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Jan 10, 2025 | 
naturalpractitionermag.com | Shari Barbanel |Gene Bruno |Nutraceutical Scientist
Michael J. Gelb is an authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development pioneer and is expert at creative thinking, executive coaching and innovative leadership. He is a fifth-degree black belt in aikido and a teacher of tai chi and the Alexander Technique. He is also a professional juggler who performed with the Rolling Stones.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
naturalpractitionermag.com | Gene Bruno |Nutraceutical Scientist
Polyamines, including spermidine, spermine and putrescine, are synthesized in every living cell and are contained in many foods. They have many physiological activities, such as antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, cell and gene protection, and autophagy activation.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
naturalpractitionermag.com | Shailinder Sodhi |Gene Bruno |Nutraceutical Scientist
The immune system is a marvel of biological engineering, working tirelessly to defend the body against invaders such as viruses, bacteria and other pathogens. From the moment we’re born, it shields us from harm and works to restore balance whenever our defenses are breached.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
naturalpractitionermag.com | Gene Bruno |Nutraceutical Scientist |Lisa Schofield
Vitamin K, particularly vitamin K2, represents a significant segment of the vitamin market. In fact, the global vitamin K2 market size was estimated at $421.1 million in 2023 and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 10.8 percent from 2024 to 2030.1 Certainly, vitamin K2 as menaquinone-7 (MK-7) has been recognized for its role in bone health and cardiovascular health, and to a lesser extent MK-4 has also been recognized for its role in bone health.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
naturalpractitionermag.com | Jacob E. Teitelbaum |Shari Barbanel |Gene Bruno |Nutraceutical Scientist
What if you could simply and naturally lower most people’s diabetes HgBA1C test results by 2-3 percent? For example, from 8.7 percent (poorly controlled diabetes) to under 6.5 percent (not diabetic). You can, and this article will show you how. Some Historical BackgroundMedical anthropologists tell us that adult diabetes used to be quite rare. Before the high sugar and low fiber Western diet was introduced.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
naturalpractitionermag.com | Lisa Schofield |Shari Barbanel |Gene Bruno |Nutraceutical Scientist
People are finally seeking to tackle their metabolic health, but there’s still a lot of work to do. Ballooning waistlines tend to be the factor that opens people’s eyes that there may be something more insidious going on inside them—chiefly, metabolic dysfunction. And unfortunately, those with metabolic dysfunction, metabolic syndrome or pre-diabetes comprise a very large group.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
naturalpractitionermag.com | Gene Bruno |Nutraceutical Scientist |Shari Barbanel
If you’ve been part of the dietary supplement industry for the past few years, you will certainly have seen the increased popularity of the biotics market (pre-, pro- and postbiotics). In particular, prebiotics have seen significant growth, with a global valuation of $6.67 billion in 2023, and an expected compound annual growth rate of 6.3 percent by 2033.1 That certainly explains the corresponding growth in the number of prebiotic options.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
naturalpractitionermag.com | Gene Bruno |Nutraceutical Scientist |Shari Barbanel
Are natural source nutraceuticals better than the synthetic version? The honest answer is sometimes yes, sometimes no. It really depends on whether the science on that nutraceutical can show a demonstrable difference. For most of the time melatonin has been on the market there has really been no opportunity to answer this question since synthetic melatonin was the exclusive source of this nutraceutical. This has changed, however, since the introduction of natural phytomelatonin.
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May 22, 2024 | 
naturalpractitionermag.com | Gene Bruno |Nutraceutical Scientist
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May 1, 2024 | 
naturalpractitionermag.com | Gene Bruno |Nutraceutical Scientist
Astaxanthin is one of my favorite nutraceuticals due to its broad range of beneficial effects demonstrated in human clinical research. As such, I have already written a few articles about it (see my articles in the May 2012, September 2020, and July 2023 issues of Vitamin Retailer, Natural Practitioner’s sister publication).
