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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Our popular Estrogen Detox formula has been re-imagined: making it stronger, more protective, and ultimately more effective . 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 …

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 …