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• Is Dr David Nutt... a Nut?

  30 November 2010

  In case you haven't heard, Dr Nutt is the man behind the establishment of an organization called 'The Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs'.  He rose to fame recently when given air time on BBC.
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• What keeps old men young?

  30 November 2010

  I guess there are endless answers to that, and they are all opinions.  I am referring to 'answers' that fall outside the scope of lifestyle, diet and exercise, and of course supplementation.
  Why do I raise it?
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• Herbal Asthma Help

  29 November 2010

  In addition to common conventional pharmaceutical aids to try to help asthma, which only help the symptoms, there are further means of helping to control the condition which may with time result in reduced attacks and improved general health, and perhaps a future ability to lessen the need for medication.
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• Kids and eating habits

  25 November 2010

  Bringing up young children to eat healthily is one of the biggest challenges that parents face these days.  It is not easy to explain to a young child that eating their vegetables and fruit is much better for them than the yummy snack given to them by their grandma who likes to see the look of pleasure on their grandchild’s face. 
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• Humans or Robots?

  25 November 2010

  One of the disadvantages of getting older is that one remembers when society was quite different and common sense was just that... common and experienced everywhere in everyday life! So often people are now driven to act like little robots and completely lack any initiative and are afraid to take responsibility for anything unless it is written down in some rule book.

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• Does Fish Oil deplete Vitamin E levels?

  23 November 2010

  Some do, but fortunately ours doesn't. Chris, a customer raised this question. Chris asks: "I have been taking 4 capsules of fish oil per day for a year. A dentist friend informed me that long term use of fish oil can cause vitamin E deficiency. Any truth to that?
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• Human Growth Hormone...

  22 November 2010

  This is a subject that used to come up regularly about seven or eight years ago because there were all manner of internet marketers pushing products that they claimed were HGH or purported to be precursors. Some may have helped stimulate HGH but most would have done little more than lighten your wallet.
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• Palm oil and Orang-utans

  19 November 2010

  One of our customers raised the issue about our Tocotrienols that are sourced from Palm Oil. Given the trend to sustainability and protecting endangered species she made the following comment/question (Her email is below). 

  I put the question to the GM of our supplier of this ingredient and have copied his response below...

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• Will Supplements be banned?

  18 November 2010

  This is an issue that comes up from time to time, particularly from our Customers in Europe.  The regulatory 'environment' about supplements in the EU is all over the place with different rules for different EU members. Even though there is supposed to be 'harmonisation' that is far from the truth.
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• What changed with this Supplement?

  18 November 2010

  A reader of our blog posed a question about a product that he had purchased in Europe a few years ago which he found worked well and then bought the same product in the US recently. Was the product the same... or was it simply that it worked years ago but wouldn't work for him now. Thought you may be interested.
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• Genuine Mistake... or Dishonesty?

  17 November 2010

  Good Health Inc of Texas is conducting a recall of its Vialipro Dietary Supplement. This is because the FDA found it to be adulterated with  sulfoaildenafil, an analog of an FDA-approved drug used to treat erectile dysfunction.
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• Are Prescription Drugs Pure?

  16 November 2010

  I thought that I would mention the following as a counter to inferences by some in the medical fraternity who claim that supplements are not pure. Of course there is no argument that some are not as indicated by an earlier posting that I did 'Genuine mistake or Dishonesty'.
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