The rising use of dietary supplements and botanical medicines in clinics throughout the nation begs some important questions: How do medical practitioners define quality? HPC Caught up with three leading functional medicine practitioners to find out.
Holistic Primary Care’s 2018 Practitioner Survey included a question about the rapidly emerging methods of Synthetic Biology (SynBio) and the entry of SynBio ingredients into the food and dietary supplement supply chains.
A new form of immunoglobulin therapy is gaining popularity as an effective solution for hard-to-treat autoimmune and gastrointestinal diseases.
Once the stuff of science fiction, modern scientists are now using the techniques of synthetic biology to generate a vast range of useful compounds – including a growing number of ingredients and raw materials that end up in dietary supplements.
With the long-anticipated approval of Epidiolex, a proprietary form of cannibidiol (CBD) for treatment of two rare forms of childhood epilepsy, the Food and Drug Administration has put into question the future availability of CBD as a non-prescription dietary supplement.
A recent literature review of S-Adenosyl-methionine (SAMe) is shedding new light on this unique compound in the treatment of depression and other neuropsychiatric disorders. In some studies, SAMe was equivalent in efficacy to Tricyclic Antidepressants (TCAs) and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) in reducing symptoms and improving quality of life.
A physician-formulated combination of Turmeric, Astragalus, and other botanical and mushroom-derived ingredients is showing promise as a potential natural therapy for women with breast cancer.
It’s long been known that maternal diet can influence pregnancy outcomes, and the effects of nutritional supplementation during pregnancy can have far-reaching benefits. A recent population-based observational study by an international team of American, Swedish and British researchers suggests that prenatal vitamin use (with and without folic acid) reduces risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children.
Brandishing new and compelling evidence that vitamin D supplementation can reduce preterm births by as much as 60%, representatives of the Organic and Natural Health Association (ONHA) hit Capitol Hill on April 12, urging Congress to permit food and supplement makers to make this claim.
Three formerly independent practitioner-only nutraceutical lines –ProThera, Complementary Prescriptions, and Klaire Labs—will now be unified under a single Klaire Labs banner.
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