Tag Archive 'supplements'

For the most part vitamin, mineral and herbal supplements are really just a means to increase the value of your pee.

What?!?!? Huh!?!?! How dare I say that, being a nutritionist and all?

The truth is that for every good, valuable and effective supplement there is on the market, there’s probably about ten bad ones (exhibit A: supplement aisle of Costco, Shoppers Drug Mart, Walmart, and Walgreens).

There are all these laws and bills being passed here in Canada in an effort to regulate supplements in terms of dosage, availability etc. You can bet that when a supplement gets pulled from the shelves of your local health food store, it is not because it is really in violation of anything, or that the dosage or contents will be harmful. Chances are quite good that supplement is actually incredibly effective, rivals a pharmaceutical, is plant based and therefore unpatentable. Meaning- it’s a threat to the biz side of disease care.

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Alain Roy was part of the marketing team that launched Greens+ nearly 15 years ago. He has since done much work in elevating the standards of Candian supplements to help consumers ensure that what they are taking is the same thing as what is written on the bottle. We discuss the value of supplements, how to know if you are getting the goods as well as his fantastic new product for happiness support, Veeva

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Once again I have been reminded that all the world’s a pharmacy. Remember last Spring how I made a whole big whopper of a deal about My Green Thumb?

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