Tune in as ‘The Prebiotic Dietitian’, Kara Landau, RD, enlightens us on not only the resistant starch benefits of prebiotic containing foods, but understanding the difference between prebiotics, probiotics and postbiotics. Plus, discover other nutrients and how they fuel overall wellness that can be found in prebiotic food sources.

Interested in business in the nutrition space? Listen in to get an inside look at entrepreneurship as Kara Landau, RD shares on her experience of launching and running her brand, Uplift Food – Good Mood Food.

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Kara Landau “The Prebiotic Dietitian” is a highly respected Australian Registered Dietitian, Author, and Founder of the prebiotic gut health brand - Uplift Food – Good Mood Food, based in New York City, USA.

A previous spokesperson for the Dietitians Association of Australia, and now the nutrition advisor and media representative for the Global Prebiotic Association, Kara specializes in the connection between diet, gut health and mood, and the vital role of prebiotics for wellbeing.

Regularly requested to provide expert opinion on gut health and entrepreneurship in the USA & Australia, Kara can be found quoted throughout titles such as Forbes, Shape, Elle, Elite Daily, Bustle, Womens Health, Mens Health, Readers Digest, MSN, and more;

Together with taking the stage to present at industry events across the globe, including Expo West (USA), Supply Side West (USA), Healthy Ingredients (EU), The Microbiome Movement (USA), Naturally Good (AUS), Probiota (EU) and more.

Founding Uplift Food – Good Mood Food: The world's first dietitian created functional food brand to focus exclusively on the mood supportive benefits of gut healthy prebiotics, Kara successfully lead the company to receive the first ever minority investment from Mondelez Internationals SnackFutures new venture arm in 2019, and has released both the Daily Uplifter powdered supplement, together with the Gut Happy Cookies™ functional snacking line.

Kara is on mission it to continue to educate, inspire, and make eating a prebiotic rich diet easy and enjoyable to all those that she can encounter.

Listen in as Karen Howard, CEO and Executive Director of Organic & Natural, shares the background, importance and controversies behind organic farming. In this packed episode you'll learn about supply chain integrity and what that means for both sustainability and personal health and dive deeper into transparency and traceability.

Learn about regenerative agriculture and why Glyphosate, a well known and proven to be carcinogenic pesticide, continues to show up in humans and twice as much in dogs.

Plus, discover how to fact-check grass-fed food sources and why one of the fastest growing supplements, collagen, might be worth switching to organic for.

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Karen Howard, CEO and Executive Director of Organic & Natural Health Association is a visionary and results-focused leader who has spent more than 30 years working with Congress, state legislatures and healthcare organizations to develop innovative healthcare policy and programs. She has held a variety of executive positions, including serving as professional staff for a congressional committee, and has policy expertise in the diverse areas of integrative and complementary medicine, managed care, healthcare technology and mental health. An advocate at heart, she has worked to strategically advance the mission and vision of organizations through effective advocacy and strong collaboration. Prior to Organic & Natural Health, Howard served as executive director for the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) and the Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical Schools. During her nearly 10-year tenure at AANP, she built a sustainable infrastructure, significantly improved financial performance, established a strong federal presence and supported multiple state association advocacy efforts for licensure. Also during this time, the naturopathic medicine profession established itself as a key component of comprehensive healthcare for the future.

Let’s dive into holistic healthcare with Dr. Sara Celik, ND. In this charming episode we learn about why more is not always better when it comes to natural health products and the importance of personalized healthcare.

What is naturopathic medicine? What is homeopathy? Are they the same? Tune in and get a high-level perspective as Dr. Sara weighs in and further explains why finding high quality, third party certified supplements is important now more than ever with the increase of self-prescribing consumers. Plus, discover 4 key factors that come into play with sleep hygiene.

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Dr. Sara Celik is a Canadian licensed Naturopathic Doctor with 15+ years of experience serving patients in Ontario. She is a sought-after speaker and passionate leader in the Health & Wellness industry. In addition to seeing patients in her clinical practice, Dr. Sara worked for a CPG company where she was responsible for educating consumers, health care professionals, retailers, and the media on digestive health and probiotics.

Tune into the latest NutraStrong episode as special guest, Ken Sadowsky shares his insights into the world of beverages: everything from nootropics and adaptogens, to CBD infused drinks and kombucha.

Ken Sadowsky is known by insiders in the beverage business as "The Beverage Whisperer" for having an incredible track record of investing in and advising many of the fastest-growing and most successful new beverages over the last 20 years, including Glaceau/VitaminWater, Vita Coco, Hint and Bai.

In the latest NutraStrong episode we sit down with visionary, Dr. Susan Kleiner owner of High Performance Nutrition and discuss everything from female nutrition to healing exercise and the power of food on performance! 

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Dr. Kleiner is the owner of High Performance Nutrition, LLC, a consulting firm in Mercer Island, Washington. She is a visionary educator and motivator speaking nationally and internationally on topics in the field of nutrition, health and performance. Dr. Kleiner consults with businesses interested in applying the evidence to product research and development, educational marketing and growth potential. She has consulted with many professional teams and team members, including the Seattle Storm, Seattle Reign, Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Mariners, Seattle Thunderbirds and Seattle Supersonics, the Cleveland Browns and Cleveland Cavaliers, the Miami Heat, Olympians and elite athletes in countless sports. Dr. Kleiner has authored eight books, including the bestseller The New Power Eating®, The Good Mood Diet®, and The POWERFOOD Nutrition Plan. Dr. Kleiner is a co-founder and fellow of the International Society of Sports Nutrition and a fellow of the American College of Nutrition, a member of the American College of Sports Medicine and The National Strength and Conditioning Association. Dr. Sue is passionate about her volunteer teaching with MEET-international.org at Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. There is no nutrition or dietetic profession in Vietnam. While she’s not passionately promoting healthy nutrition and fitness, Dr. Kleiner stays in a good mood by spending time in the great outdoors of the Pacific Northwest with her husband and daughters.

So you've seen a couple episodes of law and order and you think you understand the legal world.. not so fast! In this NutraStrong episode with none other than Ivan Wasserman, he takes us behind the scenes of the legal world- in relation to dietary supplements. You'll get a good understanding of the reality behind supplement label claims (that you can trust!), class action law suits, and why some natural health products, though backed up with quality research and science, might not work for you.

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Ivan Wasserman is the managing partner of Amin Talati Wasserman, LLP, one of the nation's leading regulatory and intellectual property law firms with offices in Chicago and Washington, D.C. Ivan and his team represent companies of all sizes in the food, dietary supplement, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and medical device industries in areas such as FDA and FTC compliance, trademark and patent issues, and class action defense. Ivan has been included in Best Lawyers® in America from 2007-2021, and was also awarded the 2017 Lexology Client Choice award for exemplary client service in the fields of Healthcare and Life Sciences in the District of Columbia.

There’s much more to dietary supplement regulation than you think! Discover the difference between the way dietary supplements and drugs are regulated, where medical foods play a role, and what to be cautious of in terms of sport nutrition supplements as we dive into this content packed episode with special guest, Rick Collins, Esq., of Collins Gann McCloskey & Barry PLLC.

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Guest Info:

Rick Collins, Esq., is a lawyer dedicated to the health and fitness community and is a partner in the law firm of Collins Gann McCloskey & Barry, based on Long Island, New York. He is internationally recognized as a top legal authority in the field of dietary supplements and physical enhancement. His law firm represents numerous companies in the sports nutrition industry. He serves as General Counsel to the International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) and is the official legal advisor to the Pro League of the International Federation of BodyBuilders. He’s a nationally Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA-CSCS), a former personal trainer and competitive bodybuilder, and the co-author of a men’s nutrition and fitness book published by Rodale. He has contributed chapters to several textbooks on sports nutrition. A frequent article contributor to various health and fitness publications, he is a monthly columnist for the nationally circulated Muscular Developmentmagazine.

In the age of Covid and pandemics, talking about bacteria can be frightening. Listen in as we unpack how to get the most out of the beneficial bacteria our body needs.

Choosing supplements has always been tricky. How has the pandemic changed our purchasing behaviours, and what are people looking for most? Will sat down with Heather Wainer of leading health industry publication WholeFoods Magazine to talk about how things have evolved in 2020 and what to expect in the year to come.

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Guest:

Heather Wainer has grown up in the Natural Products Industry, watching her father publish WholeFoods Magazine. After college she joined the company, worked her way to Publisher and now runs the business. She has helped a plethora of companies with their marketing plans, as well as advice and more. She is blessed with many wonderful relationships in the Natural Products Industry. Heather has been instrumental in the growth of WholeFoods Magazine, WholeFoodsMagazine.com, NaturalProductFinder and most recently with Naturally Informed, WholeFoods Magazine’s joint venture of Virtual Events produced in partnership with Trust Transparency Center. Heather prides herself on how she and her staff are successfully accomplishing the company’s mission of Informing and Educating the Natural Products Industry.

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Website: www.Wholefoodsmagazine.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wholefoods-magazine/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WholeFoodsM

Twitter: https://twitter.com/WholeFoodsMag

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholefoodsmag/

Website: www.naturalproductfinder.com

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The NutraStrong Podcast is a production of Nutrasource, a service provider to the health products industry. Will Rowe is CEO of Nutrasource.

For more information, visit www.nutrasource.ca

To learn about our certification programs for health products, visit www.certifications.nutrasource.ca

For more episodes, visit: www.nutrasource.ca/resources/nutrastrong-podcast/

If you’ve ever wondered what is ACTUALLY in your supplements, don’t miss this chat with CEO of Alkemist Labs, Elan Sudberg. Through his laboratory company, he has seen it all and knows what quality really means - and why you should be skeptical of bottom-of-the-barrel supplements!

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Guest:

Élan M. Sudberg is CEO of Alkemist Labs, a passionately committed contract testing laboratory specializing in plant authentication and quantitative analytical services to the Food & Beverage, Nutraceutical and Cosmeceutical Industries. He is a staunch advocate of best practices, and a vocal champion of what he calls “next generation transparency,” which includes revealing product testing results to consumers.

He is a board member of AHPA, as well as AHPA’s Education and Research on Botanicals Foundation, and past chair of the Hemp and Medical Marijuana committee. Elan is also chair of the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine Master of Science in Nutrition Business program Leadership Advisory Council, on the National Animal Supplement Council Board of Trustees and an advisor to the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia.

Elan holds a degree in chemistry from California State University Long Beach, and has authored numerous articles on phytochemistry and analytical techniques for the natural products and nutraceutical industry. AHPA honored him as an Herbal Hero in 2013 and he received the 2019 NutraIngredients-USA NutraChampion award for advocacy of best testing practices.

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Website: https://www.alkemist.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elan-sudberg-62b7774/

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The NutraStrong Podcast is a production of Nutrasource, a service provider to the health products industry. Will Rowe is CEO of Nutrasource.

For more information, visit www.nutrasource.ca

To learn about our certification programs for health products, visit www.certifications.nutrasource.ca

For more episodes, visit: www.nutrasource.ca/resources/nutrastrong-podcast/