Dr. Neal Insights

Uncompromising Wellness With Integrity

My name’s Neal. I’m a pharmacist. I was trained in traditional medicine. I know medications are necessary and can be helpful. I also know that we traditional medical practitioners, as a community, need a change of…

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The 14 Mega Corporations That Own Your Supplement Brand

The one underlying theme in my supplement discussions with customers is perception. We have an incorrect perception of the natural product industry. We think that natural is better, safer, smaller, and less corrupt than…

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Prebiotics vs. Probiotics – Optimizing Gut Health Naturally

Everyone is talking about Prebiotics these days. It’s a new, hot trend within the supplement industry. Even though I am a big gut health nerd, I must admit that I was quite skeptical of prebiotics- because trends in the…

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Calories In, Calories Out: Common Sense Weight Loss

NOTE: This article is the second part in our guide to nutrition. It is IMPERATIVE that you read and apply the tactics in Eat to Fuel Your Fire first. Part 1 is foundational material; success in nutrition comes ONLY with…

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Is Your Supplement Expert Really An Expert?

There are two main reasons we get so ranty around here about the supplement industry. The first is product related; quality control is practically non-existent and as a result, people aren’t getting the wellness…

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Pet Nutrition is Fundamentally Broken

There is no easy way to say it, so I’m just going to be blunt. Cat and dog foods are a mess. I’m not being dramatic. Do you know most dog and cat foods contain compounds whose purpose is to make their stools LOOK…

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Heart Healthy Supplements

Everyone in the health and wellness space talks about heart disease this month, so we wanted to weigh in on the discussion a bit. Many people look to Heart Healthy Supplements to prevent having to use drugs. In fact, I…

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Gut Wars – The Protocol for Using Probiotics with Antibiotics

Hundreds of times a day in communities all across the country, people are diagnosed with bacterial infections and prescribed antibiotics. These antibiotics are heroes, but they are also imperfect. Their lightsaber…

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Calcium Doesn’t Work?!

Figuring out what calcium supplement to take seems like an American right of passage after we hit a certain age. Doctors, naturopaths, heck, even your neighbor, all recommend you get on a calcium supplement. It’s one of…

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Eat to Fuel Your Fire

If you’ve followed us for some time, you can probably already tell we are not very big fans of fad diets here at Woodstock Vitamins. Diets ultimately aren’t sustainable. Fad diets often deprive your body of essential…

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Toss Out Your Resolutions! 3 Simple Rules for the New Year (or any time, really)

I’m not a fan of resolutions. I ranted about it 1 year ago. Wellness resolutions never stick for people because it just becomes too much at once. Supplement regimens become a complicated hodgepodge of this or that…

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The Garden of Lies

We shout from the rooftops that our whole food supplements are “100% Whole Food, 0% Nonsense.” In this world of supplement misinformation, the unfortunate truth is that we have to make this distinction.

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