Nutrition & Life

The requirement​ has created high demand for ISO certification from testing laboratories, and as a result, NJ Labs recently earned its accreditation of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 from Perry Johnson Laboratory Accreditation, for its chemistry and microbiological laboratories. However, during an interview at SupplySide East, Sandra Lee, CEO of NJ Labs, cautioned manufacturers that certifications alone are

A new collaboration is underway between Seppic and Lonza’s Capsugel that utilizes Capsugel’s DuoCap. The capsule-in-capsule delivery system combines Sepibliss, Seppic’s branded coriander seed oil with Ceramosides, the company’s branded phytoceramides that are derived from wheat.  While Ceramosides was launched in 2015 and Sepibliss 2018, this is the first time the two ingredients have been

AIDP, based in City of Industry, CA, announced this week that its BeautyOLIGO ingredient, which is manufactured by Neo Cremar Co. of Seoul, South Korea, has been granted a Natural Health Product Number by Health Canada. Natural health products cannot be sold in Canada without such a listing and Health Canada only grants the use

SkinBioTherapeutics AxisBiotix probiotic powder for psoriasis holds wider promise says CEO Unveiled last month​, the AxisBiotix product was made from a blend of Bifidobacterium animalis​, Lactobacillus brevis​, Lactobacillus reuteri​, and Lactococcus lactis​ and had been developed to alleviate symptoms of psoriasis – a long-term chronic skin disease associated with red, itchy, scaly patches on various

Achieving ‘remission’ for people with type 2 diabetes through dietary approaches and weight loss should be the primary treatment goal of GPs and healthcare practitioners, concludes a large-scale review of clinical evidence led by researchers at UCL and Aston University. Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is a serious condition caused when the body resists the insulin

A study led by a researcher at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that food insecurity among college students is associated with lower college graduation rates and lower chances of obtaining a bachelor’s or advanced degree. Food insecurity is a household’s lack of consistent access to adequate food resources. The study examined a

The ingredient, called AP Bio, is a standardized extract of Andrographis paniculata​.  The botanical is an herbaceous plant found throughout Southeast Asia and India.   A. paniculata ​has been known as the ‘king of bitters’ and is used in traditional medicine systems in the region, including in India, China, Thailand and the Philippines.  It has been

Ninety days of supplementation with 500 mg per day of the Cartidyss NG​-branded hydrolyzed fish cartilage, produced by French company Abyss Ingredients, led to improvements in “skin microrelief, dermis echogenicity, and collagen structure as well as a significant reduction in wrinkles, effects that were perceived by the study participants”,​ according to a paper published in

David Sela, a nutrition scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has received a five-year, $1.69 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate how nitrogen in human milk is used by beneficial microbes in the infant gut to potentially play an important role in pediatric nutrition and development. The new experiments,

For many aging Americans, the dream of maintaining an active, independent lifestyle while living at home comes crashing down with a fall. Falls are the leading cause of injury, accidental death and premature placement in a nursing home among older adults in the United States. Now, new research from Washington University School of Medicine in

The routine method of analyzing pesticide residues in botanical ingredients as well as in foods is referred to as QuEChERS, which is a portmanteau meaning ‘quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe.’  The material is commonly homogenized and mixed with a reagent and agitated.  This is followed by a solid-phase extraction step (SPE) to ‘clean

New research from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences demonstrates the beneficial effect of breast milk consumption on cardiovascular health and early cardiovascular development in premature infants. Published in JAMA Network Open, the study of 80 preterm infants is the first of its kind to show that preterm infants with higher exposure their mother’s

Eating about ½ cup of walnuts every day for two years modestly lowered levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, known as “bad cholesterol,” and reduced the number of total LDL particles and small LDL particles in healthy, older adults, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association’s flagship journal Circulation. Walnuts are

The latest warning letter was issued to a California company that does business under the name Je Dois L’avoir Boutique.  The warning letter​​ pertained to a product called 365 Skinny High Intensity. “FDA confirmed through laboratory analysis that a sample of your “365 Skinny High Intensity” contains undeclared sibutramine. Sibutramine is the active pharmaceutical ingredient

“Vitamin K2 should always be taken with vitamin D3,” said Webber. “Vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 we call the perfect pair and that’s because vitamin K2 actually makes vitamin D3 work more efficiently and more safely in the body. Higher doses of vitamin D3 can actually be detrimental, but vitamin K2 can kind of prevent

Weekly consumption of ultra-processed food is linked with an increased risk of heart disease, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2021. Ultra-processed food refers to a wide range of products such as mass produced bread, ready meals, fast foods, sweets and desserts, salty snacks, breakfast cereals, reconstituted meat including chicken and fish nuggets, instant

Cutting 20% of sugar from packaged foods and 40% from beverages could prevent 2.48 million cardiovascular disease events (such as strokes, heart attacks, cardiac arrests), 490,000 cardiovascular deaths, and 750,000 diabetes cases in the U.S. over the lifetime of the adult population, reports a study published in Circulation. A team of researchers from Massachusetts General

“We take a naturally occurring terpene, mostly from citrus. We use a process of synthesis to take that terpene and turn it into a cannabinoid  and so we sort of start with what looks kind of like a cannabinoid, but it’s a terpene and then we use a process of synthesis to get it to

Port snarl in China shows shipping crisis far from over The disruption in the flow of shipping containers that was first observed more than a year ago has, if anything, gotten worse.  The spread of the delta variant of COVID-19 around the globe has sent renewed shocks through a global shipping system that at one

The donation was announced by Byran Nitriceuticals, LLC, which was founded by Dr Nathan S. Bryan, PhD, who has researched nitric oxide ingredients and biological effects for more than 20 years.  The donation of 10,000 bottles of the company’s product was made possible in part by an unnamed Texas philanthropist, the company said. Dr Bryan

Fine particle pollution may be one reason why Black women have double the risk of developing Alzheimer’s than white women, suggests new research from the Keck School of Medicine of USC. For decades, research has shown the risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease in the United States is dramatically higher among African American populations than in

The team concludes from the 54 randomised controlled trials involving 8,747 individuals that no benefits were observed from taking vitamin D to improve muscle function, strength, or mass even at doses exceeding 2,800 IU/day. “We find it fair to conclude that the common statement that vitamin D protects muscle health lacks clinical evidence,”​ concludes the