As CRN enters a second decade of advising the annual CODEX meeting on science-based nutrition, an official of the trade group said he’s continually reminded that patience is a virtue.
CRN president and CEO Steve Mister laid out four priorities for the supplement industry at a meeting yesterday. Among the highlights were to prepare for state based regulations and strengthening self regulation.
With rising carbon dioxide levels making food less nutritious by stripping crops of essential vitamins, the new brand is hoping to make people —and earth—healthier.
A bill has been introduced into the US House of Representatives that would allow Health Savings Account (HSA) funds to be used to pay for dietary supplements. The bill mirrors most of the provisions of a bill already in the Senate.
As immune health remains top of mind, vitamin D supplementation has gained wide attention. During an interview at SupplySide East, Crystal Webber, RD, senior sales manager at Kappa Bioscience, said the sunshine vitamin works best with a lesser known nutrient.
The use of HMB could transform the healthy aging conversation by helping to solve the riddle of maintaining muscle mass in older adults, a supplier says.
The effect of vitamin D supplementation on kidney health is still unclear. A recent large-scale study in a population with prediabetes did not find marked differences between vitamin D and placebo groups, but a urine protein measure suggested a potential...
Among women, a vegan diet is associated with significantly higher risk of hip fracture but supplementing with both vitamin D and calcium removes this increased risk, according to a new large-scale study.
Stomach cramps, bloating, diarrhea and constipation—Today, most doctors recognize symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). However, standardized criteria to diagnose the condition didn't exist until the 1980s.
Human health records indicate that people with low vitamin D levels are more likely to use and misuse opioids, so could normalizing vitamin D levels in at-risk populations help with this public health epidemic?
