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We got an exclusive take a look at the presentation that wellness start-up B Great is using to raise $2.5 million to chase down the $2 billion CBD market
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- Barbara Goodstein, the founder of CBD startup B Great, shared the pitch deck she’s utilizing to raise $2.5 million.
- She’s closed on $1.5 million in equity funding already, and she’s wanting to raise another $1 million in convertible notes. She informed Service Insider she’s closed on $450,000 of that currently.
- Analysts anticipate the customer CBD space to become a $2 billion opportunity in just two years.
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That’s what at first clued in B Great’s founder, Barbara Goodstein, that CBD might be an enormous opportunity.
In December of last year, Goodstein decided to discovered B Great, a consumer startup that sells products ranging from hemp oil to creams and balms containing CBD.
To date, B Great has actually raised $1.5 million in equity over 3 funding rounds, with the newest round closing in February.
So far, B Great has been a lean operation– Goodstein herself is the only full-time employee along with a few crucial advisors.
B Great’s other financiers include Howard Morgan, the cofounder of First Round Capital and an early Uber financier, along with a slew of other specific financiers including Nick Kovacevich, the CEO of cannabis company KushCo, and David Mars, a partner at White Owl Capital Partners, an early-stage endeavor fund.
Like most other CBD brand names, B Great is primarily an e-commerce organisation, offering items through its website and other online channels.
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Here, B Great touts some of the purported health benefits of CBD.
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Lots of CBD business have entered into difficulty with consumers– and the FDA– for declaring health benefits that weren’t checked, and for products consisting of greatly various doses than the labels say.
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Here is Goodstein’s vision for the business.
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All of the CBD in B Great’s items is sourced from hemp, which is a type of marijuana which contains less than 0.3%THC, the chief psychoactive element of the plant.
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Goodstein says her products are all strictly evaluated, which the doses always match what the labels say.
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According to New Frontier Data, CBD is expected to be a $2 billion consumer category in the next two years.
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Lord Jones, a CBD brand, cost $300 million to Cronos Group last year– the chance in the industry is immense.
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Here’s a picture of B Great’s forecasted profits over the next 2 years.
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Goodstein is out searching for another $550,000 in convertible notes to hit the $1 million objective.
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Here, you can see the products B Fantastic deals, including CBD shots, skincare items, and balms.
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B Great also offers hemp pills and creams.
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This is B Great’s breakdown of the target customer for each item.
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Here’s the results of B Great’s 50 individual survey, comparing its products to rivals.
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Goodstein states that her long background in marketing will help B Great separate its brand in a significantly crowded field.
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This slide compares B Great’s packaging with that of its competitors.
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A quick picture of some of B Great’s press coverage.
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Aside from Goodstein, B Great is run by a group of consultants including marketing head Ellen Braslau, a former journalist.
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Here’s the rest of the advisory team.
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B Great’s raw hemp is sourced from Kentucky and Tennessee, and the startup works with a certified GMP center in Nashville for its manufacturing.
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Here’s a breakdown of B Great’s marketing strategy.
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B Great states it has actually not missed satisfying any orders for the duration of the pandemic.
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Medical Cannabis, Inc. Subsidiary Kannaway ® Supports European Industrial Hemp Association in Opinion Letter on Legal Status of CBD and Hemp
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)– via NEWMEDIAWIRE– Medical Marijuana, Inc.( OTC: MJNA) (the “Business”), the first-ever publicly traded cannabis business in the United States that introduced the world’s first-ever cannabis-derived nutraceutical items, brand names and supply chain, announced today that its subsidiary Kannaway ® is proud to support the European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA) in its current viewpoint letter to the European Commission on the legal status of cannabidiol (CBD) and hemp.
EIHA’s letter was composed in reaction to the European Commission’s choice to suspend all applications for hemp extracts and natural cannabinoids under the European Union’s Novel Food rules and also consider under a “initial conclusion” that extracts from the flowering and fruiting tops of the hemp plant need to be thought about a drug under the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of1961 EIHA explains that the decision is “not based upon the current clinical literature nor inspired by the present debate at the United Nations level.”
EIHA believes that industrial hemp and its downstream products are not narcotic or psychotropic drugs. Hemp is excused from the scope of the United Nations Single Convention of 1961, which features a clear distinction between cannabis varieties grown for the production of drugs and exempting marijuana grown for any other purpose (with low levels of THC).
” Hemp has actually been a food source for centuries and for decades the EU has actually stated that hemp extracts are not novel. It appears like a political relocate to now try to change its legal status,” stated Kannaway ® Handling Director of International Janne Heimonen. “There is terrific consumer demand for items and hemp farming supports the EU’s ambitious sustainability objectives. We are fully committed to helping the industry keep offering customers the items they require.”
Kannaway ® has led the CBD market in Europe considering that2018 In December 2019, Kannaway ® executives spoke in the European Parliament at a special event on “The State of Hemp in Europe” about how to improve the European hemp market for all of its applications consisting of CBD items.
” Kannaway has actually pioneered the hemp CBD market in Europe and plans to continue to grow its robust market there,” said Kannaway ® CEO Blake Schroeder. “Our portfolio of Business has actually worked with federal government leaders around the globe to make certain that individuals have legal access to CBD and we will do the very same in Europe.”
For more information about Kannaway ®, please check out http://www.kannaway.com
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We are a business of firsts ® Medical Cannabis, Inc. ( MJNA) is a cannabis business with 3 unique organisation units in the non-psychoactive cannabinoid area: a worldwide portfolio of cannabinoid-based nutraceutical brands led by Kannaway ® and HempMeds ® ; a leader in sourcing the highest-quality legal non-psychoactive cannabis items originated from industrial hemp; and a cannabinoid-based scientific research and botanical drug advancement sector led by its pharmaceutical investment firm and partners consisting of AXIM ® Biotechnologies, Inc and Kannalife, Inc Medical Marijuana, Inc. was called a top CBD producer by CNBC Medical Cannabis, Inc. was also the first company to receive historic import permits for CBD products from the governments of Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Paraguay and is a leader in the advancement of international markets. The business’s flagship product Genuine Scientific Hemp Oil has actually been utilized in several successful scientific studies throughout Mexico and Brazil to comprehend its security and efficacy.
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Carnivore Code: Interview with Dr. Paul Saladino | Salty Talk 018 | THRR
Had a fantastic time talking with Dr. Paul Saladino about all things health and carnivore. It was a great conversation, we chatted about:
- Paul’s health journey – his issues and how he solved them through diet and lifestyle
- His lab results – crazy high LDL, etc.
- The 2nd edition of his book Carnivore Code releasing TOMORROW (August 4)
- Adding different carbs to his carnivore diet
- Fructose metabolism as it relates to chronic degenerative disease
We covered a lot of ground and I got to a fair number of questions from people in The Healthy Rebellion, but will do a part 2 to get to the rest.
Salty Talk is a special edition of Healthy Rebellion Radio. Each week on Salty Talk Robb will do a deep dive into current health and performance news, mixed with an occasional Salty conversation with movers and shakers in the world of research, performance, health, and longevity.
For the full the video presentation of this episode and to be a part of the conversation, join us in The Healthy Rebellion online community.
WARNING: These episodes may get “salty” with the occasional expletive.
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Book: The Carnivore Code (2nd Edition)
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Healthy Rebellion Radio. This is an episode of Salty Talk, a deep dive into popular and relevant health and performance news pieces mixed with the occasional salty conversation with movers and shakers in the world of research, performance, health and longevity. Healthy Rebellion Radio’s Salty Talk episodes are brought to you by Drink Element, the only electrolyte drink mix that’s salty enough to make a difference in how you look, feel, and perform. We co-founded this company to fill a void in the hydration space. We needed an electrolyte drink that actually met the sodium needs of active people, low carb, keto and carnivores adherence without any of the sugar, colors and fillers found in popular commercial products. Health rebels, this is Salty Talk.
Speaker 1: And now the thing our attorney advises. The contents of this show are for entertainment and educational purposes only. Nothing in this podcast should be considered medical advice. Please consult your licensed and credentialed functional medicine practitioner before embarking on any health, dietary or fitness change. And given that this is Salty Talk, you should expect the occasional expletive.
Nicki: You ready for another episode of Salty Talk?
Robb: Oh, wife, I’m as ready as I’m ever going to be.
Nicki: I won’t go into my New Kids on the Block rendition of that, whatever that comes into it. You ready? Ready as I’ll ever be. You know, Joey Joe’s ready.
Robb: Oh man.
Nicki: Jordan and John. Yeah, come on.
Robb: Oh man.
Nicki: Got a funky, funky Christmas going on.
Robb: Somebody please intervene here. How are we doing wife?
Nicki: I’m a little tired. We’ve had three birthday parties for the youngest.
Robb: Our little weasel Sagan managed to pull down three parties that are…
Nicki: Yeah, we had planned… She wanted to go to Schlitterbahn on her birthday, which we did, and we had invited several people to join us. Many of whom could not make the during the day thing work. And my uncle was visiting from out of state and so my cousin and my uncle and her four kids came the night before. So we had party number one the night before, and then we had Schlitterbahn day of, and then the Welbourn’s came down for dinner the evening of, and then we did a Saturday shindig with the neighbors and some people that Michael and his family from the gym.
Robb: It was good, but it’s a lot.
Nicki: It was really good. But three. Yeah, it was a lot.
Robb: Yeah. First world problems. So what do we have cooking today?
Nicki: Goodness. You have a great interview that you did with Dr. Paul Saladino.
Robb: Dr. Paul Saladino, our new neighbor up in Austin.
Nicki: Yeah, yeah.
Robb: Yeah, it was good. So Paul is releasing his second edition of the Carnivore Code. I thought I had a book handy, but it’s out of reach. But I really enjoyed the first book, it was really a remarkable effort in that he, and it’s fascinating to me that… Again, I’m not in the position that I think Carnivore is the thing for all people, but so many of the baseline rules that set things up within the paleo diet like problems with certain types of plants, GI irritation, just genetic mismatch, it’s really all the same stuff. Only kind of taken to another layer. He has three different layers of buy-in on doing the Carnivore approach, which I technically, I’m kind of Carnivore-ish.
Robb: I do some fruit, do a little bit of dairy here and there. Probably during the winter, I’ll cycle the fruit out, but during the summer right now, I a little bit with most meals and I feel pretty darn good right now. And it definitely has been interesting, some of the final niggling GI problems that I’ve had are much improved. I’m still not super carb tolerant. Like if I pressure test stuff, I can end up kind of carb-headed and not feeling great, but it’s better than what it used to be. And like a good thoughtful person, Paul continues to evolve his position on different topics. I opened up to the Healthy Rebellion, hey, I’m going to interview Dr. Saladino. Does anybody have questions?
Robb: Didn’t really expect to get that much because it was only about 45 minutes prior to rolling with them, and then there were just a ton of questions. I only got through maybe about a third of them, but Paul’s got the gift of gab, man. He does thorough answers and it was a really good time chatting with him.
Nicki: Awesome. And his updated book comes out tomorrow.
Robb: The day after this podcast release. Yeah.
Nicki: Okay.
Robb: The second edition I know is dramatically expanded and updated. If you haven’t checked it out… And it’s cool. Something I wanted to mention on that, it’s one of the only books that did a really pretty damn good job of tackling the sustainability topic. He ended up, in a concise fashion, addressed the methane topic, the water usage topic, lot of the things that we ended up needing to devote a lot of time in Sacred Cow, he did a really nice job in a concise way to address that. It’s one chapter so it’s not as thorough a deep dive, but it’s cool. I think at this point, if we’re talking about any type of dietary approach and we’re not really talking about the food production side and what the implications are there for a host of social justice issues and climate change and all that stuff, then it’s maybe a little bit misplaced. It’s worthwhile having a conversation about that.
Nicki: It’s also so great because so many people are finding Carnivore who might not otherwise be clued into what’s going on in the regenerative agriculture space. So if their first introduction to this way of eating and ancestral health is his book, they’ll also get a nice introduction to all that is regenerative agriculture.
Robb: Absolutely, yeah.
Nicki: Okay. Let’s jump into the interview.
Robb: Let’s do it.
Robb: Doc, we are live. We’ve been jabbering, we should have recorded some of that, but probably not all of what we’ve been doing. How are you doing?
Paul: I’m doing so good, man. Thanks for having me on, Rob.
Robb: Good to see you. Howdy, neighbor. How’s Austin treating you?
Paul: I love it. The people here are fantastic, it’s amazing. I love it so far. We’re almost neighbors, too. We are neighbors, I can’t wait to come hang out with you.
Robb: Yeah. Remind me again where you moved from?
Paul: San Diego, California.
Robb: Okay. Okay. So you had some good sun and good weather and all that.
Paul: Yeah.
Robb: Awesome. So we were jabbering about a million things before we recorded, book publishing and the shenanigans that go on with all that stuff. I posted in the Healthy Rebellion just about 30 minutes ago, hey, I’m interviewing Dr. Paul Saladino. If anybody has questions, ping them to me. And there’s like 65 questions in there. So I’m going to try to sort through those and get the best ones. I will say that Tina Carlson asked if you’re single. So I don’t know. Any comment or no comment?
Paul: I can’t comment.
Robb: Okay.
Paul: I’ll side step, I’m going to slip that one.
Robb: I told her that that would be my first question. Doc, I’m actually not sure about what your origin story is in this kind of Carnivore and just general dietary path. I’ve been following your stuff virtually since day one but when I think… A lot of folks that have followed my work, they know, okay, Rob was vegan and then he got sick and he had ulcerative colitis and all these poop issues. I don’t know what your origin story is with this. How did you find yourself on this path? I know you were a PA trained in cardiology first then shifted to general medical practice. But then where did all this stuff come in?
Paul: Yeah. So it’s been a long journey for me. My dad’s doc, he’s an internist, my mom’s a nurse practitioner. I grew up in this medical family and all throughout college, which was in Virginia at William and Mary, I was thinking, I’m going to go to medical school, I’m going to go to medical school. I was on the path. And then right before I graduated, I just got burned out, so burned out.
Paul: So after college I took six years off and just traveled around the world. I was in New Zealand, I was a ski bum in Jackson Hole, I through hiked the Pacific Crest Trail, I was downhill mountain biking in Wyoming and climbing mountains and all kinds of stuff. And at some point at the end of that six years, things started to kind of coalesce. And I remembered, oh yeah, I like science. I like chemistry, I’m going to go back to school. And so I went back to school to become a PA, so as a physician assistant, because I’d seen how my dad went through this really compassionate, kind man that got consumed by his medical profession. It was really tragic. And I thought, I want to find something with more balance. And I also saw him have this paradoxical existence where he’s a doctor, but he’s really unhealthy fundamentally.
Paul: He had sleep apnea, he was obese, he was on many medications. When I was in college, I remember getting a call, I’m in the molecular biology lab doing some kind of plasmin prep or something, my mom says your dad’s in the cath lab. He’s getting an angioplasty. And I was like, oh boy, this is bad news. My dad has early onset heart disease and at that time in my life, my dad was 45, 44.
Robb: Oh wow.
Paul: Yeah. A few years older than I am right now, because I’m 43. And so my dad had obstructive coronary disease at 44. And so fast forward six years after college, I want to go back to school and I want to do medicine. I don’t really know much about medicine or the landscape, I just know I like chemistry, I like biology. But I want to do it in a way that gives me some balance and I want to lead a healthier life than my father was able to. I think it was his best intention, he just really struggled with it. So I did PA and I liked cardiology.
Paul: I liked running, I liked EKGs, I liked the medications, I thought I liked medications at the time. Beta blockers and these are cool. But it was funny, once I got into medicine, the landscape looked completely different than what I had anticipated. And this is what’s so interesting is that once I started practicing, it was almost immediate that I felt unfulfilled. And I felt really frustrated with the paradigm that I was practicing in. These cardiologists were great people. They were incredibly intelligent and well-meaning, but they literally would mime this to me, think in the box. Think in the heart, don’t think about anything else. And I’m thinking, well, I don’t agree with that. That’s crazy.
Robb: Right.
Paul: We didn’t ever actually sit around with Topo Chicos, I don’t even think I knew what Topo Chico was then. We didn’t sit around with mineral waters and ask each other, why do you think our patients get coronary disease? What is causing this? But in my mind, that’s what I’m puzzling over. Why is this happening to people? Because I saw firsthand that I would give them a stat like I was told to, and lots of my patients would come back with memory deficits or muscle aches or sexual dysfunction. And the party line was, you’re okay, it’s in your head. You’re okay, the studies with Lipitor showed that only 2% of people get myalgia, you can’t actually have myalgia. Let’s just switch it to another stat and-
Robb: Rub some kale on it and it’ll go away.
Paul: Yeah, we’ll just throw some more olive oil on the fire or throw some more canola oil. In fact, let’s do that. Let’s throw some canola oil on the fire, you’re just not eating enough vegetable oil. But it never jived with me. I was thinking, what is wrong now?
Paul: Kind of interwoven throughout my history is this history of eczema and asthma. In my adult life it’s been mostly eczema. So when I was in medical school, which came after the PA road, I had really bad eczema as I was doing jujitsu. I would get this impetigo on my knees and elbows, horrible. And then into my residency at the University of Washington, I had eczema so bad I joked about it as the eczema tramp stamp. It was literally this tramp stamp of eczema.
Robb: Tina may regret her request at your dating status.
Paul: Right? So I had this like lower back tattoo and it just went all over my whole back, it was horrible. And so that’s what I’d been struggling with even before then in PA school. And for me, it was like, why can I not fix myself? So I left out the connecting piece there and I’ll connect the dots now. So I’m working as a PA, not satisfied. I’m thinking, there is a root cause here, I need to understand it. I’ve been fascinated by the connections between food and auto-immunity for many years. And I’ve been iterating around my own diet because of this eczema. So I thought I’m going to go back to medical school and then in medical school, the eczema got really bad. To the point that I had sepsis a few times. I was septic and shivering and infected.
Paul: It was really frustrating and I thought, okay. So at that point in my life, in medical school and residency, I was eating a paleo diet and still having really bad eczema. But previously in my life, I had a similar vegan origin story where before I was a PA, and while I was a PA, I was a raw vegan and I’m not a bodybuilder. Right now, I’m five-ten, 170. But at that time in my life, I was 140 pounds. So I was 25 to 30 pounds less muscle than I am now when I was a raw vegan and I pooped multiple times a day and I had horrible gas. So the part I left out about working as a PA was that I feel so bad and I owe remunerations infinitely to everyone that shared an office with me when I was a PA because of how bad my farts were, as it was so bad.
Paul: Anyway, anyone who’s done lots of plants and had similar GI effects knows how bad this can be. So I’d have been iterating around my diet, originally for performance and for running, I did ultra running for a while. And then because of my eczema, when I was in medical school and then residency, and I thought, this a paleolithic diet, this makes a lot of sense. The stuff you’ve written about, I recently interviewed Loren Cordain on my podcast. And I know you and Loren don’t agree on everything anymore, or maybe never did.
Paul: So I thought this makes a lot of sense. I’ve always been fascinated by these ideas of thinking about how our ancestors ate and how that information might inform the way we eat today. And this is something that’s just, I think really one of the most interesting rabbit holes we can go down, whether it’s the work of Wade Davis and other anthropologists, or the work of Mark Plotkin. These accounts have always fascinated me, these indigenous people, how are they eating? What was our life like before civilization?
Robb: Right.
Paul: And so I think this is really interesting, there’s a lot of wisdom in that. Grains and beans, these don’t make a whole lot of sense for humans to eat. I still think that for a lot of people, dairy is a really big immunologic trigger. But even cutting those things out and making my diet mostly romaine lettuce and avocado and berries and sweet potatoes and grass fed meat, I was having pretty bad eczema. And I thought, man.
Robb: Interesting.
Paul: There’s got to be something else going on here for me. And so then I started to gradually tip toe into the realm of autoimmune paleo and think, okay, well maybe it’s nuts and seeds also. And what’s in those, is it oxalates? Is it histamine? Is it salicylates? Is it saponins?
Paul: And I thought, wow, there’s a lot of toxins in plants. I’ve kind of opened the Pandora’s box. You’re like, what’s in there. I’m going to close that back up, there’s a lot of stuff in there. So that was really the beginning of the gradual dive into these plant toxins and my own personal journey toward a fully animal-based diet, which happened about two years ago. I thought, all right, I’m really tired of this eczema. At that point, it was horrible, all over my chest. I remember I’d go out to the coast and Washington and go surfing and I just had eczema everywhere. I’d peel off my wetsuit and it was just red and eczema all over my chest. All right, I’m just going to go straight meat-based. I thought it was crazy and I heard Jordan Peterson on Rogan and he said, it was really helpful for my sleep apnea and my autoimmune disease.
Paul: And I thought, this is different than everything I’ve ever heard. And at that time I was kind of steeped in the quote, functional medicine ideology and thinking about man, plants are good for us, right? Fiber, good microbiome. And I’m kind of saying this raising my eyebrows.
Robb: Polyphenolics. Yeah, yeah.
Paul: Yeah, yeah. And I’ve come to think about it differently now. I wonder about these phytochemicals and these polyphenols, these are really good for us, we need these, right? But, okay, I’m going to give this a try. And it’s been an interesting journey since then. Within the first few weeks, the eczema got 90% better, by two or three weeks, it was completely gone. And I’ve only had one recurrence in two years.
Paul: And that’s when I reintroduced squash in my diet as part of a carbohydrate experiment. So the last two years I’ve been completely free of the eczema, which has been great in so many ways. I didn’t expect this to happen, but I also had a pretty significant improvement in my, it’s hard to describe, my psychological framework. The way that I viewed the world was different. And this is obviously difficult to quantify, you can’t put a pin on it, you can’t measure it in a lab, but it was my subjective experience. And I’ve heard it repeated a few times, many times now in the community so it’s intriguing.
Paul: But just within the first few weeks I noticed, hey, I just feeling more calm, I just feel more centered, I just feel less likely to honk at somebody in traffic. There’s something different, it was like seeing the world through different glasses. So I got really fascinated, it felt really good. And that was the beginning of this headlong dive into the world of animal based diets and just continuing to consider this ancestral idea of how do animals fit into our evolutionary framework? How to plants fit into our evolutionary framework? Is that different for different people? And are there places within this framework that I could contribute a few ideas to what’s already been done?
Robb: That’s awesome. It’s funny looking back at my own evolution in this story, I remember people pinging me things like, hey, what about like Weston A Price? They soak and sprout and ferment their greens and they do all this stuff. Like in Switzerland it’s a very, very common practice and there’s some other areas that they do this. When they dug into it, what I was struck by was these folks always had significant animal product intake, too. It wasn’t that they were living at the exclusion of that. And so a long time ago I arrived at this thing, I’m like, oh, you might be able to tolerate that stuff so long as you have enough animal products in your diet. But I wasn’t smart enough to make the leap from there. That it was like, well, how many of those plant products do you really want to consume, within that context?
Robb: And I remember there was a talk that I gave in Chico, there was a whole wacky backstory. The cardiology folks wanted me to give a talk, the hospital blocked my ability to give a talk so the cardiology people opened up an offsite venue and we were there and there was a doctor associated with the hospital that was saying, well, that’s that guy that just recommends the all meat diet. And at the time I took this as an affront, I’m like, no, look at all the vegetables that I eat. And I had all kinds of GI problems that following your lead. And when I first heard Jordan Peterson story, it was just what little hair I have was blown back. I’m like, holy smokes. Okay, this is starting to make some sense.
Robb: And for probably the better part of a year and a half, I’ve been very much in, I think what you would characterize, as that paleo-ish landscape. I do a little bit of fruit, we have some neighbors that have some fig trees. I love figs, I have like three of them with a meal here and there, seems to be fine. But it’s just so chagrining in some ways that I was kind of budding up to this reality that plants are good for you, you got to have a balance or whatever was interesting. It was interesting, I had to have some other people get shot out of the cannon first and make sure that they landed in the net and everything worked.
Robb: And it’s like, okay, I guess I’ll give this stuff a shot. So going a little bit more up to date, I know that you’ve done some carbohydrate experiments. Like you mentioned, squash didn’t work. Ironically, I had some squash for dinner last night and I got three bites down and then I literally was physically repulsed by it and just abandoned it entirely. I will admit that sometimes it’s hard for me to eat the amount of fat I need to eat from just suet and stuff like that. I get satiated very quickly, bordering on nauseous. So I’m still trying to figure out some of the ways to navigate that. But what else have you been tinkering with? You reintroduced some carbs, like some honey and some different things. How has that played out and how has that informed where you are now?
Paul: Yeah. So like I said, I’ve been eating entirely animal-based for two years now, and that’s really, I would say, Carnivore diet exclusively for two years. I did do a few plant reintroduction experiments, mostly because I had a continuous glucose monitor on from the folks at NutriSense. And I wanted to see how my body would react to certain carbohydrates. Now that was also fueled by a curiosity about macronutrient ratios, which we can get into. So for the first year and a half, it was zero carbohydrate animal-based carnivore, which is like nose to tail carnivore. And I was doing a lot of fat. I talk about how to do that in the book. And what I came to realize was, okay, I think I am very deeply in ketosis for a very long amount of time. Maybe it’s time to have a summer again, and actually have some proverbial fruit on the trees or to stumble into a beehive and to see how my body feels if I change the biochemistry a little bit.
Paul: I was living in San Diego and I was feeling a little cold. San Diego is a little bit chilly, but I was like, I’m a young man, I’m muscular, I shouldn’t be cold like this.
Robb: Right.
Paul: And I was getting cramps and a lot of people in ketogenic, low carb communities will experience cramps. I had some palpitations also when I thought this isn’t right. And certainly the electrolytes helped me a lot, but as many as I did, I couldn’t fix it. And in conversations with my friends, like Tommy Wood, I was like, I’m just going to reintroduce carbohydrates and see if this helps with some of these, what I perceived to be, mostly electrolyte and probably slightly thyroid related stuff without the carbohydrates.
Paul: Now the flip side of that was it, my gym performance was pretty good, my body comp remained good and I felt pretty good overall, it was just those little niggling things were bugging me and I want it to do the experiments. So I think I started with honey. And of course in the back of my mind, it’s very similar to the way that we were thinking about plants, before we let go of plants. When I reintroduced it, I thought this is pure sugar. I’m going to feel horrible, I can’t do this. I can’t eat pure sugar, my teeth are going to rot out.
Paul: Well, I can’t do this. I can’t eat pure sugar. My teeth are going to rot out. I like my teeth and it was quite the opposite. The first couple of days, maybe a little funky. Unfortunately I didn’t have a CGM on right, for that original transition from zero carb to lots of carbs. I probably would have seen some pretty big postprandial glucose spikes as my physiologic insulin resistance was shifting back over to some degree of availability to dispose of the glucose.
Paul: But I did wear a CGM for a month in which I did honey and berries and some other fruit and the squash. And I did a whole episode of my podcast where I showed those and talked about it. But what I found was very interesting, within a few weeks that the cramps were noticeably better in my legs and the palpitations pretty much went away.
Paul: And so I thought, oh, this is interesting. And I did feel a little warmer. So I was like, okay, I’m going to be humbled a little bit here and think like, maybe for me at least, low carb, zero carb is not ideal, 100% of the time. Now I think that you may have experienced this, but I wrote the books, the second edition to The Carnivore Code, it’s right there behind me, is out August the fourth.
Robb: It’s still first edition.
Paul: First edition, you got the collector’s edition.
Robb: Yep.
Paul: I’m going to get you one of these, don’t you worry. But in the book, I talk a lot about ketogenic diets and I feel like so much of carnivore is ketogenic. So I felt like I had to defend ketosis and low carb diets. And that book was really written, I think from the perspective of like, hey, this is for people who are more sick. And since then, I’ve softened my perspective about macronutrients a little bit and thought, if people want to include carbohydrates, I think that fruit is very evolutionarily consistent. And we can get into the fructose stuff if you want. I’m not sure if it’s something you’ve talked about, because there’s a lot of fructophobia as well.
Robb: There’s a ton of it. And it’s fascinating because I would love to dig into this because if we do put on this evolutionary lens, there is this big chunk of time where our ancestors were likely frugivorous and then that was the transition then not long after that into homo habilis and then big game hunting. So you could make the case that there’s probably some machinery, some genetics, some epigenetics that are maybe well-suited for dealing with that. So yeah, I would love for you to unpack that.
Paul: Yeah. And it’s out there and you think, I can talk a little about the way that I think about plants and how they’re going to partition defense chemicals, generally speaking, you can imagine that, hey, the majority of the time, not across the board, but the majority of the time, if a plant is rooted in the ground, it doesn’t want the stems, leaves, roots or seeds to get eaten because that’s going to kill the plant. And we see that, things like cassava root are toxic. Many of these wild roots are toxic. A lot of wild seeds are toxic.
Paul: This is the whole idea with lectins and oxalates and grains, nuts, seeds and legumes are all seeds. We see this with plant leaves, like rhubarb. They’re very toxic out there, but there’s a lot of fewer toxic fruits. There are some, but most fruit is meant to be consumed by animals and then pooping out the seats. So it’s not really, if you can anthropomorphize plants, it’s not really in the plant’s best interest to put a ton of defense chemicals in the fruit, it will in the seeds and the leaves, in the roots or in the stems. And we can get into all of that.
Paul: But I thought, from my own personal experience, I thought, oh yeah, it probably makes sense for us to cycle in some of these carbs every once in a while. Now in a tongue in cheek way, I think I can say to the people who want to be dogmatically carnivore, that honey is a pretty animal-based carbohydrate.
Robb: Right. Right.
Paul: Because vegans won’t eat it, so if vegans won’t eat it.
Robb: Implicitly, it’s good to go. Yeah.
Paul: I can eat it. Realistically speaking, I do eat honey every day now and I find it to be a positive addition to my own diet. Now, I did record the CGM for that. And what I’ll show, what I’ve shown on that podcast is that my fasting blood sugar remains very low. It remains around 70 or 80. It spikes up to about 120, but then it comes down very quickly. So there’s really good glucose disposal that did not get to be worse over the course of a month with honey every day. And now I’ve been eating honey for months and we see the same pattern over and over and nearly-
Robb: And doc, it’s a pretty good whack. It’s like 60 grams of effective carbohydrate from honey.
Paul: At least.
Robb: Wow. Wow. That’s an aggressive bolus. Yeah.
Paul: Yeah, Yeah. I’m certainly bolusing the honey. And the reason I’m doing that is because I just have found that with my physiology, getting an insulin spike that’s a little bigger than what I would normally get with just meat and fat is probably really helpful for me just in terms of maintaining those electrolytes, right at that moment. And I’ll get it twice a day. I eat twice a day in the morning, in the afternoon, and then I have a large fasting window. I like to finish dinner by three or 4: 00 PM. So I’m not much of a socialite, in that respect. If anybody wants to come over for dinner from my house, it’s at 3: 30.
Robb: It’s going to be early. We’re on the blue hair hour. Yeah.
Paul: We’re eating dinner early.
Robb: Yeah.
Paul: But what’s cool is that you can see over the course of the month that I did that, and even over the course of the months after, there’s no increase in fasting glucose. And I just pulled labs, which we should talk about because they’re fascinating. So my fasting insulin is three. My C-peptide is 0.5. So by all intents and purposes, I am just as insulin sensitive, if not more insulin sensitive now, than I was before. And there’s some nuance in terms of how we actually say insulin sensitivity and what we mean by that.
Paul: But there’s no evidence that any of these carbohydrates are causing me to become insulin resistant. And if you want to dive into some of the stuff I’ve been thinking about recently in terms of the biochemical mechanisms of that, we can talk about that too. But I also did my ketones. So I got a ketone meter from Keto Mojo. I did my ketones yesterday and this morning and I’m in ketosis in the morning. So it’s this natural cycle.
Paul: And so what’s interesting is I feel like part of the discussion in The Carnival Code was the first half the discussion and the other half is, the first half of that discussion was, hey, ketosis is natural for humans because there are a lot of people out there who would say, you should never be in ketosis. Ketosis is starvation. Ketosis is harmful for you. I’m thinking, man, I really need to defend that position.
Paul: And I think it’s very defensible and I’ve done lots of debates with Chris Masterjohn about this. There’s a lot of evidence that there are benefits. I’m sure all of your listeners will know the benefits too, probably intermittent or low carbohydrate diets, intermittent ketosis. This makes so much sense. This is fasting or the absence of carbohydrate in our diet does create different physiology with autophagy or broad strokes. So I think it’s very healthy for humans. And I cannot imagine that our ancestors were not in ketosis a lot of the time. Carbohydrates are just not that prevalent in the natural world.
Paul: There are some indigenous people, the Tukisenta. They’re pastoralists now, and they eat mostly sweet potatoes. And sure, they might not be in ketosis whole lot, but most of our ancestors, I imagine we’re getting carbohydrates occasionally cycling in and out of ketosis, getting more and less insulin spikes, which are not pathologic, completely physiologically, normal and, “healthy.” And that’s probably totally great for humans and being in ketosis, even eating 100 plus, 120, 130 grams of carbohydrates a day from honey is happening to me every single morning.
Robb: Interesting, wow. Wow.
Paul: Depleting my liver glycogen overnight, and then getting all those shifting gene mechanisms and then, you wake up, you eat the honey twice, or I do, and then I’ll be back in ketosis by the morning. And this is not baby ketosis. Well, it’s 0.5 millimolar, so it’s official nutritional ketosis.
Robb: Right. Doc, if you had your iron and ferritin status checked because this is something that I had checked ages ago. I was on the higher side, Masterjohn suggested that this high iron status might contribute to some insulin resistance and might be some of the driver, like people will say when they reintroduce carbs, that they don’t feel particularly good. Although inevitably, there are reintroducing things like sweet potatoes. So is it carbs or is it immunogenic response? So that’s something, but do you know what your iron status or any thoughts around that?
Paul: Yeah. I have robust iron stores. My ferritin was 269.
Robb: Okay.
Paul: Yeah. So my transferrin stat is 26%. It doesn’t look like I have too many of the polymorphisms along the hemochromatosis continuum, but I’ve watched it pretty carefully. And for me, and this is going to be different for every person listening, obviously based on your genetics and what you’re eating. I eat a lot of things. I eat a lot of nose to tail. So I’m eating liver every day. I’m eating spleen, which is probably the richest source of heme iron. People are struggling anemia and obviously red meat is good, liver is better and spleen is the absolute superhero when it comes to heme iron.
Paul: There’s so much heme iron in spleen, it’s ridiculous. And that makes sense because it’s one of these repositories of red blood cells and hemoglobin in general. But yeah, my iron is robust. My opinion without seeing your labs is just that you’d have to be pretty high on your ferritin to see insulin resistance because I’m at 270 and I’m extremely, I don’t have any evidence of any issues with that.
Robb: I’ll ping you the numbers. It was just at the high end of normal. So it was like, maybe that’s a factor, and yeah, yeah.
Paul: Yeah. It depends. I mean, it depends. The lab ranges can change a lot too, right? You go to Cleveland Heart, they’re going to say the upper end of ferritin is 170. Quest Labs says it’s 280 or 300. I’m at 269 and I watch it. If my ferritin goes above 300 or 350, I’ll just donate blood. But I haven’t seen it go crazy. I have had clients who will go into the 400 or 500s and they usually have one or more polymorphism, predisposing them to avid iron absorption and I’ll just have them save a life and donate some blood and all is well in the kingdom. Yeah.
Robb: Fantastic. We have a lot of questions from the folks in the healthy rebellion.
Paul: We didn’t have a chance to talk about fructose.
Robb: Oh, yeah, yeah. Let’s talk about fructose because for my own self, I’m super interested on that. So let’s unpack that. Do you mind if we run a little long, are you okay?
Paul: I’m good. I’m good for at least another 50 minutes.
Robb: Okay. Okay. Well, you pull the rip cord when you’re ready to jump off this plane? So yeah. Yeah.
Paul: And this is one of the humbling things of writing a book is I probably was a little bit too bought into the Robert Lustig ideas around fructose when I wrote the book. So even though I hope that your listeners will support this work and check out the second edition of The Carnivore Code. The little asterisk I will put on that is that there needs to be a third edition.
Paul: And in the third edition, I will be a little bit more clear about fructose and what we know about its effect on the human body. Now, if you go to the internet, you will find all sorts of mixed opinions about everything, from red meat causing cancer, to fructose being horrible for humans. And I guess, two of the main people that are championing the idea that fructose is really harmful for humans are Gary Taubes and Robert Lustig.
Paul: And Robert Lustig is this very smart physician, who can really rattle off about chemistry. And he talks about rates of de novo, lipogenesis with fructose, which are in the realm of 10 to 20%, which means that if you eat … He’s suggesting that 10 to 20% of the fructose you eat is going to be turned into fat. Well, those are massively inflated and based on rodent studies.
Paul: So this is one of the challenging things is that we can’t do all of the research we’d like to do in humans all the time. And so we have to do some in mice and rats. So sometimes, their physiology is pretty comparable to ours. And there’s a lot of research that I talk about in the book that are wrote studies. And there are a lot of studies with polyunsaturated fatty acids that I think are very valid in rodents.
Paul: But for whatever reason, and this makes sense evolutionarily as well. Rodents don’t tolerate fructose well at all. And their fructose biochemistry is very different than humans. And there have been radio labeling studies by people like Luke Tabby, that show that when you eat fructose, at least half of it becomes glucose. Part of it becomes lactate. Part of it becomes glycogen and maybe only one to 2% goes to De novo lipogenesis.
Paul: So there’s no more fructose going to de novo lipogenesis than there is normal glucose consumption. It’s basically more than half of it is turned into glucose in your body. And then people will point to other problems with fructose like, oh, it’s going to raise your uric acid. And actually, it probably doesn’t in the setting of a … If you have the nutrients you need, which are the nutrients found in animal foods, things like choline and B6 to do these pathways, it’s the biochemistry of fructose probably proceeds just very smoothly in the human body.
Robb: And if you’re not hyperchloremic.
Paul: Exactly.
Robb: … Which seems to be a major driver of that.
Paul: Yeah, yeah. So this is all couched and framed in the setting of normal physiologically plausible or evolutionarily plausible consumptions of fructose. Now, for instance, you can get 100 grams of fructose in a double, super big gulp, and that’s really going to be hard to do in nature in any way, shape or form. And just so people know, honey is about 50% fructose. So even eating 100 plus grams of carbohydrates from honey, I’m barely even getting 50 grams of fructose in my diet in a day.
Robb: Well, and just to throw something in there, along this line, Peter Attis had a guy on that’s a cancer expert and he’s been looking at colon cancer and he made the case that when the sugars, specifically fructose are in the liquid form, it allows it to transit through the gut further than it should. And then this fructose interacts with the colon microbiota, the colon cells and that in his opinion, that is the driver. And so, it’s something that’s more viscous, medium, like honey or fruit or something like that. It seems like it would be a very different thing. And he actually said that spooning honey was a different scenario than drinking a soda in that context of the diffusion gradient and all that. Yeah.
Paul: It would make sense. And we see that repeatedly, that when we ultra process foods, both the incretin response sequentially and the gut is different. And yeah, that if you don’t deliver foods properly to the gut and you don’t get the GLP-1, you don’t get all the incretins going down properly, that things can get messed up or that it could go further or not go as far. Yeah. Which is the problem with these ultra processed foods, they’re just not evolutionarily consistent. And I’m sure you do the same thing, you just think, man, we think we’re so smart, but it’s all right in front of us. It’s just all outside, we are evolutionarily contrived beings. We’re created by our environment for the last 2 million years, 3 million years.
Paul: I don’t know why we forget or think that this doesn’t have a huge hand in what’s going to be congruent with our biology when we stray from that, time and time again, we run into problems. Whether it’s with vegetable oils or highly processed sugars or highly processed carbohydrates, and it’s all really intuitive, right?
Paul: It all goes back to this very simple narrative that I think you were a big part of just really helping put out there, which is, hey, do what your ancestors did. And you’ll, you’ll be better than like 99% of people out there. So yeah, I agree. John Simon Piper is another person who’s done a lot of really interesting studies with fructose. So they’ve done meta analysis and systemic reviews of the interventional trials of fructose with uric acid levels, blood pressure and weight gain.
Paul: And they look at all the trials and they’ll take all the isocaloric trials. So if you don’t overfeed, these are all the interventional trials that they’re looking at. It’s not epidemiologist. So they’ll do isocaloric replacement of glucose with fructose. People don’t gain weight, the uric acid doesn’t go up and the blood pressure doesn’t rise. So I’m happy to send you these references or I could screen share them now if you want.
Paul: But it’s really pretty clear that isocaloric replacement of glucose with fructose does not lead to any of these problems. Now, if you give excess fructose, if you give excess calories, then yes, you’re going to gain weight. You may see a change in the blood pressure. You may see change in the uric acid, but that can happen with any caloric excess.
Robb: That happens with keto, yeah.
Paul: Is it the fructose molecule, which is actually something that occurs naturally in human biochemistry and is not toxic to humans, or is it the fact that you’re overfeeding calories? And we know that basically, if you give someone processed food, the satiety mechanisms go out the window.
Paul: And if you over consume, especially over consuming polyunsaturated fatty acids, like linoleic acid and carbohydrates, that just breaks our society mechanisms. And the body has to put the brakes on at the molecular level with the mitochondria. And that’s when we become insulin resistant at the mitochondrial level. And then at a cellular level saying, hey, you have stuffed me full of calories, stop feeding me. You get the reactive oxygen species, the differential phosphorylation of the insulin receptor at the cell surface and the cell shuts off.
Paul: And that’s normal when we overfeed, so there’s really not a whole lot of good evidence to suggest that biochemically, fructose is harmful for humans at all. And it makes sense because evolutionarily, we certainly would have encountered this. Would we have encountered it in a liquid form? No. Would we have encountered it in massive, massive doses? No, we would not have.
Paul: So within normal evolutionarily consistent ranges, there’s not good evidence that it’s harmful for humans. And the takeaway is just don’t fear it, because when I’m talking about carbohydrates, probably I did this to myself because I got people all excited about the carnivore diet. And then I said, hey, you know what? It worked better for me to include carbohydrates from time to time. And some people lose their minds and they go, oh, no sugar is going to cause all these problems. I don’t think it’s the sugar.
Paul: So this leads us to the very interesting discussion, which is perhaps for today or another day, which is, do carbohydrates cause diabetes? And I don’t think they do at all. I think there’s something else because if we’re going to look at the biochemistry, we need to help people understand, what is the real enemy? It’s hard to chase two rabbits, right, or even three. So what’s the real problem?
Paul: And my opinion is that it’s actually linoleic acid and these vegetable oils. This evolutionarily inconsistent ratio of Omega-6 linoleic acid relative to saturated fats, like stearic acid that is giving us a signal, an evolutionary lipokine signal that is breaking our biochemistry. And in the setting of that insulin resistance or the setting of that pathologic insulin resistance or energy crisis, carbohydrates fan the flame, because you’re putting an excess nutrients and so removing them can be very helpful if people are metabolically damaged. But often, it won’t resolve the underlying problem unless the oils become evolutionarily consistent as well. Does that make sense?
Robb: Yeah. Yeah. I guess in general, I mean, unless people are doing a ketogenic diet with canola oil salad dressing. I mean, generally removing refined carbohydrates ends up removing the bulk of the seed oil inputs that we would experience. So I guess in some ways it would be a little hard to fully decouple all those things, but yeah, it totally makes sense. Totally makes sense.
Paul: Yeah. Yeah.
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Robb: Doc, have you noticed any difference with your lipoprotein levels since reintroducing carbs? Because you mentioned noticing, you’re a little warmer. And we do know that some mild hypothyroidism can really elevate lipoproteins, down-regulates the LDL receptor. And so have you seen a shift one way or the other? I know you just did your coronary calcium scan, that looked good. But have you seen any shift with the reintroduction of carbs?
Paul: So this is interesting. I was talking with Dave Feldman the other day, and we’re probably going to do some experiments to see if we can show energy model in myself. It’s a complex theory, Dave’s theory. And I don’t think we fully understand why LDL goes up and when it does and when it doesn’t.
Paul: So one of the things I talk about in my book, The Carnivores Code, is that ketones and cholesterol share a common metabolic synthetic pathway, right? And the HMG-CoA reductase is really this branch point enzyme. And you can go one way to make mevalonate and you can go another way to make the precursor for ketones. And so when we are in ketosis, it does appear that you’re going to make more cholesterol in general.
Paul: And there’s good studies, which show that when we are fasting, LDL goes up, which is interesting to me. And I think these kinds of things argue very strongly against the lipid hypothesis because it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense that the body would push itself toward atherosclerosis by raising LDL, if we believe that LDL is in and of itself enough to initiate an atheroma or endothelial injury during starvation, during fasting. Right?
Paul: So it makes sense that during a ketogenic physiology, our LDL goes up some. What’s very interesting for me is that I’ve tracked my LDL throughout carnivore and it’s gone up and up and up and up and it’s very high now. And most people will hear-
Paul: Up and up, and it’s very high now. And most people would hear this and they get a little scared, but it’s so fun because I’m sure that your listeners are very savvy and they can separate sort of this conditioning like you and I have regarding plants, regarding fructose. And now it’s regarding LDL. We have to just think about this with beginner’s mind. So I got my LDL the other day. It was 533 milligrams per deciliter.
Robb: Holy smokes. Wow.
Paul: So yeah, so my particle count is greater than 3,500. Interestingly enough, and I’ll post about all of this, my particle size is 24.7 nanometers. So it’s very large particles, probably the biggest particles I’ve ever had and some of the biggest particles I’ve seen. And so when I got that, I thought, “All right, I’ve been on carnivore two years. I’m going to get a coronary artery calcium scan.”
Paul: I was talking with my friend, Tommy Wood, and he was even sharing with me that most imaging cardiologists would say, if your LDL is that high, I mean, I am way above, or at the level or above, what most people with familial hypercholesterolemia would have. And I do not have FH. When I am not eating a carnivore diet, I have seen LDLs in my life that were 90, 110. I do not have familial hypercholesterolemia. So there was something about this carnivore diet that is causing my LDL to go up and up and up. And Dave Feldman’s idea is that it’s an energy model and then I’m super lean and my body is using this to traffic energy. And so what’s interesting is as I included carbs back in my diet, my LDL went even higher. The last one I had was in July of 2019, my LDL was 340.
Paul: And now this one with carbs for the last five to six months is 533. Now remember my fasting insulin is three. My C-peptide is 0.5. My hsCRP is low. My particles are very big. And my coronary artery calcium scan is zero. So the critiques would be, it’s not enough time, but that’s just arguing semantics at this point, because most would say that you could see lesions in children with FH, at similar levels of cholesterol within years. And there’s cardiology imagers who would say, “Oh yeah, with an LDL of 300 to 500, you should see plaque in two years.” So I think it’s an interesting illustration. Now I’ll just keep getting CACs and if they continue to be negative, the case will get stronger and stronger and stronger. As a quick aside for people, familial hypercholesterolemia is a different condition because it’s a polymorphism in usually LDL receptor metabolism.
Paul: It’s either a polymorphism in PCSK9, which is an enzyme that recycles the LDL receptor or the LDL receptor itself or LDL receptor trafficking. And so there is a total difference in LDL flux with the FH. It’s not just an elevation of LDL. So that’s the idea right now is that even those people with FH, some of them get accelerated atherosclerosis and some of them don’t, and these LDL receptors actually occur on things like macrophages, et cetera. So having a high LDL in the setting of a ketogenic or carnivore diet is not the same as a high LDL in the setting of an LDL receptor metabolism, polymorphism like familial hypercholesterolemia. But you can use the similarity, and the fact that the LDL levels are similar or mine is even higher to say, “Hey, if LDL is really what is causing this, why don’t I have plaque as a 43 year old man?”
Paul: Now remember at the beginning of my story, my father had an angiogram, had an angioplasty at the age of 44.
Robb: Right.
Paul: I have a very strong history of early coronary disease. If this LDL were going to be causing me problems, I should see it now. I should definitely see it now. If you gave my case to many cardiologists and you didn’t tell them the result of my CAC, they would say, “Oh, that guy’s going to have it. He’s going to have atherosclerosis.” Now is a coronary artery calcium scan perfect? No, but it’s pretty darn good for calcified plaque. So the fact that my father had early coronary disease and had an angioplasty at 44, and now I’m 43 with an LDL that is probably five X what his was like, we should see something. Now I haven’t lived the same life, but again, the argument here is, “Hey, LDL…” The LDL hypothesis leaves a lot to be desired.
Paul: I think we really need to question the idea that LDL in and of itself is enough to initiate or progress atherosclerosis. There are lots of people thinking this way, but I think, and I talk about this in my book The Carnivore Code, there are so many more issues at play here. I think again, insulin resistance is the main thing, driving this in terms of the subendothelial proteoglycans, the APOE C3, et cetera. So for me, you got to have fuel plus a spark. And if you don’t have a spark, it doesn’t matter how much LDL you have around. And as we know, there’s a lot of benefits to LDL. The testes and the ovaries have LDL receptors because they pull in that LDL to make hormones that give us glowing skin and libido and make our lives worth living, and muscles and allow us to have babies.
Paul: And these are hugely important roles. And then LDL is a key player in the immune system. That’s really never talked about either, the fact that if you make mice sort of “LDL-penic”, you take away their LDL, and then you inject them with staph aureus toxin, or lipopolysaccharide, they die much quicker. They die really fast, and you can give them extra LDL back and they live longer. So in this realm of coronavirus, in this realm of sort of this pandemic and viruses and infections, and what we’re all worried about, LDL is an immune molecule as is HDL. And we never think about lipoproteins. And I think once we expand the lens and we think, “Oh, LDL, isn’t just there to kill me? It’s not just a bad cholesterol?” No, it’s an immune particle. It’s a bus that moves this precursor molecule for all the steroids or hormones in your body, you think, “Oh, that actually has some value. Doesn’t it?”
Paul: And then everything upstream in the cholesterol pathway, dolichol and isoprentyl pyrophosphate and Coenzyme Q10, these all have valuable roles in human biochemistry. So this is not an evolutionary mistake. And it’s so interesting to me to think… I mean this is what’s so funny, when you talk about a carnivore diet or an animal based diet, you basically make enemies with everyone in medicine.
Robb: Right?
Paul: Because I am sort of denouncing every holy of holy. I’m saying you don’t need fiber, plants are not good for you, LDL is not bad for you and meat doesn’t cause cancer. Like my goodness, there could not be a more controversial set of statements.
Robb: When you manage to sneak into your book also that meat is not going to destroy the environment.
Paul: I did.
Robb: Then we’ve got that thing going or not going for us too. So yeah. Yeah.
Paul: There is another book that just talked about that too, that I really liked.
Robb: We’re swimming upstream. Like we were talking before we recorded, we have massive job security in this space. Nobody’s going to solve these problems out from under us. Remind me, I’m going to introduce you to a good friend of mine, Dr. William Cromwell, he’s a lipidologist and he and I go back and forth on this stuff a lot. I’m more, I would say, in your camp, in the notion that a type two diabetic with X lipoprotein level and someone eating keto or carnivore with X lipoprotein level are two very different people. But Bill makes a hell of a case for, “Yeah, if you are insulin resistant, that that is going to accelerate the atherosclerotic process.” But he also says that it’s not a get out of jail free card, and he makes a hell of a case around it. He and I go around and around on that. So remind me, he would be an awesome person for your show.
Paul: That would be great to talk to him. The very good news is that insulin resistance is not contagious and it’s highly avoidable.
Robb: Right? No masks necessary on that. Yeah.
Paul: I’m not sure that Western medicine has figured this out yet because, like I said earlier, I fear that we keep going round and round and we can’t quite figure out what causes insulin resistance. But I do think that many would accept that insulin resistance is the common denominator for so many chronic diseases, whether it’s Alzheimer’s or stroke or cardiovascular disease, or pick your degenerative disease. Now that makes insulin resistance public enemy number one, I hope that we can really keep thinking about what the heck is causing this and I’m happy to talk about that. We can definitely dialogue about where we think that’s coming from. I don’t think it’s carbs. And that should be, I think, public enemy number one in medicine. Because I think that you fix that you fix everything and then LDL becomes a hero from a villain because it’s this valuable molecule.
Paul: But I think fortuitously or not, I’ve become this very interesting case study for myself, and perhaps some others. I mean, I have an LDL that would scare the pants off William Cromwell.
Robb: Right. Right.
Paul: It’s funny because people will go back and forth. I’ve definitely talked to people in the last week and they say, “I wish I had your lipid panel.” I said, “Really?” Just so you know, my HDL is 90, my triglycerides were 108 and I told you the other markers, but I’m insulin sensitive with an LDL of 533. Is that the same as a diabetic? No, because they have diabetic, they have metabolic dyslipidemia, their particles look different. Their particles are small. They have a low HDL. They have high triglycerides. Their insulin is through the roof. Completely different thing. And I just worry that people get so myopic with regard to LDL, there’s so much LDL centric thinking in medicine. And it hurts people because we’re not giving them the answer. This is right back to me as a PA saying, “take your statin, take your statin. You’re getting muscle aches? I don’t care. You’re not having a libido? You can’t remember things? I don’t care. Take your statin,” wait a minute, why don’t we actually correct the cause or at least think about it.
Robb: Right. Totally agree. And it is interesting going around with Bill on this stuff. Yeah, maybe even like a three person podcast on your show would be cool, because the thing that I’ve bounced off of Bill is, I don’t know how else I would eat at this point because every other road is… So let’s just say that I’m fucked and I’m going to die at 55 or whatever from a coronary event. I don’t know what else I would do when anything else that I do do, then my time that I’ve got until I do croak is going to be less good than what I’m doing currently, because I’ve fucking tried it. I’ve done it all.
Robb: And that’s been something that I’ve kind of thrown back at him and he’s like, “Well, maybe we just need to do a little bit of a statin or something like that.” And I’m like, “That doesn’t make sense either.” I don’t know about that. And I respond so poorly to everything. I am the guy that literally, I would have like a 50% IQ drop in one day from taking statins. And I really can’t accommodate that.
Paul: And then you can get into all of this nuance about what is the mechanism of the statin? Is it really the cholesterol? Is it just-
Robb: Right.
Paul: Because I mean, we can-
Robb: It appears to be everything except the cholesterol modification, which is why they no longer have a lipid lowering target associated with it. Yeah. Yeah.
Paul: Yeah. And I did a podcast with Malcolm Kendrick, and we talked about how, statins seem to affect the nitric oxide in the endothelial wall. It’s not about LDL at all, or it’s not about cholesterol at all or, it’s about the endothelium and nitric oxide and the glycocalyx, and that’s a completely different story. And yeah, you can give a drug that has an effect that may have a beneficial effect. And this is actually a great segway to the way that I think about plant toxins, if people are not familiar, but so often we give these drugs like a statin, and then we say, “Ha, look for secondary prevention for heart attacks, they do have a benefit.” Yeah, sure, they do, but what’s so often forgotten about, they have to say this in the studies, are all the side effects of the drug and is the dose worth the poison or is the risk worth the reward?
Paul: In the case of statins for some people, it may be, if they are absolutely not willing to change their life. But if someone is willing to change their lifestyle, I would argue the benefits are not, are far outweighed by the risks of these drugs, because we know we can change your risk radically with diet by affecting your insulin sensitivity. And if you give someone to you and I, we can change their insulin sensitivity, we can fix this real fast, and then you don’t have to suffer all the risks. This is one of the things I fear with plant molecules, it’s always forgotten. So if we kind of loop back to the earlier part of the podcast where we’re talking about leaves or stems or roots, or any of these chemicals in plants, like isothiocyanates are a great example, sulforaphane 00: 12: 50], this is a very clear booby trap that’s from these Brassica plants. And it’s this glucosinolate that combines with myrosinase, boom, the trap is sprung. You get the isothiocyanate, which is sulforaphane.
Paul: Now people can look at sulforaphane and say, “Aha, there is studies that show it has benefits,” but what is forgotten about? The side effects. The side effects. And that is what was so interesting to me as I was writing The Carnivore Code, and I found this time and time again with these plant molecules. And I think it makes sense. Why should we be surprised? These are sort of pharmaceuticals. They’re not regulated by the FDA, but they are pharmaceutical molecules. Many of the prescription pharmaceuticals that we use are derived from plants. Paclitaxel, metformin, is similar to a molecule in French Lily. You know, so many, digoxin, aspirin, there are plant molecules that we use as pharmaceuticals today, but so many of the new plant molecules that are touted as being beneficial for humans, they may have a beneficial effect, but at what cost? At what cost?
Paul: And so that’s been so interesting for me to kind of sound the alarm in a gentle way and just say, “Hey, are you sure you want to take sulforaphane, because it also has these negative effects, because it’s actually a plant toxin.” And if you can get the benefits of sulforaphane, specifically increasing your glutathione by doing things like cold, heat, exercise, ketosis, why wouldn’t you just do that and not get the side effects? It’s kind of like the statin argument. If you could improve your insulin resistance by changing what you eat, why would you take a statin that’s going to affect your memory and other biochemistry, your libido, your muscle aches? It’s not worth it. And so that’s the argument that I advanced in The Carnivore Code is, humans can be optimal without plants. We don’t need these plant molecules to be optimal.
Paul: This is the difference between environmental hormesis and molecular hormesis. And environmental hormesis is really where the concept came from, and it’s the original idea that heat, cold, exercise, ketosis, sunlight, these are a little bit of a stress for the body and they make you stronger, right? But they don’t have a molecular side effect. It’s not a molecule circulating in your body. Beta-hydroxybutyrate is, that’s a little different story, we can talk about that, but the other ones are not. They’re just this sort of environmental pressure that’s giving you a little bit, usually of oxidative stress, NRF2 gets turned on and you get more of this glutathione system. You get more superoxide dismutase. You become a stronger individual from an antioxidant quote perspective. Now sulforaphane can give you a little bump too, but it’s going to give you lots of side effects.
Paul: And there’s lots of studies that I talk about in the book that show, “Hey, if you are doing these things or living your life well, you don’t need sulforaphane to be optimal.” Just like you don’t need a statin to be optimal or to fix your coronary disease, if you fix the underlying insulin resistance. This is the problem I have with molecular hormesis. The fact that we believe we can give a molecule… Resveratrol is a great example as well, and say, “Hey, this is a magical molecule.” And I’ve had David Sinclair on my podcast and debated him about this. But you know what, if you want to turn on your sirtuins, you can just fast. I mean, my sirtuins are turned on every morning when I wake up with ketones of 0.5 millimolar because, and this has been shown, I talk about it on the podcast with David Sinclair, when you’re in ketosis, the NAD to NADH ratio changes.
Paul: Sirtuins get turned on, and then they get turned off when I eat carbs, it’s fine, and they get turned back on. Or you can get it through fasting. And what’s the downside to Resveratrol? What are the side effects for Resveratrol? Well, if you look at the studies, it decreases androgen precursors. It acts as a xenoestrogen and actually worsens glycaemic control in a lot of people. So why are we doing this? It’s like we’re being sold this bill of goods. We’re being led by this Pied Piper, and I’m thinking, “Okay, non-processed plant foods are better than processed food any day, but we shouldn’t be sold an incorrect story that plants are magical or beneficial or going to help us live to 150 by a supplement manufacturer when it’s not true.” And you can get all those benefits just by living well.
Paul: And really what we’re talking about here is the fact that animal foods are the super foods. Animal foods are the most nutrient rich foods. And if you eat animal foods, especially nose to tail, you don’t need plant foods. And those of us, you and I included, that really don’t do well with plant foods, don’t need to worry about avoiding them or leaving them out of our diet. Now, in the book, I talk about different tiers of a carnivore diet. If you want to include plant foods or you tolerate them and you think it’s beneficial for color, variety, texture, et cetera, fine, totally great to include them. But if you’re suffering like so many are with recalcitrant auto immune disease, or eczema like I had, or GI issues like you had, don’t fear cutting them out. You don’t necessarily need them, especially if you’re eating nose to tail. So that’s kind of the idea with the carnivore diet that I’ve ended up at. And you know, that was just a little monologue there.
Robb: No, I love it. I love it. That’s incredible. Doc, let’s jump into some of the questions here. You just kind of hit one of the first ones. What is a carnivore-ish diet? What are the least problematic veggies, herbs, and spices. And then also we snuck in, so this is actually three questions, what is carnivore-ish, what are the least potentially problematic herbs and spices, and where does coffee fit into this story? Of course the coffee topic has to come now.
Paul: I know. Coffee, coffee. So we talked about this a little bit earlier. Carnivore-ish is my take on this. It’s not written in stone. It’s just my sort of, it’s my hypothesis. It’s my suggestion to people, that when I think about this, I do think our ancestors favored animal food over plant food. And I do think they ate plant food during times of scarcity of animals. And I think that’s… Probably ate some plants, mostly fruit. So carnivore-ish is mostly meat, and organs ideally, but mostly meat and animal products with some fruit in your diet, carbohydrates, honey, berries, avocado, squash, if you tolerate it olives. There’s a lot of things in our diets that we think of as vegetables that are actually fruit. So the fruit like an avocado, so a lot of people, I think, appreciate this, because they say, “Oh, I can have avocado.” And I say, “Yeah, try it.”
Paul: It makes it so much more doable for people. I think that… And ultimately this is not my attempt to get everyone to stop eating plants. It’s really just my thought [audio cut out] helps a few people I’ll feel like I’ve done good work in the short time that I have on this planet. And I think that those are the foods that are going to be least likely to be harmful for us. Now, some of them still can be, I still react to squash. You didn’t have a great reaction to squash. I do pretty good with berries. I just don’t like the way… It’s funny, I never thought I’d say this, I don’t really love berries. I eat them sometimes. And I’m like, “Yeah, maybe, I suppose if I go hunting this fall and there’s berries,” or, “You know if I were up in Washington again in the spring or the summer and I were out surfing, I would maybe eat a thimble berry or two, or a raspberry,” but I don’t really seek them out. And I don’t feel like I miss them in my diet right now.
Paul: But carnivore-ish is tier one carnivore, and it’s focusing on these least toxic plant foods, which are mostly the fruits. And there’s non sweet fruits and sweet fruits. People can expand that to be pretty big. Now in terms of everything else, that’s where you start to get into parts of the plant that I think a lot more people are going to respond to. So leaves, stems, roots, and all the seeds. And also it’s important to mention, like we did at the beginning, that even animal foods can trigger people. And I think the paleo ideas are very relevant here that, “Hey, if we didn’t eat that animal food a whole lot, we might not be so good at doing it all the time.” And the two biggest animal foods that I see causing problems are dairy and egg whites.
Paul: And that makes sense. Eggs are kind of seasonal and we probably didn’t eat a whole lot of them. And dairy is definitely not something we got much of at all. Occasionally, perhaps, but very rarely, so those can trigger people too. But that’s sort of the answer there. Now the coffee question is interesting for me. If you think about coffee, it’s a seed, but it’s not only a seed, it’s a seed that’s been roasted. And so you get all the potential issues with roasting and burning. Now, I don’t think we fully understand how well the body is able to deal with these things. Like acrylamide, there are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in both cooked meat and roasted coffee beans. Most people listening to this will probably opt for organic or mold free coffee beans, but mainstream coffee is, the beans are sitting, they’re going to get moldy, are there mold toxins that are causing people problems? Are the coffee being sprayed?
Paul: It’s a huge industry with lots of potential for contamination, with pesticides, et cetera. This is all sort of apart from the toxins that are in the coffee bean itself. So chlorogenic acid and caffeic acid are two of the polyphenols that I speak about in the book that have been shown in cell culture, at least, which is the best model we have to create clastogenesis, which is breaking of DNA. Now, at some point we get into this realm of, is it really going to change your quality of life? I can’t say, I just think it’s interesting to say, “Hey, some people probably don’t tolerate these polyphenols very well.” So they both might be able to detoxify these polyphenols, and yes, I believe that the phase one detoxification systems in your liver, these are the cytochrome P450 enzymes, these are meant to detoxify molecules like polyphenols.
Paul: So are there some people that are going to be better or worse at breaking down these polyphenols? Which are not meant for humans, they’re not antioxidants guys. We talked about this a little bit earlier with Resveratrol. Isothiocyanates are technically not polyphenols, but that’s neither here nor there. So I’m not a fan of coffee and that breaks a lot of hearts, but I’ll just put it out there and speak my truth and say, also, if you’re drinking coffee and you got to think like, “All right, this is stressful. Am I borrowing tomorrow’s happiness today?” When I was in residency and we would talk about that with people with alcoholism, we would say that with alcohol, “Drinking alcohol is like borrowing tomorrow’s happiness today.” Is coffee like borrowing tomorrow’s energy today?
Robb: Right.
Paul: Maybe I wonder. And again, it’s all nuanced. And I really try not to be dogmatic about this. I try not to be too black and white. If you’re thriving and you’re drinking coffee, keep drinking coffee. Ultimately, and I say this in the beginning of the book, my purpose is not to keep… I’m not successful if everyone eats meat. As a person in this world, as a physician, or as just anyone trying to offer advice, the goal of all of us, is just to increase other people’s quality of life and you get to define that, not me. So if your highest quality of life is eating cake with your daughter on her birthday, who am I to say? Right? I’m just going to tell you, you know this already, the gluten, the sugar, the oils in the cake may not make you feel good, but it’s your choice. So if you want to drink coffee, if it increases the quality of your life, do it. But those are sort of my…
Paul: … coffee. If it increases the quality of your life, do it. But those are sort of my thoughts about where it may stand on the good, bad, neutral spectrum for humans.
Robb: Love it. Nicki and I have largely abandoned coffee at this point. We do a little bit of decaf here and there, which doesn’t really address some of the roasting considerations. But I’ve noticed that I just don’t do well with caffeine anymore, so that’s been a major improvement for us. It’s kind of interesting.
Paul: And it’s not surprising. I mean, caffeine is a phytoalexin. It is a plant toxin. The reason caffeine is in those coffee seeds is so that when insects get it, they’re like, “Ooh ah.” The LD50, the lethal dose 50, for a bug, eating a coffee cherry is way lower than this for a human, and they’re like, “Oh my God, it’s too much.” You can kill yourself with caffeine, like many things.
Robb: Yes, you can. I think I’ve been close a time or two. Let’s see here. Do you recommend eating organ meat sporadically, or rotating, and which should be consumed? And then also, there’s a related question a little bit later. Do you have an ideal ratio of muscle meat versus the various organ meat potential blends?
Paul: Yeah, great question. Thank you. Basically, I try and eat as many organs as I can get my hands on at this point. I think that the limitations in the supply chain will prevent me from getting organ meat overload. You can usually get a lot of liver, so maybe you could eat too much liver. I don’t think we know, right? There’s this question, is vitamin A toxicity from real vitamin A, a thing, or is it the vitamin A palmitate that’s used in studies?
Paul: Certainly, there are some, I believe, observational studies. I don’t think anyone’s done an interventional study that suggests that higher intakes of vitamin A in pregnant women sometimes lead to higher rates of birth defects. So pregnant women are cautioned against more than 10,000 IU of vitamin A a day, which is what’s found in about two ounces of liver.
Paul: So in the book, I say, if you’re pregnant, you want to be safe. An ounce of liver a day, an ounce and a half, totally fine, in my opinion. I’m not convinced that real liver is going to be problematic. I would take any client or anyone that I met who asked me for advice off vitamin A palmitate. In and of itself, I would never give someone a synthetic vitamin A, or really try and avoid all forms of synthetic vitamins.
Paul: But I do think the organ meats are crucial. And for people that aren’t familiar with this idea, it’s just that, hey, if you look at muscle meat, there are many nutrients in muscle meat, but there’s a fascinatingly complimentary sort of cohort of nutrients in organ meats. If we just look at liver, there’s riboflavin and folate, which are not well represented in the muscle meat, in addition to choline and zinc and copper, and so really starting to eat more organ meats really fills in those nutritional gaps.
Paul: And if you’re eating things, the first one I recommend is liver, and I do about one to three ounces a day. And the ways that I like to do it are, I generally eat it raw, or I will do desiccated organ supplements. So a super exciting thing for me is that I got so into the organs that I decided to build a supplement company that helps people get these organs. So when this podcast comes out, this is sort of the same week of launch of Heart & Soil, which-
Robb: Oh, nice.
Paul: … is my… Yeah, which is my supplement company. People can go to heartandsoilsupplements.com if you are interested in getting these desiccated organs.
Paul: I think that the best thing to do is to eat it raw and fresh. But if you can’t do that, if you won’t do that, if you’re traveling, we’ve got a lot of cool things that we’re going to start offering in that respect, so that’s one option. So I’ll either do desiccated of the organs that I can’t get, but if I can get the fresh liver, I will do one to three ounces of that per day, usually raw, as a shooter. But people can decide if they want to fry it, or sauté it, or do whatever with the liver.
Paul: The other organs I like are things like thymus, which is often included in sweetbreads. And if you cook the thymus, it’s actually pretty darn good. It’s fatty and rich. I eat a lot of thymus raw, or in the desiccated form. When I can get spleen, we talked about spleen earlier, with heme iron, I will eat spleen.
Paul: I think that there’s just so many benefits, really to all of the organs. There are no organs that I would avoid, other than the adrenal, at this point. Maybe the thyroid. So the endocrine glands that are going to have active hormones, I would be very careful about those. Every once in a while, I show up at a party and somebody say, “Hey, I’ve got an adrenal. Do you want some?” I’m going, “Ah. I’m not going to eat an adrenal, but I’ll eat the kidney.” But there are benefits-
Robb: We had a kidney question. So how does one make kidney palatable and not taste like you’re drinking out of a urinal, because I haven’t cracked that nut?
Paul: Good question. You put in a desiccated organ supplement. That is what you do.
Robb: Okay, that’s the only way I’m going to be consuming kidney anytime soon.
Paul: Kidney’s a little rough. Kidney’s a little rough.
Robb: Let’s see here.
Paul: And I think they asked about ratios. I mean, I guess, just to get to the point. So I’ll do about one to three ounces of all the organs I can get in a day. Right now, I’ve got spleen, thymus, liver, and testicle, and so I’ll eat a couple of ounces of those per day.
Paul: And if you read my book, I’ll talk about my recommendations for protein, which I think are pretty similar when we had our last conversation. I will aim for about one gram of protein per pound of goal body weight. So I’m 170. I like to be around that weight. So I’ll eat about a pound and three fourths of meat per day, and then I’ll add the organs on top of that, so I’ll have one to three ounces of two or three different types of organs.
Paul: Even if you just ate liver, that would be a huge improvement in most people’s diets, so that’s the place to start. Don’t get overwhelmed. If you want to get exotic, you can call my friends at White Oak or any of these other farms that we all love, Del Campo. They’ll get you some organs and you can play around with it, or you can do the desiccated organs.
Robb: And remind me to introduce you to some local folks, Augustus Ranch. That’s where we’ve been getting our meat from. They do an organ blend, which is all the fiddly bits. They mince it all up. And when I do taco night for the family, I do two pounds of the grass-fed ground beef, one pound of the organ mix, cook that with the taco seasoning, and the girls-
Paul: Perfect.
Robb: … crush it. Yeah, yeah. They just crush that.
Paul: Your girls are going to be geniuses. They’re so lucky to have Robb Wolf as a dad.
Robb: Well, they’re more lucky to have Nicki Violetti as a mom because-
Paul: That’s true, both of you.
Robb: … her genetics balance mine out very, very well.
Paul: Both of you. The other thing I’ll say is Force of Nature, because I know you’ve been to Roam, and Force of Nature is another great company here. They’re connected with Roam Ranch, and they do an organ grind as well. So if you guys are in Texas, or even throughout the country, I think Force of Nature is doing elk, buffalo, organ grind, all kinds of good stuff.
Robb: Yep, yep. So speaking of Texas, Eva B, who’s one of our super active folks in the Rebellion, she said, “Why are y’all moving to Texas? Is there an insidious plan in the works?” She said, “Just joking. But I know that Dr. Saladino recommends moving to a sunnier climate if possible or tanning bed, otherwise I’m a Canadian, so my option to move within the country are limited. So why’d you move to Texas?”
Paul: Good question. So I think about this a lot, Robb, because I do think about the sun. And with the whole COVID thing, there was so much data about the importance of vitamin D, and at least at an observational level, that 30 nanogram per ml level was a huge cutoff.
Paul: And we think, “Ah, but is supplementing with vitamin D going to be the same as real sunlight?” I suspect not. And we’ve seen that repeatedly with interventional trials for heart disease and blood pressure and psychiatric illness, that you can look at observational cohorts and say, “Hey, the people with more vitamin D do better, but you give them vitamin D and you don’t really see an improvement in the end point, so is it… What’s going on here? Is it something else from the sun, or is it things that people are doing in the sun?”
Paul: Evolutionarily was what we always come back to. I think being in the sun is the way we’re supposed to get vitamin D. So what our ancestors in Canada do, I’m not sure. I think they were definitely outside a whole heck of a lot in the summer and just got tons of it. The problem today is that we’ve got this persistent evolutionary mismatch where most of us have to work in the summer and can’t run around in our underwear all the time, and just top off the vitamin D stores for the whole winter.
Paul: So my personal opinion is that if you can live in a place that is south of that 37th parallel where you’re going to get a lot of sun, at a safe level, that’s going to be ideal. If you don’t do that, like when I was in Seattle… I think the tanning beds are safe and reasonable, as long as you don’t overdo them. There’s such taboo.
Paul: But you can go to the Nordic countries. There’s this company called Sperti, I have no affiliation, S-P-E-R-T-I, you get these vitamin D lamps. And they’re just little tanning beds. It’s the exact same lamps, exactly the same wave lengths, it’s UVA, UVB. It’s just a smaller unit. It’s a unit that’s the size of a large cereal box, for lack of a better comparison. Everybody’s forgotten what a cereal box looks like because nobody eats that anymore, because we’re all so rebellious. But-
Robb: So it’s like a large side of ribs, is what you’re saying.
Paul: Exactly. It’s the size of one of those ribeyes. Yeah, size of a large ribeye rack or something.
Paul: It’s the same thing. It’s UVA, it’s UVB light. I think the real problem with tanning beds is, yeah, you’re going to get exposed to EMF for a short amount of time and you can overdo it too much. But within reason, I think if I were living in Canada, I would strongly consider that. Obviously, if you have a history of any type of skin cancer, keep an eye on it.
Paul: But that’s sort of the segue to the very interesting rabbit hole about polyunsaturated fatty acids and potential for worsening of skin cancer. Is that a problem? Is it the fact that we know that these polyunsaturated fatty acids get stored in our cells, especially in our skin? Is it that we’re now full of these? We are eating 10 to 15 X what we ate in 1900 or even hundred X, in terms of this linoleic acid. There’s too much linoleic acid in the membranes of our epidermis, causing problems when we’re in the sun. Who knows? Very interesting question.
Paul: But I do think tanning beds are the way to do it, and if I lived in British Columbia or somewhere beautiful like that, I would just do a tanning bed in the winter and get sunlight in the summer.
Paul: So the answer to the question was, I moved to Texas because of the people. You’re here, Kyle Kingsbury’s here, Anthony Gustin’s here. So many of my good friends are here in Texas, and I wanted to start this company, Heart & Soil, from a space where I had community and mentors and people to collaborate with. It turns out that more and more cool people are moving to Texas.
Paul: And perhaps there was just the slightest bit of frustration with California, and the politics there, and how crowded it felt, and I thought, “Well, Texas is pretty cool. I can go out to Roam and hunt or…” I want a little more space, a little more freedom, so that’s why.
Robb: Love it. That was much of what brought us here. And we were already in a no income tax state in Nevada, but things had changed enough. I had noticed that every time we went somewhere more equatorial, my health improved. Digestion improved, my outlook improved.
Robb: And it’s been kind of crazy since moving here. It’s been an absolute game changer for me. I get outside virtually every day. The kids got to go swimming basically at Christmas, this last year. The water was cold, but the day itself was 85 degrees. And I was able to get a tan on Christmas, and so it’s-
Paul: It’s hard to beat.
Robb: … a big deal. But you do trade that off with them. We have every freaking bug imaginable. We had a tarantula that big on our house the other day and stuff like that, so yeah, it’s exciting.
Robb: Let’s see here. Oh, and you know what? I completely agree on the polyunsaturated fat in general, but particularly as it relates to dermal issues. We can get a sunburn, the kids can get a sunburn, but it’s not like the way I sunburned as a kid, which was like I had been thrown into an oven and just blistered. It’s an entirely different experience now than what it was in the past.
Robb: And again, very anecdotal, but there’s a few million people running around with that same anecdote. So this is one of these things that, for a dermatology study, should be out there, although I don’t know the IRB, like giving people a UV dose and then checking reactive oxygen species or something, but-
Paul: And we didn’t really have a chance to get into all of that today, and I got to run in a couple minutes. But I did a podcast on my show, Fundamental Health, with Tommy Wood. If people are curious about polyunsaturated fatty acids, the podcast of mine, which will be out on July-
Robb: Did you-
Paul: … 26th or 7th, will-
Robb: You’ve-
Paul: … be-
Robb: … already got episode one up with him-
Paul: Episode one.
Robb: … right? Yeah, yeah.
Paul: And episode two is coming on July 27th. Listen to that one, because we really get into some of the biochemistry around what is happening with polyunsaturated fatty acids. It’s been one of the most fascinating rabbit holes I’ve been down in a while. And it actually gets so granular that we’re looking at FADH2 to NADH ratios, and where in the electron transport chain these intermediates are delivering electrons, and how that’s affecting reverse electron transport.
Paul: But what the very fascinating idea here is that the difference between a polyunsaturated fat and a saturated fat at the level of the mitochondria is a completely different metabolic signal, and this kind of goes back to what we were saying earlier. The very high level is that, I think that in 2020, and really for the last hundred years, since 1911 with Crisco, humans have been eating way too much polyunsaturated fat. And that is giving us a very strange evolutionary signal, because in nature, polyunsaturated fats are very rare. They only occur in seeds and a few other places. They’re just not that prevalent.
Paul: And today, we’re eating animals that are fed corn and soy, which have fat which is enriched in linoleic acid. And we’re eating lots of grains, and we’re eating purified vegetable oil and getting doses of these that are way higher than we ever would have gotten. Evolutionary hunter-gatherers, whether it’s the Tukisenta, or the Maasai, or whoever, the Tokelau, one to three percent linoleic acid of total calories.
Paul: And today, we’re upwards of 10 to 15%, and it’s really wreaking havoc on our biology at all levels. My suspicion is that this is really the key crux of what’s causing insulin resistance for a lot of people by allowing the visceral adipose tissue to expand, because what happens is, the polyunsaturated fatty acids allow the visceral adipose tissue to expand when it shouldn’t be. When the visceral adipose tissue gets too big, it just starts spewing out free fatty acids, triacylglycerols, to the rest of the body, and then you get this funny biochemical signaling, but yeah.
Robb: And it’s super proinflammatory.
Paul: Yes, it is, probably for that sort of reason. It has different kinds from the VATs, so people are not familiar with this.
Paul: Two of the coolest tests would be a coronary artery calcium scan, and a DEXA or an MRI, to look at your visceral adipose tissue. And whenever I get called out by a vegan, I always say, “Yeah, let’s debate. And bring your VAT score, because I’m pretty sure mine will crush yours.”
Robb: The Ketogains guys, I know you have to go really quickly, but they’ve had about 50 of their clients go through the visceral adiposity test, the DEXA scan, and it was lower than what the people have ever, ever seen. And we started digging, and the only people that you see visceral adiposity that low are hunter-gatherers. It does not exist in Westernized societies, other than this kind of keto carnivore world. It’s really fascinating.
Paul: To me, it’s a great metric because it’s very hard to argue with the connection between insulin resistance, or metabolic dysfunction, or the tendency toward it, and VAT.
Paul: And so, yep, I’ll put my VAT up against Michael Greger, Garth Davis, any of these guys, Joel Fuhrman, any of these vegan proponents, any day of the week, really against Mark Hymans or any omnivores too. Let’s see how much visceral adipose tissue you got, because we can argue all day long about this epidemiology or that interventional study. And I’ll say, “Minnesota Coronary,” and they’ll come back with, “Oslo Diet-Heart.” Just nobody really gets any benefit, which is why I want to have the whole… just the absolute spartan race between vegans.
Robb: Oh, I’ve advocated for close to 20 years. If we had 20 different American medical associations, all with their own kind of payer systems, and they were all competing against one another, this shit would be a hundred percent sorted out. There would be no confusion. It’d be like VHS and Betamax.
Robb: But Doc, I know you need to go. Let’s remind folks. So The Carnivore Code, edition one, has been out. Carnivore Code, second edition, is coming August 4th.
Paul: August 4th, yep. You can go the-
Robb: Available everywhere books are sold.
Paul: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Thecarnivorecodebook.com will get you the book. You can pre-order. I guess this will hopefully come out the week that it’s released. The book may even be released when this podcast comes out, but yeah. And then, my website is carnivoremd.com, and-
Robb: Do you want this one to go the week before, or the week of?
Paul: What do you think is best? You tell me.
Robb: You call it, but I’ll-
Paul: The week of.
Robb: Week of. Okay, we’ll do week of. And then, Doc, remind folks where else they can track you down on the interwebs. I think almost everybody in The Healthy Rebellion posted a question, so we’re going to have to do a part two of this because I-
Paul: I would love to. I would love to.
Robb: … did a terrible job getting through it. But where else can they find you?
Paul: Carnivoremd.com is the place to find me, and I’m going to be posting more stuff at heartandsoilsupplements.com as well.
Robb: Outstanding. Awesome, Doc. Well, thank you for moving to Texas. Can’t wait to get you down to Straight Blast Gym in Texas, and we’ll do some training, and that’ll be awesome.
Paul: I can’t wait. Thanks for having me on. I’m sorry, you guys, that I’m so long-winded. I get super excited. And we’ll get to all of your questions in the future, I promise.
Robb: I’ve never answered a concise question in my life, so you and I are brothers from a different mother on that, yeah. Awesome, Doc. Take care.
Paul: Thank you, my friend. I’ll see you soon.
Robb: I’ll see you soon. Bye-bye.
Paul: Take care, Robb.
Nicki: Dr. Saladino is always a good interview.
Robb: Super fun time, and what we’re going to do, because I only got through a paltry number of the questions… But this, it’s funny. I didn’t fully know his kind of genesis story and everything, so I wanted to dig into that.
Robb: But we’re going to get him back on maybe a month down the road, and then we’re just going to try to do Andy Stumpf full-auto Friday style, maybe set a five-minute timer on each one of the questions and really try to hammer through that, because folks had some really good… some of them, some very pithy questions, that we didn’t get to, one of them being, which we kind of skirted it a little bit, but does Dr. Saladino regret calling himself the carnivore MD? Should it have been the animal-centric MD, or something along that line, because it is always interesting to me when I see somebody’s Instagram handle and it’s like, keto carnivore mama for life, 867-5309. And it’s kind of like, okay-
Nicki: 867-
Robb: … that’s cool. You’re-
Nicki: … 5309.
Robb: Yeah, everybody gets the song, Nicki. Everybody gets the song. Thank you. I always wonder a little bit about that, where if you so identify with a tribe and then your situation changes, are you kind of painted into a corner, does it make you less adaptable?
Nicki: Like if you’re The Extreme Vegan Girl, @theextremevegangirl. I don’t know, that might be a real handle. I’m not-
Robb: That is an incredibly redundant just-
Nicki: I’m not-
Robb: … name, to start off with, but-
Nicki: … targeting anybody. I just made that up, but I’m sure it’s real.
Robb: But that, among many other questions, were posed, that I think would be very interesting to unpack. And so we’ll connect with Dr. Saladino here in the near future.
Nicki: Excellent. Thanks everyone for joining us. Remember to check out our show sponsor, Ned, for all your CBD needs. Go to helloned.com/salty15, or enter code SALTY15 at checkout for 15% off your order. And we’ll catch you all next time.
Robb: Bye, everybody. Take care.
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As AskMen’s design and grooming editor, I do love myself some fun, fancy, hydrating grooming products, however this time of year, all I wish to do is let my quarantine hair down and live life carefree outside while delighting in the summertime sun ( in a mask … obviously).
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Listen, I could go on and on(and on and on) about preventing sun damage and the importance of sunscreen (tl; dr it’s very important to prevent both skin cancer, but likewise early aging from the sun’s UV rays) however I will spare that speech for another day, because sunburns occur to the very best of us eventually or another.
If you’re looking for more responses about the sun, sunscreen, and their role they have fun with skin care, I recommend taking a look at the Skin Cancer Foundation and the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) If you need a dermatologist, AAD has a terrific country-wide database to help you discover one in your area.
( No, this isn’t sponsored, I just truly, actually think in the power of sun block.)
Well, I stated I would save you my spiel, and here we are, post-spiel. So, without more ado, why do not I get through this so we can enjoy those rays before the summer sun decreases, because that’s what we’re all here for, isn’t it?
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In the summer, that can lead to overheating and too much sun in no time.
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Duke Cannon didn’t elude with it called this scrub, what you see is exactly what you get. Even in a steamy hot shower you get an icy cold blast that lasts long after you leave. I especially enjoy this because I like to exfoliate my arms to tame my keratosis pilaris– a skin problem that affects 40%of grownups — and keep rough skin like my knees and elbows in check. This alcohol-free exfoliator utilizes menthol to cool, caffeine to promote, and aloe vera to relieve.
If you like this cruelty-free find, Duke Cannon also offers Cold Shower Cooling Face and Body Wipes and Dry Ice Body Spray Powder to keep the cool coming all day long.
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Greek yogurt contains collagen-boosting protein, probiotics, vitamins, and minerals ensuring stressed out, broken skin feels great while it heals great. Consider this your new favorite glamorous after sun moisturizer.
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Burning, scratchy scalp doesn’t just originate from dry winter season forced-air heated, however likewise the sun, if you have any sort of thinning up leading (or even if you do not). This scrub is here to save the day.
Having actually been stuck at home the previous couple of months like the majority of civic-minded Americans, I can let a day or two … possibly more … go without offering my head a great, tidy scrub. No judgement. I have swapped this in a couple times a week to wash away oil develop and offer my hot head a cooling reward. While sea salt scrubs, tea tree oil delivers a one-two punch with its antibacterial residential or commercial properties and refreshing tingle.
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I do not simply how revitalizing this feels when I lather up my loofa and clean all my filthy bits, but how refreshing it feels to understand it’s made with organic and Qualified Fair Trade components. Dr. Bronner’s have actually always utilized organic hemp oil for its cruelty-free castile soaps, however now it’s all sourced right here at home in the U.S. following hemp legalization
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Consider this “Sheet Mask 2.0.” Korean powerhouse skin care brand Dr. Jart is understood for its reliable skin care almost in addition to it’s known for its cool discussion. By using sturdy hyaluronic acid (HA)– the skin-friendly hydration acid that can hold 1,000 times its weight in water– to renew lost moisture and sea kelp to assist lock that moisture in, this is a best post-beach mask.
The hydrating ampoule, or step one, includes HA in addition to beneficial components such as allantoin, glycerin, and niacinamide. The cryo hydrating cooling mask, or step 2, is made from a mix of seaweeds, including kelp, to relieve redness, cool down skin, and improve the skin barrier. Safe for each skin type from sensitive skin to dry skin, the cooling feeling is simply enough. For an added cooling impact, I keep this (and all sheet masks) in my refrigerator.
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- Sargento Shredded Cheese, 6-8 oz, at $4.19 ($2.09)
-$1 off Sargento Reserve Series Slice or Shred item, Harris Teeter eCoupon
(makes it $1.09) - WeWalka Pizza Dough, 7.8-14 oz, at $3.49 ($1.74)
- Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks, at $2.69 ($1.34)
-.50/2 General Mills Betty Crocker fruit snacks printable
-$1/2 Betty Crocker Fruit Shapes, Fruit by the Food, or Fruit Roll-Ups, OR Sunkist fruit flavored snacks, SS 08/09
-.50/2 General Mills Betty Crocker or Sunkist fruit flavored snacks, SavingStar mobile app
(use $1/2 mfr and .50/2 SavingStar, makes it 59¢ ea.) - Kellogg’s Corn Pops, Froot Loops, Apple Jacks or Frosted Flakes Cereal, 10.1-13.5 oz, at $4.49 ($2.24)
-$1/2 Kellogg’s cereals, 8 oz+, RMN 07/26
-$1 off Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes with Marshmallows cereal printable
-$1 off Kellogg’s Froot Loops Tropical cereal printable
-$3/5 Kellogg’s cereals printable
-$1/2 Kellogg’s cereals printable
-$5/$25 Kellogg’s spend $25 on Kellogg’s cereals, 8 oz+, SavingStar mobile app
(use $1 off, makes it $1.24) - Arnold Wide Pan Bread, 24 oz, at $4.49 ($2.24)
- Cheez-It Multi-Packs, at $6.49 ($3.24)
-$1 off Cheez-it baked snack product, 7 oz + (850 points) printable
-.50/1 Pringles & Cheez-It bonus – redeem marked Pringles and Cheez-It offers, Ibotta mobile app
(use $1 off, makes it $3.24) - Chex Mix Variety Pack, 18 ct, (price not listed)
-$1/3 Chex Mix or Chex Mix Muddy Buddies or Popped, or Bugles Corn Snacks or Gardetto’s Snack Mix or Food Should Taste Good Chips 3.7 oz+, SS 07/12
-.50/2 Chex Mix or Chex Mix Muddy Buddies or Popped, or Bugles Corn Snacks or Gardetto’s Snack Mix or Food Should Taste Good Chips, 3.7 oz+, SS 07/12
-.50/2 Chex Mix Chex Mix Muddy Buddies, Chex Mix Popped, Bugles Corn Snacks, Gardetto’s Snack Mix or Food Should Taste Good Chips, 3.7 oz+, Harris Teeter eCoupon - Chex Mix Snacks, 7.5-8 oz, at $2.39 ($1.19)
-$1/3 Chex Mix or Chex Mix Muddy Buddies or Popped, or Bugles Corn Snacks or Gardetto’s Snack Mix or Food Should Taste Good Chips 3.7 oz+, SS 07/12
-.50/2 Chex Mix or Chex Mix Muddy Buddies or Popped, or Bugles Corn Snacks or Gardetto’s Snack Mix or Food Should Taste Good Chips, 3.7 oz+, SS 07/12
-.50/2 Chex Mix Chex Mix Muddy Buddies, Chex Mix Popped, Bugles Corn Snacks, Gardetto’s Snack Mix or Food Should Taste Good Chips, 3.7 oz+, Harris Teeter eCoupon
(use .50/2, makes it 69¢ ea.) - Clio Bars, at $1.25 (62¢)
- La Brea Sourdough Bread, 16 oz, at $4.99 ($2.49)
-.75/1 La Brea bread item (sign up) printable
(makes it 99¢) - Pepperidge Farm Goldfish, 6.6 oz, at $2.49 ($1.24)
- Pringles Multipacks, at $5.49 ($2.74)
-.15/1 Pringles or Pringles Wavy, select varieties, Ibotta mobile app
-.50/1 Pringles & Cheez-It bonus – redeem marked Pringles and Cheez-It offers, Ibotta mobile app
(use .15/1 ibotta, makes it $2.59) - RX Bar, 1.83 oz, at $2.49 ($1.24)
- Nabisco Ritz Crackers, 11.8-13.7 oz, at $4.79 ($2.39)
-.25/1 Nabisco Crackers, any, Ibotta mobile app
-.75/1 Nabisco select cookies or crackers, 7 oz+, excl Triscuit and multipacks, limit 5, cannot use with other coupons, Checkout 51 mobile app
-.75/2 Nabisco Cookies or Crackers, any 3.5 oz+, SS 06/28 (EXP 8/8)
-$1/3 Nabisco Cookies or Crackers, any 3.5 oz+, SS 06/28 (EXP 8/8)
-.75/1 Nabisco cookies or crackers, 7 oz+, excl Triscuit and multipacks, SavingStar (EXP 8/5) mobile app
-$1/3 Nabisco Cookie or Cracker items, 3.5 oz+, SS 08/09
(use .75/2 mfr and (2) .25/1 ibotta, makes it $1.39 ea.) - Utz Potato Chips, 9-9.5 oz, at $4.29 ($2.14)
- Scoop Away Cat Litter, 20 lb, at $10.99 ($5.49)
- Kool-Aid Jammers, 10 ct, at $2.49 ($1.24)
- Nestle Pure Life Bottled Water, 24 pack, at $4.99 ($2.49)
-$1 off Nestle Pure Life Purified Water, 12-pk+ 8 oz bottles, RMN 07/26
-$1 off Nestle Pure Life Purified water, 12-pk+ 8 oz, limit 4, RMN 08/02
(makes it $1.49) - Blue Bunny Load’d Sundaes, 8.5 oz, at $3.29 ($1.64)
-.55/1 Blue Bunny ice cream and novelties (sign up) printable
(makes it 54¢) - Luigi’s Italian Ice, at $4.39 ($2.19)
-.75/1 Luigi’s Italian Ice printable
-.50/1 Luigi’s Real Italian Ice, Ibotta mobile app
-$1 off Luigi’s Real Italian Ice, 24 oz+, SS 07/26
(use .75/1 mfr and .50/1 ibotta, makes it 19¢) - Bomb Pops, at $4.29 ($2.14)
-$1 off Bomb Pop Middles, 10-ct box, Ibotta mobile app
(use $1 off ibotta, makes it $1.14) - Breyers Ice Cream, 48 oz, at $6.39 ($3.19)
- Edy’s Ice Cream, 48 oz, at $6.69 ($3.34)
- Harris Teeter Waffles, 10 ct, at $2.29 ($1.14)
- Mrs. T’s Pierogies, 13-16 oz, at $3.99 ($1.99)
- Broccoli, bunch, at $2.69 ($1.34)
- Cauliflower, at $3.99 ($1.99)
- Boneless Chicken Breast, small pack, at $4.99 ($2.49) lb
- Plainville Farms 94% Lean Ground Turkey or Turkey Burgers, 16 oz, at $5.99 ($2.99)
- Smithfield All-Natural Boneless Pork Tenderloin, at $5.99 ($2.99) lb
Produce
- Baby Cut Carrots, 1 lb, 99¢
- Bartlett Pears, $1.79 lb
- Black or Red Plums, $1.99 lb
- Blueberries, pint, $1.25
-.35/1 California Giant Blueberries, any, Ibotta mobile app
(use .35/1 ibotta, makes it 90¢) - Mineola Tangelos, 80¢ ea.
- Organic Black, Green or Red Seedless Grapes, $2.99 lb
- Peaches or Nectarines, $2.49 lb
- Red Raspberries, 6 oz, $2.50
- Seedless Navel Oranges, 33¢ ea.
- Whole Carrots, 2 lb, 99¢
Meat
- Beyond Burger, 8 oz, $4.99
- Boneless Ribeye Steak or Roast, $7.99 lb
- Hebrew National Beef Franks, 9.43-10.3 oz, $3
- Niman Ranch Ground Pork, 16 oz, $3.99
- Oscar Mayer Family Size Turkey Lunchmeat, 16 oz, $5.99
- Perdue 80% Lean Ground Chicken, 16 oz, $3
- Smithfield Stack Pack Bacon, 24 oz, $5.99
- Tyson Chicken, 22-28 oz, $6.99
Refrigerated
- So Delicious Yogurt, 5.3 oz, $1.50
-$1 off So Delicious product (sign up for newsletter) printable
-.50/5 So Delicious Dairy Free Coconutmilk Yogurt Alternative, 5.3 oz cup, on same receipt, Ibotta mobile app
-$1.15 off So Delicious Dairy Free Pairings Coconutmilk Yogurt Alternative, 5.3 oz cup, limit 5, Ibotta mobile app
(use $1.15 off ibotta, makes it 35¢) - Chobani Gimmies, 4 pack, $3.99
-$1 off Chobani Gimmies yogurt multipack, limit 1, SS 07/26
-$1 off Chobani Gimmies multi-packs, any, limit 5, cannot use with other coupons, Checkout 51 mobile app
-$1 off Chobani Gimmies multi-packs, any, SavingStar (EXP 8/12) mobile app
-$1 off Chobani Gimmies Multipack item, Harris Teeter eCoupon
(use $1 off mfr and $1 off SavingStar, makes it $1.99) - Chobani Less Sugar or Oat Yogurt, 5.3 oz, $1
-.60/2 Chobani Low Sugar yogurt, 5.3 oz, on same receipt, at Harris Teeter, Kroger, Ibotta mobile app
-$2/10 Chobani Greek yogurt or non-dairy products, single serve, limit 1, SS 07/26
-$1/4 Chobani Greek Yogurt Single-Serve Cups, Harris Teeter (EXP 8/11) eCoupon
-$1/2 Chobani Less Sugar or Flip, Harris Teeter (EXP 8/11) eCoupon
-$1/5 Chobani Single Serve Products, on same receipt, limit 5, cannot use with other coupons, Checkout 51 mobile app
-$1/5 Chobani Single Serve Products, on same receipt, SavingStar (EXP 8/12) mobile app
(use $1/4 mfr and $1/5 SavingStar, makes it 60¢ ea.) - Oui by Yoplait French Style Yogurt, $1.33
-$1/4 Oui by Yoplait French-style yogurt, jars, SS 08/02
-$1/4 Yoplait Oui yogurt printable
-$1/4 Oui by Yoplait French-style yogurt jars, SavingStar mobile app
(use $1/4 mfr and $1/4 SavingStar, makes it 83¢ ea.) - Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls, Crescent Rolls or Sweet Biscuits, $2
-$1/3 Pillsbury refrigerated baked goods printable
-$1/3 Pillsbury Refrigerated Baked Goods, SavingStar mobile app
(use $1/3 mfr and $1/3 SavingStar, makes it $1.33 ea.) - Pillsbury Filled Crescents, Layered Desserts or Cookie Dough, $2.50
-$1/2 Pillsbury Safe to Eat Raw Refrigerated cookie Dough or brownie Dough, SS 07/12
-$1/2 Pillsbury Safe to Eat raw Refrigerated Cookie Dough or Brownie Dough, Harris Teeter eCoupon
-$1/3 Pillsbury refrigerated baked goods printable
-$1/3 Pillsbury Refrigerated Baked Goods, SavingStar mobile app
(use $1/2, makes it $2 ea.) - Dannon Activia Yogurt, 12 pack, $5.99
- Chobani Creamer, 24 oz, $3.50
- Chobani Flips, 4 pack, $3.99
- Chobani Greek Yogurt, 4 pack, $3.50
- Coffee-Mate Bliss Creamer, 16 oz, $3
- Eggland’s Best Large Eggs, dozen, $2
-.50/1 Eggland’s Best eggs, SS 06/07
-.55/1 Eggland’s Best eggs, SS 06/07
(use .55/1, makes it 90¢) - Happy Egg Free Range Large Eggs, dozen, $3.99
- International Delight Creamer, 32 oz, $2.50
- Land O’Lakes Creamer, 32 oz, $2.50
- Liberte Organic Yogurt, $1.33
- Dannon Light & Fit Collagen Single Serve Cups, 5-5.3 oz, $1.25
- Reddi-Wip Topping, 6.5 oz, $2.50
- Sargento Snack Bites, 6 oz, $3.33
-$1 off Sargento Snack Bites item, Harris Teeter eCoupon
-$1 off Sargento Snack Bites Cheese Snack, SS 08/02
-.75/1 Sargento Snack Bites Cheese Snack, SS 08/02
(use .75/1, makes it $1.83) - Siggi’s Yogurt, 4 pack or 24 oz, $4.99
- Silk or Silk Oat Yeah Single Serve Yogurt, 5.3 oz, $1.50
- Stonyfield Kids Smoothies, Multipacks or Yo-Baby, 4 pack, $3.50
- Two Good Yogurt, 5-5.3 oz, $1.25
-.20/1 Two Good Greek lowfat yogurt, single serve cup, Ibotta mobile app
-.50/1 Two Good Greek lowfat yogurt, single serve cup, Ibotta mobile app
-.75/1 Two Good Greek lowfat yogurt, single serve cup, Ibotta mobile app
(use .75/1 ibotta, makes it 50¢)
Frozen
- MorningStar Farms Alternative Meats, 5.35-10.5 oz, $3.33
-$1 off MorningStar Farms Veggie Foods item (850 points) printable
-$5/$25 MorningStar Farms spend $25 on any MorningStar Farms veggie foods products, 5.25 pz+, SavingStar mobile app
-.50/1 MorningStar Farms Products, excl veggitizers, Ibotta mobile app
-$1 off MorningStar Farms Veggitizers, 8-10.5 oz, Ibotta mobile app
-$1/2 MorningStar Incogmeato products printable
(use $1 off mfr and $1 off ibotta, makes it $1.33) - Eggo Pancakes or Thick & Fluffy Waffles, 8.5-16.4 oz, $2.50
-$1 off Kellogg’s Eggo frozen item 5.3 oz + (850 points) printable
(makes it $1.50) - Freschetta Pizza, $4.50
- Healthy Choicee Steamers, 9.25-10 oz, $2.50
- Hot Pockets, 9 oz, $2
- Life Cuisine Bowls, 6-11 oz, $3.50
- Marie Callender’s Entrees, 9.25-10 oz, $2.50
- Nestle Drumsticks, 8 ct, $5.99
- Pillsbury Toaster Strudels, 6 ct, $1.67
- Totino’s Party Pizza or Pizza Rolls, $1.25
Grocery
- Annie’s Cheesy Puffs, Grahams or Fruit Snacks, 4-7.5 oz, $2.50
-.50/1 Annie’s Snacks, Fruit Snacks, Cookies, Crackers, Grahams, Granola Bars, Treat Bars, Snack Mix, Popcorn, or Cheese Puffs, Harris Teeter eCoupon
-.50/1 Annie’s snacks printable
-$4/$20 Annie’s Homegrown products purchase of $20, excl condiments, dressings & marinades, SavingStar mobile app
-.50/1 Annie’s snacks, select varieties, SavingStar mobile app
(use .50/1 mfr and .50/1 SavingStar, makes it $1) - Kellogg’s Special K Bars, 5.2-7.4 oz, $2
-$1 off Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain bars, Special K Bars or Rice Krispies Treats squares, 5-ct, + (850 points) printable
-$1/2 Kellogg’s Special K cereals 10.5 oz+, or Bars 5-ct+, RMN 08/02
-$1.50/2 Kellogg’s Special K Cereals, 10.5 oz+, or Bars 5-ct+, RMN 08/02
(use $1 off, makes it $1) - Kellogg’s Special K Cereal, $2.50
-$1 off Kellogg’s cereal, 8.4 oz + (850 points) printable
-$1/2 Kellogg’s cereals, 8 oz+, RMN 07/26
-$1/2 Kellogg’s Special K cereals 10.5 oz+, or Bars 5-ct+, RMN 08/02
-$1.50/2 Kellogg’s Special K Cereals, 10.5 oz+, or Bars 5-ct+, RMN 08/02
-$3/5 Kellogg’s cereals printable
-$1/2 Kellogg’s Special K cereals printable
-$1/2 Kellogg’s cereals printable
-$5/$25 Kellogg’s spend $25 on Kellogg’s cereals, 8 oz+, SavingStar mobile app
(use $1 off mfr and .55/1 ibotta, makes it 95¢) - Kellogg’s Pop Tarts, 12 ct, $2.99
-$1 off Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts toaster pastries, 6-ct.+ (850 points) printable
-$1/2 Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts toaster pasties, 6-ct+, RMN 07/26
(use $1 off, makes it $1.99) - Annie’s Natural Dressing, 8 oz, $2.50
- Annie’s Natural Mac & Cheese, $1
-$4/$20 Annie’s Homegrown products purchase of $20, excl condiments, dressings & marinades, SavingStar mobile app - Bear Naked Granola, 11-12 oz, $3.50
-.50/1 Bear Naked Granola, 8-12 oz bag, excl Premium and Granola Bites, Ibotta mobile app
-.50/1 Bear Naked Premium Granola, 7.9-12 oz select varieties, Ibotta mobile app
(use .50/1 ibotta, makes it $3) - Betty Crocker Favorites Cake or Brownie Mix, 15.25-19.9 oz, $1.25
- Dave’s Killer Bread, 24-27 oz, $4.99
- Keebler Fudge Shoppe or Famous Amos Cookies, 8.5-14.2 oz, $2.50
- Kashi Bars or Bites, 5.3-8.4 oz, $2
-.50/1 Kashi Grain Free Bars, 6.10 oz Coconut Almond or Peanut Butter Chocolate, at CVS, Ingles, Kroger, Walmart, Ibotta mobile app
-.50/1 Kashi by Kids Bites, any 5.6 oz, Ibotta mobile app
(use .50/1 ibotta, makes it $1.50) - Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Bars, 10.4 oz, $2
-$1 off Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain bars, Special K Bars or Rice Krispies Treats squares, 5-ct, + (850 points) printable
(makes it $1) - Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Treats, 8 pack, $1.67
-$1 off Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain bars, Special K Bars or Rice Krispies Treats squares, 5-ct, + (850 points) printable
(makes it 67¢) - Lay’s, Sun Chips or Lay’s Kettle Cooked Chips, 7-13 oz, $2.50
- Old El Paso Refried Beans or Taco Shells, $1.25
- Pepperidge Farm Farmhouse Bread, 24 oz, $3
- Pringles Chips, 4.58-5.57 oz, $1.25
-$1/2 Pringles Full Size Cans, incl LOUD, 146 g+ (850 points) printable
-.15/1 Pringles or Pringles Wavy, select varieties, Ibotta mobile app
-.50/1 Pringles & Cheez-It bonus – redeem marked Pringles and Cheez-It offers, Ibotta mobile app
(use $1/2 mfr and (2) .15/1 ibotta, makes it 60¢ ea.) - SkinnyPop Popcorn, 4-4.5 oz, $3
-$1 off SkinnyPop Popcorn or Chips, 4 oz+, excl 4.4 oz Aged White Cheddar, Harris Teeter eCoupon
(makes it $2)
Beverages
- Coca-Cola Products, 6-pack bottles, B2G1 at $5.49
(buy (4), makes it $2.74 ea.) - Bolthouse Farms Juice, 15.2 oz, $2.50
- Chobani Oat Milk, 52 oz, $3.50
- Florida’s Natural Grapefruit or Orange Juice, 52 oz, $3
-$1 off Florida’s Natural Fit & Delicious orange juice printable
(makes it $2) - Horizon Organic Milk, 64 oz, $3.99
-$1.25 off Horizon Organic Growing Years Milk, half-gal, at Harris Teeter, Kroger, Target, Whole Foods, Ibotta mobile app
(use $1.25 off ibotta, makes it $2.74) - International Delight Iced Coffee, 64 oz, $3
- Silk DHA or Protein Milk, 64 oz, $3
-$1 off Silk Half Gallon (sign up) printable
-$1/2 Silk Almondmilk Half Gallon, Harris Teeter eCoupon
(use $1 off, makes it $2) - AHA Sparkling Water, 8 pack, $3.33
- Bubly Sparkling Water, 8 pack, $3
- Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee, 12 oz or 10 ct, $5.99
-.25/1 Dunkin’ Bagged Coffee, any, Ibotta mobile app
-.75/1 Dunkin’ K-Cup pod Coffee or Hot Cocoa, any, Ibotta mobile app
(use .75/1 ibotta, makes it $5.24) - Gold Peak Tea, 64 oz, $2.50
- Harris Teeter Apple Juice, 64 oz, $1.29
- Dark Horse, Cupcake or 14 Hands Hot to Trot Red Blend, 750 mL, $7.99
-$10 off Cupcake bottle or can, limit 2, check residency requirements, Ibotta mobile app
(use $10 off ibotta, makes it FREE (if included)) - Samuel Adams, Sierra Nevada, New Belgium or Blue Moon Beer, 12 pack, $13.99
(use $3 off ibotta, makes it $10.99)
Personal Care
- Venus or Gillette Mach 3 Disposable Razors, 3 ct, $6.99
-$15 Visa Gift Card WYB $50 or $5 rebate WYB $20 in Head & Shoulders, Gillette, Venus, Old Spice, Secret, Olay, Always, Tampax, Oral-B, Downy, Gain, Tide, Bounce, Pampers or Crest, Online rebate
-$4 off Gillette disposable 2-ct+, excl Sensor 2-ct, TREO, Gillette Black & Venus, limit 2, PG 07/26
-$4 off Venus or Daisy Disposables, 2-ct+, excl Daisy 2-ct, & Hybrids, limit 2, PG 07/26
-$4 off Gillette Disposable, 2 ct+, excl Sensor 2 ct, Treo, Gillette Black & Venus items, Harris Teeter eCoupon
-$4 off Venus or Daisy Disposable , 2 ct+, excl Daisy 2 ct & Hybrids, Harris Teeter eCoupon
(use $4 off, makes it $2.99) - Nivea Body Wash, 20 oz, $5.99
-$1 off Nivea or Nivea Men body wash product, excl trial, SS 07/26 (EXP 8/8)
-$3/2 Nivea or Nivea Men body wash products, excl trial, SS 07/26 (EXP 8/8)
(use $3/2, makes it $4.49 ea.)
Pharmacy
- Flonase Allergy Relief, 60 sprays, $14.99
-$2 off Flonase product (sign-up), 60-spray+ bottle printable
-$4 off Flonase or Flonase Children’s, 60-ct+, RMN 07/26
-$2.50 off Flonase product, adult or children’s, 60 sprays printable
-$2.50 off Flonase regular or Children’s item, 60 ct, Harris Teeter eCoupon
(use $4 off, makes it $10.99)
Household
- Purex Laundry Detergent, 150 oz, $6
-$1 off Purex liquid laundry detergent 65 oz+, or any 4-in-1 pacs , limit 1, RMN 07/26 (EXP 8/9)
(makes it $5) - Duracell Optimum AA or AAA Batteries, 6 ct, $7.49
-$2 off Duracell Optimum pack, limit 2, SS 08/02
(makes it $5.49) - Seventh Generation Dish Soap, 25 oz, $2.50
Pet Care
- Abound Jerky Treats, 12 oz, $2.79
- Red Barn Bully Slices, 9 oz, $8.99
Unadvertised Deals
Express Lane Offers
- Free Pick Up For Anyone over the Age 60 use code SD60 at checkout
- Free Express Lane Pick Up WYB Culturelle Probiotic Gummies, 40 ct., $24.99
-$3 off Culturelle Probiotic product printable
-$3 off Culturelle Adult Probiotics, any, Ibotta mobile app
-$4 off Culturelle Adult Probiotics, any, SavingStar (EXP 8/5) mobile app
(use all three, makes it $14.99)
Buy One Get Ones
- Sandra’s Chicken Entrees, 10 oz, at $6.99 ($3.49)
(ongoing sale) - HT Traders Water Crackers, 4.4 oz, at $3.29 ($1.64)
(ongoing) - Nature’s Twist Lemonade or Orangeade, 12 pk. 12 oz, at $4.99 ($2.49)
(ongoing) -
Good Culture Cottage Cheese, 16 oz, at $3.79 ($1.89)
(ends 9/1)
-.50/1 Good Culture cottage cheese printable
(makes it 89¢) - Harris Teeter Chunk Cheese, 8 oz, at $3.39 ($1.69)
(ends 8/11) - Harris Teeter Homestyle Waffles, 10 ct, at $2.29 ($1.14)
(ends 8/11) - Harris Teeter Popcorn, 3 ct., at $1.99 (99¢)
(ends 8/11) - Harris Teeter Pretzels, 15 oz, at $1.99 (99¢)
(ends 8/11) - Harrris Teeter Original Potato Chips, 8 oz, at $3.49 ($1.74)
(ends 8/11) - Kellogg’s Froot Loop or Tiger Paws Mega Snax, 6 oz, at $5.49 ($2.74)
(ends 8/25)
-$1 off Kellogg’s Jumbo Snax printable
(use $1 off, makes it $1.74) - Kind Bars, 4 ct., at $3.79 ($1.89)
(ends 8/18) - Kind Breakfast or Breakfast Protein Bars, 4 ct., at $3.79 ($1.89)
(ends 8/18) - Kind Kids Chewy Bars, 6 ct., at $3.99 ($1.99)
(ends 8/11) - Natures Path EnviroKidz and Organic Cereal Varieties, 10-14 oz., at $4.29 ($2.14)
(ends 8/11) - O Apple Cider Vinegar, Organic, 946 mL, at $8.99 ($4.49)
(ends 8/11) - Simple Truth Popcorn, 4 oz, at $2.99 ($1.49)
(ends 8/11) - New York Texas Toast Tortilla Strips, 4.5 oz, at $2.69 ($1.34)
(ends 8/18) - Grain Berry Cereal, 12 oz, at $4.49 ($2.24)
(ends 8/11) - Harris Teeter Deli Style Mustard or Horsradish, 12 oz, at $1.99 (99¢)
(ends 8/11) - Harris Teeter Spicy Brown Mustard, 12 oz, at 99¢ (49¢)
(ends 8/11) - Maranatha Almond Butter, 12 oz, at $9.99 ($4.99)
(ends 8/11) - Sun Maid Raisins, 6 pk, at $2.69 ($1.34)
(ends 8/11) - Veggies Made Great Varieties, 6 ct., at $5.99 ($2.99)
(ends 8/11) - Harris Teeter Acetaminophen, 100 ct., at $6.99 ($3.49)
(ends 8/18) - Harris Teeter Ibuprofen, 100 ct., at $5.99 ($2.99)
(ends 8/18) - Harris Teeter Makeup Remover Wipes, 25 ct., at $4.99 ($2.49)
(ends 8/18) - Harris Teeter Towelettes, 25-30 ct., at $4.99 ($2.49)
(ends 8/18) - Nature’s Truth Hemp Oil, 2 oz, at $9.99 ($4.99)
(ends 8/11)
-$1/2 Nature’s Truth Aromatherapy product, RMN 07/26
(makes it $4.49 ea.) - Happy Baby Stage 2 Baby Food, 4 oz, at $1.39 (69¢)
(ends 8/11)
-$1/3 Happy Baby Organics and Happy Tots Organics pouches printable
(makes it 36¢ ea.) - GE 40 Watt A15 Ceiling Fan Bulb, 1 each, at $1.99 (99¢)
(ends 8/11) - Harris Teeter AA & AAA Batteries, 8 ct., at $6.99 ($3.49)
(ends 8/11) - Village Candle Decor Collection, 1 each, at $16.99 ($8.49)
(ends 8/18) - Full Moon Chicken Nuggets & Strips, 12 oz, at $12.99 ($6.49)
(ends 8/11) - Coca Cola Energy Drink, 12 oz, at $2.49 ($1.24)
(ends 8/11) - Harris Teeter Soda, 12 pack, at $3.99 ($1.99)
(ends 8/11) - Melitta Coffee Filters, #4 Bamboo, 80-ct., at $5.49 ($2.74)
(ends 8/11) - Kool-Aid Jammers, 10 Pack, at $2.49 ($1.24)
(ends 8/11) - 7UP & Canada Dry Soda, 12-pk cans, at $7.49 ($3.74)
(ends 8/11) - Harris Teeter Sweet or Unsweet Tea, 128 oz, at $2.39 ($1.19)
(ends 8/11) - Michael Angelo’s Baked Ziti, 80 oz, at $19.99 ($9.99)
(ongoing sale) - Palermo’s Pizza, 13-20.75 oz, at $7.59 ($3.79)
(ends 8/11)
-$1 off Palermo’s Pizza (sign up) printable
(makes it $2.79) - Veggies Made Great Frittatas or Muffins, 6 ct., at $5.99 ($2.99)
(ends 8/11) - Digestive Advantage Gummies, 60 ct., at $17.99 ($8.99)
(ends 8/11) - Nature Made Vitamins & Supplements, entire line, (price not listed)
(ongoing sale)
-$2 off Nature Made Gummies, excl Prenatal items, limit 1, SS 07/26 (EXP 8/9)
-$1 off Nature Made product, excl Prenatal items, limit 1, SS 07/26 (EXP 8/9) - Nature’s Truth Turmeric Curcumin Complex 500mg Capsules, 120 ct., at $18.99 ($9.49)
(ends 8/11)
-$2 off Nature’s Truth Gummy Vitamin or Supplement, RMN 07/26
(makes it $7.49) - Nature’s Truth Ultra Collagen Powder, 7 oz, at $16.99 ($8.49)
(ends 8/11)
-$2 off Nature’s Truth Gummy Vitamin or Supplement, RMN 07/26
(makes it $6.49) - Nature’s Truth Apple Cider Vinegar Supplements, 60 ct., at $8.99 ($4.49)
(ends 8/11)
-$2 off Nature’s Truth Gummy Vitamin or Supplement, RMN 07/26
(makes it $2.49) - Eckrich Sausage, 10-14 oz, at $3.99 ($1.99)
(ends 8/11) - Harris Teeter Ground Sausge, 16 oz, at $4.99 ($2.49)
(ends 8/11) - Harris Teeter Bratwurst or Italian Sausage, 16-18 oz, at $4.99 ($2.49)
(ends 8/11)
Meat
- HT FIsherman’s Market Farm Raised Salmon Fillet, $6.99 lb
(ongoing sale) - 80% Lean Ground Beef, value pk., $3.79 lb
(ends 8/11) - Butterball Turkey Bacon, 12 oz, $2.50
(ends 8/11) - Harris Teeter Sweet Italian Sausage, 18 oz, $3
(ends 8/11) - Jones Dairy Farm Canadian Bacon, 6 oz, $2.50
(ends 8/11) - Lloyd’s Shredded Pork BBQ, 16 oz, $4.99
(ends 8/11) - Mahi-Mahi Fillets, $7.99 lb
(ends 8/11)
wild, frozen - Hormel Black Label Bacon, 12 oz, $4.99
(ends 8/11)
Refrigerated
- Frigo Cheese Heads Combo Meat and Cheese String Cheese, 8 ct., $3.33
(ends 8/11) - Annie’s Cookies, 12 oz, $3.50
(ends 8/11)
-$4/$20 Annie’s Homegrown products purchase of $20, excl condiments, dressings & marinades, SavingStar mobile app - Chobani Yogurt, 5.3 oz, $1
(ends 8/11)
-$1/4 Chobani Greek Yogurt Single-Serve Cups, Harris Teeter (EXP 8/11) eCoupon
-$1/5 Chobani Single Serve Products, on same receipt, limit 5, cannot use with other coupons, Checkout 51 mobile app
-$1/5 Chobani Single Serve Products, on same receipt, SavingStar (EXP 8/12) mobile app
(makes it 60¢)
Grocery
- Bing Bing Raz Energy Drink, 12 oz, $1
(ends 8/18) - Captain John Bread, 20 oz, $2.50
(ends 8/11) - Harris Teeter Strawberry Jelly, 18 oz, 99¢
(ends 8/11) - Kellogg’s Cereal Mega Snax, Pops or Froot Loops, 12 ct., $3.49
(ends 8/25)
-$1 off Kellogg’s Jumbo Snax printable
(makes it $2.49) - Kind Breakfast Probiotics Bars, 8 ct., $2
(ends 8/11) - Kind Healthy Grains Bars, 5 ct., $2
(ends 8/11)
-$1 off KIND Healthy Grains, any, Ibotta mobile app
(makes it $1 after Ibotta) - Kind Snack Bars, Filled, 4 ct., $2
(ends 8/11)
-$1.50 off Kind Core Chocolate Multipacks, any, Ibotta mobile app
(makes it $1.50 after Ibotta) - Nabisco Ritz Cracker Sandwiches, Cheese, 8-ct, $3
(ends 8/11)
-.25/1 Nabisco Crackers, any, Ibotta mobile app
-.75/1 Nabisco select cookies or crackers, 7 oz+, excl Triscuit and multipacks, limit 5, cannot use with other coupons, Checkout 51 mobile app
-.75/2 Nabisco Cookies or Crackers, any 3.5 oz+, SS 06/28 (EXP 8/8)
-$1/3 Nabisco Cookies or Crackers, any 3.5 oz+, SS 06/28 (EXP 8/8)
-.75/1 Nabisco cookies or crackers, 7 oz+, excl Triscuit and multipacks, SavingStar (EXP 8/5) mobile app
-$1/3 Nabisco Cookie or Cracker items, 3.5 oz+, SS 08/09
-.75/2 Nabisco Cookie or Cracker items, 3.5 oz+, SS 08/09
(buy (2), use .75/2, makes it $1.62 ea. after Ibotta & SavingStar) - Ralston Family Farm Rice, 24 oz, $3.99
(ends 8/11) - Runts or Red Hots Candy, 5-5.5 oz, 99¢
(ongoing) - Betty Crocker Helper, 6.4 oz, $1
(ends 8/11) - HT Organic Pasta, 12 oz, $1
(ends 8/11) - Kind Clusters, 11 oz, $2.50
(ends 8/18)
-$1.50 off KIND Nut Clusters, any, at Harris Teeter, Rite Aid, Walgreens, Walmart, Ibotta mobile app
(makes it $1 after Ibotta) - Clif Kid ZBar, 5-6 ct., $3
(ends 8/11)
-.75/2 CLIF KID Zbar or Zbar Protein, 6-ct+ box, on same receipt, Ibotta mobile app
(buy (2), makes it $2.62 ea. after Ibotta) - Kind Single Bar, 1 ct., $1
(ends 8/18)
-.50/1 KIND Refrigerated Nut Butter Bar, 1.76 oz, Harris Teeter eCoupon
-.50/2 KIND Protein, single bars, on same receipt, Ibotta mobile app
-.50/1 Kind Core Chocolate Singles, any, Ibotta mobile app
(makes it FREE after Ibotta (if included)) - Harris Teeter Dressing, 16 oz, $1.50
(ongoing) - Harris Teeter Tomato Ketchup, 20 or 24 oz, 99¢
(ends 8/11) - Ken’s Steak House Dressing, 24 oz, $3
(ends 8/11) - Smucker’s Jam, Preserves or Marmalade, 18-19 oz, 99¢
(ends 8/11)
Beverages
- Monster Energy Drink, 4-pk, B2G1 at $8.99
(ends 8/11)
Personal Care
- Harris Teeter Cotton Balls, 70 ct., jumbo, 99¢
(ongoing sale) - AXE Body Wash, 16 oz, $3.99
(ends 8/11)
-$3/2 AXE product, excl hair styling items, twin-pk & trial, limit 2, RMN 08/02
(use Fetch and Ibotta, makes it $1.99) - AXE Deodorant Stick, 3 oz, $3.99
(ends 8/11)
-$3/2 AXE product, excl hair styling items, twin-pk & trial, limit 2, RMN 08/02
(makes it $2.49 ea.) - Always Infinity or Radiant Pads, 11-18 ct., $3.99
(ends 8/11)
-$15 Visa Gift Card WYB $50 or $5 rebate WYB $20 in Head & Shoulders, Gillette, Venus, Old Spice, Secret, Olay, Always, Tampax, Oral-B, Downy, Gain, Tide, Bounce, Pampers or Crest, Online rebate
-$2 off Always Radiant, Infinity, Pure, Pure Cotton, Ultra, or Maxi Pads 10-ct+, excl liners and Discreet, limit 2, PG 07/26
-$2 off Always Radiant, Infinity, Pure, Pure Cotton, Ultra, or Maxi Pads, 10 ct+, excl Always Liners & Discreet, Harris Teeter eCoupon
(makes it $1.99 ea.) - Carefree Liners, 42 ct., 99¢
(ends 8/11)
-$2/2 Stayfree product exc 10-ct, or Carefree excl 16-22 ct liners, limit 2, SS 07/19
(makes both FREE) - Clearblue Digital Pregnancy Test, 2 ct, $11.99
(ongoing sale) - CoverGirl Concealer, .32 oz, $4.49
(ends 8/18)
-$3 off Covergirl Face product, excl Cheekers, accessories and trial, SS 07/12 (EXP 8/8)
-$2 off Covergirl Face product, excl Cheekers, accessories & trial, SS 07/26
-$2 off CoverGirl face product, excl Cheekers, accessories, trial/travel size printable (limit reached)
-$3 off Covergirl face item, excl Cheekers, accessories & trial, SS 08/09
(makes it $1.49) - Dial Hand Soap, 7.5 oz, $1
(ends 8/11) - Dove Bar Soap, 6 ct., $5.99
(ends 8/11)
-$2 off Dove Body Polish product, WYB (2) Dove Beauty Bar 4-ct+, or Dove Body Wash, 13.5 oz+, excl trial, limit 2, RMN 08/02 - Dove Body Wash, 22 oz, $5.49
(ends 8/11)
-$2 off Dove Body Polish product, WYB (2) Dove Beauty Bar 4-ct+, or Dove Body Wash, 13.5 oz+, excl trial, limit 2, RMN 08/02 - Dove Hair Care, 12 oz, $3.99
(ends 8/11)
-$3/2 Dove Hair Care Products, excl trial and Dove Men+Care, limit 2, RMN 08/02
(makes it $2.49 ea.) - Garnier Fructis Shampoo or Conditioner, 12-13 oz, $2.50
(ends 8/11)
-$4/2 Garnier Fructis shampoo, conditioner, treatment or styling items, excl 1-3 o, limit 1, RMN 07/26
-$4/2 Garnier Fructis Shampoo, Conditioner, styling or treatment, excl 1-3 oz, limit 1, RMN 08/02
-$1 off Garnier Fructis shampoo, conditioner, treatment or styling product printable
(use $4/2, makes it 50¢ ea.) - Garnier Whole Blends Shampoo or Conditioner, 12.5 oz, $3
(ends 8/11)
-$4/2 Garnier Whole Blends shampoo, conditioner or treatment products, excl twin packs, 3 oz, and .68 oz Care Creams mask, limit 1, RMN 07/26
-$4/2 Garnier Whole Blends Shampoo, Conditioner or Treatment items, excl twin packs, 3 oz, and .68 oz Care Creams Mask, limit 1, RMN 08/02
-$1 off Garnier Whole Blends shampoo, conditioner or treatment product printable
(use $4/2, makes it $1 ea.) - Gum Flossers, 75 ct., $1.99
(ends 8/11) - Harris Teeter Sensitive Skin Disposable Razors, 4 ct., $2.99
(ends 8/11) - Jergens Moisturizer Ultra Healing Dry Skin, 10 oz, $3.99
(ends 8/11)
-$2 off Jergens product, excl Natural Glow and trial, SS 07/12 (EXP 8/9)
(makes it $1.99) - OGX Hair Care, 13 oz, $5.99
(ends 8/11)
-$1 off OGX hair product, 3.3-25.4 oz, excl trial and bonus size printable (limit reached)
-$3/2 OGX hair product, 3.3-25.4 oz excl travel and bonus size printable (limit reached)
(makes it $4.49 ea.) - Old Spice Invisible Spray Deodorant, 3.8 oz, $4.99
(ends 8/11)
-$15 Visa Gift Card WYB $50 or $5 rebate WYB $20 in Head & Shoulders, Gillette, Venus, Old Spice, Secret, Olay, Always, Tampax, Oral-B, Downy, Gain, Tide, Bounce, Pampers or Crest, Online rebate
-Free Old Spice dry spray, up to $5.49, WYB (1) Old Spice Body Wash, excl trial, limit 2, PG 07/26 (EXP 8/8)
-$5.49/2 Old Spice Body Wash or Dry Spray, excl High Endurance & trial size, Harris Teeter eCoupon - Plackers Mint Flossers, 150 ct., $2.50
(ends 8/18) - Renu Advanced Contact Solution, twin pk, $14.99
(ongoing sale)
-$5 off Bausch+Lomb Renu Advanced Formula Contact Solution, 12 oz + (sign up) printable
(makes it $9.99) - Stayfree Pads, 24 ct., $3
(ends 8/11)
-$2/2 Stayfree Products, excl. 10 ct. printable
-$2/2 Stayfree product exc 10-ct, or Carefree excl 16-22 ct liners, limit 2, SS 07/19
(makes it $2 ea.) - Suave Kids 2 in 1 Shampoo and Conditioner, 12 oz, $1.50
(ends 8/11)
-$1.50 off Suave Kids Hair Care item, excl twin-pk & trial, limit 2, RMN 08/02
(makes it FREE) - Suave Professionals Hair Care, 12.6 oz, $1.50
(ends 8/11)
-$2 off Suave Professionals shampoo or conditioner, excl twin packs and 2 oz trial, limit 1, cannot use with other coupons, Checkout 51 mobile app
-$1 Suave Professionals Shampoo or Conditioner, excl twin-pk & trial, limit 2, RMN 08/02
-$3/2 Suave Professionals Shampoos or Conditioners, excl trial & twin-pk, limit 2, RMN 08/02
(makes it FREE) - Tampax Pearl or Radiant Tampons, 14- 18 ct., $3.99
(ends 8/11)
-$15 Visa Gift Card WYB $50 or $5 rebate WYB $20 in Head & Shoulders, Gillette, Venus, Old Spice, Secret, Olay, Always, Tampax, Oral-B, Downy, Gain, Tide, Bounce, Pampers or Crest, Online rebate
-$2 off Tampax Pearl, Pocket Pearl, Radiant, Pocket Radiant or Pure Tampons, 14-ct+, limit 2, PG 07/26
-$2 off Tampax Pearl, Pocket Pearl, Radiant, Pocket Radiant or Pure Tampons, 14 ct+, Harris Teeter eCoupon
(makes it $1.99 ea.) - Toms of Maine Deodorant, 2.25 oz, $4.99
(ends 8/11)
-$1.15 off Tom’s of Maine Deodorant, limit 5, Ibotta mobile app
(makes it $3.84) - Yardley Bar Soap, 1 ct., $1
(ends 8/18) - Nivea Men Body Wash, 16 oz, $3.50
(ends 8/11)
-$1 off Nivea or Nivea Men body wash product, excl trial, SS 07/26 (EXP 8/8)
-$3/2 Nivea or Nivea Men body wash products, excl trial, SS 07/26 (EXP 8/8)
(use $3/2, makes it $2 ea.) - Always Discreet Pads or Underwear, 27-66 ct or 15-19 ct, $12.99
(ends 8/11)
-$15 Visa Gift Card WYB $50 or $5 rebate WYB $20 in Head & Shoulders, Gillette, Venus, Old Spice, Secret, Olay, Always, Tampax, Oral-B, Downy, Gain, Tide, Bounce, Pampers or Crest, Online rebate
-$2 off Always Discreet incontinence product, excl trial, limit 2, PG 07/26
-$2 off Always Discreet Incontinence item, excl trial size, Harris Teeter eCoupon
(makes it $10.99) - Oral-B Pulsar Battery Powered Toothbrush, 1 ct, $4.99
(ends 8/11)
-$2 off Oral-B adult battery toothbrush, excl trial, limit 2, PG 07/26 (EXP 8/8)
-$2 off Oral-B Pulsar or Multi-pack Adult Manual Toothbrush, excl Kids, Health Clean, Cavity Defense & trial size, Harris Teeter eCoupon
(makes it $2.99)
Pharmacy
- Allegra Allergy 24 HR, 30 ct., $17.99
(ends 8/11)
-$4 off Allegra Allergy 24HR 24-ct+, or Allegra-D product, excl trial, limit 2, SS 07/26
(makes it $13.99) - Centrum MultiGummies Multivitamin, 70 ct., $6.99
(ends 8/11)
-$2 off Centrum MultiGummies, 60-ct+ printable
-$1 off Centrum or Centrum Silver product, 60-ct+ printable
-$2 off Centrum MultiGummies, 50-ct+, RMN 08/02
(makes it $4.99) - Centrum Multivitamins, 100 ct., $9.99
(ends 8/11)
-$1 off Centrum or Centrum Silver product, 60-ct+ printable
-$4 off Centrum or Centrum Silver Multivitamin 50-ct+, or Centrum Multi+Probiotics Multivitamin 30-ct, excl trial, RMN 08/02
(use $4 off, makes it $5.99) - Cortizone-10 Anti-Itch Creme, 1 oz, $4.99
(ends 9/1)
-$1 off Cortizone-10 product, excl trial, limit 2, SS 07/26 (EXP 8/9)
-.75/1 Cortizone-10 product, excl trial, limit 2, SS 07/26 (EXP 8/9)
(use $1 off, makes it $3.99) - Flonase Allergy Relief Spray, 60 doses, $14.99
(ends 8/11)
-$2 off Flonase product (sign-up), 60-spray+ bottle printable
-$4 off Flonase or Flonase Children’s, 60-ct+, RMN 07/26
-$2.50 off Flonase product, adult or children’s, 60 sprays printable
-$2.50 off Flonase regular or Children’s item, 60 ct, Harris Teeter eCoupon
(use $4 off, makes it $10.99) - Xyzal Allergy Relief 24 HR, 10 ct., $7.99
(ends 8/11)
-$3 off Xyzal product 10-ct, or Children’s, limit 2, SS 07/26
-$4 off Xyzal product 10-ct, or Children’s, limit 2, SS 07/26
(use $4 off, makes it $3.99) - Nasacort Allergy Spray, 120 spray, $17.99
(ends 8/11)
-$8 off Nasacort product, 120-spray+, limit 2, SS 07/26 (EXP 8/8)
-$4 off Nasacort product, 120-spray+, SS 07/26
(use $8 off, makes it $9.99)
Baby Care
- Huggies GoodNites Underwear, jumbo pk, $8.99
(ends 8/11)
-$1.50 off Huggies GoodNites Bedtime Pants printable
-$1 off Huggies Goodnites NightTime Underwear, excl Bed Mats, Ibotta mobile app
-$2 off Huggies Goodnites bedtime pants, SS 08/09
(use $2 off, makes it $5.99 after Ibotta) - Huggies Snug & Dry Diapers, jumbo pk, $6.99
(ends 8/11)
-$1 off Huggies Diapers printable
-$3/2 Huggies diapers, 10-ct+, SS 07/12 (EXP 8/8)
-$1 off Huggies Snug & Dry Diapers, sizes 1-6, 19-44-ct+, limit 5, Ibotta mobile app
-$1 off Huggies diapers (sign in) printable
-$1 off Huggies Diapers, excl 9 ct-, Harris Teeter eCoupon
(use $3/2 and (2) Ibotta, makes it $4.49 ea.) - Luvs Ultra Diapers, jumbo pk, $5.39
(ends 8/11)
-$1.50 off Luvs Diapers, excl trial, limit 2, PG 07/26 (EXP 8/8)
-$1.50 off Luvs Diapers, excl trial size, Harris Teeter eCoupon
(makes it $3.89) - Pampers Baby Wipes, 56 ct., $1.99
(ends 8/11)
-$15 Visa Gift Card WYB $50 or $5 rebate WYB $20 in Head & Shoulders, Gillette, Venus, Old Spice, Secret, Olay, Always, Tampax, Oral-B, Downy, Gain, Tide, Bounce, Pampers or Crest, Online rebate
-.50/2 Pampers Wipes, 56-ct+, limit 2, PG 07/26 (EXP 8/8)
-.50/2 Pampers Wipes, 56 ct+, excl trial size, Harris Teeter eCoupon
(use paper coupon, makes it $1.49 ea.) - Pedialyte Electrolyte Solution, 1.1 qt, $4.99
(ends 8/11)
-$1.50 off Pedialyte product (sign up) printable
(makes it $3.49) - Simple Truth Diapers, jumbo pk, $5.99
(ends 8/11) - Sprout Baby Food Pouch, 4 oz, $1
(ends 8/11)
–B1G1 Sprout Organic Baby or Toddler Pouches, up to $1.62 printable
(makes it 50¢ each)
Household
- Bic Cristal Pens, 10 ct., $1
(ongoing sale)
-$1.50/2 Bic Stationery items (sign up) printable
-$6 off Bic Atlantis assorted 8 ct. WYB (2) Bic stationery products 8 ct.+ printable (limit reached)
(use $1.50/2, makes it 25¢ ea.) - Expo Dry Erase Makers, 4 pk, $3.99
(ongoing sale) - Top Flight Filler Paper, 150 ct., or Composition Book, $1
(ongoing sale) - Harris Teeter Dinner Napkins, 250 ct., $1.99
(ongoing sale) - Loctite Super Glue, 0.14 oz, $2.99
(ends 8/11) - DampRid Moisture Absorber, 2 ct., $4.99
(ends 8/11) - Febreze Air Effects, Car or Small Spaces, 8.8 oz, 0.06 oz or 5.5 mL, $2.99
(ends 8/11)
-$1 off Febreze product, excl Unstopables, Heavy Duty, Ocean, Forest or Wood scents and trial, limit 2, RMN 08/02
(makes it $1.49 ea.) - Renuzit Air Freshener, 7 oz, 89¢
(ends 9/1)
-$2/5 Renuzit Adjustable Air Fresheners, singles, on same receipt, Ibotta mobile app
-$1 off Renuzit bonus – redeem marked Renuzit offer (2x +) from separate shopping trips, Ibotta mobile app
(buy 5, makes it 59¢) - 3 in 1 Oil, 3 oz, $1.99
(ends 8/25) - Arm & Hammer Detergent, 150 oz, $6.99
(ends 8/18)
-$1 off Arm & Hammer liquid detergent, SS 08/02
-$1 off Arm & Hammer liquid laundry product printable
(makes it $5.99) - Gain Flings! Detergent Pacs, 16 ct., $4.99
(ends 8/11)
-$1 off Gain Flings! 12-16 ct., liquid or powder laundry detergent, excl Ultra Flings, Fireworks, Flings 9 ct., trial/travel size printable
-$2 off Gain Flings 12-35 ct, Ultra Flings 18 ct, excl, Liquid/Powder laundry detergent, Liquid Fabric Softeners, Essential Oils, Fireworks & trial size, Harris Teeter (EXP 8/8) eCoupon
(makes it $2.99)
Pet Care
- Alpo T-Bonz Dog Treats, 4.5 oz, $1
(ongoing sale) - Cesar Canine Cuisine, 5 oz, 90¢
ongoing sale - Milk Bone Dog Treats, 24 oz, $2.50
(ends 8/11)
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NIST to help labs achieve accurate THC, CBD measurements
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a program to help laboratories accurately measure key chemical compounds in marijuana, hemp and other cannabis products including oils, edibles, tinctures and balms. The program aims to increase accuracy in product labeling and help forensic laboratories distinguish between hemp, which is legal in all states, and marijuana, which is not.
As part of the Cannabis Quality Assurance program, or CannaQAP, NIST will send hemp oil samples to participating labs, which will then measure the concentration of various compounds and report back to NIST. Future exercises will involve plant material.
The labels on most cannabis products list the concentration of at least two chemical compounds: tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the psychoactive ingredient that produces a high, and cannabidiol, or CBD, which is not intoxicating but is sought after for its many purported health benefits. However, most laboratories have limited experience making these measurements, which can sometimes be unreliable as a result.
The goal of the program, said NIST research chemist Brent Wilson, is to help labs produce consistent measurement results. “When you walk into a store or dispensary and see a label that says 10% CBD, you want to know that you can trust that number.”
Those numbers are also important as a matter of criminal law. The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, also called the 2018 Farm Bill, legalized any cannabis material with a THC concentration below 0.3%. Below that number, it’s hemp. At or above that number, it’s marijuana, and illegal in many states and by federal law. A farmer’s crop can be destroyed based on that number, and interstate shipments can be seized.
Before the 2018 law, most crime labs determined if something was marijuana by testing only for the presence of THC, not by measuring the concentration. The law now requires concentration measurements, and producing accurate numbers at levels as low as 0.3% can be a particular challenge.
Here’s how CannaQAP will work. In the first round of exercises, NIST will send hemp oil samples — all with the same, very carefully measured concentrations of THC, CBD and 15 other cannabinoid compounds — to participating labs. Those labs won’t be told the concentrations of those compounds but will measure them and send their results back to NIST, along with information about the methods they used to do the analysis.
After collecting responses, NIST will publish the measurements the labs obtained. That data will be anonymized so that the names of the individual labs are not revealed. However, the results will show how much variability there is between labs. Also, NIST will publish the correct measurements, so each lab will be able to see how accurate its measurements were and how it performed relative to its peers.
“Anonymity means that labs don’t have to worry about how their performance will be viewed,” said NIST research chemist Melissa Phillips. “Our goal is to help labs improve, not to call them out.”
The NIST researchers will also assess whether some laboratory methods consistently produce better results than others. If so, they can recommend that labs adopt the better-performing methods.
Once that first round of exercises is complete and the data is published, which could take from six months to a year, NIST will run a second round of exercises. “We hope to see a tightening of the numbers the second time around,” Wilson said.
NIST is also planning to conduct future exercises with ground hemp and possibly marijuana. Those exercises will involve measuring a larger number of compounds, including terpenes — the chemicals that give different strains of marijuana their distinct aromas — and compounds that people don’t want in their cannabis such as fungal toxins, pesticides and heavy metals. Future exercises may also include extracts, concentrates, distillates and edibles.
NIST is also working on a hemp reference material — that is, a material that comes with known, accurate measurement values. Labs will be able to use that material to validate their measurement methods. One reason these measurements vary so much from lab to lab is that, currently, there are no reference materials for cannabis.
“Labs can accurately measure how much sugar is in your orange juice because they have standardized methods and reference materials for that type of product,” said Susan Audino, a chemistry consultant and science adviser to the Cannabis Analytical Science Program of the AOAC International, a group that establishes standard methods for laboratory analysis. “But cannabis has been a Schedule I drug since the ’70s,” she said, referring to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s designation for drugs that have the highest potential for abuse.
NIST produces thousands of standard reference materials and has a long history of conducting quality assurance programs for improving measurements. Past programs have helped labs accurately measure compounds in dietary supplements, vitamins in human serum and environmental contaminants in groundwater.
“Our goal is to support U.S. industries by helping labs achieve high-quality measurements,” Phillips said.
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Laboratories that are interested in participating in CannaQAP can find more information and can register online. Registration in the first exercise involving hemp oil will be open through Aug. 31, 2020.
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FEMAIL exposes the very best summer beauty launches
While the majority of us are sent to have a lot more casual and low-key summer than we might ordinarily be utilized to, that does not suggest that we don’t be worthy of to indulge our socks off while hanging around at home.
And luckily there are a host of brand-spanking brand-new charm products on the shelves – and soon to strike them – to help you best your Do It Yourself treat session, whether that involves a glamorous facial, or a complete face of glam.
Here, FEMAIL assemble the most exciting and intriguing charm items that have been launched in recent weeks, in addition to a couple of sneak peeks of launches that are because of debut in the near future.
MAKEUP
Perfect for summertime: Huda Charm is set to release a Summer season Love Package ($39) on August 11, which will consist of a pastel eye shadow combination, small liquid lipstick and a small Kayali scent
Saucy! Hourglass Ambient Lighting Infinity Powder (left, $50) and Trinny London Golden Glow Bronzer in Gaia (right, $33) are both fantastic choices to improve your summertime radiance
Fruity: The Creme Store Go Bananas! Baba Face Powder ($14) will lighten up and correct your skin tone, while also setting your makeup
Complexion perfecters: Treat your skin with the It Cosmetics Your Skin However Better Structure Skin care (left, $3950) and then set your makeup firmly in place with the Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray (right, $35)
Pucker up: The Roen Kiss My Liquid Lip Balm ($26) will include the best slick of color to your lips, without feeling sticky or drying
Makeup marvels: Star appeal master Patrick Starr introduced his debut brand One/Size this month, launching a sensational Visionary Eyeshadow Palette (left, $42) as one of the first items. Meanwhile L’Oreal revealed a Gold Mirage collection that is perfect for the summer season, and includes a gorgeous shimmery Shine Mirage Eye Shadow (right, $1299)
Beauty bag staples: Grow Causemetics is intending to boost your summertime radiance with the Dazzling Face Brightener Illuminating Guide (left, $35) while Giorgio Armani’s Neo Nude Structure (center, $40) will provide a lightweight coverage that will give a brightening increase to even the most tired looking skin. The final touch for a no-makeup, makeup look? The perfect mascara – and the Pat McGrath Labs Dark Star Volumizing Mascara (right, $30) is our leading summertime pick
Get ’em while they’re hot! Clean beauty company Tower 28 introduced the best on-the-go summertime staples package in the kind of its Magic Hour and Chill Lip Cheek Balm and Gloss Duo Set (left, $22) while Maybelline’s Color Strike Cream-to-Powder Eye Shadow Pen (right, $ 8.99) is the perfect swipe-and-go situation to include some color to a basic summertime look
So juicy: Absolutely nothing states summer like some freshly-cut watermelon – and this Lanolips Lip Water in Watermelon ($17) will leave you with that revitalizing warm weather feeling all day
SKIN CARES
Care for your skin: Mutha’s Face Oil (left, $110) has been created with 22 nutrients, including antioxidants and omega fatty acids that will help to ideal your skin, even when it’s been scorched by the sun. If you’re intending to go bare-faced this summer season and want to improve those pores, look no more than the Serumkind Yellomello Drop (right, $46)
It’s here! After weeks of anticipation, Rihanna lastly dropped her three-piece Fenty Skin collection today. The variety consists of the $25 Total Cleans’ r Remove It All Cleanser ($25), the Hydra Vizor Invisible Moisturizer Broad Spectrum SPF 30 Sunscreen ($35) and the Fat Water Pore-Refining Toner Serum ($28)
Hydration country: Provide your skin a much-needed dosage of moisture with the M-61 Hydraboost Collagen Peptide Water Cream (left, $74) – then revitalize your skin with the Drunk Elephant E-Rase Milki Micellar Water (right, $28)
Take a swipe! Patrick Starr’s brand-new One/Size collection also features skin care launches – including the Go Off Juciest Makeup Cleaner Wipes ($15) which are far from your average face wipes, having been formulated to remove even the heaviest of cosmetics without harmful or drying the skin
Banish acnes: Tackle any large pores and breakouts with the Peace Out Acne Serum ($34) which contains high-potency salicylic acid to avoid acne and blackheads
Cool! After treating yourself to some frozen sorbet to cool down, enable your skin to enjoy the exact same revitalizing sensation with the Glow Dish Papaya Sorbet Enzyme Cleansing Balm ($32)
Two in one: The Happiness Clear Genius Clarifying Toner Serum (left, $1299) is a two-in-one, affordable marvel that will help to combat acne while also soothing the skin. There’s the Peach & Lily Skin Shield Blurring Guide (right, $34) which smooths the complexion while likewise protecting it from ‘environmental stressors’ like contamination and makeup
Anti-aging: Not only is the marble cap of this new Erno Laszlo Firming Cream ($128) incredibly pleasing, the item below it is also an essential thanks to its incredibly hydrating, yet light-weight, formula that can be utilized both in the early morning and at night
Perfect that pout: Patrick Ta, Gigi Hadid’s go-to makeup artist, is here to smooth and plump your pout with his Significant Glow Softening Lip Masque ($22) which will out-shine any lip gloss in your stash. The wildly-popular Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask ($22) will soon be available in a new Gummy Bear scent that is sure to lighten up even the dreariest of evenings
Radiance from the within out: The Reign Together Self-confidence Facial Serum ($95) contains a host of incredible active ingredients to offer your skin an overall boost, consisting of bakuchiol, a natural option to retinol, and broad spectrum hemp oil to soothe inflammation
Go for glow: If you’re able to take a roadway journey this summer season, don’t forget to load the Dr Barbara Sturm The Glow Kit ($210) which contains everything you require to boost your natural brilliance
Refresh and renew: If your face is feeling a bit dry and unloved this summer, you’re not alone – however there are numerous magnificently hydrating items new to the market that will assist to bring some hydration back to that skin. For those in need of an antioxidant-rich formula, look no further than the Physician Babor Cleanformance Renewal Overnight Mask (left, $3995), while anybody eager to hydrate while preventing acnes ought to turn to the Starface Moisture on Mars (right, $18)
BODY
Beach bum: Keep your skin feeling silky smooth with the Sol de Janeiro Bum Bottom Body Scrub ($42), which consists of crushed cupuaçu seeds and sugar crystals to exfoliate skin without leaving it dry and itchy
Sweet fragrances: The Bath & Body Functions Sunset Radiance Diamond Shimmer Mist (left, $1550) is the best post-beach body spray to refresh you after a day depending on the sun. As soon as you’re house and showered, treat your skin to the Crabtree & Evelyn Rose Lustrous Body Oil (right, $35) which will make you feel like you’ve simply enjoyed a medical spa session
Keep it clean! Everyone should have hand sanitizer with them these days – but instead of going with one of the most standard, why not jazz things up with glitter? Go into the Poo-Pourri Hand Sanitizer Sparkle Bundle ($1485)
Fabulous fragrance: Diptyque has actually put numerous of its most beloved scents in travel size, consisting of Do Child which now comes as a Travel Spray (left, $115). If you’re trying to find something brand-new however, then why not try the Giorgio Armani My Way, which is launching on August 10 (right, $126)
Do It Yourself nail treatment: If you don’t feel entirely safe going to a nail salon – or if those closest to you stay closed – then think about relying on an at-home manicure utilizing the Tweezerman x Tom Bachik: The Expert Manicure Set ($55) which consists of whatever you require to get those pointers looking pointer top
Don’t forget! Speaking of manicures, the Nails Inc Plant Power Nail Polish Duo ($15) is a vital for making sure strong and healthy nails no matter where you’re getting your manicure
Decadent: If you’re spending time in the sun, it’s extremely most likely that your skin feels a bit crispy, so why not treat it to some seriously decadent care in the form of the Appeal Pie Soul Providers Unwinding Bath and Shower Oil (left, $50) and the wonderfully luxurious Augustinus Bader The Body Oil (right, $95)
Genius! Hand soap is a must-have home product, but going through all of those plastic bottles isn’t exactly environmentally-friendly. Get in Gelo, which provides Refillable Hand Soap Beginner Sets ($15) that come total with refill pods to put in your original bottle so you never require more than one plastic container
Something special: Hand cleaning and sterilizing can take a severe toll on your skin – however the Retrouve Dermal Defense Hand Cream (left, $55) will work wonders when it pertains to keeping your hands smooth and soft. And if you’re having a hard time to handle the tension of the pandemic, relieve your soul (and your body) with the 111 Skin The Efficiency Oil (right, $190)
Speaking of stress … After you have actually looked after your body, take a while to soothe your mind by lighting among the Chiji Crystal Energy Candles ($3999 each)
Filled with pride: Kid Smells’ Package of Pride ($184) candle collection not just looks wonderfully brilliant and vibrant, it also serves an excellent cause; for every single bundle sold, the brand name will donate $2025 to the Trevor Job
Smells like sunshine: It would be fantastic to be at the beach every day, but sadly that just isn’t possible for everybody. With the Otherland The Beach Club Collection in Freshwater Pearl ($36), your house will smell like summertime days spent in the sunlight and immediately transport you to the ocean
For the women and the guys! We all require deodorant, particularly in summer – and these 2 new launches are the perfect method to jazz up a somewhat mundane element of your day-to-day beauty routine: Necessaire The Deodorant in Sandalwood (left, $20), Bravo Sierra Deodorant Body Spray (right, $11)
HAIR
Refresher course: All of us sweat in summer, it’s inevitable! But there’s no need for your hair to lose its fresh scent – especially when you have the Raincry Advanced Hair Mist ($53 each) on hand to provide your hairs a fragrant increase
Take it easy: Blonde babes wanting to keep their hair bright and vibrant during the summer season need to pick up the Sun Bum Lighten & Tone Set (left, $1899), while everybody – no matter what their hair color – need to have the Biolage Advanced Recovery Deep Treatment Pack (right, $1599) to treat their hairs
Playa New Day Mist 3-in-1 Styler Refresh (left, $24), Drybar Seaside Spritzer (center, $26), Pureology Hydrate Soft (right, $38)
Alterna My Hair My Canvas Me Time Shampoo and Conditioner ($28 each)
Kitsch Microfiber Towel Pillow Cover ($24)
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Check out these businesses and restaurants that have recently opened in Richardson.
The Soccer Box now offering lessons and clinics
The Soccer Box Dallas opened June 1 at 1600 Plano Road, Ste. 1500. The sports facility offers private and small-group lessons for youths as well as clinics and field rentals. It is currently operating at a limited capacity. 214-272-9030. www.thesoccerbox.com.
Secondhand store with philanthropic mission opens
Simply Thrifty opened July 14 at 580 W. Arapaho Road, Ste. 199. The shop sells secondhand clothing, furniture and household items. Proceeds from sales benefit Simply Grace House, a substance abuse recovery program for women. 214-774-9808. www.simplygracehouse.com
Performance Nutrition now serving healthy shakes and teas
Performance Nutrition opened April 13 at Galatyn Park Urban Center. The shop, located at 2301 Performance Court, Ste. 103, offers a variety of teas, protein coffees and meal replacement shakes, including a birthday cake shake and watermelon tea. 214-484-7992. www.facebook.com/performancenutritiontx/
Veteran-owned and -operated Shell Shock CBD opens
Shell Shock CBD opened July 3 at 1601 N. Glenville Drive, Ste. 108. The business sells gummies, drops and roll-ons made with CBD. It also sells some products with a low, legal amount of THC, the psychoactive chemical found in marijuana. The company was founded by veterans with the mission of making CBD products affordable and accessible to former service members. 469-708-6219. www.shellshockcbd.com
Tipsy’s Woodworking now creating handcrafted furniture, gifts
Tipsy’s Woodworking opened a 24,000-square-foot wood shop July 3 at 1601 N. Glenville Drive. The business employs a crew of woodworkers and expert craftspeople who create various items, such as furniture, home decor and gifts. 469-708-6219. www.tipsyswoodworking.com
Sakhuu Thai Cuisine now open
Sakhuu Thai Cuisine opened July 9 in the Eastside development at 1811 N. Greenville Ave., Ste. 400. The restaurant, which also has a location in Dallas, serves a variety of dishes, such as sakhuu stuffed wings, Bangkok lo mein noodles and panang curry. 469-730-2025. www.sakhuuthai.com
Bollywood Spice now open
Bollywood Spice opened in mid-June at 310 E. Main St. The restaurant and hookah bar serves a variety of Indian food, such as chicken tikka masala and tandoori roti. 972-850-9412.
Richardson Orthodontics now open on Arapaho Road
Richardson Orthodontics opened June 1 at 702 W. Arapaho Road, Ste. 102. The practice offers a variety of services and treatments, including braces and Invisalign, for children and adults. 972-295-9266. www.richardsonortho.com
Tofu Factory Dallas now serving Korean cuisine in Chinatown development
Tofu Factory Dallas opened in the DFW Chinatown development June 1. The restaurant, located at 400 N. Greenville Ave., Ste. 11, serves a variety of Korean cuisine, including soft tofu and pork soup, kimchi fried rice and seafood pancakes. 972-231-3888. www.tofufactorydallas.com
Richardson Family Eyecare & Eyewear now open on Plano Road
Richardson Family Eyecare & Eyewear opened in mid-May at 159 N. Plano Road. The business offers routine eye exams as well as a wide array of frames. 469-567-3640. www.richardsonfamilyeyecare.com
Barbecue eatery Tri Tip Grill opens in CityLine
Tri Tip Grill opened June 22 in the CityLine development at 1417 E. Renner Road, Ste. 300. The restaurant was initially supposed to open in March but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The menu features sandwiches, barbecue platters, burgers and salads. The restaurant, which is open daily from 10: 30 a.m.-11 p.m. and offers a weekday happy hour from 2-6 p.m., also has a location at The Star in Frisco. 972-987-8241. www.tritipgrill.com
Perception Eyecare + Eyewear now open
Perception Eyecare + Eyewear opened May 12 at 4150 E. Renner Road, Ste. 300. The business offers comprehensive eye exams for adults, infants and children as well as a selection of unique and personalized eyewear. 972-250-0700. www.perceptioneyecare.net
Second location of Your CBD Store opens
Your CBD Store opened May 29 at 2113 Buckingham Road. The store sells a variety of hemp-derived products, including hemp oil, skin care and pet items. This is the business’s second Richardson location. 214-730-0044. www.cbdrx4u.com/find-us/texas/garland
Wedding cooperative now open
The Darling Co. opened at 111 E. Polk St. on June 1. The shop is a cooperative among seven vendors in the wedding industry, including hair and makeup artists, floral services and photography services. 903-517-2195. www.facebook.com/the-darling-co-104376777779081
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Medical Marijuana, Inc. Subsidiary Kannaway ® Welcomes Differentiated Sales and Marketing Expert Carolyn Dielmann Connolly as Brand Name Ambassador
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Carolyn Dielmann Connolly, Kannaway ® Brand Name Ambassador
SAN DIEGO, July 30, 2020 (WORLD NEWSWIRE)– by means of NEWMEDIAWIRE– Medical Cannabis, Inc.( OTC: MJNA) (the “Company”), the first-ever publicly traded marijuana business in the United States that launched the world’s first-ever cannabis-derived nutraceutical items, brands and supply chain, announced today that its subsidiary Kannaway ® invites Carolyn Dielmann Connolly to the Company’s team of brand name ambassadors.
” Having seen all that Carolyn has achieved in her previous roles, I am humbled and delighted to have her sign up with Kannaway,” said Kannaway ® CEO Blake Schroeder. “We eagerly anticipate working along with her as she establishes her worldwide leadership team at Kannaway and assists us continue to reach new clients.”
Connolly has spent her networking career with a couple of widely known business and has developed a credibility as a leading money earner. In that function, she also became a National Licensed Trainer, Core Market Leader and Travel Committee Board Member. She has built, trained and led effective groups across the health and health sector of the mlm industry and developed leaders, systems and step-by-step programs to assist others succeed. Previously, she expanded her direct selling abilities while working with NuSkin International and serving in different sales and marketing positions throughout her profession.
“I have actually studied the CBD market carefully over the previous couple of years and wanted to get included since of the immense potential it has both in its ability to help numerous consumers and as a monetary chance,” stated Connolly. “I am positive in my ability to build a strong and passion-driven team around Kannaway’s strong worths and innovative offerings.”
About Kannaway
Kannaway ® is a network sales and marketing business specializing in the sales and marketing of hemp-based botanical products. Kannaway ® currently hosts weekly online sales meetings and conferences throughout the United States, providing unique insight and opportunity to sales experts who are desirous of becoming effective leaders in the sale and marketing of hemp-based botanical products.
About Medical Cannabis, Inc.
We are a business of firsts ® Medical Marijuana, Inc. ( MJNA) is a cannabis business with 3 unique organisation units in the non-psychoactive cannabinoid area: a global portfolio of cannabinoid-based nutraceutical brand names led by Kannaway ® and HempMeds ®; a pioneer in sourcing the first-rate legal non-psychoactive marijuana products derived from commercial hemp; and a cannabinoid-based scientific research study and botanical drug development sector led by its pharmaceutical investment firm and partners consisting of AXIM ® Biotechnologies, Inc and Kannalife, Inc Medical Marijuana, Inc. was named a top CBD producer by CNBC Medical Marijuana, Inc. was likewise the first business to receive historical import allows for CBD items from the federal governments of Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Paraguay and is a leader in the advancement of international markets. The business’s flagship item Real Scientific Hemp Oil has actually been used in several effective medical research studies throughout Mexico and Brazil to understand its security and effectiveness.
Medical Marijuana, Inc.’s headquarters remains in San Diego, California, and extra details is offered at OTCMarkets.com or by going to www.medicalmarijuanainc.com To see Medical Cannabis, Inc.’s business video, click on this link
Investors and consumers are also encouraged to buy CBD oil and other items at Medical Marijuana, Inc.’s shop.
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KULR Innovation Group Inc ( OTCQB: KULR) CEO Michael Mo will be an interview visitor on CNN First Move with Julia Chatterley on July 30 at around 9: 20 am ET. The interview may touch upon the business’s current announcements of EV Supercar battery thermal management solution and space-proven battery security style for the energy storage market.
First Mining Gold Corp.( TSE: FF) (OTCQB: FFMGF), a gold designer operating in northwestern Ontario, announced Tuesday that CEO Dan Wilton will present at the upcoming VirtualInvestorConferences.com virtual event at 3: 30 pm ET on Thursday. The live, interactive event will allow institutional financiers, consultants and analysts to ask Wilton concerns in real-time. Pre-registration can be done here
HighGold Mining Inc ( CVE: HIGH) (OTCMKTS: HGGOF) exposed that it has closed its upsized purchased offer offering of 7,976,975 shares at a cost of C$ 1.73 per share to raise earnings of C$13,800,16675, that included the full exercise of the over-allotment choice approved to the underwriters. The mineral explorer focused on state-of-the-art gold jobs in The United States and Canada, said it has released an extra 446,500 shares to a current shareholder following the shareholder’s election to exercise its involvement rights. The participation shares were issued at a price of C$ 1.73 per participation share for gross proceeds of C$772,445 CEO Darwin Green said with the closing of the funding, HighGold has C$23 million in working capital, placing the business in “a strong position to materially advance” its flagship Johnson Tract gold job, in Alaska.
MGX Minerals Inc ( CSE: XMG)( OTCMKTS: MGXMF) has engaged GRA Enterprises LLC in association with the National Inflation Association to advance investor understanding of the just recently re-discovered Heino Gold Deposit in British Columbia. NIA advocates for a return to the gold requirement and offers analysis of the valuable metals market while profiling openly traded gold and silver mining/exploration companies that might be positioned to prosper throughout an inflationary environment.
Valeo Pharma Inc ( CSE: VPH) CEO Steve Saviuk will provide at an approaching virtual conference held by Wall Street Press Reporter on Wednesday July29 Saviuk will provide a summary of the pharmaceutical business’s growing product portfolio, that include four items set up for launch this summer season, and discuss how these launches and the upcoming Redesca approval expected for late summertime will assist the company relocation towards success. The discussion consists of a Q&A duration with participants. To register for the conference click here
Tectonic Metals Inc ( CVE: TECT) (OTCQB: TETOF) revealed Tuesday it is bringing on experienced financier relations skilled William Stormont to lead outreach activities in between the junior explorer and the financial investment community. Stormont’s multidimensional expert experience consists of leading resource advancement in Asia and co-managing a top-performing European equity fund in London. He most recently held the position of investor relations lead at Atlas Corp (NYSE: ATCO), a major global property management company. “From being IR for a multi-billion-dollar company to an equity expert to a co-manager of a billion-dollar equity fund, Expense brings extensive monetary and capital markets experience and deep expert knowledge of how the buy and sell-side believes and operates,” stated Tectonic CEO Tony Reda in a declaration.
Phunware Inc( NASDAQ: PHUN) revealed the release of its new mobile application software application Healthy Areas, aimed at assisting companies track health information and individuals to assemble more securely by using tech-enabled prescreening and safety protocols. The Austin, Texas-based company said that user can then create, handle and sign up with groups throughout their expert and social networks for simple tracking and check-ins.
Lexaria Bioscience Corp ( CSE: LXX) (OTC: LXRP) has won approval from the principles board of a European university research study healthcare facility to carry out an exploratory scientific study of CBD developed with its DehydraTECH drug shipment technology as a treatment for hypertension patients. The company anticipates to have the outcomes of the study by November.
Internet of Things Inc ( CVE: ITT) (OTC: INOTF) has announced that it is considering altering its name to Predictiv AI Inc as well carrying out a share combination which it will propose for approval at the annual and special meeting of its shareholders on August21 The share consolidation would trim the company’s impressive shares at a ratio of up to 5.5:1 pre- to post-consolidation shares.
Zinc8 Energy Solutions Inc (CVE: ZAIR) stated it has actually entered into an engagement with Incite Capital Markets Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to provide investor relations and capital markets advisory services to the company. In a declaration, Zinc8 said Incite will initiate and reinforce relationships with the financial community consisting of investors, investors and other stakeholders for the function of increasing awareness of the business, its technology and its activities.
Empower Clinics Inc ( CSE: CBDT) (OTCMKTS: EPWCF) has actually revealed unaudited interim first-quarter financial outcomes that showed profits grew more than fivefold on the back of record client growth at the business’s Sun Valley Health subsidiary, which owns a network of physician-staffed, health & health centers in Oregon and Arizona. For the duration ended March 31, 2020, the group clocked up income of $789,135 driven by 5,717 client sees, compared to income of $152,846 based on 1,198 client sees in the first quarter of2019 The group chalked up the bump in revenue to the acquisition of Sun Valley and the addition of 5 clinics which drove an increase in client count.
Pure Gold Mining Inc ( CVE: PGM) ( LON: PUR) stated Tuesday that its appealing underground exploration project has actually converged high-grade gold mineralization from step-out drill holes drilled close to existing underground development at its Red Lake mine project in Ontario.
CanaFarma Hemp Products Corp ( CSE: CNFA) has actually struck a joint endeavor contract with self-proclaimed food god and American TV character Jonathan Cheban through his company FeelGoodCBD LLC to market, disperse and sell hemp oil-infused products under the Foodgod brand. In a statement Tuesday, CanaFarma stated its science-based method for creating and developing its products will be partnered with FeelGoodCBD’s unique knowledge of the food market to provide premium items. The companies plan to interact to develop “a line of high-quality hemp oil-infused treat and dessert items.”
mCloud Technologies Corp ( CVE: MCLD) (OTCQB: MCLDF) announced Tuesday that it added an extra 2,675 assets under management during the second quarter 2020 as demand for its AssetCare solution increased from the oil and gas sector. The figure is an 83%increase from the exact same quarter a year prior and brings mCloud’s overall portfolio to 51,347 linked assets. In a declaration, mCloud told shareholders that the increased need was fueled by oil and gas customers needing to remotely run and preserve vital properties at production facilities in the middle of the coronavirus break out.
The business stated Inbar, who has been included in the AR industry for over a years as both a start-up entrepreneur and a venture capital investor through SuperVentures, is uniquely placed to help guide NexTech on its development trajectory and recognize possible acquisition opportunities. In 2009, Inbar was the co-founder and CEO of Ogmento – renamed Flyby Media, and later acquired by Apple Inc (NASDQ: AAPL) – one of the very first venture-backed companies conceived to establish augmented reality video games and tech.
Esports Home Entertainment Group, Inc.( NASDAQ: GMBL), a certified online gambling company with a focus on esports betting and 18 video gaming, said it has actually designated previous equity expert Jeff Cohen as Vice President Strategic Preparation and IR.
Metalla Royalty & Streaming Ltd(NYSEAMERICAN: MTA) ( CVE: MTA) has actually improved its portfolio with the acquisition of a 2.5%royalty on Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd’s (TSE: KL) (NYSE: KL) Fosterville gold mine in Australia.
Mind Medication (MindMed) Inc. ( OTCQB: MMEDF) said it has actually concluded dosing in a Phase 1 Single Ascending Dose (SAD) study of its 18- MC molecule which was well endured in humans and will assist advance planning for a Phase 2a medical trial in opioid dependency. The leading psychedelic pharmaceutical business added, the study has not incurred any hold-ups due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the Several Rising Dose (MAD) study is on track according to the original development timeline.
Under its “best efforts” offering, the Loughborough, UK-based business said it will provide 793,103 shares of its common stock. Each share of typical stock and accompanying half of a warrant is being sold for a combined purchase cost of $7.
Pacific Empire Minerals Corp ( CVE: PEMC) stated the TSX Venture Exchange has accepted for submitting documents with regard to its non-brokered personal positioning, revealed on July 9, 2020, which will see the problem of 4,222,258 flow-through shares and 16 million common shares at purchase costs of 7 cents per flow-through share and 5 cents per typical share, together with 8 million share purchase warrants with an exercise cost of 10 cents for a two-year duration with 56 placees.
Candelaria Mining Corp.( CVE: CAND) (OTC PINK: CDELF) has actually announced the grant of reward stock choices under its stock alternative plan, to directors and officers of the company, to purchase approximately an aggregate of 2,250,000 typical shares at a cost of $0.30 per share ending five years from the date of grant. In addition, the business stated it has given directors and officers of the business 2,060,000 limited share systems at a price of $0.30 per share. All choices and limited share systems vest in 3 equivalent installations over 18 months.
Matinas BioPharma Holdings, Inc. (NYSEAMERICAN: MTNB), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical business, said the company will host a conference call and live audio webcast on Monday, August 10, 2020, at 4.30 pm ET to go over functional and monetary outcomes for the 2nd quarter ended June 30,2020 To participate in the call, investors can dial (877) 407-5976(domestic) or (412) 902-0031(global). The live webcast will be accessible on the Investors section of Matinas’ website, www.matinasbiopharma.com, and will be archived for 90 days.
First Mining Gold Corp.(TSX: FF) ( OTCQX: FFMGF) has actually revealed that its CEO Dan Wilton will present live at VirtualInvestorConferences.com on Thursday, July 30 at 3.30 pm ET through the following link: https://www.tinyurl.com/073020 MiningVIC Learn more about the occasion at www.virtualinvestorconferences.com
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CBD OF DENVER, INC. (CBDD) Provides Additional Info on Q2 Income
DENVER, July 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — CBD of Denver, Inc. (OTC: CBDD), a full-line CBD and Hemp oil company (“CBDD”) selling Black Pearl CBD and hemp products and the owner of CBD Social Network, today is providing additional information on the revenue reported for Rockflowr, GmbH and CBD Welt 24, GmbH.” data-reactid=”12″ type=”text”>
DENVER , July27,2020/ PRNewswire/– CBD of Denver, Inc. (OTC: CBDD), a full-line CBD and Hemp oil business (” CBDD”) offering Black Pearl CBD and hemp products and the owner of CBD Social media network, today is supplying additional information on the income reported for Rockflowr, GmbH and CBD Welt 24, GmbH.” data-reactid=”12″ type=” text”> DENVER, July27,2020/ PRNewswire/– CBD of Denver, Inc.( OTC: CBDD)
Denver, Inc., was reported in CBDD’s 2nd Quarter Disclosure with OTC Markets as of the date each company was acquired and not for their own full quarter. To provide context for the revenue numbers reported in CBDD’s quarterly statement, CBBD is providing the revenue generated by Rockflowr and CBD Welt24 for their full quarters and not just since they were acquired by CBDD in the middle of quarter. ” data-reactid=”25″ type=”text”>, a full-line CBD and Hemp oil business(” CBDD “) selling Black Pearl CBD and hemp products and the owner of CBD Social media, today is providing extra information on the income reported for Rockflowr, GmbH and CBD Welt24, GmbH.
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Denver, Inc., was reported in CBDD’s 2 nd Quarter Disclosure with OTC Markets as of the date each business was acquired and not for their own complete quarter. To supply context for the earnings numbers reported in CBDD’s quarterly declaration, CBBD is offering the earnings generated by Rockflowr and CBD Welt24 for their full quarters and not simply because they were acquired by CBDD in the middle of quarter.” data-reactid=”25″ type=” text”> Income for Rockflowr and CBD Welt24, subsidiaries of CBD of Denver, Inc., was reported in CBDD’s 2 nd Quarter Disclosure with OTC Markets as of the date each business was obtained and not for their own complete quarter. To supply context for the profits numbers reported in CBDD’s quarterly declaration, CBBD is supplying the earnings created by Rockflowr and CBD Welt24 for their full quarters and not just given that they were acquired by CBDD in the middle of quarter.
April 1,2020 through June30,2020 Rockflowr had revenue of 1,710,00 0. 00 CHF or approximately $1,833,12000 USD with net revenues of131,089 CHF or approximately$140,527 USD” data-reactid=”30 “type=” text”> Rockflower: For the duration from April 1,2020 through June30,2020 Rockflowr had income of 1, 710,00 0.00 CHF or approximately$ 1,833, 120.00 USD with net profits of131,089 CHF or approximately$140,527 USD
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NIST to Help Labs Achieve Accurate THC, CBD Measurements
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The difference between marijuana and hemp is a matter of measurement.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a program to help laboratories accurately measure key chemical compounds in marijuana, hemp and other cannabis products including oils, edibles, tinctures and balms. The program aims to increase accuracy in product labeling and help forensic laboratories distinguish between hemp, which is legal in all states, and marijuana, which is not.
As part of the Cannabis Quality Assurance (CannaQAP) program, NIST will send hemp oil samples to participating labs, which will then measure the concentration of various compounds and report back to NIST. Future exercises will involve plant material.
The labels on most cannabis products list the concentration of at least two chemical compounds: tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the psychoactive ingredient that produces a high, and cannabidiol, or CBD, which is not intoxicating but is sought after for its many purported health benefits. However, most laboratories have limited experience making these measurements, which can sometimes be unreliable as a result.
The goal of the program, said NIST research chemist Brent Wilson, is to help labs produce consistent measurement results. “When you walk into a store or dispensary and see a label that says 10% CBD, you want to know that you can trust that number.”
Those numbers are also important as a matter of criminal law. The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, also called the 2018 Farm Bill, legalized any cannabis material with a THC concentration below 0.3%. Below that number, it’s hemp. At or above that number, it’s marijuana, and illegal in many states and by federal law. A farmer’s crop can be destroyed based on that number, and interstate shipments can be seized.
Before the 2018 law, most crime labs determined if something was marijuana by testing only for the presence of THC, not by measuring the concentration. The law now requires concentration measurements, and producing accurate numbers at levels as low as 0.3% can be a particular challenge.
“When you walk into a store or dispensary and see a label that says 10% CBD, you want to know that you can trust that number.” —NIST research chemist Brent Wilson
Here’s how CannaQAP will work. In the first round of exercises, NIST will send hemp oil samples — all with the same, very carefully measured concentrations of THC, CBD and 15 other cannabinoid compounds — to participating labs. Those labs won’t be told the concentrations of those compounds but will measure them and send their results back to NIST, along with information about the methods they used to do the analysis.
After collecting responses, NIST will publish the measurements the labs obtained. That data will be anonymized so that the names of the individual labs are not revealed. However, the results will show how much variability there is between labs. Also, NIST will publish the correct measurements, so each lab will be able to see how accurate its measurements were and how it performed relative to its peers.
“Anonymity means that labs don’t have to worry about how their performance will be viewed,” said NIST research chemist Melissa Phillips. “Our goal is to help labs improve, not to call them out.”
The NIST researchers will also assess whether some laboratory methods consistently produce better results than others. If so, they can recommend that labs adopt the better-performing methods.
Once that first round of exercises is complete and the data is published, which could take from six months to a year, NIST will run a second round of exercises. “We hope to see a tightening of the numbers the second time around,” Wilson said.
NIST is also planning to conduct future exercises with ground hemp and possibly marijuana. Those exercises will involve measuring a larger number of compounds, including terpenes — the chemicals that give different strains of marijuana their distinct aromas — and compounds that people don’t want in their cannabis such as fungal toxins, pesticides and heavy metals. Future exercises may also include extracts, concentrates, distillates and edibles.
NIST is also working on a hemp reference material — that is, a material that comes with known, accurate measurement values. Labs will be able to use that material to validate their measurement methods. One reason these measurements vary so much from lab to lab is that, currently, there are no reference materials for cannabis.
“Labs can accurately measure how much sugar is in your orange juice because they have standardized methods and reference materials for that type of product,” said Susan Audino, a chemistry consultant and science adviser to the Cannabis Analytical Science Program of the AOAC International, a group that establishes standard methods for laboratory analysis. “But cannabis has been a Schedule I drug since the ‘70s,” she said, referring to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s designation for drugs that have the highest potential for abuse.
NIST produces thousands of standard reference materials and has a long history of conducting quality assurance programs for improving measurements. Past programs have helped labs accurately measure compounds in dietary supplements, vitamins in human serum and environmental contaminants in groundwater.
“Our goal is to support U.S. industries by helping labs achieve high-quality measurements,” Phillips said.
Laboratories that are interested in participating in CannaQAP can find more information and can register online. Registration in the first exercise involving hemp oil will be open through Aug. 31, 2020.
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Best CBD Oil for Cats: The Top 3 CBD Brands You Can Trust
Got a cat that is skittish or in need of “cooling out”?
Fortunately, there is a natural and safe way to help our feline pals coap, and the response is CBD. This post assemble and displays the best CBD oil for cats, making it easy to select the best brand name for your feline.
Let’s jump in and find out about CBD’s advantages and how you can assist your feline feel much better today.
Leading 3 CBD Oil for Cats:
- Holistapet — Finest Total & Highest Quality
- Animal Hemp Company— Finest Worth
- Nuleaf Naturals— A Lot Of Powerful & Budget Friendly
How We Created This List of CBD Oil for Cats?
This list was developed based on the following requirements:
Individual Thought
Would we feel comfortable giving this to our own felines?
Customer Review
Building off our last statement, we didn’t consist of a product if we couldn’t see ourselves giving it to our cats. The very same opts for other animal owners: we ensured evaluations benefited each item before including it.
Quality of Solution
The hemp plant is a naturally occurring present of Nature. It should be kept that way when sold to you. We just included solutions that were organic and natural in their technique to production. Effectiveness matters, too: every formula included here has a link where you can see third-party test results dealing with effectiveness.
Value for Cash
The oils we feature here are certainly excellent quality and some might seem a bit costly. With these oils costing practically $25-$40 for a small bottle, we know you demand the best. That being stated, the pricing is really quite budget-friendly when broken down: For instance, it costs simply 17 cents per mg of premium CBD for HolistaPet, the best deal of all three brands included here.
And now, let’s dive right into the main attraction– the best CBD oil for felines, all in one helpful list.
Finest CBD Oil for Felines
1. HolistaPet— Finest Overall & Highest Quality
Holistapet’s CBD oil is fantastic because it can be used on felines, canines and other animals. Perfect for those who have 2 or more animals! It is crafted with pure CO2 drawn out Complete Spectrum CBD oil, in addition to hemp seed oil. The end outcome is a potent and effective concentration, which is quickly applied and gets you quick results.
The tincture can be dropped into the mouth of the pet.
What Other Pet Owners Said?
Here are two evaluations from other cat owners who tried Holistapet’s CBD oil for cats
” This oil is making my cat’s life much better.- Dina W.
” This is among my preferred items for my cat. The pills are excellent too, but they are much easier putting it into her food than bursting the pills each time.”- Janet Gleeson
The Benefits
The hemp seed oil in the mix promotes a healthy coat and skin. The body immune system is also increased with this supplement.
Another terrific benefit is the method which HolistaPet uses varying sizes.
Offered Dosages and What Size Your Pet Requirements
- Family Pets under 20 LBs- 150 mg
- Animals 20 to 60 lbs- 300 mg
- Animals 60 to 100 lbs- 600 mg
- Pets 100 to 160 lbs- 1200 mg
- Family Pets 160 pound and up– 3000 mg
Holistapet=Complete Spectrum CBD
What does Full Spectrum CBD imply?
Full-spectrum CBD oil is a term that describes the pure hemp oil that contains all the recognized cannabinoids. Having all cannabinoids is essential because they work together, creating a synergistic impact as the cannabinoids engage with the body’s CB1 and CB2 receptors. Basically, you get powerful well-rounded impacts.
Full-spectrum CBD oil has more elements, which are better than artificial or isolated cannabinoids.
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The bottom line? Holistapet is the real offer- they’ve taken excellent care to craft a quality CBD oil that actually works.
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2. Pet Hemp Business— Best Value
If you look for a good worth on CBD oil that is full-spectrum and great for felines, dogs, bunnies, and horses, this is the one you should have a look at. It is an all-natural CBD cast that can be administered to your pet based upon their weight.
It is available in dropper type, making it a cinch to use. It’s easy to apply, and your cat will like it: all you have to do is drop it into their mouth or apply it to your feline’s food. The formula is quick-acting and will start to take in immediately.
What Other Family Pet Owners Said?
Here are 2 reviews from other cat owners pleased with their purchase:
” I’ll state it once again- CBD Oil Tinctures [sic] for Dogs and Cats is an outstanding item- it works!”- Victoria M
” This business goes above and beyond to make sure you are pleased. I slip this in her wet food …”– Cassie M
The Benefits
Pet Hemp Company provides full-spectrum CBD oil that can be shipped to you no matter where you live in the United States. The formula is organic and totally natural.
CBD oil for felines is fantastic because it works with your feline’s endocannabinoid system to promote health, regulate physical functions, and maintain homeostasis. The endocannabinoid system is important in stabilizing signs of nausea, discomfort, seizures, anxiety, skin allergic reactions, and lots of other ailments.
What’s in It?
Inside this formula, you will find hemp seed oil for a healthy coat and skin, plus that body immune system boost. All ingredients are GMO-free, organic, and vegan. THC has likewise been removed, so your family pet will not experience a “high.”
The CBD oil is also without preservatives or ingredients and is made right in the USA.
Sizing Based on Your Family Pet
The quantity of CBD your pet requires is based upon their size, as we mentioned in our last evaluation. Most felines will require the smallest size offered, but even if you have a bigger feline, bigger bottles are offered for purchase.
Family pet Hemp Co. uses the following sizes for your pet:
- Family Pets under 20 LBs- 150 mg
- Pets 20 to 60 lbs- 300 mg
- Animals 60 to 100 lbs- 600 mg
- Pets 100 to 160 lbs- 1200 mg
- Family Pets 160 lb and up– 3000 mg
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3. NuLeaf Naturals— Potent & Affordable
Nuleaf provides a versatile formula great for family pets, including your feline.
You can just drip some onto your animal’s food or right into their mouth using the simple dropper.
The evaluations agree with, and animal owners all over are saying good ideas about this cast.
What Other Pet Owners Said?
“ Delivery was received ahead of schedule throughout the pandemic. Thank you !!”– Catherine W
“ This appears to be helping my cat a good deal.”- Elizabeth G
The Advantages
It is a preservative-free, no additive formula that uses CO2 to draw out the CBD oil.
The CBD oil by NuLeaf is a whole-plant extract and consists of a wide variety of natural, synergistic cannabinoids.
CBD oil, in general, has actually been evaluated on animals and humans and is used in numerous applications thanks to its healing properties. It should be noted that the FDA has not formally ruled on CBD, but it is not found to be damaging to human beings or animals. Typically it is well tolerated by family pets and humans.
Sizing Based on Your Animal
The sizing for this brand name is a bit various than the rest. Here’s the suggested dose for your cat’s weight:
Approximately 25 lb- 2 drops
25-50 pound- 4 drops
50- 75 6 drops
Over 75 lb- 8 drops
The size of NuLeaf’s bottles are as follows:
5 mL-240 mg CBD
15 mL- 725 mg CBD
30 mL- 1450 mg CBD
For a common cat, a little size bottle will work, but getting a larger bottle is OKAY too- you will be equipped and prepared.
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Benefits of CBD Oil for Cats
Enhances Cattitude
Okay, maybe that was a bad pun, but the mindset of your feline might enhance with CBD. A cat that’s in a tiff might be struggling with low energy, absence of balance in their hormones, or something else that’s making them nervous.
CBD might relieve your feline’s mood by relieving concerns and stress. Remember, CBD promotes homeostasis in the body. It does this by dealing with the brain receptors that are accountable for hormone production and mood.
Assists Your Feline’s Hunger
Ever had a cat that wasn’t eating? For an owner, this can signify a problem. Decreased cravings can imply state of mind issues, oral issues, or other health issues that require attending to.
Much like us humans, when feline’s absence appetite, it most likely implies they’re not feeling well.
CBD communicates with cannabinoid receptors situated in the stomach and digestive system. Consuming some may permit the stomach to unwind by easing stress.
Promotes Movement
As cats age, many end up being susceptible to stiff joints which usually reduces movement.
CBD will not treat arthritis since sadly there is no treatment. However, CBD might relieve your cat’s comfort level which might promote movement and agility.
Is CBD Oil Safe for Cats?
The quick answer to the concern is, yes, CBD oil is well endured by felines. Numerous cat parents include it to their feline’s everyday regimen. By and large, cats must not have problems when they take in CBD oil.
Nevertheless, some cat owners have actually reported their family pets establishing an indigestion or becoming very sleepy after taking in large dosages of CBD oil.
As an outcome, it’s important to check with your vet before providing any supplements to your feline and ensure you follow the advised dose according to your cat’s weight.
Word of Caution
CBD mostly gets excellent evaluations from owners of pets and cats alike. However, there are no regulations embeded in location right now for CBD.
Sadly, this leaves animal parents that aren’t “in the know” susceptible to purchasing poor quality, improperly made, and possibly harmful items. Studies have actually revealed that some items have almost NO CBD in their product.
Meanwhile, others have been shown to include more than what is written on the label. Some CBD items can even consist of impurities hazardous to your animal.
Remaining Safe When Purchasing
When shopping around for CBD oil, there are a few things you can do to ensure you’re purchasing a quality product.
Initially, talk to a vet. You can consult your own veterinarian or perhaps a holistic veterinarian for assistance about CBD Second, do not use products that aren’t planned for felines. Use just products that are designed for family pets and include simply CBD oil and perhaps a provider like MCT or hempseed oil.
CBD Oil Dosage for Cats
Providing the Appropriate Dosage
Appropriate does can be made based upon the weight of your cat and intensity level. Make sure to provide the right amount. The suggested serving may seem small, however it will be enough for your feline, CBD is concentrated.
Following a proper dose chart is important for your feline. Offering too much boosts the capacity of adverse effects taking place. Some animal moms and dads reported their feline becoming quite sleepy or having an indigestion, for instance.
For best results, stick to one to 2 doses daily for your cat, or whatever your veterinarian suggests.
Watch That Strength
High potency items can be beneficial. If you have a feline that is stubborn or is bold when it concerns taking CBD, you may want to utilize this since it is much easier to administer a smaller sized serving than a bigger one.
Empty Stomachs: Are They OK?
Lots of pet owners wonder if they can provide their cat CBD oil on an empty stomach.
Some felines will merely not let you get close to them to put the dropper in their mouths, so in that case, it will have to be applied to your cat’s food or treat.
Develop to the Dose
Some felines have delicate stomachs.
How to Administer CBD Oil to Your Cat?
Do you have one of those cats who simply doesn’t truly like to be retouched close and individual? Do they tend to get a little skittish when you put your hands near their face? Are they very detectives that can tell if something’s off about their food? If so, fear not.
There are a couple of different methods you can administer CBD oil to your feline, and in this section, we will go over 4 various ways.
Technique 1: Contribute To Food
You can spray the dosage from the dropper right into your feline’s food, wet or dry. If you would like to make certain your animal consumes it all, place some on a food bowl or disposable paper plate and enclose them in a room alone for a couple of minutes, check on them often to ensure they consume it. Wet food works well, when it comes to some felines, it is a reward compared to the staple dry foods.
Technique 2: Fish Oil
A little CBD oil blended in with some tuna juice is a yummy and sure way to get your feline to take his/her CBD dosage with minimal hassle. Keep in mind this should be given in small amounts, and the tuna juice you serve need to be from a can that is crammed in water and contains no synthetic tastes or active ingredients.
Approach 3: Contribute To Empty Bowl
Your feline’s food bowl contains lots of scents that remind your family pet of mealtime and sensation great.
Approach 4: Dropper
Hold the dropper with your dominant hand- ensure it has plenty of the CBD. Permit the feline to lick the dropper’s idea, as you depress the squeezable part gradually. It is best to serve it at room temperature.
Conclusion
No matter what your feline is going through, chances are CBD can assist bring them some relief. Get some CBD today and help your feline feel his or her best once again. The terrific aspect of CBD is how versatile it is. Any of these fantastic formulas will be valuable to your family pet, although HolistaPet is the # 1 overall pick. Include the truth that it is easy to administer, and you have a simple method to assist your cat naturally.
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Treatibles Makes Ground Breaking Debut in Japan
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 16, 2020/ PRNewswire/– Treatibles, the pioneer in practical hemp items for family pets, is continuing its trail blazing tradition, ending up being the very first line of Organic Full Spectrum Hemp Oil with naturally taking place CBD items for family pets available in Japan that have gone through research study and medical trials.
Treatibles is presently offered online in Japan with plans to expand to more than 1,000 stores in the near future.
” Treatibles is the only hemp-derived CBD item for animals currently available in Japan, in which medical trials and research with pets were performed in cooperation with universities and veterinarians prior to the product launch,” stated Julianna Carella, Founder and CEO of Treatibles.
Treatibles was hand-selected by Takakura New Industries, Inc., a leader in establishing and marketing natural family pet items in Japan
” Getting the Treatibles items authorized for distribution in Japan indicated finding fantastic partners that could dedicate the required resources to this effort. We are thrilled to be working with such a respected distributor as Takakura New Industries,” used Carella.
” In order to think about and study CBD for pets in Japan, we investigated a variety of manufacturers in the United States where the CBD distribution is known to be exceptionally active,” provided Kozi Kubota of Takakura.
” We picked to work with Treatibles for numerous reasons including their credibility, item quality, variety of products, taste, confirmed advantages, and more. Takakura New Industries Inc is eagerly anticipating working together with Treatibles to improve the well-being of small animals in Japan“
Medical trials were performed by The Society of Animal CBD Research, led by Dr. Chie Mogi(Veterinary Medicine), Partner Professor, Faculty of Animal Nursing at Yamazaki University of Animal Nursing.
The Society was developed in November 2019 for vets and researchers to promote CBD research with small animals in Japan Case research studies continue to be carried out in cooperation with researchers of cannabinoids and vets who are particularly thinking about this field.
About Takakura New Industries Inc.
Takakura New Industries Inc. has actually been developing and marketing various family pet care products in Japan for more than 25 years and is a leader in the natural pet market. The basis of their philosophy is that safe and quality items should be offered for animals, as they belong to family. Takakura New Industries Inc. has actually won the successful natural pet care items in Japan for the past 25 years.
About Treatibles
Developed in 2013, Treatibles blazed the path as the leader in developing Full Spectrum Hemp Oil with naturally occurring CBD products, basically creating an entire brand-new classification in the animal market. The business was founded on the values of caring care, quality active ingredients, reliable details and stability. These principles continue to guide the corporate culture.
With an objective is to promote Consistency for the whole family ® through the happiness and health of each animal, Treatibles products are Compassion Qualified ® and proudly made in the U.S.A.
Treatibles are safe and non-toxic with particular solutions for canines, felines and horses (and numerous for all species). The company third party lab evaluates its proprietary Complete Spectrum Hemp Oil for cannabinoid content and to eliminate pesticides, heavy metals and biocontaminants. Additionally, final products are evaluated to ensure consistency and effectiveness. Lab results are readily available on Treatibles.com.
The company is also committed to the happiness and health of family pets searching for their forever houses. Treatibles actively works with rescues and shelters throughout the United States to assist bring calm, balance and ease to pet dogs and felines in their care.
For more details, please see: https://www.treatibles.com/ or visit our Japanese site: Treatibles.jp
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ASX cannabis shares get used to coronavirus environment
Cannabis shares were thought about a trend for a while. Now, they’ve shown they’re here to remain. As the Australian medical cannabis industry grows, ASX cannabis companies are improving their methods. While some are concentrated on growing and production, others are associated with the manufacturing and distribution parts of the worth chain.
ASX marijuana share prices have seen combined comebacks from the March downturn. Some have actually struggled in the current environment, while others have adjusted in the face of coronavirus difficulties. We take a look at how ASX marijuana shares are facing the coronavirus difficulty.
Althea Group Holdings Ltd ( ASX: AGH)
The Althea share cost has actually restored 125%from its March low. The medicinal cannabis distributor responded to the coronavirus pandemic by launching online sales of medicinal marijuana Clients can have items delivered direct to their door via Althea’s app, which has been signed up as a medical device.
Althea completed FY20 with a record month and quarter. Unaudited earnings for the quarter was $1.59 million, a new record and 5%up on the March quarter, regardless of COVID-19 disturbances. June sales rebounded highly for a record revenue month following a COVID-19 impacted April and May. Unaudited income for FY20 totalled $4.97 million, a 547%increase on FY19
At the end of June, Althea had 7,295 Australian clients and was accomplishing strong month-on-month growth in the UK.
Cann Group Ltd ( ASX: CAN)
The Cann Group share cost fell 18.4%yesterday. Cann Group announced a capital raising last week to fund working capital. Shares were issued under a $143 million institutional positioning at 40 cents a share, which represented a 51.2%discount to the previous closing rate.
The company required funds for working capital while it pursues near-term growth opportunities, consisting of the expansion of its Mildura facility, which remains a key component of its development method. COVID-19 has actually slowed development of potential financing choices and useful timing of building involving offshore professionals. Cann Group’s existing facilities offer 1,200 kilos in capacity.
The business has a production agreement with IDT Australia Ltd( ASX: IDT) to make resins, oils, and finished items. Cann Group also has existing supply contracts in location with Iuvo Therapeutics, Astral Health, Entoura, Zalm Therapies, and Aurora.
Cann Group reports that Australian market momentum continues to be favorable. The company is well positioned to attend to growing need due to its production of bio-pharmaceutical grade items. New worldwide markets are likewise opening, with efforts including client compensation in Germany and pilot programs on France and Poland.
Auscann Group Holdings Ltd ( ASX: AC8)
The Auscann share cost is presently on par with its March low of 14 cents.
Auscann’s capsules are presently going through a stage 1 study to take a look at the pharmacokinetics of dosages in volunteers. Dosing of the very first subjects was completed in April. The study is developed to provide info that will inform dose choice and assist medical professionals in prescribing the difficult shell pills. The study is expected to be completed this calendar year.
Auscann’s difficult shell pills were made commercially available for prescription in the March quarter.
The business completed the March quarter with $247 million in money and no debt. This was below $261 million at 31 December 2019, nevertheless the strong capital position supports the continued development of Auscann’s development method. This strategy is centred on product development, medical assessment and market gain access to. In its quarterly results statement, Auscann CEO Ido Kanyon said, “item standardisation backed by medical proof and medical education will drive growth, medical approval, and following demand for our pills.”
Ecofibre Ltd ( ASX: EOF)
The Ecofibre share rate has recuperated strongly from its March low of $1.
Ecofibre manufactures hemp and CBD products which are offered in the United States and Australia.
Ecofibre recently announced that FY20 net earnings are anticipated to be around $125 million, double that of FY19 Full year revenue is expected to be in excess of $50 million. Ecofibre changed focus as an outcome of coronavirus, with the Hemp Black business using demand for PPE. The brand name introduced a face mask and offered around 135,000 of these in May and June. This included $2.4 million to income in FY20 Manufacturing capacity will double this quarter from its current rate of 65,000 per month to 130,000 masks, and distribution to Australia has started.
The Ananda Food organisation also continues to experience consistent growth. Its newly created protein powder will be utilized by The Alternative Meat Co in a new range of products.
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UPDATE: ECOFIBRE LIMITED – Ananda Health products used in first clinical trial on hemp-derived CBD to treat chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy
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Georgetown, Kentucky, July 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ecofibre Limited (Ecofibre, Company) (ASX:EOF, OTC-NASDAQ Intl Designation: EOFBF) is pleased to announce that the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (LIMR), Wynnewood, Pa., has begun patient enrollment in a phase II clinical trial using Ananda Health hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD).
The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of a hemp-based CBD product, Ananda Health Spectrum gelcaps, on the severity and duration of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) among breast, colon, and ovarian cancer patients who received common types of neurotoxic chemotherapy.
Ecofibre and Ananda demonstrate their commitment to advancing the science of CBD with the launch of the Coala-T-CBD study™ (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04398446). The phase II clinical trial began enrolling patients at LIMR in June.
CIPN is a debilitating condition that is often chronic, compromising patients’ quality of life and limiting their ability to complete a full course of potentially life-saving treatments. Currently, there are no safe and effective medications to treat or prevent CIPN, but research in animals treated with CBD offers hope.
The Coala-T-CBD StudyTM is the first clinical trial positioned to translate this success to humans and is led by oncologist Marisa Weiss, MD, the founder and chief medical officer of www.Breastcancer.org and Director of Breast Radiation Oncology and Breast Health Outreach at Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, Pa
“We are proud to be the first in the United States to study the impact of hemp-derived full spectrum CBD on CIPN, a condition that affects approximately 25% to 50% of pediatric and adult cancer patients undergoing neurotoxic chemotherapy,” Weiss states.
Among other milestones, the Coala-T-CBD StudyTM received an IND (investigational new drug) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and will use Ananda softgels in the study protocol. “To our knowledge, this is the first phase II clinical trial using full-spectrum hemp extract for the treatment of CIPN to receive an FDA IND. This level of research is necessary to answer the global call from the medical community, patients, and regulatory bodies seeking effective treatment of this difficult, common chemotherapy side effect,” says Weiss.
The IND allows for Weiss’ team to conduct the highest-quality research using a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial.
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The FDA has publicly requested data on hemp-derived CBD regarding tolerability, drug interactions, toxicity, and dosing. Ecofibre responded early by investing an additional USD $1.8 million in research across several studies.
10.1080/00325481.2019.1685298) regarding the effects of low-dose CBD in chronic pain patients. The results demonstrated that low-dose CBD was well tolerated and improved pain, sleep, mood, and opioid use. ” data-reactid=”39″ type=”text”>In 2019, the company published a peer-reviewed study (DOI: 10.1080/00325481.2019.1685298) regarding the effects of low-dose CBD in chronic pain patients. The results demonstrated that low-dose CBD was well tolerated and improved pain, sleep, mood, and opioid use.
The Coala-T-CBD StudyTM contributes to Ecofibre’s growing clinical research portfolio examining CBD use across age groups, populations, disease states, and doses. Importantly, the Coala-T-CBD StudyTM will offer critical insights on the use of higher-dose CBD.
Ecofibre’s second phase II clinical trial (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04436081) will evaluate moderate-dose CBD on agitation, sleep, and mood in dementia patients. The moderate-dose study is currently pursuing its own FDA IND and expects patient enrollment in August in with a group of neurology and gerontology specialists in Virginia.
The Coala-T-CBD StudyTM includes comprehensive physician and laboratory analyses to determine the safety of moderate- and high-dose CBD.
In addition to its clinical trials in the U.S., Ecofibre will support research on low-dose full-spectrum CBD later this year in Australia.
Alex Capano, Ecofibre’s Chief Science Officer, states, “These studies will provide solutions for patients and contribute valuable data on the safety and efficacy of hemp CBD products. We understand the critical need for more sophisticated, rigorous research and are dedicated to closing those gaps.”
Ecofibre CEO Eric Wang adds, “A core foundation for Ananda Health has been to support quality research for patient and practitioner education. Whilst the recent pandemic has created market uncertainty, the Company remains highly committed to its long-term investment to support our customers, and the FDA in creating the knowledge base to inform better decisions for our industry.
“We are pleased to work with such a high-quality group of researchers and physicians at LIMR,” Wang continues “The Coala-T-CBD StudyTM will provide ongoing updates, and we anticipate completion in 2022.”
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In the United States, the Company produces nutraceutical products for human and pet consumption, as well as topical creams and salves. See www.anandahemp.com and www.anandaprofessional.com.
In Australia, the Company produces 100% Australian-grown and -processed hemp food products including protein powders, de-hulled hemp seed, and hemp oil. See www.anandafood.com.
The Company is also developing innovative hemp-based products in textiles and composite materials in partnership with TexInnovate in the United States. See www.hempblack.com.
The Company owns or controls key parts of the value chain in each business, from breeding, growing, and production to sales and marketing. Our value proposition to customers is built on strong brands and quality products.
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MMJ International Follows FDA Guidance in Marijuana Medication Advancement As FDA Recalls Dozens of CBD Products For Lead Contamination
MMJ International Holdings achieving multiple milestones in the development of its marijuana THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), CBD (cannabidiol) pharmaceutical continues to follow the FDA guidance in the development of its gel cap medicine.” data-reactid=”12″ type=”text”>
MMJ International Holdings achieving several milestones in the advancement of its marijuana THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), CBD (cannabidiol) pharmaceutical continues to follow the FDA assistance in the development of its gel cap medicine.” data-reactid=”12″ type=” text”> ST. PETERSBURG, FL/ ACCESSWIRE/ July22,2020/ MMJ International Holdings accomplishing several turning points in the advancement of its marijuana THC( tetrahydrocannabinol), CBD (cannabidiol) pharmaceutical continues to follow the FDA assistance in the development of its gel cap medicine.
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Most just recently MMJ International Holdings had actually gotten a DEA license to import its marijuana exclusive extracts into the United States for usage as possible treatments in Huntington’s Disease and Several Sclerosis.
2 of MMJ’s lead therapeutic prospects, MMJ-001 and MMJ-002, are liquid solutions including highly cleansed THC, CBD and other active components. MMJ- 001 is being established to treat spasticity( abnormal muscle tightness) in people with numerous sclerosis. MMJ-002 is being established to deal with Huntington’s- associated chorea( uncontrolled jerking or wriggling motions). The U.S. Fda( FDA) granted MMJ-002 orphan drug designation in early2019, to advance the treatment’s development.
separate itself from the pack as the Food and Drug Administration( FDA) is advertising a voluntary recall of lots of human CBD products after the Florida Department of Health informed a business of lead contamination. “data-reactid=”31″ type=” text”> MMJ International Holdings continues to different itself from the pack as the Food and Drug Administration( FDA) is publicizing a voluntary recall of lots of human CBD products after the Florida Department of Health alerted a company of lead contamination.
The FDA motivated consumers to deal with the items, monitor their health and contact a doctor or veterinarian if adverse symptoms are experienced.
” Direct exposure to lead might present physical symptoms and signs consisting of, pain, paresthesia/muscle weakness, stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, poor hunger, weight reduction, symptoms related to encephalitis, metal taste in the mouth, shock, hemolysis or kidney damage,” FDA stated in a notice released recently.
Multiple brand names of family pet hemp oil items recalled for lead contamination. Certain lots of Yummy Drops, Purfurred, Made by Hemp, Herbal Renewals, Barkley Bistro, A Clean Choice, BC Hemp, Increase IV Hydration, Acadia Farms. Stop using these lots right away.
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The FDA currently does not enable CBD to be marketed as a medication, food item or dietary supplement without its approval.
On Tuesday, FDA published draft guidance on marijuana and CBD research study the just recently cleared a White House Office of Management and Spending plan evaluation which MMJ International Holdings has been following in its advancement process of it medicine.
sent a warning letter to a CBD company owned by a former NFL player after advertisements it displayed suggested its products could treat and prevent a coronavirus infection.” data-reactid=”38″ type=”text”>
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caused a voluntary recall in Might .” data-reactid=”39 “type=”text”> FDA sent out a letter alerting to another business about its marketing of injectable CBD products that resulted in a voluntary recall in May
advertised another voluntary recall of another CBD product from a different business, notifying customers about potentially high levels of lead in a batch of tinctures.” data-reactid=”40 “type=” text “> The agency also publicized another voluntary recall of another CBD item from a various business, notifying customers about potentially high levels of lead in a batch of tinctures.
provided cautions to other CBD business that have made unsubstantiated claims about the therapeutic capacity of their items.” data-reactid=”41″ type=” text”> FDA has formerly issued warnings to other CBD business that have actually made unverified claims about the restorative capacity of their items.
Duane Boise, CEO of MMJ commented that “Our knowledgeable team has worked within the FDA guidelines to achieve a substantial approval from the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Study. MMJ now can continue to develop our oral gel cap medication stemmed from the marijuana whole plant natural extracts for our clinical trials in the United States.”
Dr. Elio Mariani, the companies Executive VP in charge of drug advancement stated, “We strongly think that our MMJ oral gel cap medication, consisting of unique marijuana plant pharmacological residential or commercial properties, will be FDA authorized as a safe and efficient drug,”
Tim Moynahan, MMJ International Holdings Chairman stated “Due to the fact that marijuana is a federally controlled substance in the U.S., there are numerous legal difficulties that we have actually cleared in order to continue with our set up scientific trials. Our skilled group has actually worked within the federal guidelines to achieve these considerable milestones.”
Furthermore, these MMJ significant accomplishments required the cooperation of lots of federal government companies including the Fda (FDA), Drug Enforcement Company (DEA), U.S. Customs and Border Defense (CBP), Health Canada and now the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Study (CDER) in facilitating our business objective.
MMJ International Holdings also recently worked out a contract with MMJ BioPharma Cultivation, which will be supplying pharmaceutical grade extracts for the companies drug development. MMJ Bio Pharma Growing has actually applied for the much sought after DEA federal cannabis growers license and is working with a concealed Native American People to grow marijuana plants for this function.
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Covid Update: Treatments and Perspective | Salty Talk 016 | THRR
This week’s Salty Talk takes a 30K foot level view of COVID. I spend far more time asking questions than providing any answers.
Why, although the promise of a vaccine is intriguing, is the messaging singularly focused on this solution?
Why is it so hard to find information on treatments other than a vaccine?
Why is there STILL zero messaging from “high up” about the need for metabolic health?
How can there be so many irregularities in counting cases?
Welcome to Salty Talk. This is a special edition of Healthy Rebellion Radio. Each week on Salty Talk Robb will do a deep dive into current health and performance news, mixed with an occasional Salty conversation with movers and shakers in the world of research, performance, health, and longevity.
For the full the video presentation of this episode and to be a part of the conversation, join us in The Healthy Rebellion online community.
WARNING: These episodes may get “salty” with the occasional expletive.
SHOW NOTES:
“Immunity passports” in the context of COVID-19
The Risks of Rushing a COVID-19 Vaccine
Just 50% of Americans plan to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Here’s how to win over the rest
Officials Say C.D.C. Errors Caused Testing Delays
Are The Test Numbers Right? Georgia, Florida And The Deadly Trend Of Science Suppression
The most important lesson of the 1918 influenza pandemic: Tell the damn truth
Diabetes – Diagnosis and Treatment
Mounting clues suggest the coronavirus might trigger diabetes
Study finds fenofibrate may downgrade Covid-19 to common cold level
Quercetin and Vitamin C: An Experimental, Synergistic Therapy for the Prevention and Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 Related Disease (COVID-19)
Famotidine, Histamine, and the Coronavirus
COVID-19 – how a pandemic reveals that everything is connected to everything else
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Nicki: Welcome to the HealthY Rebellion Radio. This is an episode of Salty Talk, a deep dive into popular and relevant coping performance news pieces mixed with the occasional salty conversation with movers and shakers in the world of research, performance, health and longevity. Healthy Rebellion Radio, Salty Talk episodes are brought to you by DrinkLMNT, the only electrolyte drink mix that’s salty enough to make a difference in how you look, feel and perform.
Nicki: We co-founded this company to fill a void in the hydration space. We needed an electrolyte drink that actually met the sodium needs of active people, low carb, keto and carnivore adherence without any of the sugar colors and fillers found in popular commercial products. Health rebels, this is Salty Talk. Now the thing our attorney advises, the contents of this show are for entertainment and educational purposes only. Nothing in this podcast should be considered medical advice.
Nicki: Please consult your licensed and credentialed functional medicine practitioner before embarking on any health, dietary or fitness change. Given that this Salty Talk, you should expect the occasional expletive. Rolling.
Robb: What’s going on, wife?
Nicki: Good morning, hubs.
Robb: Good morning. You look even more lovely than the last time I saw you, which was probably rounding the, what, northwest corner of the island in the kitchen.
Nicki: Isn’t that big that we have a northwest corner?
Robb: No, this is how limited our life is that we have to start considering-
Nicki: Cornets.
Robb: It’s like the Petersons, Jordan and Michaela, when you’re down to meat, salt and water than cold versus hot water, bubbly versus flat water. That shit matters.
Nicki: I think there was an early meme during this whole COVID thing, which was it was a picture of a floor plan of a home. It said, “What I’m doing this weekend, wine tasting.” It had-
Robb: The wine tour.
Nicki: … the wine tour. It was like master bedroom-
Robb: It’s like room closet.
Nicki: … kitchen, laundry room. It was funny when you look at it. I’m not doing it justice.
Robb: Do you ever do it justice, babe?
Nicki: It depends.
Robb: That’s true.
Nicki: Let’s see. What else do we have to share? Any updates? Thank you all again for all your support with Sacred Cow.
Robb: Sacred Cow is out in the wild. Just so that folks know, I know a lot of people just went above and beyond doing amazing things to support the launch. We thank you so much. It’s been a little bit of a cluster on the shipping and fulfillment side. We’re still trying to unpack all this, but we had to really beg, borrow, steal, convince our publisher that we needed more books just in general, and then there’s been this knock on effect of trying to convince Amazon that we needed more.
Nicki: Well, and to be fair, I think with a lot of this Coronavirus stuff, the receiving is in chaos-
Robb: Is in chaos.
Nicki: … at Amazon. Then they’re prioritizing essential things so…
Robb: The long and short of that is that they ran out… Tuesday was the launch day, 11: 30 PM on Monday, they ran out.
Nicki: When they ran out. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that there are some crazy way that will make it over the line and hit the New York Times list. We won’t find out about that until, I think, it’s like a week after launch, so another week or so.
Robb: The backstory with that, even if you’re buying a book right now, that’s great. We thank you, but the goal was you have to make the sales, but then Amazon will only report it as a sale when the book ships, and so it’s possible. Unlikely but possible that we’ll sneak into the list this first week, and then possibly all these deferred sales might help booing us to figure this out here.
Nicki: I think when the film comes out that there’ll be another uptake with that-
Robb: Another surge on that.
Nicki: … with the book stuff too.
Robb: You guys could start pestering Joe Rogan to get us on there. I pinged him a timer too. I think he might be in the process of moving or something, so I might be super low priority right now but…
Nicki: Thanks you all for that.
Robb: Yes, huge thank you.
Nicki: Our strength reset is underway inside the healthy rebellion with the folks from Basis.
Robb: Folks are loving that. It’s-
Nicki: It’s Sara, Grayson, and Nate from Basis Health and Performance out of Chico, California are leading us all through that. It’s really great. People are thrilled with how their body feels. They’re coupling a lot of these Kinstretch PAILs and RAILs concepts with your standard powerlifting movements like squat, deadlift, bench, also doing a pull up, working towards a pull up for those who don’t have it and training the pull up in particular with accessory movements and all these things so that it really helps solidify and improve your position in these movements, which helps minimize injury and damage tissues and all that kind of stuff.
Nicki: It’s been good.
Robb: Folks have been raving about it. Big shout out to the Basis folks and much gratitude to them for what they’re providing us.
Nicki: Let’s see. What do you have? You’re doing a little bit of a COVID unpacking today. I just wanted to… Before you jump in and give an overview, it’s funny, somebody in the Healthy Rebellion posted… Actually, I think it was Christie posted, it’s appalling but very fitting to our times, an image or an advertisement showing that… This was in Louisiana, I believe, but I think it’s happening all over the country. That if you go get tested for Coronavirus, you can get a free coupon for a Big Mac, Burger King-
Robb: Burger King.
Nicki: … McDonald’s, whoever the fast food chain sponsor of the week is. It’s just, I don’t know… We were all having a good chuckle and face palm together inside the Healthy Rebellion because we all know how important metabolic health is for this, and it’s just ironic that their it’s being paired with a test.
Robb: The apologist’s turds in the evidence-based nutrition scene will be like, “Well, one meal isn’t going to matter.” It’s like, “No, one meal wouldn’t matter, but if people were otherwise eating reasonably 20 meals of their 21 meals a week, and they had one like this, it’s not a big deal, but that’s not what’s fucking happening. We’re many months into this whole process. In the very beginning days of this aperture closing on the COVID topic, it was pretty clear the information coming out of China that metabolic health was really important.
Robb: That story has not changed at all. It’s only become more reaffirmed. People who are metabolically healthy, the likelihood of death rounds to zero basically. People will say, “Well, what about this person? What about that person?” Well, guess what, 12% of the U.S. population is considered to be metabolically healthy. There’s a bunch of people-
Nicki: Even when it’s showing that younger people in their 20s and 30s are getting COVID, and most people in their 20s and 30s are not healthy.
Robb: Not healthy.
Nicki: Chronologically, they’re young, but physiologically, they’re in pretty bad shape on the whole, unfortunately, in our country.
Robb: It’s just one of these things where, again, the incentives are super fucked up. There’s not a single word being said about improving metabolic health from the powers that be, so this really is a bootstrap deal. I wouldn’t be surprised if saying in this whole like, “Anything that goes against the CDC will be circumvented by Twitter or Facebook, whatever.”
Nicki: Removed by YouTube and…
Robb: Basically saying, “Hey, reducing your metabolic disease risk will likely improve COVID outcomes.” That is probably a controversial topic at this point, but some people have mentioned, they’re like, “Hey, man, you haven’t said a whole lot on COVID. We were covering this pretty reasonably closely in the early stages, and the main things that I felt were important to focus on were…” I mentioned this in the talk itself, so I don’t want to do two talks here of essentially the same material, but we really tried to cover what is our current situation so that we understand what type of pickle are we really in?
Robb: Then what can we do about it? Super quickly, again, it became crystal clear that you want to be as metabolically healthy as possible. Pick vegan. Pick low carb. Pick whatever fucking path through the forest you want to do, but just stay the fuck out of the snack aisle of the supermarket. Done. That’s going to help. The other piece was that the information about what situation we’re in became so corrupted and bullshit that I just abandoned it. It was a full-time job to stay on top of it, one, and then two, it became obvious almost immediately that the data was corrupt and broken and misleading.
Robb: Then even if you decided to get in and try to talk about this stuff, then about half the population wanted your head on a pike for just saying, “Hey, there seemed to be some real irregularities here.” Again, I mentioned this stuff in the preamble with the main piece but it is worth mentioning really quickly. There are all these inconsistencies in testing and the reporting. Just noodle on this for a minute, folks.
Robb: Wherever you are on the testing or COVID, and its danger or masks or whatever, there is not been a single documented case in which it was like, “Oh, wow, we had 10,000 or 100,000 positives that actually got labeled as negative.”
Nicki: We over reported oops.
Robb: We accidentally over reported oops.
Nicki: We over reported.
Robb: Bank error not in our favor. This has not happened once. For the people that are really just like these busy bodies on this thing, and again, people are dying. Hospital systems are challenged. There’s legit problems here, but that doesn’t mean that there’s not a bunch of bullshit going on. Show me one example where this thing has been under reported this thing-
Nicki: We said that wrong, under reported. We said over reported.
Robb: Well, I think people get the… The main point here is that this thing is being painted as big a catastrophe, as dangerous a situation, as horrible a mess as is humanly possible. It’s crystal clear.
Nicki: It’s just appalling too at how many mistakes across how many organizations.
Robb: That-
Nicki: You couldn’t have more must mistakes.
Robb: No, you can’t.
Nicki: It’s shocking.
Robb: At some point, if you want to… Again, we’re going to end up repeating ourselves a little bit. We can shift gears, but-
Nicki: I think it is jumping there.
Robb: … you can can blame the current administration. I’m sure the current administration probably has all manner of gaps and whatnot, but when this problem exists from the local to the state to the federal level, and they’re supposed to be all kinds of gatekeepers in these pipelines that are supposed to do quality control, quality assurance, and clearly that’s not happening. There’s something else going on. I get in and talk a little bit about that.
Robb: I talk a good amount about some of it. I also talk a little bit about the vaccine topic, which is very controversial. My only real thing with that is that why are we putting every single egg that we have in that singular basket? That is the sole communication that we’re getting from the CDC, the WHO, from our tech overlords. That is the one thing. There’s a massive amount of unknowns about whether a vaccine will work at all, what the relative risks are, and there is no discussion around interventions involving things as simple as acid blockers like when people have acid reflux, which you shouldn’t take those anyway.
Robb: We should be addressing the underlying metabolic need, but ironically, a combination of acid blocker plus and over the counter antihistamine, there have been some studies done that need to be further validated, but it appears to take severe COVID-19 disease state and knock it down to what they called a bad cold. We have quercetin plus vitamin C. There’s fenofibrate, which is a cholesterol drug that appears to have similar effects. There’s all these over the counter drugs, all these off-labeled drugs that could be used in a variety of ways, and luckily are being explored.
Robb: But there is no communication around it and no mentioning of, “Hey, if the vaccine doesn’t really work, don’t worry, because we will likely have some other fallbacks.” That is not part of the narrative at all, which is… It’s like if you were… Who recommends that you should invest only in stocks. What credible financial person says you should be solely allocated to one thing? Only people that are going to fucking bed benefit from that story. Gold bugs will be like, “All your money should be in gold,” because they probably have some position on it, and they’re going to benefit from it.
Robb: Anybody reasonable will say to diversify your investments. Why is there not a discussion around diversification of our investments and dealing with COVID-19? Again, wherever you are on this spectrum, ask that fucking question. If you in your heart and soul believe that, “Well, just a vaccine is the only way to deal with this thing,” that’s fine, but there’s a lot of concerning features to that. It’s interesting that none of this other stuff is getting really much in the way of airplay. You have to go out of your way to look for it, to find it.
Nicki: Might as well just jump into-
Robb: We might as well just delete the rest of it, I think. Delete the bulk of it already.
Nicki: All right, we’ll jump into your talk.
Robb: Cool.
Robb: Hey everybody, welcome back to another edition of Salty Talk. Man, as if you didn’t have enough COVID in your life. I waffled on doing this thing, just a mountain of stuff out there. Sometimes at this point, it almost feels better in some ways to stick one’s head in the sand, and just hope that all of the stuff passes us by. Early on, I feel like I was pretty active in this. The main areas that I was trying to hit were, “What is the credible information that we have to make informed decisions?” Then from there, what can we specifically do to improve our situation?
Robb: I feel like early on, we had a pretty clear picture of what to do, which is maintain the best metabolic health that we can. That may be a little bit of a different path from one person to another, but avoiding the modern industrial food system is probably a pretty damn good thing to do. Get some sun on your skin, all that type of stuff. I abandoned the attempt at staying on top of all the information, masks and this and that pretty early on, because I felt like the information became corrupted early.
Robb: It became both a highly politicized and contentious shit show, even trying to talk about that stuff and unpack it to say nothing of just the grinding amount of work staying on top of it. I’ve looked at a few folks that, I guess, have maintained a pretty good finger on the pulse of what’s going on there. This installment, I want to look at some of the emerging treatments and maybe a little bit of a big picture perspective on this whole COVID-19 pandemic.
Robb: Clearly, there’s a lot of information that’s being put forward with regards to a vaccine. I’m not an anti vaxxer but I’m also not a person who thinks that vaccines are entirely safe and don’t have any type of downside proposition. If you think that any medical procedure is absent, any type of unforeseen risks, you’re an idiot. I’m sorry, that’s just ridiculous. If you want to go get plastic surgery, there are downside risks. Every once in a while, a LASIK eye surgery is incredibly safe. Every once in a while, it screws up, and the person is either blinded, or they end up with far worse vision than what they went into.
Robb: It’s exceptionally rare because it’s a highly competitive. Ironically, it’s an open market process, and so the safety and efficacy in that scene has just improved dramatically, but anything has potential downsides. I’ve got some pieces here, one from the World Health Organization, where they’re talking about immunity passports in the context of COVID-19. I will have links to all of these pieces in the show notes. It was interesting. This World Health Organization piece was actually a paid add on the Google when I was looking around.
Robb: I guess you could make the case that they’re really wanting to make sure that people get some exposure to this. But it was fascinating that just simply, the Gravitas of the World Health Organization didn’t ensure that it would appear far enough up the list that they didn’t have to pay for its placement. They talk a lot about the promise of a vaccine. Bill Gates clearly is going pretty hardcore on the need for a vaccine. In many ways, it’s ironic to me, but it feels like literally, all the eggs in one basket kind of story around the vaccine scenario.
Robb: I also pulled something from… I believe this is a Forbes piece, the risks of rushing a COVID-19 vaccine. Testing timelines and approvals may expose all of us to unnecessary dangers. It’s worth mentioning that we’ve never pulled off a SARS virus vaccine in the past. They really looked into this with the SARS COV-1, which was less infectious but more dangerous. Arguably, it had a 10% infection fatality rate, pretty, pretty nasty. The animal trials on that vaccine were abandoned because the response to the vaccine ended up killing the animals.
Robb: It’s an interesting story, and there’s a lot of back and forth on, “Do we develop herd immunity? Do we not develop herd immunity? Do we develop antibodies? Do we not? Is it long lasting? Is it short lasting?” There’s a lot of back and forth on that, but it’s interesting to me given the ubiquity of other treatment options that seemed to mitigate the risk of the really severe form of the COVID-19 disease process to say nothing of the fact that we’re now how many months into this process. We knew almost from the beginning, the information coming out of China suggested that people with comorbidities related to metabolic disease fared much poorer.
Robb: We are months and months into this. It really only takes days or weeks to dramatically start improving folks’ metabolic health. There’s nothing around this. There is no discussion from Bill Gates, from the WHO, from anywhere about, “Hey, it might be good for you folks to just focus on getting healthy.” We don’t even have to delineate exactly what that means, but I think at a minimum saying, “Well, it might be good to avoid highly processed foods would be a pretty goddamn good start.”
Robb: I think that that’s very defensible regardless of what type of dietary dogma you subscribe to. We get none of that. Maybe there’s going to be a vaccine. Maybe that’s going to be the cure all. It’s interesting in that regard. This is a another piece, just 50% of Americans plan to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Here’s how to win over the rest. It’s interesting even in this piece, and this things portrayed is some lunatic patriotic people. But here’s a little bit of background on this, and I fall into this camp to some degree, in which I’m incredibly frustrated with the inconsistent messaging that we’ve had.
Robb: This is a piece talking about contamination at CDC labs resulted into late Coronavirus tests. Federal officials acknowledged on Saturday that sloppy laboratory practices at the CDC cause contamination that rendered the nation’s first Coronavirus tests ineffective. Two of the three CDC laboratories in Atlanta that created the Coronavirus test kits violated their own manufacturing standards, resulting in the agency sending tests that did not work properly.
Robb: This is stunning to me. Mistakes can happen in the world, but when you start daisy chaining together the number of mistakes and gaffes… I know that people will want to level this pretty squarely at the current administration, and maybe that’s accurate or maybe it’s not. Maybe this is a concerted effort on the part of a bunch of people to make this situation as big a disaster as humanly possible. I don’t know. Maybe that’s all conspiracy theory stuff, but the reticence to go headlong into believing that a vaccine is going to be the cure all for us, I have reservations around that just from the virology story of being able to make an effective vaccine for this type of virus.
Robb: We really haven’t done that in the past. Yeah, there’s a lot of very, very smart people. There’s a whole bucket load of money that’s going to be made for the folks who figured this out, but it’s interesting, again, that this is the singular answer that we’re being given that we just need to hunker down, keep our heads down and wait for a vaccine. Maybe that’ll be true. Maybe it’ll be a cure-all. Maybe it’s going to be the thing that saves us all.
Robb: But if it’s not the answer, and we have gutted our global economy, all kinds of businesses have closed, all kinds of other collateral damage has happened as a consequence of arguably wanting to do good by not overwhelming hospitals, and trying to minimize death and suffering. There’s a lot of good intention there, but again, no action occurs really in a vacuum. Everything has consequences and knock-on effects and whatnot. I just don’t see people. It’s not to say that anybody needs to agree with me.
Robb: I’m not even sure that I’m going to lay out some really hard and fast positions here, other than being metabolically healthy would be a really good idea. That’s probably about the only hill that I would die on with any of this, but I don’t see people just entertaining the possibility of, “Well, what if a vaccine doesn’t work out ideally? What if the immunity response to either the vaccine or just to contracting the SARS-COV-1 or two two virus itself?
Robb: Maybe that varies from person to person. Maybe some people obtain long-term immunity, and some people short-term immunity. Maybe the people with the short-term immunity, it’s because they have a lessened immune response, which then further supports the notion that a vaccine isn’t likely to work. Again, we don’t really know for sure. But I see very little in the way of just discussion around this of game playing, at war gaming this thing. This is going to be important at the very end of this particular episode.
Robb: I’m going to hopefully tie all this stuff together. Another piece to all this that really makes people, at least like me, just skeptical of what’s going on, this is a Forbes piece, are the test numbers right? Georgia, Florida and the deadly trend of science suppression is by a guy Seth Cohen. From the article, do you believe in conspiracy theories? I don’t. But as a resident of Georgia, the state with the earliest and most aggressive reopening plan in the nation, I have a confession.
Robb: I’m worried that the Coronavirus information in my state is being manipulated, and the science behind it is being suppressed. I am not alone. Amidst the numerous reports of how some states, including my own, have shared inaccurate Coronavirus-related data with the public, it’s hard not to question whether the daily stream of testing data can be trusted. As more and more Americans are trying to make informed decisions as to how their families and their businesses should navigate these uncertain times, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Robb: I just can’t agree with that enough. What’s fascinating is, this is again what’s really interesting, every single gaff, every single mistake has happened consistently in a way that makes the situation either legitimately worse or appear worse. We are receiving no instances… I’ll backup with that. I’ll qualify it a little bit. There do seem to be some inconsistencies on whether or not people are positive on tests. There’s some inconsistency there, but there’s also many reports, credible reports, that people who had signed up for testing never got tested, received positive test results.
Robb: There are multiple examples in which different governmental agencies are double counting test results. It’s saying to the positive saying that there are more and more test results. This has happened in Florida. This has happened in Georgia. It’s happened all over the United States. Again, we’re not hearing, “Oh, gee whiz, we missed this block of 10,000 or 100,000 people. We need to add that to it.” It is consistently happening in a way that we are over reporting what’s happening.
Robb: Why is that? What is the motivation there? Again, you could maybe chalk this stuff up to incompetence. Some people would again probably level moat all the blame at the current administration. Maybe that’s accurate, but this is a vast governmental network and private public enterprise. It’s all woven together. Is that one person’s ineptitude so powerful that it has buggered the entirety of the rest of our medical system? That’s a remarkable statement.
Robb: If that’s true, then our whole system is so fragile that we need to do all kinds of rethinking, rejiggering of that system as it is. I would argue for that anyway, but it starts bending one’s ability to credibly believe that there isn’t something else going on here. How do we consistently have errors that make this both confusing and also look more and more bad? It’s bad enough as it is. I’m in Texas. We have a good number of cases here. The hospitals seem to be hanging in there, but it’s going to be a close thing to see where that exactly goes.
Robb: Why wouldn’t we work like crazy to have the best information that we can have? These folks… I’ve done lab science before, and you can make mistakes. But once a mistake has been made once in one place, and that gets reported, you would think that this best practice would go far and wide. I know that that is definitely what happened in the lab work that I did, and it does not appear to be happening here. This is a piece from Vox that I pulled down talking about the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Robb: The title is The Most Important Lesson of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Tell the Damn Truth. Then a piece from that, “The government lied. They lied about everything,” a historian on what went wrong in 1918. I read a similar piece to this early on, where it detailed the different approaches that various cities took in managing that influenza pandemic. It’s interesting. There were some cities like San Francisco at that time. It’s fascinating to me because those cities, you could almost look at them like city states at that point, likely had transcontinental communication but it was slow.
Robb: We’re basically in the telegraph era or pre-radio era at this point. The media and the government of a singular large city, it was almost like what we would think about with a city state. There was a monopolistic element potentially to the way that messaging happened, and information was disseminated and whatnot. There were some really shining examples like with San Francisco in this 1918 pandemic, where it appears that both the media and the government were very honest with both what they knew, what they didn’t know, what the risks were.
Robb: They had lots of qualifications, excuse me, when they would make different warnings and whatnot, “We think this but we’re not 100% sure,” things like that like an honest adult conversation about a complex topic. Other places like Philadelphia and elsewhere, they had tons of subterfuge and lies and backpedaling. What it did is it just destroyed the social contract. It caused people to not believe anything at all. We are really at that point where this is another topic that has just been hyper politicized, hyper polarized, and you can draw a line down the middle of the country, and see where people are going to play out based off of sociopolitical leanings.
Robb: That’s really dangerous. Again, when historians look back at this time, it will be interesting to see where the real responsibility lies. This makes me think about the 2007, 2008 financial crisis in the book and film The Big Short, where we discovered that there was all this systemic brokenness that occurred and misaligned incentives. I think that this story may prove to be even worse, but I pulled up. I don’t know why, but in researching this particular piece, that whole mean, “You had one job to do,” kept popping into my head, and so I pulled up one of those.
Robb: I’ve got a picture here of a jersey. It’s printed in the letters 13, but it has the number 12 on it. It’s like you had one damn job to do, and you got it wrong. For the government and for the media, they had one job to do, which was just be honest with us. This extends even into the mask wearing story, where it appears that the initial messaging around masks do not work was because there was a fear that there would be a run on masks which we did have. That ended up happening anyway, and we’ve had a real supply problem in that regard.
Robb: But instead of just being honest with people and saying, “Hey, good quality masks will improve our situation. But listen, we’ve got medical workers that are going to be taking the brunt of this and these really critical frontline people. We need folks to pump the brakes. Don’t go clean out stocks of this stuff. Hang tight, and we will catch up on this.” Instead, we had this flip flop narrative where one day, masks don’t work. The next day, they do work. One day, we can’t congregate outside. The next day, you can so long as you have a protest to go to.
Robb: Maybe you need to wear face covering or maybe you don’t. Wherever you play out on that spectrum, that inconsistency is horrible for bringing unity. Again, whichever side of the aisle you happen to be on, it’s not unreasonable for somebody else to be on the exact opposite side of the aisle and be like, “Fuck you, I’m not doing what you’re going to tell me to do,” because we’ve had this just horrifically inconsistent message at every level of the government, in every facet of the media.
Robb: You have to really dig far and wide to define people that are talking about any of this nuance and any of this detail. This is also why I largely abandoned even talking about this stuff, because it’s just maddening, and it’s virtually career suicide to even try to talk about this. Now, we’re going to take a quick break to hear from today’s sponsor.
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Robb: That’s a little bit of the situation that we’re in on theoretical treatments and in my opinion of why things are even more of a mess than what they should be. This is a piece that was published recently. Fasting blood glucose at admission is an independent predictor for 28-day mortality in patients with COVID-19 without previous diagnosis of diabetes, a multicenter retrospective study. What they did in this case is looked at folks upon admission what their blood glucose levels were. Then they got sorted into different categories.
Robb: Folks that had a fasting blood glucose below 6.1 millimolar got were observed to be in one group, and then a fasting blood glucose above 7.0 millimolar were observed to be in a much higher risk category for mortality in that 28-day period. It’s worth mentioning that a diagnosis of diabetes… This is another piece. A blood sample will be taken after an overnight fast. This is how you diagnose diabetes or one of the ways of doing it. A fasting blood sugar less than 100 milligrams per deciliter of 5.6 millimole is normal.
Robb: A fasting blood sugar between 100 and 125, 5.6 to 6.9 is considered pre-diabetes. If it’s 126 or seven and above in two separate tests, you have diabetes. What’s interesting here is the cut points that these folks are observing of people entering the hospital for what would ostensibly be pretty severe COVID-19 complications, these folks that were at particularly high risk for mortality and complications, riving effectively diabetic. Now, there is some literature that suggests that COVID itself is causing damage potentially to the pancreas.
Robb: It’s causing some lipid metabolism issues. That could complicate things, but these people were showing up effectively type two diabetic, the ones that had the highest complications. Is that some background metabolic disease that is just going undiagnosed? I would argue it probably is. Within the United States, our conservative estimates are only 12% of the population are metabolically healthy. Again, that’s using modern Western diagnostic criteria of what defines metabolic health.
Robb: If we use something from the ancestral health world, I don’t know how many people are really metabolically healthy, but this next piece, mounting clues suggests that the Coronavirus might trigger diabetes. Evidence from tissue studies in some people with COVID-19 shows that the virus damages insulin producing cells. There may be multiple vectors in which COVID-19 disease process worsens the potentiality for type two diabetes or this kind of poor blood glucose control.
Robb: What’s interesting there is it’s super well understood that upon admission, if you’ve had a heart attack, a stroke, traumatic brain injury, a bad auto vehicle accident, higher blood glucose levels correlate poorly with good outcomes. This is something again that just makes me crazy. There have been some people in the carnivore space and elsewhere that maybe some kind of over the top claims of… I think these folks had they kept the message general, that any move towards better eating would be good. Why on God’s green earth are we not seeing more messaging from the CDC, the WHO, from local and state officials like, “Get healthy?”
Robb: Why is that not the mantra? Why could not… If we have a two-point bullet point right now, social distance and wear a mask, would it kill us? That a third point, and maybe make it the number one, “Get healthy. Eat better. Social distance. Wear masks.” Honestly if they included that, it might reticence around complying with any of this stuff would improve if there was one data point, one suggestion that was just unassailably true. We know that improved metabolic health improves outcomes in the story.
Robb: I just cannot for the life of me figure out why this isn’t woven and baked into the cake, but it’s not. What’s interesting is there are some pharmaceutical and nutraceutical-related interventions that are really interesting. This is, again, part of the reason why I’m really critical and suspicious of the, “Vaccine is our only solution or only response.” Particularly, again, for the folks that are really pro-vaccine, all I’m suggesting here is we’ve had terrible success with doing this in the past. It’s still unclear what the immunologic response is to getting the virus itself, to say nothing of what the implications would be for a vaccine.
Robb: There’s a lot of unknown. Why are we putting every goddamn egg in that basket when this is such a big deal? That’s my only question with this. If you’re really pro-vaccine, that’s cool, but I want you to be able to give me a good answer to that. Why is there not equal amount of effort and focus being put into off-label drug use, current nutraceuticals that are being investigated anyway as adjunctive therapies in this story? Why is that not receiving some amount of airplay?
Robb: Some of the problem here is that none of this stuff is really newly patentable. Most of this stuff is either a natural product, as I’m going to talk about quercetin and vitamin C, or it’s over the counter pharmaceuticals that you could literally buy in a gas station for the most part. There’s not a huge payday to be made on that other than the people already have this stuff. I guess they would sell more of it. What’s being proposed is that there would need to be potentially trillions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine produced and disseminated to be able to plug all the gaps that we’re going to have?
Robb: Again, assuming that it actually works and doesn’t have greater downside risks and then upside. Even in that story, again, I think it’s going to depend from person to person. It’s just fascinating that so much emphasis placed in this one area. Sorry, spinning out here. This is a piece from Pharmaceutical Technology news. Study finds that fenofibrate may down regulate COVID-19 to a common cold level. This is a study that came out of Israel. It definitely needs to be validated. It needs to be replicated, but fenofibrate is an old school cholesterol drug that it works differently than statins.
Robb: It modifies the enzymes involved in lipid metabolism in such a way that it tends to shift LDL particles in a direction that makes them more amenable for clearance. It also tends to work pretty well in lowering triglyceride levels. Fenofibrate is an interesting drug to be used, and it also, as a side note, can have efficacy in dealing with gout. With one drug, you end up addressing a good number of features that pop up related to metabolic disease. Again, this is very new.
Robb: There’s not a ton of information. We need to replicate this and see what the real story is at scale, but this is a fascinating story here of a simple drug that has massive efficacy information. We understand the toxicity. We understand the hazards, which are not particularly great. It’s not a super rough drug to be used in theory. This wouldn’t be a long-term usage. It would be an acute intervention, and so there’s some pretty good hope around this.
Robb: I guess that this and the other things that we’re talking about here, some of them are not going to cut the mustard. They’re not going to prove themselves out to be efficacious in improving COVID-19 outcomes. That’s okay, but we need to, I think, open up our perspective if there are other options out there. This is from the frontiers in immunology, quercetin and vitamin C and experimental synergistic therapy for the prevention and treatment of SARS-COV-2-related disease.
Robb: This paper is 100% speculative. It is purely looking at mechanistic potentiality of using quercetin, which is a bioflavonoid that we would get out of fruits and in particular fruit peels and vitamin C. But there are some really compelling mechanistic data here. Again, this is something that is safe, could be easily used, has been studied in other viral disease processes and other inflammatory disease processes with good outcomes.
Robb: Then it’s also mentioned in this paper how other over the counter for the most part pharmaceuticals could be dovetailed into this story. This one… Who is this one from? Science Online, famotidine, histamine and the Coronavirus, this talks about a proton pump inhibitor drug, the drug most people know as Zyrtec which is a antihistamine and the combination therapy of both of these potentially having huge benefits for the COVID-19 disease process. Interesting aside on this though, the PPI is the proton pump inhibitors that are prescribed for acid reflux.
Robb: There was some early information that suggested these things may worsen COVID-19 susceptibility due to modifications in the ACE receptors. This is an interesting story, but as time has gone on, it’s still unclear what degree these proton pump inhibitors might enhance the ability of the virus to gain entry into the system but then possibly, synergistically using it with some of these antihistamines and or quercetin and vitamin C might have some benefits.
Robb: This is some of the complexity that we’re dealing with, that even in the more legitimate scientific literature, we don’t have 100% solid story here. Early on, it looked like some of these PPIs might be problematic or dangerous. Now, it’s looked like they might be beneficial. This is why we need to do better studies and also, I think, just keep an eye on all this and put some effort into it. This last piece, and this is wrapping things up.
Robb: This is from the Journal of Evaluation and Clinical Practice. It’s a really fascinating piece. It’s a systems engineering piece around this. The title is COVID-19: How a Pandemic Reveals that Everything is Connected to Everything Else. I am just such a fan of these pieces that look at complex, adaptable systems. This can be applied to the economy, employment markets, the food production, so many different things. Climate change, we have these complex systems, and people get fired up to address problems either real or perceived.
Robb: There’s just this rush to do something. I’m going to read from this paper. It’s a little on the long side, but it’s very good. This is from the second section in this paper, The Emotional Response to Unexpected Complexity. In general, we’re not good at seeing and comprehending the complexities in issues, and we have great difficulties in managing their underlying dynamics into the future. The human brain has not evolved to keep all components of a problem in mind and to appreciate their changing dynamics more than two or three steps ahead.
Robb: At the physiological level, the experiences of failing to manage a complex problem creates cognitive dissidence and emotional distress. We experience anxiety as physical symptoms such as palpitations, sweating and tremors. Having to solve problems with high levels of unknowns often results in interventions that are ad hoc focused on what appears to be the most obvious without considering their wider consequences. Dorner studies in the 1980s demonstrated how people of all walks of life handle unexpected contextual problems.
Robb: Most of us have come to the logic of failure. We over respond, and when realizing the consequences promptly react with an overall response in the other direction and so forth. Few among us use the approach of first, closely analyzing the problem, second, responding by introducing small interventions, and finally taking time to observe what happens. In dynamic systems, the true effects of an action are only evident after a time delay. One has to observe and evaluate the complex adaptive systems feedback to guide responses.
Robb: Invariably, infrequent small tweaks rather than rapid and dramatic actions achieve a stabilization of the situation and ultimately provide the necessary space for a resolution to emerge. When I read this, it was not quite a religious experience, but it was close, because I’m thinking about our response to not just COVID but to these topics of injustice and excessive force by the police, and just a host of different things and overlaying the responses that we’ve had to so many of these problems.
Robb: They fall right into this wheelhouse of… From my perspective, we’re having these massive responses with no thought about what the knock on consequences are. Are these things that we want to address? Are these things we want to improve? Absolutely. In my opinion and in the opinion of many, many people, the overall response that we’re getting in many cases is going to be worse than the problem that we had initially. I’m not sure what more to say on that.
Robb: This is a drum that I’ve tried to beat a long time, and I’m not uniquely smart or anything. I just… A long time ago, and I think it was really beginning to understand Arthur De Vany’s work where he would talk about complex adaptive systems and evolutionary biology. Nassim Taleb talks about this stuff. When you look at medicine itself, there’s a powerful case to be made that for a ton of different situations, we would be better off just leaving people alone.
Robb: There’s all kinds of surgeries, all kinds of medical interventions that when you really get in and look at it, the intervention is worse than the problem itself, not always. Emergency medicine is amazing. If you’re choking on a grape, hopefully somebody gives you the Heimlich maneuver, but damn, there’s actually a very few number of things where it’s like, “Yeah, this is crystal clear going to be a net benefit even if there’s collateral damage.
Robb: You do the Heimlich on somebody. You have a pretty good chance of breaking some ribs, but you also have a really good likelihood of them not dying from choking. We don’t have a ton of examples like that. Again, because complex adaptive systems or complex and adaptive in complexity is different than complicated. A computer motherboard is complicated, but it’s not complex. Complex means that it can evolve and adapt with inputs. That so describes our world, and things like that really benefit from mild adjustments, mild nudges.
Robb: It tends to not do well with sweeping change, because that complex adaptive system, if you up end it, the unintended consequences can be really catastrophic. Again, this applies in so many different directions on so many different topics. This is, again, why I really push for people to become educated on evolution, economics and thermodynamics. It doesn’t tell you everything. It doesn’t tell you all the details. But if it deviates from some of these precepts of complex adaptive systems that…
Robb: If every decision that we are suggesting that we do, if there’s not an equal amount of time asking, “What are we not thinking of? What unintended consequence could emerge from this? What question have we not asked?” We don’t do enough of that. It really behooves us to ask these questions. I’m optimistic about where we’re going in this COVID pandemic, although it’s still very scary what the total catastrophic outcome is going to be. I think it’s going to be far, far worse than what anybody really thinks.
Robb: I’m hopeful that we’re able to learn from this, and change policies and change the way that we look at things, but we really are fighting human nature here. This piece that I just read of effectively being in a Zen state, of taking in information and contemplating it, and then thinking about, “Well, I might want to do this, but what other things should I consider before taking this action?” This is really evolved thinking. I don’t say evolved in a hierarchical term, but it takes effort to get there. One must really work both on an individual level and at a societal level to get people to this spot.
Robb: Our default mode, human nature is to be reactive, because we evolved in an environment where the bulk of our problems were not chronic in nature. They were acute. Something was going to kill us, or we need to catch or kill or eat something. That situation resolves itself rather quickly. We didn’t need to think about the secondary, tertiary, quaternary result of that situation. But in our highly complex world now, virtually no process, no decision operates in a vacuum, but our brains are such that we think it does.
Robb: We think that our good intent and our desire to do good is enough to insulate us from the unintended consequences that seemed to lurk around every corner.
Nicki: Do you think… What am I trying to say here? I was going to…
Robb: I don’t know what you’re trying to say. Spit it out.
Nicki: I was going to say did you piss some people off with this episode?
Robb: Probably. I mean, that’s the state of our times, right? Everybody has crawled into their bunker, and they’ll lob some hand grenades and put the machine gun up and just pepper the other side. There’s no like, “Hey, let’s sit down and have a discussion, and really look at things in a rational way.” I will say that probably somewhere around November 5th, November 6th, COVID is going to magically disappear from being the concern of of the world.
Robb: There’s going to be some magical breakthrough somewhere around then that just takes this thing off the map.
Nicki: I don’t know. People have said that, and on the one hand, I agree because I feel like it’s being leveraged politically. I also feel like there’s so much money in this vaccine story-
Robb: That’s true. That is story.
Nicki: … that I don’t think that it’s going to go away.
Robb: That’s a very good point.
Nicki: I mean, I read this article where-
Robb: I’ll tell you what, there’s going to be messages of hope, and the messages of hope, again, will be all around the vaccine. Currently, there is no message of hope. It’s like we’re fucked. We need to hunker down. Unless you’re protesting, then you’re killing grandma if you go outside and don’t wear a mask and everything. Again, I get it if you want to wear a mask, you don’t want to wear a mask, but the main point that I wanted to make in this whole thing, and this is part of what I unpacked with that 1918 flu pandemic piece was that when we are lied to, when we’re attempted to be manipulated, then you destroy the social contract and then people start going crazy.
Robb: I almost feel like in this case that the people knew that disinformation was going to destroy the social contract. That has actually been the MO, whereas in the past in situations like this, some people do the right thing. Some people do the wrong thing. It’s good here. It’s bad there. It’s uniformly shit across the board in this circumstance. I don’t know if this thing was valuable. More and more, everything I do, I’m like, “I don’t know if that mattered,” but I felt it was important to at least have some discussions around the notion that what if a vaccine isn’t the end all be all?
Robb: What if it doesn’t actually come to pass, or why is it that in this situation where we’ve never been able to do a Coronavirus-based vaccine before, we just know emphatically that it’s going to work this time, and that we know for certain that the potential downside risks are lesser than just getting metabolically healthy? Again, circling back around, why is there zero messaging around the need for metabolic health? We are long enough into this thing now that we could have reversed the metabolic disease in virtually every last person in westernized societies at this point.
Nicki: It’s five months at this point, four, five months.
Robb: Yeah, we’re five fucking months into this thing. We could have… What would have been the knock-on effects there?
Nicki: I mean, the transformations that we see with people in five months are…
Robb: We’re doing some poking around. Somebody asked an interesting question in the Healthy Rebellion the other day, which was, “Hey, who in here has had COVID?” When you look at the number of people that are members, and then we were like, “I don’t think anybody has. We think one person we thought had it because she had a fever over 101 degrees for 20 days-”
Nicki: But tested negative.
Robb: … but tested negative in that case, which was just like, “Okay, well, what did she have if not that?” This was still pretty early on. Was this another example of the testing that was dog shit?
Nicki: The false negative.
Robb: There’s that thing, but it’s interesting that given the number of people in there, we should have a fair number of cases. We so far don’t. Is that because everybody’s asymptomatic? Is that because that is an interesting cross section of people that are generally pretty metabolically healthy, and maybe even a little bit lower stress? I would say the bulk of the people in there spend significantly less time on social media than other cross sections of people.
Nicki: They get outside. They know the importance of sunlight on their body.
Robb: They get out. They do, by hook or by crook, yeah.
Nicki: They exercise.
Robb: There’s only knock-on things. We’re trying to noodle on if there’s something that we could do study wise to look at that, but it struck me like it’s one of these things that’s hidden in plain sight. I’m like, “Oh yeah, we don’t really have anybody in here that has reported being sick.” It would be a complex thing to unpack that, but I think it’s worth looking into, but again, just encouraging people to share and to think and, I guess if nothing else, to recognize if we are encountering somebody that’s on the opposite side of the mass debate or the vaccine debate.
Robb: Please recognize that the way that this stuff has been communicated to us, in my opinion, has been in such a way that it’s so stout from the beginning. Then we are polarized, and so even though we may not agree with folks on the other side of the fence, they are not really the enemy. We’re being coached and cajoled into assuming that anybody who is in a different position than we are with masks or vaccine or how severe this thing is that they are the enemy, and that is just an incredibly dangerous place to go to.
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Nicki: A 30-day reset starting in December. We’ll start sharing more info and details as we get a little bit closer. I think that’s it. I hope you all have a fabulous week.
Robb: Take care everybody. Bye.
Nicki: Bye.
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How You Must Be De-Stressing, According To Your Enneagram Type
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The Enneagram character model can reveal a lot about our propensities, patterns, and obstructs.
” Ones are encouraged by a need to be excellent, ideal, and ideal,” says Hall.
When they’re stressed out, Hall explains that they hold on to their views on what’s right and wrong even tighter.
De-stress with: A journal.
Getting thoughts onto the page is one manner in which this type can release control and self-judgment. Take a hint from the early morning pages writing style Julia Cameron shares in her book The Artist’s Method, and begin every day by handwriting three pages. You don’t require to react to any triggers or questions; simply free-write and see where your mind leads you. Specifically on days when tension creeps in, this kind of composing can help you externalize your requirements and get truthful about how you can contribute to your community without stressing out.
” Twos are encouraged by the need to be required,” states Hall.
” When they’re stressed, twos typically work even harder to make themselves essential,” Hall describes.
De-stress with: A mirror meditation.
It is essential for twos to reconnect with themselves and their needs when the going gets hard. This mirror meditation for self-compassion can assist them do so.
According to Hall, threes are always thinking about how they reveal up in the world.
De-stress with: Plenty of rest and relaxation.
This type can gain from back-to-basic stress management tools like plenty of rest, healthy food, and a relaxing supplement. (They might want to take a look at mbg’s hemp multi , which gets its mood-supporting take advantage of full-spectrum hemp oil *) Slow is really the name of the game for this type, and they must take tension as an indication that it’s time to take it easy.
Fours are the applicants of the Enneagram, and they aren’t afraid to ask big concerns about life, function, and identity. “They’re really creative, and they really go deep in considering their sensations,” says Hall.
” When they’re stressed out, they give into that daydreaming and depend on others to satisfy their useful requirements. They stop looking after themselves and almost play the victim or seem like victims,” she includes.
De-stress with: Disorganized creative time.
Hall urges stressed-out fours to make time for their favored approach of creativity. Reserve an hour to draw, paint, compose, or express yourself and emerge sensation refueled and reinspired.
” Fives are inspired by a need to be competent and self-reliant,” says Hall.
” When they’re stressed, fives frequently even more isolate themselves so they can think through everything and procedure even more,” she says.
De-stress with: Yin yoga.
This type can benefit from leaving their heads and settling into their bodies during stressful times. Yin yoga is a relaxing practice for silencing the mind, and this 10- minute yin flow is tailored towards overcoming nervousness.
” Sixes are motivated by a requirement to find safety and security in the world,” says Hall.
De-stress with: Appreciation.
This type can take advantage of remaining in today rather of stressful themselves thinking of the future. When stress turns up, they should try to come back to gratitude: Consider three things you feel grateful for because moment, contacting all 5 senses for assistance. Maybe you’re appreciative for the cool air on your skin, the odor of fresh laundry, or the sight of a loved one cooking supper.
” Sevens are inspired by a need to prevent pain or pain, specifically emotional pain,” states Hall.
Idealist type sevens typically attempt to avoid tension and negativeness at all costs, to the point that they run the danger of becoming detached from truth.
De-stress with: Breathwork.
7s could utilize a little help feeling their sensations, the excellent and the bad.
” Eights are inspired by a requirement to safeguard themselves and prevent vulnerability,” says Hall. “They truly go through life with their walls up.”
When eights are stressed out, these borders can become even stronger. In order to avoid being controlled by others, they tend to withdraw and disengage.
De-stress with: A good friend.
While the impulse may be to work through stress alone, eights may find more worth in de-stressing with other individuals.
Nines are all about keeping the peace, to the point of disowning their own ideas, feelings, or desires.
When they’re stressed out, nines tend to lessen what’s going on and keep looking on the bright side rather.
De-stress with: Nature time.
Rather of continuing to tune things out, this type could gain from grounding in today. Get outside and feel your feet in the lawn ( benefit points if you’re barefoot).
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Hemp Mythbusters: 5 Misconceptions About The Plant That Need To Be Debunked
Hemp, or Marijuana sativa, is a flexible plant that can be grown in many different environments to produce a number of materials. There’s lots of talk about hemp items in the wellness world, and lots of taking place confusion.
Hemp plants, by meaning, are marijuana plants that have been reproduced to contain less than 0.3%THC, tetrahydrocannabinol– the primary psychoactive element of marijuana– which the USDA thinks about a trace quantity Given that anything drawn out from a well-maintained hemp plant is so low in THC, it’s now legal to purchase and offer hemp-derived products in all 50 states.
Where this gets confusing.
Marijuana is also a marijuana plant, just one that hasn’t been reproduced to include such low levels of THC. Marijuana-derived products are for that reason higher in THC, more strictly controlled, and numerous degrees of legal across the country.
2.
All CBD is produced equivalent.
Besides THC, CBD is the most widely known and thoroughly investigated cannabis plant substance, or cannabinoid. When taken in, these cannabinoids bind to receptors in our endocannabinoid system, likewise called the body’s master regulatory system, and appear to enhance health. *
CBD and THC are not the only cannabinoids, though, and hemp plants naturally contain over 100 kinds of these advantageous substances. When consumed together, these cannabinoids link up to trigger what’s referred to as the entourage result: They act synergistically and their benefits are enhanced. A hemp item which contains all these cannabinoids (consisting of CBD) is described as “full-spectrum.” A hemp product that removes all the other cannabinoids and only contains CBD is referred to as an “isolate.”
Where this gets complicated.
In the absence of a managed marketing system for hemp-derived items, full-spectrum items are now identified a couple of various methods: They can also be called “broad-spectrum” or “whole-plant” products. In addition, these cannabinoid-rich products can also be identified as either hemp or CBD. Full-spectrum hemp is the same thing as full-spectrum CBD– they need to both consist of all those useful compounds working in tandem. mindbodygreen calls its full-spectrum product full-spectrum hemp just to make it completely clear that it is not a CBD isolate item.
3.
Hemp oil is utilized in cooking.
Technically yes, however hemp seed oil is what’s used in cooking. This oil is drawn out from the seeds of the hemp plant, and it does not consist of any CBD or cannabinoids.
Where this gets confusing.
When somebody states “hemp oil,” they could be describing either hempseed oil or full-spectrum hemp oil– similar-sounding items that serve extremely various functions.
4.
No genuine research study has been done on the health advantages of hemp products.
For this one, I’ll quote registered dietitian nutritionist Natalie Butler, RDN, L.D., who rattled off the state of hemp research in her article on the 6 science-backed benefits of hemp: “A 2011 double-blind research study discovered that 600 mg of the phytocannabinoid CBD administered to those with social anxiety condition (SAD) 90 minutes before a public speaking test helped handle the physiological symptoms of tension. Participants maintained normal blood pressure and heart rate and reported lower levels of discomfort, leading to a similar discussion as those without SAD. In reality, a neuroimaging research study discovered that participants had [better] increased activity in the brain area associated with mediating stress when they took 400 mg of CBD oil than when they did not. *”
In addition, “In one animal research study, it was discovered that arthritic mice that were provided phytocannabinoids had lower levels of proinflammatory cytokines than those who were not. Other studies have actually found that hemp oil extract can help handle cartilage breakdown *”
Where this gets confusing.
While there is ongoing research on how hemp extracts can assist manage stress, promote sleep, support the immune system, and alleviate pains and pains, it is by no methods comprehensive.
5.
Hemp items are more reliable when taken at greater doses.
Like anything else, they need to be enjoyed in small amounts. In an mbg post on how to dose a full-spectrum hemp product, Amy Shah, M.D., advises beginning at the lowest dosage possible and slowly working your method up as soon as you see how your body reacts considering that everybody metabolizes thing in a different way. While negative effects are fairly rare, these products can trigger diarrhea or tiredness when taking in high doses, and cannabis allergies are a thing.
Where this gets confusing.
If you’re waiting for a hemp-derived product to “hit” in the same way a marijuana one would, you’re going to be waiting for a while. Keep in mind that hemp oil will not have the exact same significant psychoactive effects as weed and instead will trigger a more gradual sense of chill and relaxation.
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Jane Fonda, 82, flaunts VERY youthful complexion in Uncle Bud’s campaign
Jane Fonda has actually once again proven that age is just a number by displaying her exceptionally younger complexion in a striking new beauty campaign to celebrate her collaboration with CBD brand name Uncle Bud’s.
While months of lockdown left many feeling far less than glamorous, Fonda, 82, looks much better than ever in among her very first post-quarantine shoots, in which she is seen flaunting her smooth skin while posing with a host of her preferred CBD and hemp products.
The starlet and activist, who is based in LA, was initially announced as the latest celebrity ambassador for Uncle Bud’s in May at the height of the pandemic – and was therefore unable to celebrate the partnership with a conventional shoot, instead counting on social networks to mark her latest function.
Peace out! Jane Fonda, 82, displayed her exceptionally vibrant complexion in a brand-new project for CBD and hemp brand name Uncle Bud’s
OK! The starlet and activist was revealed as the most recent star ambassador for the brand in May at the height of the pandemic – and wasn’t initially able to present for a shoot
Security first: Fonda finally got the chance to present for the Uncle Bud’s cams in early June as lockdown constraints in California began to reduce up
But as lockdown restrictions in California reduced up last month, Fonda emerged from quarantine looking every inch the attractive Hollywood star in order to pose for her first authorities campaign for the brand.
‘ In early June, the project came to life on embeded in Los Angeles, with Uncle Bud’s, Fonda and all celebrations taking utmost preventative measure in a safe and mindfully managed socially distanced photoshoot,’ a spokesperson for the company told DailyMail.com.
In the images, the Grace and Frankie star can be seen modeling a chic white button-down and simple blue trousers, while striking some exciting presents and displaying a few of her leading picks from the brand’s product variety.
However it is Fonda’s smooth and younger complexion that genuinely takes the show – with the basic ensemble and plain backdrop drawing all the more focus to her glowing skin.
However for the starlet, the shoot was all about celebrating her brand-new function as an Uncle Bud’s ambassador – while opening about the various methods which she utilizes the brand name’s products.
‘[The Hemp Roll-On Pain Relief] is my go-to for aches and discomforts,’ Fonda – who experiences osteoarthritis – stated in a statement about the shoot.
Top pick: Fonda shows off perfect skin, along with her favorite items from the Uncle Bud’s range – naming this blue light mask as being best for those who invest excessive time online
Precautions: Among the products featured by Fonda in the shoot is a hemp hand sanitizer – which will no doubt fly off the shelves in the middle of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic
Treatment: Fonda, who struggles with osteoarthritis, likewise exposed that she uses the products to assist relieve her ‘pains and pains’
‘ Just roll it on and go. No mess, no stiffness, no BS …’
She definitely isn’t keeping all of the CBD radiance to herself nevertheless, revealing that she has also been sharing the products with her nearby and dearest.
‘ I provided this blue light face mask to a buddy of mine,’ she revealed. ‘It protects your skin from damaging blue light that produces from your computer or phone. It’s fantastic.
‘ So, if you take place to understand somebody who spends excessive time online, get this mask.’
This is by no means the very first time that Fonda has expressed her fondness for hemp-based items, with the actress revealing in Might that she in fact utilizes a weed pen in order to assist her sleep – describing that she finds it works much better for her than sleeping tablets.
‘ I utilize a pen that restricts how many doses you get, which is way much better than taking sleeping tablets …’ she discussed. ‘However I was never majorly into pot to inform you the fact. Nevertheless, I have osteoarthritis, so things that aid with discomfort and inflammation are excellent.’
Fonda – who lives in California, where the use of cannabis is legal – has previously been revealed as a fan of LA-based weed pen brand name Dosist, which offers the sort of pens that she is referring to.
Celebrate: In Might, when the collaboration was initially announced, Fonda celebrated by publishing an amusing Instagram video
Assisting hand: At the time, Fonda revealed that she uses a weed pen to sleep
The company, which utilizes recycled plastic to produce its products, in line with Fonda’s strong sustainability-focused position on eco-activism, provides a series of pens that contain THC and are targeted at assisting with various daily concerns.
For someone like Fonda, who is seeking to improve rest in the evening, the brand has a ‘sleep’ variation of its THC and CBD pens – which dispenses a 2.25 mg dosage per inhale. Dosist likewise uses bliss, calm, relief, excite, and enthusiasm varieties.
In a 2015 interview with DuJour magazine, the Grace and Frankie star exposed: ‘I still smoke pot every so often,’ while joking that she can not enjoy films while under the impact of marijuana due to the fact that it impairs her judgment.
‘ The variety of motion pictures I’ve seen thinking, “This is most likely the best I have ever seen,” and after that I’ll see it again sober and think, “What was I believing?”‘
Fonda has actually also just recently begun including more CBD-based item into her every day life – as well as sharing them with her friends and family, especially those who need aid with ‘pain and swelling’.
‘ I have loved ones who are elderly and I have actually sent them [Uncle Bud’s CBD] items and they have truly made a distinction for them,’ she shared while discussing her brand-new function for the hemp brand name.
The two-time Oscar winner stated that he is likewise looking into the ecological benefits of hemp, explaining that she has actually been a fan of hemp clothing for 2 years now, but has recently learned more about the methods which the material can be utilized to produce other things.
Hectic bee: The two-time Oscar winner, who has been sharing regular updates from her life in lockdown, explained the coronavirus pandemic as a ‘substantial crossroads in history’
Joker: In a recent video, Fonda recorded her day-to-day regimen, joking that she likes to end the day with a huge martini
‘ I have native pals who grow industrial hemp, and I’m finding out a lot about hemp as a feasible financial sector we need to cultivate,’ she said.
‘ I found out just recently, for example, that Henry Ford made a cars and truck out of industrial hemp fiber, and there’s something on YouTube that shows a man with a sledge hammer trying to make a dent in this hemp fiber cars and truck, and he couldn’t. It was a hemp fiber automobile that couldn’t be dented that ran on hemp oil!’
Although Fonda has actually long been an outspoken activist for environmentalism and sustainability, she discussed that her time in quarantine has provided her even more inspiration to make a modification worldwide around her.
Describing this time as a ‘huge crossroads in history’, she described that she ‘feels very motivated’ to affect the method the world handles the effect of the pandemic.
‘ Humanity is at a special crossroads in history and we need to define what’s happening and make sure the right individuals are managing how it turns out, so I feel extremely motivated to do what I can,’ she added.
While in quarantine, Fonda did her best to get the word out about climate change, routinely calling for people to get involved in the movement on social networks – while likewise documenting her everyday life in lockdown.
In April, she turned TikTok’s 9 To 5 trend into a way to discuss her advocacy, revealing how defending the environment makes up part of her daily routine
Funny woman: She likewise documented her lockdown exercise regimen, joking around that she did the exact same squats in jail after being jailed throughout a public protest
‘ Now this pandemic is causing terrible suffering and changing what we can do in this time of social distancing,’ she wrote in a recent issue of People
‘ But it’s also an important teachable minute for the other pandemic that challenges us: the climate crisis.’
‘ COVID-19 is teaching us how hazardous rejection is and how crucial science and preparedness is. It’s also proving that we are able to take enormous cumulative action when the stakes are high.
‘ Clearly we are capable of basically changing our habits to safeguard the health and wellness of our families. We’re also seeing how nature can heal when we take action.’
Her partnership with Uncle Bud’s is likewise something that lines up perfectly with her activist ideals, with the actress describing that if the items weren’t environmentally friendly and animal-kind, ‘she wouldn’t have actually gone near them’.
‘[The brand] connected to me thinking the positioning between them and me made sense,’ she explained. ‘I wasn’t so sure in the start. Then I tried the items out for a couple of months, and I really like ’em.
‘ I like the skin creams, I like the aching muscle creams, I like the lip balm, I like the hand sanitizers, I like the truth they were offering freedom sanitizers to a homeless youth organization. And I believe they work. If it wasn’t a U.S.-made item and eco-friendly and animal-kind, I would not have actually gone near them.’
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CBD Capsules UK: The 5 Best CBD Capsules Reviewed (2020)
You may have heard of CBD oil, but have you heard of CBD capsules? CBD capsules are gaining more popularity because they offer the same benefits as CBD oil, but they are more convenient to use.
Due to their ongoing popularity, there are many CBD capsules available to choose from. To help you find the best fit for you, below are the 5 best CBD capsules in the UK market (updated for 2020).
The 5 Best CBD Capsules In The UK (2020)
1. Blessed CBD Capsules/Softgels
Blessed CBD is a UK-based CBD brand that is already taking the industry by storm. In less than 9 months, they’ve received “best CBD oil” awards by the likes of Reader’s Digest, Discover, Express, us and Daily Record.
If you want all the benefits of CBD without the THC, then Blessed CBD’s THC-free softgels are the capsules you will want to check out. These capsules have zero tetrahydrocannabinol and come in a single convenient size: 30 capsules per bottle. Each capsule provides a massive and highly potent 30mg of CBD, which is higher than any other CBD softgels product in the UK market.
These capsules are more on the affordable side and are created by a brand that you can trust. Each softgel is tested by a third-party laboratory and these results are posted online, so there is no suspicious behavior here.
Also, their CBD capsules are made from organic, non-GMO hemp that is sourced in Colorado. The hemp grown in Colorado is known to be the best hemp in all of the United States.
With Blessed CBD’s rapid (and free) next day delivery, these are by far the best CBD capsules in the UK. Blessed CBD’s high quality product range also consists of CBD oil, CBD gummies and CBD cream.
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2. cbdMD CBD Capsules
If you are looking for a “gateway” CBD capsule, then cbdMD’s CBD oil capsules are the way to go.
There is one downside though – as they are based in the USA, delivery to the UK can take between 2-3 weeks. If you’re prepared to wait, they’re worth a try.
The capsules are available in four potencies:
- 15 mg
- 16.6 mg
- 25 mg
- 50 mg
Each bottle contains 450 mg to 3000 mg. With this wide variety of potencies, it will make it easier for you to find the right dosage for you.
The hemp used in these capsules is broad-spectrum hemp. They contain beneficial phytochemicals such as cannabinoids, flavonoids and terpenes but without any THC.
These capsules are also vegan-friendly and made from non-GMO ingredients.
3. CBD Life Hemp Oil Capsules
CBD Life is one of the most popular CBD brands in the United Kingdom and for good reasons.
- They are super potent – each bottle comes with 750 mg of CBD with 25 mg per capsule
- They are affordable
- They are full spectrum CBD capsules
- Capsules are coated in a vegan approved coating, not gelatine like most CBD capsules
CBD Life’s hemp is grown and sourced from Germany, and the company pays personal visits to the hemp farm. Third-party testing is done regularly to ensure that there are no harmful chemicals such as pesticides and artificial fertilizers as part of the CBD content.
If you are interested, the results from these tests are available upon request.
4. Cibdol CBD Softgels
If you are looking for good quality softgels made of pure CBD, then look no further than Cibdol’s CBD Softgels. These CBD capsules are made in Switzerland, and the company goes the extra mile by adding an additional step to filtrate any undesired materials in their product.
These capsules each contain full-spectrum hemp extract and are filled with beneficial compounds such as cannabinoids and terpenes.
These softgel capsules come in 60 count bottles and are currently available in two potencies:
- 6.4 mg
- 16 mg
The 6.4 mg totals 384 mg and the 16 mg totals 960 mg of CBD.
5. Love CBD Entourage Capsules
What makes Love CBD’s Entourage Capsules stand out from its competitors is its high cannabidiol acid (CBA) and CBG content. CBDa and CBG is great because it is a type of cannabinoid from hemp CBD that has many health benefits.
These capsules come in two strengths:
- 1200 mg
- 600 mg
As its name implies, the Love CBD Entourage Capsules were designed to get the full entourage effect.
The entourage effect happens when CBD is taken with other compounds from the cannabis plant. The theory behind this method is that using the entire hemp plant, rather than isolating a certain part, the user will be able to experience the full benefits of the cannabinoids.
The hemp used in these capsules is grown in the Netherlands, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic. They are grown organically, so you can rest assured that your products are free of harmful pesticides, herbicides and any artificial fertilizers. Each batch is also tested carefully by a third-party. If you are interested in the lab test results, they are posted and available on the company’s website, along with extraction methods used and FAQs.
CBD Capsules UK: Common Questions
- What does CBD stand for?
CBD stands for “cannabidiol.” CBD is a natural compound found in cannabis. Cannabis is a plant that thrives in the sun, and it is part of the Cannabacaae family.
- Is it similar to THC?
No. Most people often confuse THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), with CBD, thinking they are interchangeable. Unlike THC, CBD is non-toxic. CBD does not have the psychoactive properties to get you “high.”
- Why is CBD so popular?
CBD is derived from the hemp plant, and many users believe that it is the most natural way to gain benefits for both the body and the mind. Unlike other well-known cannabis products such as marijuana, CBD oil only contains a small amount of THC. Many users like the given benefits they gain when they use CBD and they also like that CBD usage does not have any psychoactive effects on them.
- How do CBD capsules work?
CBD capsules are created by extracting cannabidiol from hemp plants. Once the extraction has taken place (such as CO2 extraction), then it is dissolved in a carrier oil (e.g. avocado oil, olive oil, coconut oil, etc) to help its absorption. It is then enclosed into a gelatin-like shell, and formed into an easy to take pill.
- Are CBD capsules legal in the United Kingdom?
Yes, they are! As long as they meet the requirements, such as CBD products cannot have more than 1 mg of THC per bottle and can only be sold as a food supplement. Always check the third party lab reports for confirmation.
- Should I go for CBD oil or CBD capsules?
For CBD users out there, this debate has been going on for quite some time. There are benefits to using both, but the choice primarily depends on you as the user.
The main difference between the oil and capsules is how they are absorbed into the body. CBD oil is quickly absorbed into the bloodstream by the blood vessels under your tongue while CBD gel capsules have to pass through the digestive system and liver.
This means that you will feel the effects of the CBD oil faster than the capsules. If patience isn’t your virtue, then maybe you should take the oil route since they take less time to enter the body.
However, if convenience and taste is more important to you than the capsules are the way to go. They are mess-free and easy to take. They are less conspicuous than their oil counterpart, which means you can take them anytime, anywhere.
Most people find that when they are starting to experiment with CBD, the capsules were easier for them to integrate into their daily routine.
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How To Utilize CBD Oil To Enhance Your Efficiency In The Bed room
CBD oil can help improve efficiency in the bedroom. Research study shows that CBD (Cannabidiol), a non-psychoactive compound in the cannabis plant, relieves inhibition throughout sex. CBD minimizes pain throughout penetration and improves sensations. When experiencing signs such as lower libido, failure to get an erection, and failure to maintain an erection, CBD oil can assist enhance your bed room performance.
What are the Causes of Impotence?
- Diseases— Diseases that can cause impotence consist of diabetes, high blood pressure, prostate cancer, heart diseases, atherosclerosis, metabolic syndrome, obesity, diabetes, numerous sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease.
- Drugs— Drug abuse, excessive alcohol usage, smoking cigarettes, prescription drugs, and nonprescription medicine might trigger erectile dysfunction.
- Way of living— The modern-day way of living may lead to impotence. Sleep conditions, physical injuries, stress and stress and anxiety, depression, and dissatisfied relationships can trigger erectile dysfunction.
What are A Few Of the Paths of Administering CBD Oil?
Orally— Oral administration includes consuming CBD oil in a tablet kind or as a solution prior to sex.
Applying— Applying CBD oil to the body for massage boosts relaxation. It’s also used as a form of foreplay and might be applied as a lube to minimize dryness and boost pleasure.
Inhalation— Vaping or cigarette smoking CBD oil before sex may assist in minimizing stress and anxiety and boosting experiences.
Functions of CBD Oil for Impotence
- Hormone Stimulation
Human beings have an endocannabinoid system that enables the endocrine system to balance. CBD oil works by directing hormones such as insulin to the sexually active parts of the body, consequently enhancing focus.
- Stress And Anxiety Decrease
In the case of stress and stress and anxiety, CBD oil has a soothing effect on many individuals. CBD hemp oil is utilized to alleviate anxiety It’s administered orally in little dosages considering that different individuals might respond in a different way to CBD.
- Enhancing Foreplay
One of the ways to improve efficiency in the bedroom is through much better foreplay. There are lots of types of foreplay, including making use of lubes. CBD lubes boost the physical experience during foreplay to facilitate a relaxing feeling in the body. Due to its ability to repair tissue damage and enhance blood circulation to the genital areas, it can be a game-changer in the bed room.
- Pain Relieving
CBD oil help in decreasing pain throughout intercourse. Its capability to unwind tissues around the sex organs helps in decreasing discomfort during sexual intercourse. Its anti-inflammatory home concerns the rescue in such cases and alleviates discomfort. Pain throughout intercourse because of dryness or irritation in the vaginal area can be dealt with by utilizing CBD oil. Using directly to the sexual organs is the most efficient way.
- Relaxation
There are lots of methods of enhancing convenience and relaxation in the bedroom. CBD oil’s ability to reduce muscle tension creates a calming sensation between the sheets, boosting bedroom performance.
Massage therapy by using essential oils integrated with full-spectrum cannabinoids might fire up the natural power needed to improve bedroom action. Before getting frisky, massage your partner’s back and arms with CBD body oil. Fast-absorbing and lightweight, CBD body oil provides targeted topical relief along with natural energy.
CBD plays a huge role in battling stress and stress and anxiety. CBD works straight on the body’s endocannabinoid system to control the nervous system, body organs, and the immune system.
- Vasodilatory Impacts
CBD oil causes increased blood circulation by unwinding the blood vessels. Like all the other ways, working on the root cause makes CBD oil more effective.
Conclusion
CBD oil may help with erectile dysfunction, specifically if caused by tension, stress and anxiety, and way of life issues. Use the tips above to use CBD oil and enhance your performance in the bedroom.
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Importance Of Education In CBD Market (Podcast Transcript)
Editors’ Note: This is the transcript version of the podcast we published last Wednesday with Mike Donnelly. Please note that due to time and audio constraints, transcription may not be perfect. We encourage you to listen to the podcast, embedded below, if you need any clarification. We hope you enjoy!
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Rena Sherbill: Welcome again to the Cannabis Investing Podcast where we speak with C-level executives, scientists and law and sector experts to provide actionable investment insight and the context with which to understand the burgeoning cannabis industry. I’m your host, Rena Sherbill.
Hi again, everybody. Welcome back to the show. Hope everybody that was celebrating the long July 4th weekend enjoyed themselves, gave back if they wanted to, relaxed if they wanted to.
Today, we have Mike Donnelly on the show. Mike is a former Navy SEAL. He was in the military from the age of 17. He did a number of business ventures until he found himself in the CBD business. He co-founded The CBD Path with his wife Claudia. And the CBD Path is focused on giving back to the veteran community by giving back a portion of its profits.
He also – Mike also talks about the saturation of the CBD market, what it takes to survive and how they are differentiating themselves. But given the fact that we’re coming off the heels of July 4 Independence Day in America, I know it was also Independence Day in Canada recently as well; what it means to serve your country and what it means to be patriotic… I think these are especially salient questions all the time, but certainly, the times we are finding ourselves in now.
And Mike does a lot to inform us and educate us not only about CBD, but also about the relationship the cannabinoid family has with the military and what he has seen from that. We also get into a really interesting conversation I think about the fact that CBD is now legal, but cannabis is not yet federally legal. It has not been decriminalized in the States. What it means for active soldiers and whether or not they’re allowed to take it? I also mention the fact that Israel is in the process of perhaps they – I say in the interview that they’re one vote away, that they’re two votes away, but now they’re actually one vote away from passing certain decriminalization regulations for cannabis in Israel. But the fact that alcohol and the voting age is 18, the army service [too, but being able to take cannabis is 21]. So I find that to be really interesting in terms of what it means to be taking cannabinoids as a soldier, and what the military kind of thinks about it.
We also get into what the FDA thinks about it, and what he thinks there is room for improvement there. And just the importance of education in the CBD market, especially since the Farm Bill passed and CBD became a legal product on the market. There has been so much misinformation for consumers, but even for business owners, as Mike makes clear in this episode, so just salient to arm yourself with education and information as investors, as consumers, in all walks of life.
So really happy for you to listen to this conversation. Also, and as always, hope everybody is taking care of themselves physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally, and everyone is staying safe out there.
And before we begin, a brief disclaimer. Nothing on this podcast should be taken as investment advice of any sort. And in my model cannabis portfolio, I’m long Trulieve, Khiron, GrowGeneration, Curaleaf, Vireo Health and Isracann BioSciences. You can subscribe to us on Libsyn, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play and Stitcher.
Mike, really great to have you on the Cannabis Investing Podcast. Thanks so much for joining us today.
Mike Donnelly: Thanks for having me, Rena. I appreciate it.
RS: So talk to listeners about, I guess, your journey to the cannabis space and the CBD Path, in particular, but also how you’ve come to the sector in general?
MD: Yes. It’s been a long road up into this point. I joined the military. Actually, it started with the military, because that’s where it really where it ends right now – where it’s going to end is, joined the military at early age of 17, became a SEAL – U.S. Navy SEAL, did that for 10 years and then got out and started working in the industry as far as construction industry. Get my feet wet.
Opening my first company back in 2005, 2006. Started my first construction company. Grew that very large, did well with that. And then took money from there and started invested into other avenues from a nutrition to gyms to the cannabis industry, where I invested money into start-up private companies like Kaletra and HIVE that were using cannabis to – for medical uses and medical studies.
From there, invested into a company called, Kaya, out of Jamaica, where we got the first legal license to grow and sell marijuana in Jamaica. And then from there, I’ve been thoroughly involved in raising money for nonprofit veteran organizations. I’m on the Board of the Navy SEAL Museum, where I get to travel around the United States and raise money for our causes.
And by doing that, I was always running into guys, veterans that were having issues. When they came back to the States, we’re trying to reassimilate. And the common denominator that I found with a lot of them is they were starting to use CBD, even though it wasn’t legal, so to speak, at the time. They were using CBD to combat some of their issues. So I started doing research. And in December of 2018, the government took it out – took CBD off the federal banned list.
So that gave me more of an opportunity to get involved and do research. And ultimately, I started a company called The CBD Path, which is a passion of mine right now to help veterans with a lot of issues that they’re going through to help people in general, but my focus is veterans, because I know they need our help. And that’s where I started to where I’m at now.
RS: Nice, nice. Talk to me before we get into the CBD Path and how you got started with that, talk to me for a second about the cannabis companies that you invested in. How did you choose which companies to invest in? Or did you have a connection and that’s how you got involved? Or were you look going for it?
MD: I had a connection – yes, I had a connection. One of my close friends is very well versed in the cannabis industry. There’s a lot of connections in the cannabis industry. So he would always come to me and say, “I have this deal. We’re looking at this company.” This is what they do in this industry, and this is what they’re trying to do in the industry.
And so like Kaletra was – they were using cannabis in host disease after post-surgery. Doing things like this, doing research in the cancer center to see where it can help the body and where it can help the human person. I found that interesting. So invested in that company. And then another company came along called the HIVE, where we put money into that. It’s also doing medical research.
So it was having a group of friends that were well versed in the industry. And then we all put money together to – for these companies and get the research done. And then they ended up going public in the Canadian stock market.
RS: Is there any kind of thing that you’ve learned that you would either caution or encourage people looking to – I hear from people a lot and a lot of people want to know how to get invested in the cannabis space, or they have opportunities to invest in the cannabis space. And they’re not sure exactly what the best way is, or what would you say is something that you’ve learned from those experiences?
MD: Well, finding the right group of people really, doing your research on who’s in the industry and what they’re doing in the industry and then making that connection. I mean, it’s very difficult as a lone, as a – as an outsider, trying to invest in companies at the right time and the right company, and it’s really finding the relationship with somebody that you trust or business or a company that you trust and then making a connection there, and then going that route and just really sticking with it.
RS: Yes. Yes, we hear that a lot like how important it is to – even if you’re just investing as an investor in a public company, how important management is and the people that work behind the company. So pivoting to the – you getting involved with CBD and you’ve seen veterans take it, were you seeing them take it for a whole host of reasons? Was it physical? Was it mental health? What were you seeing there?
MD: Well, I think, everything boils down to mental health if you want to know the truth. I think, your physical. I think if – how you feel physically, really boils down to your mental health as well. I think everything contributes to that. So I mean, it’s been amazing, some of the feedback that we’ve received from people that we don’t know and then people that we do know.
I have one of my close friends. His son got in a motorcycle accident, had his leg amputated. Went through multiple surgeries in the hospital for 40 some-odd days. Wasn’t sleeping, having a hard time. He – we gave him CBD while he was in the hospital. They didn’t want to tell the doctors. It was up to them how they wanted to do it. They heard about CBD. They wanted to give it to their son to give it a try. They didn’t tell the doctors about it.
They said the first night they gave it to him, he slept for seven hours, where he hadn’t slept prior, where he wasn’t sleeping through the night. And the first night they gave him CBD, he was able to sleep through the night. Stories that we get, these are stories I hear all the time. It just sends chills that this actually does do wonders for people and on different levels.
So I think everybody – I think everybody’s body is different. I think everybody receives it differently. But we’ve had a lot of people with great stories. I mean, I could go – I can go on and on with a few stories from another buddy of mine that got his foot amputated, was having a hard time with anxiety. He couldn’t sleep. He got on CBD, says it saved his life. It just – it took the anxiety away. It took the pain away. It’s not a wonder drug, but I do believe that it helps a lot of people in many different ways.
RS: Yes. Look, the cannabinoids, I mean, we’ve also heard a number of stories on the show itself of it helping immensely people in ways that nothing else had.
MD: Yes.
RS: So in terms of getting started with that, number one, I’m interested in terms of – I’ve also talked to a couple of people that have been in the armed forces in some capacity and then gotten into the cannabis field. Did you find resistance from, I mean, I know it’s – the CBD is now legal. So I guess, it’s different…
MD: Right.
RS: …than the cannabis. But did you find any resistance from that community to this market?
MD: No, now it’s whoever wants to try it. And unfortunately – fortunately, unfortunately, the CBD market is saturated. But if – to me, it didn’t matter. I really believe that I needed to get this in front of veterans that don’t know about it. One of our biggest things for CBD Path is education. Education is huge. I don’t think there’s a lot of education on it right now, because it is so fresh. And only since December of 2018 it has become legal to sell and take, so to speak.
So there’s so much that’s not known and so much that people don’t know and it’s so confused with marijuana, where it’s not even it’s nothing like that. So – and I don’t get frazzled easy or pushed around easy. So now jumping right in for me was pretty simple, pretty easy.
Owning – I’ve owned several businesses and sold a few businesses. So I’ve been around a little bit. I think the American dream for me, the American dream is to own your own company and be your own boss and make your rules the way you want to make them. So jumping right into this CBD was a no-brainer. It was very interesting.
My wife is with me a lot, who is part of this company. And she travels with me on these – on the fundraisers. And she had met a lot of these guys and a lot of veterans and women that have been taking CBD and have heard the stories. She started doing a lot of research on it.
And then one night she just came in, she goes, “What, we can start a business. We could really get this out there and get in front of the people that need it.” And I mean, it honestly took two minutes, where we say, let’s do this. Let’s put this together. Let’s put a business behind it and get it out there. So for me not much pushback. I just – I saw something that made sense. And for me to team up with my wife and build this company is – has been a blessing.
RS: It’s interesting you guys are the second married couple that works together, that started a business together that I’ve talked to recently. And it’s nice to hear people do that and still get along and it’s funny that they’re so close together.
MD: It looks like, it’s funny you say that, Rena. So like I told you before, she is the brains and I’m just – I’m the brawn. That’s it. She’s got all the knowledge and I’m just the looks. But she really – my wife really puts 110% behind this company as well as I do with my relationships and the guys that I communicate with. But yes, it’s been fun.
RS: That’s awesome. And we all have to know our roles… that’s important for any successful partner to know our roles. Talk to me for a second – I mean, you spoke about the oversaturation of the CBD market. Something I liked about what you guys are doing that’s slightly different is, you’re veterans giving back to veterans in terms of your profits are going back into that community.
With – notwithstanding kind of the oversaturation and talking a bit about like the giving back aspect of your company, how else do you stand out in the market? Or are you differentiating yourself in the market?
MD: Well, so again, as you know, being a former Navy SEAL, veterans and nonprofit organizations are very important to me. I know there’s so many veterans out there that put their life on the line that did a lot for our country. And it means a lot for me, like big time to give back to the community. No one knows what they’ve done and what they’ve been through, it’s huge for me.
One of the avenues I wanted to help was veterans, because I believe they need this. There are – they do have a lot of issues of anxiety. There’s 20 million veterans and I think one out of every three has some sort of issue due to whatever they’ve been through. And whether it’s anxiety, insomnia, inflammation from their muscles or whatnot. I believe that they all need to take it in some aspect.
So one of our avenues was to get this out in front of the veterans. We put QR codes on our bottles so that you can scan your bottle and know where your hemp came from, from the time it grew in the field until it’s in your hand. So it was very important for us that we differentiate ourselves that we’re not just a mom-and-pop company that popped up and is trying to make a buck.
We want to – if you go to our website, we have a blog. We have so much education on our website. We have you take a quiz that’ll kind of narrow it down, because one of the things we’ve seen a lot is that, people don’t know what to take, how to take, when to take. So we try to make it as easy as possible and taking a quiz on what’s your expectation? What’s your issues? And then what you should be – what you should lean toward that would help you out the most.
I mean, we were getting involved before I told my father. After we started this up, I told my father we started this business. And he goes, “Oh, wow, I just bought two bottles of CBD.” I’m like really? What was the dosage? How many milligrams? I don’t know.
Well, how much you’ve taken? Well, I took one bottle and it didn’t do anything. So I stopped taking it. I was like, this is my dad, like it just – it’s incredible the thought process out there on CBD, the lack of knowledge. So important to us that we educate people, that’s one of our big things is just a lot of education, so.
RS: Have you already seen a change in kind of like the broader general public since you’ve been – since you started until now in terms of people’s education levels and what they’re looking for like their ability to talk about it? Is it more advanced than it was when you started out?
MD: Yes, it’s been interesting. So we officially launched in January of this year, the company and we’ve grown every month. And we’ve seen that people understand it more and more on why to take it, because a lot of people are talking about it and a lot of people are confident in what it’s doing for them.
So yes, we’ve seen the knowledge of CBD and what it – what effects it has, has increased, absolutely no question. And we see that in our company as well as we’ve grown exponentially month to month in our sales. So that’s been nice. To further that, one of the things that we’re pushing for is, what I want to do is, I want to start a 501(c)(3)for CBD Path.
So that, because I know there’s a lot of veterans out there that don’t take it because of the cost. It’s not the cheapest item on the market. And I know there’s people that don’t want to put the money or have the money to put into CBD, even though it may help them with whatever issues they may have.
We’re looking hopefully down the road to start a 501(c)(3), so that we can actually give this out to people that qualify that can afford it, because I’m thoroughly involved in fundraising throughout the year. I’ve got a lot of great friends that I’ve met along the way who want to – who are patriots and just want to give back in anyway they can.
So if I was able to start a 501(c)(3), I would raise money that in turn would allow me to buy product and give it away for free to veterans that qualify, that needed. There’s a lot of – you’ve heard or maybe you haven’t, but there’s on average 22 veteran suicides a day. And we believe, obviously, this is due to the mental stability and whether it’s – whether they’re hooked on pharmaceutical drugs, or just can’t get their thoughts correct.
We believe CBD – taking the right amount at the right times – could change everything for them. We wouldn’t have so many suicides. So I believe, again, if we can get this in front of the right person at the right time, whether they can afford it or not, I believe it’s going to change a lot of lives.
RS: Well, that’s great to hear, good for you. Given your experience, especially in the Navy SEALs and also your interaction with the community like thereafter. What is your take on what, I don’t know, what can be done for veterans more than is being done? Why isn’t – why do you think there isn’t more, I think, support and understanding given to that community?
MD: I start. So, we’ve – yes, so we’ve been in war for 20 years, right? So far, this last situation that we’ve put ourselves in, that’s a tough question. Yes. So, it’s a two-way street, both the veteran has to be willing and able to put the effort in when they transition out of the military to be the best person they can be and they’re also at the same time, I believe it’s getting better.
So I can talk about now. I can talk about what I know now. And in the past few years, I’ve seen a lot of organizations start-up to assist veterans. So there is a lot there now. You just have to know where to look and where to see it. And like the CBD Path, I’m trying to push it in front of people. So there may be situations where guys don’t know what’s out there available to them.
So maybe they don’t reach out to the right organizations to put them in the right positions when they transition out or when they’re in a situation. So the more we push to get things in front of their eyes that they know that there’s something out there to help them whether it’s with a career, whether it’s with their health or whatnot, I think, the better off we’ll be. So I know there’s a lot of things now that are out there for them. We just need to keep getting in front of them at all keep educating.
RS: Yes. And given Corona and kind of how much the issue of mental health is really at the forefront, and in my opinion, just as important as any discussion about COVID, it should be hand in hand with how many people are suffering from real mental issues right now – mental health issues, which as you said, leads to a whole host of other things. What have you guys seen in the CBD space since COVID has hit?
MD: Well, an increase in – honestly, an increase in our product sales.
RS: Right.
MD: We understand that people sitting at home and possibly losing their jobs or losing their jobs have a lot of anxiety. We understand that the mental process that goes to their head and what they might deal with or what they’re going to deal with or what they are dealing with it is a big deal.
And thank goodness, the CBD came out when it did and became legal, because I know we’ve had several people start CBD during this COVID lockdown, and it has helped them just take the edge off to calm their thoughts, have a normal day without getting into anxiety and thoughts that just ruin your day.
So we’ve seen actually a big uptick in CBD sales due to the COVID-19 take peoples’ anxiety up. New York is one of our, amazingly enough, being in Miami and our concentrated marketing New York has been a huge area where we’ve sold a lot of CBD, which makes a lot of sense with everybody locked up in the concrete jungle. So yes, you can see where the COVID and the CBD is kind of linked together with people that understand how to use it and why to use it and help them out throughout the day.
RS: Right. So that’s been – it’s – I guess, we’ve been in a few months of some sort of version of lockdown anyway. Has it been consistent kind of growth since lockdown started?
MD: No question. Absolutely. Yes.
RS: Yes, I mean, I think, we’re hearing that from cannabis companies as well, just seeing kind of like sustained growth and people were worried would it be sustained? And I think, we’re seeing, yes, yes, it is, especially with what’s happening in the world. I think it’s a – it’s proving itself to be an essential item.
The other thing I wanted to talk to you about is kind of growing your company. What is your plan for the CBD Path? Like let’s say, I imagine COVID is putting some kind of wrinkle into your plans, but maybe it’s not, is it?
MD: Well, it’s funny. It slows it down to the fact that there’s companies out there that weren’t prepared, (but who was?) and don’t have the right infrastructure, like people to work and continue to move forward. So we’ve seen a low in companies that have employees prepared to keep moving forward with marketing and research and whatnot. So, we’ve seen that, that little bump in the road along the way, but it hasn’t slowed us down at all.
Yes, one of our biggest things right now is our partnerships, is making the right partnerships. Right now, we’re working with a couple of companies called Headstrong, who has brick-and-mortar locations that helps mental patients that are having issues, veterans that are having issues. We’ve been working with them, marketing with them. So, our partnerships right now is like one of the biggest things that we’re trying to put together on who we can work best with to get our message out.
RS: And where are you sourcing your CBD from?
MD: Our CBD comes out of Oregon.
RS: And is it just one place? Is it a host of farms? Is it one farm?
MD: No, it’s – right now, it’s one location. We get it from one farm out of Oregon right now.
RS: That’s pretty rare.
MD: …and we’ve kept.
RS: Sorry, go ahead.
MD: We – that’s okay. We’ve kept our products. So we’re not – I’m not – we don’t want to be the gimmick. We don’t want to be a gimmick and come, try – come to our website and record someone like smoking. Smoking is something I don’t condone inhaling this into your lungs. Personally, I don’t like that. I don’t think it’s the right way to intake CBD.
So it’s something that, that we don’t sell. I’m not into gimmicks of selling licorice that has CBD in it or along those lines. We’re pretty straightforward. I believe if you’re taking CBD, you’re taking it for a reason. And I’m hoping that, that you feel the best way to take it is direct oil under your tongue.
We do have gummy bears just for the – somebody that might have a sweet tooth and wants to take it as a snack throughout the day. And then we have topicals, we can rub it directly on an ailment that you might have, and we’ve gotten great feedback on the topicals. But yes, we’re not a company – I don’t want to be again a company to try to sell 100 products that I want to sell you the right product that you can take and it has the effect you need.
RS: Do you think that the food products that are sold are they by and large not as effective? Do you think because of how it’s ingested?
MD: Yes. I think the bioavailability of it is huge. There isn’t enough studies on it yet. So when the studies come out, and they can prove that by baking it in a cookie or put it in a drink and stuff like that, if there’s research out there and there’s proof that there’s a way to take it and it makes sense and it’s – your body can accept it, well, I’d be more than happy to put that out to the people that – our customers. But for now, knowing what we know, I believe the products that we’re putting out are the right products at the moment that will get you the best results.
RS: Yes. I’ve heard that from another head of a top CBD company that the food and the beverage that has not been worked out as much as it’s been touted and hyped. So interesting. The other thing I wanted to talk to you about is your pet CBD line. Talk to me a little bit about how that came about and what you’re looking to do there?
MD: So dogs in general receive CBD, because of their endocannabinoid system they receive it better than the average person. And it’s like a lot of the people that we’ve dealt with and what we’ve seen is dogs. When you – when they take CBD, it changes their mood, changes their attitude.
I work with dogs a lot, service dogs and guide dogs and whatnot. A lot of demonstrations I do. We do a lot of bite suit work on some around dogs quite often. I have my own dog, Rottweiler.
So we thought CBD for pets was big. We were – we do have a lot of partnerships with dog trainers, Canine Tactical, Baby Canine, there are a lot of these guys that, that swear by CBD for dogs that it just – it sets their mood. It brings them down from being just crazy running around circles to a nice average dog. So CBD for pets is really huge, especially for dogs. It’s – so it’s a really good seller for us as well, because you can see it work. It’s – obviously, the CBD does work for pets.
RS: That’s interesting. What is it about their system that reacts so much better even than humans?
MD: I mean, not being a doctor or a veterinarian, I think, they’re just – their sensory system and their endocannabinoid system is more sensitive than ours. It – I think, it receives the CBD components. It processes the CBD components better than our bodies do. So they get a quicker reaction, and maybe it’s because of their body composition is smaller. I’m not too sure.
RS: So what are your plans like going forward in terms of – are there any plans to go international? Are you focused on the States right now?
MD: I’m focused on the States right now. We still have a lot of work to do. We’re nowhere near where we need to be. So I need to keep my focus here in the United States. I need to keep making relationships. We just got – we were just in Forbes Magazine, which was a huge boost for us, mentioning our company and what we’re trying to do.
I still have – I’ve got miles to go before I sleep, before I try to go international. We have had requests for our product outside the United States. But with some of the laws in these other countries and some of the unknowns for us right now, it’s just better to stick with what we know, stick with what we’re good at right now. Move forward, grow it, and then we’ll see down the line. We’ll see where it goes.
RS: Okay, love a poetry reference, especially in discussing of business plans. What’s the plan in terms of, or how do you see the CBD market? Like the Farm Bill passed, and I think a lot of people were excited, and then as we’ve talked about, there’s – this oversaturation in the market, what do you see kind of going forward? Do you think there’s going to be a lot of players that are going to be out of the sector soon and it’s going to work itself out? Or how do you see the market changing if at all?
MD: Yes, no question. So this is business 101. So the CBD business isn’t changing the landscape of business. So this will be like most items that come to the market. You’ll have and everybody should get their feet wet, start a business that they believe in it. And if it’s a CBD business, get into it, put into it what you believe is what’s needed.
And then yes, so the people that put the max effort that have the right marketing, have the right partnerships, have the right story behind their company will continue to push it and hopefully thrive. There will be the mom-and-pops. There will be some of the – there’ll be some of the bigger companies and funny, I was just with somebody this Monday, right? I was just with somebody yesterday, the day before and I apologize.
RS: The days don’t matter anymore, don’t worry.
MD: Yes, it’s crazy. I did a fundraiser on Sunday for Operation grid winds, where we lost a bunch of SEALs over in Afghanistan and Iraq. So I did the Murph Challenge Sunday, so little – today is Tuesday, right? Okay, today is Tuesday. Wow. Okay, so yes.
So I was with somebody Sunday, a very large company that is in the nutrition space. They do very well for themselves, great product. They got into the CBD business. And they threw a bunch of money behind it, but I don’t know that in talking to them, there was so much unknown in the market and so much volatility that they decided to shut it down after, I think, like four or five months of promoting it and putting money behind it.
So you’re going to have those companies that don’t see a future in it. And then you’re going to have the companies that can put a good product together, put a good story behind it, and then just move it. So CBD is not going anywhere. And marijuana, as you know, is becoming – it’s becoming readily available and it’s becoming socially acceptable.
And here’s what’s interesting, too, is that I don’t smoke marijuana, not interested in smoking marijuana. It just doesn’t – it doesn’t do it for me. I’d like to be in control at all times and have my wits about me at all times. So even though I’m thoroughly invested in several companies that have to do with marijuana, I do not use it, it just – it’s just something that, that doesn’t interest me personally. I do use CBD.
So I do use CBD quite often, because I do have muscle fatigue after I work out a lot. So I enjoy the CBD to help me with my inflammation. But marijuana, so to speak, for me, I don’t – marijuana, I don’t take.
RS: Yes, but nice to hear you still believing in the power of the plant even in the parts that you don’t partake of.
MD: Yes, no question. Absolutely. I believe that, that marijuana has a lot of advantages for a lot of people. I believe it does great wonders for people, no question, and there’s a lot of uses for it.
RS: Yes. Do you worry at all about kind of the bigger corporations getting into the marketplace at all?
MD: No, if I did that I think that, that would be wrong of me. I believe if you can take a product and it’s a good product and you can build a company behind it, you can build it large. It’s more power to you who am I or anybody to say that anybody should be able to cap their process or their hard work? At what point do I stop working hard? Because I made it to some point and I shouldn’t be allowed to go any further.
So as long as I’m putting a good product out for the right reasons and helping people, that’s kind of a – that’s a touchy subject to say what, stop working so hard, because you’re doing well at what you’re doing. I mean, it’s probably a bunch of different ways to look at that, right?
RS: Right. Don’t get so successful, you might be taken over soon. Yes.
MD: Yes.
RS: Yes, I hear you. And I think also, it’s true. I mean, it’s hard to run a business if you’re always looking over your shoulder. I think, if you’re – we talk about this also a lot in terms of the businesses that are worth looking at or worth being a consumer of are the ones that believe in their product and aren’t really necessarily worried about the other things. But at the same time being responsible stewards of their own capital or shareholders if we’re talking about the public markets. But yes, I think, in general, it makes sense.
So what do you see kind of like in terms of – well, let me ask you this actually. CBD is a – being – it’s active soldiers are completely able to take that, right? There’s no issue there?
MD: No, they are not. The military – the active military has a space specific rule that they put in place a law that active military cannot take CBD products.
RS: Oh. So talk – what’s that all about?
MD: So I believe this scenario, I’m just talking off of my opinion. I believe this scenario became a lot of guys were testing positive for marijuana, and everybody was throwing it back on CBD that they started taking CBD. So I mean, it’s possible they got it from CBD, but they’d have to take a large amount of it to test positive. So I believe there was a lot of scenarios where active military were blamed on CBD. So then the military across the board said no more CBD for anybody. Yep.
RS: It’s interesting in Israel, where I’m based, this week they’re talking about well, a lot of things really, but in terms of the cannabis world, they’re talking about trying to legalize it recreationally and they’re two votes away from it [since this was recorded, they’re now 1 vote away], people think that it’s going to happen. But one of the things that I found interesting is in Israel, the voting law is 18, the drinking law is 18, but the cannabis law would be 21.
And speaking of active duty in cannabis, it’s just like, to me, it makes no sense that you can drink, but not take cannabis. I mean, to me, if that’s what you’re looking to prevent then you should be preventing alcohol as well. What do you think, that is something that is going to be with time understood as kind of like a draconian measure to take? Or do you think it’s going to not be until cannabis is legal at the federal level or more states, at least until that’s changed?
MD: Yes, great question, right. Great question. Yes, and I don’t know that you’ll ever have marijuana legal through military. I don’t know that the military will ever accept that. That’s a great question. So interesting. Yes.
RS: Do you think it’s because of kind of how they judge the psychoactive properties of it? It’s kind of like antiauthoritarian in their eyes? Is – or is that me thinking too differently? I don’t know.
MD: No, I mean, I bet you if we could go back 100 years alcohol in itself would probably – they would take a different stance on alcohol. I just think it’s just so rooted into our social background that alcohol just became a pass after that. Alcohol after it leaves your body at a certain time, you don’t know if you’ve drank alcohol. I mean, there’s probably so many aspects to it for me to get into. I wish I could just go on and on.
But I can tell you when I operated, I don’t know that guys… I can tell you that a guy’s had alcohol or drinking alcohol while I was operating. But I don’t know that if somebody was smoking marijuana, if I would know, whether I’m operating, if they were on it or not on and would it interfere with the thought process? So yes, I mean, that’s a whole other study in conversation.
RS: But that’s interesting. That’s an interesting point that you’re making, I think. I’ve never thought about that, that alcohol, you – it’s kind of immediate – you either smell it or it’s obvious in some way. But you’re right, it’s not necessarily obvious if somebody’s taking cannabis… interesting. Honestly, it’s the first logical argument I’ve heard for that being a rule.
MD: Right.
RS: Interesting. Well, Mike, anything you want to say to listeners or advice you have to people kind of looking in the CBD market and being like, well, what am I supposed to buy or what am I supposed to be looking for? Do you have any advice for them?
MD: Yes, educate yourself. I mean, make sure that you know what your symptoms are. Make sure you understand if you do want to take it where you’re buying it from. It’s funny we get a lot of people that say they buy CBD off of Amazon. Amazon doesn’t sell CBD. They sell hemp oil, but they don’t sell CBD. So a lot of – there’s a lot of – that’s another interesting scenario, where a lot of people don’t know what they’re buying or where they’re buying it from or why they’re buying it from them.
So be careful of the locations that don’t sell you the right product. And so educate yourself on what you want. Educate yourself on where you’re buying it from, and make sure you’re buying the right product for the right reason and taking it at the right times and the right milligrams.
And there’s – it’s not rocket science. There’s not a lot to it, but you do need to understand it to make sure that it works for you, because there’s a lot of people that, that will buy CBD and not take it properly or at the right time to the right dosages and not get any effect out of it. When if they would have done some research and taken it at the right times and the right dosages, it could have done wonders for them.
So just education on it, just to find the right company, find the right product. We have a robust service side, where we answer questions nonstop. You’d be amazed at how many questions we get throughout the day, how many phone calls we get throughout the day, just asking simple questions on what to take, when to take and how to take. So make sure who you’re buying it from is also reliable and is approachable to answer your question. So – and if it’s a CBD Path, we appreciate it.
RS: Yes. It’s always something I like, especially in a CBD company, because it is a new product on the market. And I think because there are so many bad actors in the space, I think… I think it’s really important to kind of acknowledge what you are selling and highlight that and not hide behind it. And I think the companies that are highlighting it and that are public facing and that are servicing their customers, I think, well, those are really good things to look for.
MD: Yes.
RS: It’s funny people think that they’re buying CBD from Amazon, but nobody is actually buying CBD from Amazon.
MD: Right. That’s crazy. Yes, that’s a crazy concept that people actually think they’re buying it and they’re really not. I mean, it’s interesting. That tells you a lot.
RS: Yes. I think, there is so much misinformation in the sector, more than the cannabis sector, because I think it’s legal. But – so it opened the floodgates, but yes, there – there’s really – you really need to, as you said, arm yourself with education if you’re going to be a player or consumer in the market.
MD: Right. And we really need the government here in the United States. We really need our government, the FDA to really put some time and effort into the CBD industry and start putting out some really good information and rules and regulations, so that a lot of us know what direction we can and cannot go. There’s still so much gray, where the FDA is just not getting involved enough to put out guidelines.
Right now, it’s – a lot of people just saying, “well, I’m going to give this a shot. Maybe they’ll be upset. Maybe I’ll get in trouble. Maybe I won’t. Maybe I’ll get my hand slapped, maybe I won’t.” So one of the big things we need right now is for our government to really be involved since they took it off the banned list to be involved and put – let us know our right and left limitations so that we can really put forth a good effort.
RS: Do you think it’s been kind of a clumsy roll out there? Or, how would you kind of – where would you say they need to improve aside from clarity? Like, do you think that they’ve been doing what they need to be doing in terms of educating themselves, for instance?
MD: Yes. The climate where the United States has been in the past few years, I don’t know how much time they’ve had to put into it or can put into it or what their labor force looks like. So I can’t speak on their behalf. But I know that there’s a lot of legislation out. There’s a lot of senators. And what are those other guys, lobbyists that are in their face. But I know that they haven’t done – they haven’t been on their timeline that they gave us originally to come out with some rules and regulations.
So I can’t say I’m not sitting in their office, I’m not sitting behind their desk. So I can’t really say where they’ve been what they’re doing. Is it getting held up by pharmacy – pharmaceutical companies? Who knows? All I can do is say, I’d like to keep pushing to get them to make a left and right limitation for us.
RS: Something we talk a lot about on the show and that we hear from, especially a lot of business founders is in the cannabis world via the plant itself or CBD or any of the cannabinoids, you really have to be able to pivot when you need to pivot like in a way that it doesn’t really exist in another sector, I think, the way it does in this field.
And even in the CBD field, which is legal, because it’s still figuring itself out. You really have to be able to be nimble and facile in the marketplace. So I think it kind of makes the business better. But it seems also kind of extremely frustrating and daunting to take on as a business founder owner?
MD: Yes, yes, you’ll know who is good at business. As you see the businesses shift left and right, who is staying on top of trends in the markets. But that’s like, it’s business one-on-one, right? That’s – that should be the status quo for most businesses.
RS: So do you have any kind of partnerships that you have coming up or has COVID put a lot of that on hold?
MD: We’re working on it. So we’re in conversations – phone conversations everyday with different organizations. There’s nothing major we’re putting together now just conversations for now. So yes, no major new – no new major partnerships coming up, but constant conversations everyday.
RS: And is the plan down the line to go into the public markets or no?
MD: I don’t think so. I don’t think I’ve built this company to take public if you want to know the truth. I built this company really to help veterans and be there for veterans for the most part as well as the regular civilian population. But I don’t think that I’ve designed this actually to take public.
RS: Gotcha. And in terms of your consumer makeup, is it evenly divided between kind of the civilian consumer and a veteran consumer?
MD: As at this point, I believe we’re about 50-50 between veterans and civilian. The word of mouth is, it’s gotten – our word of mouth has worked really well. We’ve had a lot of people call in just by recommendations from other people to civilians and everybody. So at this point, I believe we’re about 50-50 between veterans buying and civilians buying at this point.
RS: Well, word of mouth is always a great signifier of the kind of product that you’re putting out there.
MD: And I’d tell you again, Rena, the stories we hear, the feedback we get, it’s incredible. It’s what makes it fun. It’s what makes it just to keep pushing it, keep talking and keep getting it out there. It’s just the stories that we hear like a marine was about three weeks ago started taking our products that he hadn’t slept, had a good sleep in months and took our product. And again, it’s funny to say. But honestly, he said in the first night, he had his first full night of sleep in several months after taking the product. So it’s awesome to hear their stories.
RS: Yes, that’s amazing. Yes, and again, kudos for giving back to the community and for doing good with a business model. It’s always nice to hear. It’s always inspiring to hear people taking that on and giving back. So kudos. And you want to tell listeners how they can find your products or more about CBD?
MD: Absolutely. Just go online, it’s thecbdpath.com. It’s very educational, like I said. We pride ourselves on education. So you know, what you’re getting, when to get it, when to take it, how to take it. So yes, if you’d please go online to thecbdpath.com, we have oils, we have topical, anything you need to help you with your mental health, and as well as pet products.
RS: Yes. Don’t forget the pet products.
MD: Everybody loves their pets.
RS: Yes. All right, Mike, this has been a really great conversation, really interesting and really great to talk to you. So thanks for taking the time.
MD: Rena, thank you very much for having me. Very honored. So I look forward to talking to you again hopefully.
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