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Research Updates: Mental Wellness, Active Aging, Skin Health and More

Get the latest science overviews from companies in the natural products industry, including dsm-firmenich, TSI Group, NAI, and more.

July 10, 2025

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Natural products industry companies share overviews on the latest science on their dietary supplement branded ingredients and formulations to support health and wellbeing.

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Research Updates: Digestive Wellness, Immune Support, Skin Health and More

Get the latest science overviews from companies in the natural products industry, including NutriScience Innovations, TSI Group, Verb Biotics, Natures Crops and more.

July 2, 2025

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Natural products industry companies share overviews on the latest science on their dietary supplement branded ingredients and formulations to support health and wellbeing.

Plant Sterols and Stanols: A valuable underutilized resource for heart health

In addition to the evidence supporting heart health claims, recent studies suggest that plant sterols and stanols may provide a variety of health benefits. Get updated on the latest.

November 18, 2024

Susan J. Hewlings, Ph.D., RD

There is a growing consumer interest in alternative proactive solutions for cardiovascular disease (CVD), as evidenced by the increasing demand for functional health foods.

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Gut Microbiota and Hypertension: The Promise of Probiotics

January 22, 2024

International Probiotics Association

Research supports a role for the gut microbiome in regulating blood pressure.

Heart Health: What You Need to Know Now

Cardiovascular disease is on the rise, but the latest research and innovations in the space can play a role in supporting wellbeing.

January 17, 2024

Marissa Fox

What is the latest need-to-know information in the heart health space? We asked the experts to provide an update for 2024.

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Research Updates: HMB, Nootropics, Tocotrienols, K2, Probiotics & More

TSI Group, Gnosis by Lesaffre, PhytoGaia, Nutiani, OmniActive, Activ’Inside, and Blis Technologies share the latest science.

June 20, 2023

Maggie Jaqua, Content Director

Good Health Reads—Niacin: The Real Story

January 23, 2023

Robert G. Smith, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Niacin: The Real Story, 2nd Edition, by Abram Hoffer, Andrew W. Saul, and Harry D. Foster (Turner Publishing, 2023) Niacin (vitamin B3) is a biomolecule required by all forms of life. It functions as a precursor to NAD, an enzymatic co-factor in hundreds of metabolic pathways. Niacin is called a...

COSMOS-Mind Study Shows Promise for Multivitamins in Cognition

September 27, 2022

Maggie Jaqua, Content Director

Washington, D.C.—The ancillary study of the Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study for the Mind (COSMOS-Mind) study, conducted by the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, has been published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association. The research reveals statistically significant improvement on global...

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Keeping Kids Happy & Healthy

July 21, 2022

Marissa Fox

From snacks and sips to supps and clean medicine, here’s the latest science, trends, and offerings in the children’s health market. We all know eating loads of junk food—the kind with advertising designed to tempt children—isn’t great for wellbeing. But for kids, what are long-term effects of consuming a...

There is No Such Thing as “Good” and “Bad” Cholesterol

June 29, 2022

Jonny Bowden and Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., CNS aka The Nutrition Myth Buster™

In this column, I’d like to take a closer look at three widely shared assumptions that greatly influence how we think about cholesterol and heart disease. Here are the three assumptions. See how many you agree with. There are two kinds of cholesterol, one “good” (HDL) and one “bad” (LDL).