LEHVOSS News

Details: Written by: Sarah Gates; 27 January 2021

OptiMSM® is benefiting now from a new certification category recently added to the Informed Family Program. For many years, every batch of OptiMSM® was tested and certified for Informed Sports®, a certification aimed at finished Sport Nutrition products. This certification, supported by Bergstrom and LEHVOSS Nutrition for the EU market, was aimed to offer additional testing to customers targeting the Informed Sport® certification in their final product.

From the 1st of February, in addition to Informed Sport® and Informed Choice® which are now certifications for finished food supplement products only, there is a new certification in place called Informed Ingredient® to which OptiMSM® has immediately adhered to. What advantages can you take from this?

Details: Written by: Sarah Gates; 25 January 2021

According to data obtained from the World Health Organization, cardiovascular diseases accounted for 31% of all causes of death in 2016, and they are considered as the leading cause of mortality worldwide. As oxidative stress and inflammation are interrelated and contribute to the initial events of cardiovascular diseases, antioxidants that modulate redox balance, such as astaxanthin, may be considered as important regulators of inflammatory responses and have become the focus of research to evaluate whether and how they prevent these diseases. This has been confirmed by a new interesting study recently published.

Details: Written by: Sarah Gates; 14 January 2021

Winter is a critical season for the skin. With its cold temperatures, low humidity and wind, these together affect the skin, leaving it dry and chapped, which unfortunately does not help skin aging. For example the epidermis thins, cell renewal slows down, and collagen is lost or damaged.

Naticol® is a high-quality source of natural fish collagen peptides, clinically researched for skin support. One clinical study using 5g of Naticol® ingested on a daily basis, for 8 weeks, demonstrated that, regular intake of Naticol® fish collagen peptides improved skin firmness while also indicating preventive effects of Naticol® on skin dehydration, due to cold weather conditions¹. Skin benefits were also achieved with a lower dose, in another study using 2.5g of Naticol® per day².

Details: Written by: Sarah Gates; 11 January 2021

Despite apple cider vinegar being a well-known ingredient, used in our industry for many years, it is still and rapidly gaining popularity due to the many suggested health benefits.

According to research, it benefits include jump-starting the digestive system which improves metabolism, contributing to weight loss, balances the body’s pH system and providing support for gut health. A research neuroscientist who studies food addiction and early-life nutrition said, in a recent interview by Nutritional Outlook, that apple cider vinegar’s main role is in supporting gut health. She explained that apple cider vinegar is made from fermented apples, making it rich in probiotics, which is beneficial for the body in many ways. Click here to access the full article.

Details: Written by: Sarah Gates; 08 January 2021

At the end of 2020, the organization Recyclos SPA in Chile certified that throughout 2020 Golden Omega recycled 246.1kg of waste.

In other words, the eco-equivalence waste recovered by Golden Omega: 3 trees were not cut down, 1100 KWH of energy were saved, 8900 liters of water were saved, 185 liters of petrol were not used and 420 kilograms of CO2 were not emitted into the atmosphere.

Beyond the high quality range of pure and certified Golden Omega fish oil concentrates, there is a clear and continuous commitment from our principal to preserve natural resources and maintain a strong obligation towards a minimum footprint into the sea.

Details: Written by: Sarah Gates; 04 January 2021

Liver toxicity (hepatotoxicity) is one of the major concerns surrounding long-term, high-dose CBD supplementation, according to safety data gathered to date. This is especially true when taking prescription CBD products, which tend to have very high doses.

However, a study recently published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences concluded that OptiMSM® had a high safety profile in an animal model when combined with a potent CBD extract during a short period of time. Since CBD is still new to the marketplace, its interactions with other drugs and ingredients are not well researched, which motivated the study.

Details: Written by: Teresita Ruda'; 09 December 2020

Details: Written by: Sarah Gates; 09 December 2020

For more than 10 years, our partners Verdure Sciences have proudly delivered Longvida® Optimized Curcumin® to the global marketplace. While curcumin has traditionally been associated with significant bioavailability issues, Longvida® was specifically designed by UCLA scientists to offer a solution to deliver efficacious levels of free curcumin to the blood stream and target tissues.

With over 52 publications, Longvida® is supported by traceability and sustainability initiatives and has won numerous awards for innovation in nutritional science (winner of Nutraingredients EU Awards in 2015 and finalist in 2018; winner of Nutraingredients USA Awards in 2019 and finalist in 2020).

Longvida® has been clinically researched for healthy aging, cognitive & retinal health, exercise recovery, joint health, oral health, vascular support, oxidative stress, systemic inflammation, immune support and more.

Details: Written by: Sarah Gates; 04 December 2020

What is great for you is great for them too: with this new marketing statement, our partner Bergstrom Nutrition has recently started to see great success in the USA pet food market with more expected to come in 2021.

The concept is quite simple: The same OptiMSM® that supports human joints and mobility does the same for your pets and it is beneficial for pet's overall health, including a healthy coat & nails, immunity, and reduced oxidative stress.

According to the data, the pet nutrition market is undergoing a shift that mirrors recent trends in the human market. As more consumers become conscious of their own diets, they are also increasingly asking questions about what they are feeding their pets and searching for ingredients on par with what they would consume themselves.

Details: Written by: Sarah Gates; 01 December 2020

What about having an immunity support ingredient that works after few hours of ingestion?

A well-known clinical trial (Jensen et al., 2011) shows evidence that EpiCor® starts to work within two (2) hours. This rapid response clinical trial was a randomised, double blind, placebo-controlled human clinical trial on healthy adults.

The results of this study showed that expression of the immune receptors was higher when subjects were treated with EpiCor® compared to when they were treated with placebo, indicating that Natural Killer (NK) cells had been activated within one or two hours. See below two figures that show the key results from this study.

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