Natural Products, Herbs, Nutrients and Supplements: Overview
Complex natural products, used to support your innate healing capacity and health, are an assortment of plant samples, extracts of crude natural substances, and unfractionated extracts from marine organisms. Some examples:
- Plant samples (botanicals) such as herbs, mistletoe, mushrooms and many others
- Extracts of crude natural substances, such as curcumin from turmeric or EGCG from green tea
- Natural substances such as lipoic acid or fish oil
- Isolated vitamins and minerals such as vitamin D and magnesium
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