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Declare your health independence: the Health Freedom Amendment
Why Health Freedom Matters to You You could live in a world where: Health Freedom is widely valued and protected Health options are cheaper, better, more widely available, and innovation happens f...
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Health Freedom: Safe, Affordable, or Effective
Pre-market authorization (PMA) allows only drugs that are FDA approved. PMA sounds like a good idea, but really it’s misguided and harmful. It favors powerful drugs and drug companies, and keeps t...
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Wikipedia needs our help! Wikipedia is a great source of information on a wide variety of topics. RidgeCrest Herbals has supported Wikipedia financially (in our small way) for years, because we f...
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Some people are looking for a pill that will solve all of their health problems—I’m not talking to them. Real people know that real health requires real change. You can’t keep doing unhealthy thin...
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I recently read Shawn Achor’s The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and in Life. Achor has taught at Harvard, spoken all over the world, and given a TED talk with over...
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The FTC Warns of Unsubstantiated Claims
On April 13, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent a notice to 670 food and supplement companies that may (or may not) be making unsubstantiated claims. RidgeCrest Herbals was one of these ...
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Farewell to the Friedman Doctrine
Milton Friedman (1912-2006), one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, was a free-market advocate, libertarian, teacher, and iconoclast. While his ideas often challenged conventio...
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The FDA's new MPL (Mandatory Product Listing)
On February 7, 2023, Dr. Cara Welch, Director of the Office of Dietary Supplement Programs, outlined why the FDA wants a new mandatory product listing (MPL) database. She makes the following argume...
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