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Understanding Pine Pollen Tablets & Its Benefits
What is Pine Pollen?
Pine Pollen is a type of nutritional supplement that is extracted from pine
trees. Pollens—including Pine Pollen, Green Tea/
Camellia sinensis, and Brassica Pollen—are increasingly used as dietary supplements and as superfoods.
Different pollens have been used historically in classical Chinese medicine, other indigenous medicines, and in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), due to their wide range of benefits (including powerful anti-inflammatory effects). Throughou
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Sep 01, 2016
Pine Pollen Tincture: The Better, Pro-Androgenic Herb
Clinical Grade Pine Pollen Tinctures
Pine
Pollen contains over 200+ active compounds, including essential and
non-essential amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and most importantly
pro-androgenic and adaptogenic compounds. It is increasinly used as a dietary
supplement and has been known to be used in Classical Chinese Medicine and in Traditional
Chinese medicine. The use of pine pollen supplement is
safe and effective.
Our
Pine Pollen Tinctures are locally, domestically produced in a
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Aug 16, 2016
Vitamin C, Reproductive Health, and Testosterone
Vitamin C and Testosterone
It would be impossible to delineate all of the many health benefits
that are attributed to vitamin C (a list that only just begins with preventing
scurvy), but there are a few relatively unknown links between vitamin C and
sexual health that are worth noting—which is what we will do here.Americans and Inadequate Vitamin C
According to the
Environmental
Working Group (EWG)
, 43% of Americans have inadequate vitamin C intake
(based on data gathered by th
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Jul 15, 2016
Seven Springs Trail Astragalus Extract Blend
We did not set out to create this product, but after searching for a quality Astragalus Extract for our own use and coming up empty handed, it was obvious that to meet our requirements we were going to have to make it ourselves. After creating what we were looking for (a clean and organic product, a potent broad spectrum extract, isolated Astragaloside IV), it still took some time experimenting with the ratios of extracts and ensuring that each serving would have enough Astr
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Jun 21, 2016
Eternal Well Cordyceps Formula
While the use and reverence of Cordyceps dates back over
1500 years, when you read through the classic formulas you find that Cordyceps
is largely absent. The absence is not due to a lack of use or efficacy (far
from it), but is due to their historic extreme rarity.
When we decided that we wanted to offer our customers a
formula built around Cordyceps, there were no classic formulas to borrow from
that met our goals: A formula built around and celebrating Cordyceps—a synergy
that o
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May 24, 2016
Mental Maps of the Outside are the Mental Maps of the Inside
Loosing our Ancestral Skills
As humans, we’ve been human for roughly 200,000 years (the
first appearance of
Homo sapiens in Africa). Apple launched the iPhone in 2007,
which means that it’s been 9 years that we’ve been carrying these touch screen
computers in our pockets, a whole 0.000045 percent of our time on earth here as
Homo sapiens.
I do not think it serves us much to romanticize the
pre-history existence of humanity. I wouldn’t want to go back there, and I
don’t think man
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Apr 11, 2016
Are There Good Foods and Bad Foods?
The Five Branches of Chinese Medicine
There are 5 branches of Chinese medicine, and each branch is
seen as being equally important—while all can work together, simultaneously ,
all can also work in singularity. This singularity is a key concept. The 5 branches of Chinese medicine are: Acupuncture, body work
(tui na) herbal medicine, internal practices (such as tai chi and qi gong), and
nutrition (food and diet). While in the west there is an overall emphasis on
using acupuncture and he
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Apr 05, 2016
Mastering the Balance: A Comprehensive Guide to Kidney Deficiency in Chinese Medicine
Forest Medicine: An Introduction to the Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine
Kidney deficiency might best be described in our common language as premature aging—but it’s much more than that. Here, I hope to illuminate this frequently mentioned Chinese Medicine diagnosis. To do so, we will take a building block approach, moving from the basic to the complex.
The Five Elements and Organ Systems: Understanding the Principles of Chinese Medicine
To understand organ functionality in Chin
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Nov 25, 2015
The Updated Estrogen Detox Protocol
Our popular Estrogen Detox formula has been re-imagined:
making
it stronger, more protective, and ultimately more effective
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This new formula is designed to not only offer more complete estrogen detoxification, but offers more protection and repair during the course of detoxification.
We are very excited to be able to share our new Peak Performance Estrogen Detox with you--our RAW Forest Foods family, friends, and customers.Estrogen Detox: The Classic Formula
Estrogen Detox was orig
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Nov 05, 2015
Feeling Tight and Loosening Up
Loosening Up
Do you remember how flexible you were as a kid? I sure remember
how flexible I was. Thinking back to it, it almost feels like I was living in a
different body all together. I also remember having more emotional flexibility
(once you remove normal little kid stubbornness), and in comparing my adult
self to my childhood self, I see my previous self more open-minded, curious,
and enthusiastic about new experiences than I am in my adult life.
I have also noticed, in adul
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Oct 16, 2015