Taking Maca Wrong

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I regularly receive emails and voicemails with questions about Maca. Some say, “I’ve tried Maca before, but it doesn’t work for me. Why should I try your Royal Maca?” Or, “I bought your Royal Maca, and I’ve been taking it, but my symptoms haven’t changed.” Or, “I’ve been taking two capsules a day for a year, and it’s cut my number of hot flashes in half, but I still get too many! I think I’m taking it all wrong!” Occasionally, a customer even complains that their symptoms got worse after taking Royal Maca!

This is when I put on my product educator hat and get to work helping them learn more about Maca and how best to take our unique Royal Maca line of products.

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Give Dads the Gift of Wellness This Father’s Day

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Father’s Day is around the corner, and it’s a time when our thoughts turn to finding the perfect gift for the amazing fathers in our lives, whether husbands or partners, fathers, step-fathers, or grandfathers.

The conventional wisdom is that men usually don’t take care of themselves, leaving it up to the women in their lives to ride herd on the health of the men they love. Interestingly, that’s no longer true! These days, more men are making the life-changing choice to follow their annual physical with changes to diet, fitness goals, and supplements. (A recent survey revealed that more than 40% of our Whole World Botanicals’ customers are men!)

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My Second Love: Royal Camu

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A serious health challenge led to my co-founding Whole World Botanicals. Before that, I had little understanding of the importance of Vitamin C in the functioning of the human body. I had taken synthetic ascorbic acid when I had a sore throat but never felt any dramatic change after taking the tablets.

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Some Positive News for Nature’s Pharmacy

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As a consumer of Whole World Botanicals’ therapeutic herbal products, you have a very personal reason for caring about what happens to the Amazon Rainforest, which, as you are undoubtedly already aware, is in deep crisis due to global warming throughout the world. Your Cat’s Claw, Chanca Piedra, Camu-Camu, Desmodium (Amor Seco), Graviola, and Dragon’s Blood products all began their lives as vines, trees, fruit bushes, or small, fast-growing plants in different areas of the vast Amazon River basin, which extends from northeastern Peru moving east into Brazil and further north into Ecuador.

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Cat’s Claw: Nature’s Medicine Cabinet, Part 2

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When I’m not feeling well, it’s often a sore throat, a headache, a feeling of discomfort in the gut, or a mix of low energy and mental malaise. Others might have aches or a touch of arthritic pain. But these vague and common symptoms are not likely to send me – or you – running to a doctor, because doctors often just stare blankly, order various tests, and, when the test results come back, end up saying “everything is fine.” That’s why my first response is often to turn to Cat’s Claw.

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