that is expected to double by 2025. This dizzying growth was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic when more ...
Tableting by Design
Tableting is a broad term used to describe methods of compressing a powder formulation into a solid dosage form using a tablet press or tableting machine. Tablet manufacturing can be challenging due to the physical nature of the ingredients and the number of active ingredients present in nutraceutical formulations. The correct tablet design process is ...
Probiotics: What’s Inside Is Alive
Consumer interest in probiotics is growing—and so is the body of scientific research supporting their use and revealing the expanding health benefits of these products. Understanding the unique nature of probiotics starts with knowing that these ingredients are actually alive. Probiotics can deliver millions, or sometimes, billions of living organisms and can help the body ...
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