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Heathy INSIDER Podcast 38: The Advantages of AshwagandhaHeathy INSIDER Podcast 38: The Advantages of Ashwagandha

Research on Ashwagandha shows it helps reduce stress and inflammation in the body, leading to a slew of other health benefits from sleep to sports nutrition, cognitive health, sexual function and more. However, ensuring the Ayurvedic herb is potent, safe and properly harvest is at the root (pun intended) of concern for supplement brands that wish to supply ashwagandha to its consumers.

Research on ashwagandha shows it helps reduce stress and inflammation in the body, leading to a slew of other health benefits from sleep to sports nutrition, cognitive health, sexual function and more. However, ensuring the Ayurvedic herb is potent, safe and properly harvest is at the root (pun intended) of concern for supplement brands that wish to supply ashwagandha to its consumers. In this podcast Heather Granato, vice president of content, Informa Exhibition’s health and nutrition network, and Sandy Almendarez, editor in chief, INSIDER, discuss:

  • A recent trip Granato took to India to film ashwagandha harvesting from the field to the production facility.

  • An Ayurvedic hospital that uses practices from the traditional healing system to treat patients.

  • Why Informa Exhibition’s associate producer Charlie English starting taking ashwaganhda.

For more information on ashwagandha, check out Informa’s new content marketing site ashwagandaadvantage.com, sponsored by KSM-66 Ashwagandha, where you can see reports, blogs, infographics, digital magazines, and—in late March 2017—the documentary that is referenced in this podcast.

About the Author(s)

Heather Granato

vice president, content, Informa Markets, Food EMEA division

Heather Granato is a 25-year veteran of the natural products industry, currently serving as the Vice President, Content, in Informa Exhibitions’ Global Health & Nutrition Network. She has been a presenter at events including SupplySide, Vitafoods, Natural Products Expo, the Natural Gourmet Show and the Folio: Show. Her publishing experience includes Natural Products INSIDER, Food Product Design, Country Living's Healthy Living, Natural Foods Merchandiser, Delicious Magazine and WomenOf.com. She was named a 2015 Top Woman in Media by Folio:; received the 2014 Visionary Award from the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA); and was awarded the CEO Merit Award for Content from Informa in 2014. Granato graduated magna cum laude from the University of Richmond, Virginia, in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism; she currently serves as a national vice president for Kappa Alpha Theta women's fraternity.

Sandy Almendarez

editor in chief, Informa

Sandy Almendarez entered the natural products industry in 2009 when she joined Virgo Publishing (now Informa Exhibitions) as an assistant editor. Since then, she's worked her way up to editor in chief where she writes, edits and manages content for INSIDER. Under Sandy’s direction, INSIDER has won editorial awards from Folio: every year since 2014, including B2B Editorial Team of the Year in 2015.

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