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NO:NAME Supplements Expands TruShield™ Certified Coverage: Banned Substance Testing for Every Product You Take
When most people think of banned substance certification, they picture pre-workouts and protein powders. But athletes reach for a lot more than that nowadays, and now the supplement industry is starting to catch up.
NO:NAME Supplements has expanded its partnership with TruShield™ Certified to include its full product lineup: ten products spanning everything from […]
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Animal x Smarties: Creatine HMB+, Pump Non-Stim, and Creatine Chews Get an Iconic Candy Collab
Animal just teamed up with Smarties for one of the more fitting supplement collabs we've seen in a while. Three core products get the Smarties treatment: Animal Creatine HMB+, Animal Pump Non-Stim, and Animal Creatine Chews, all landing in the same recognizable candy flavor that's been a Halloween staple for generations.
Animal's […]
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Tom Reilly on VMI Sports, PEZ Collab, and Two Mystery Canned Beverages | Episode #205
Tom Reilly, president of VMI Sports, brings a perspective from all over the industry, and he's got a lot of educational things to say. Two decades spent at GNC, then in natural food distribution at UNFI, and eventually as a purchasing director and director at Lone Star Distribution gave him an […]
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Vegan Collagen?! How VC-H1 Can Disrupt Amazon with Eric Withee & Marc Bruggemann | Episode #204
What if you could deliver all the benefits of traditional collagen without any animal ingredients?
In Episode #204 of the PricePlow Podcast, we explore VC-H1, a revolutionary vegan collagen alternative derived from organically grown hibiscus. Eric Withee from Freemen Nutra returns to discuss the science behind this innovative ingredient, while Marc Bruggemann, […]
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Nootropics Depot Against the World, Part 1: The FDA Raid - Paul Eftang & Matt Harrier | Episode #203
What happens when a supplement company built on pharmaceutical-grade testing standards gets raided by federal agents? In Part 1 of our two-part series with Nootropics Depot, founder Paul Eftang and Director of Business Development Matt Harrier take us through their origin story, the harrowing 2021 FDA raid that changed everything, and why regulatory […]
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Silicon Dioxide, Magnesium Stearate, and the Truth About Fillers and Flow Agents in Supplements
The supplement industry has a dirty little secret about "clean" formulas: the companies advertising "no fillers, no flow agents, no magnesium stearate" are often selling you the exact same compounds under different names, or their manufacturers are simply straight-up lying to them (which gets passed down to you).
This revelation came during a tour […]
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Rich Gaspari on Building Gaspari Nutrition, Surviving Bankruptcy, and the Big Comeback | Episode #202
Rich Gaspari needs no introduction in the bodybuilding and supplement industry. From childhood dreams inspired by Arnold in muscle magazines to setting new standards for conditioning on the Mr. Olympia stage, Rich's journey represents decades of dedication to the sport and science of bodybuilding. After a career-ending injury forced him to transition from competing to […]
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Inside Nootropics Depot's Pharmaceutical-Grade Labs: What Supplement Quality Actually Looks Like
When you pull up to Nootropics Depot's facilities in Tempe, Arizona, you don't see a typical supplement operation. You see multiple buildings housing millions of dollars in analytical equipment, research labs studying cellular responses to supplements, and a team obsessed with answering one question: does this product actually contain what the label claims?
We spent […]
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C4 Energy Cereal Killer Lands at 7-Eleven and Speedway Stores Nationwide
C4 Energy's Cereal Killer just scored some major retail distribution. After launching last October as a "limited edition" Halloween flavor, this fruity cereal energy drink proved so popular that it's now available exclusively at over 12,000 7-Eleven and Speedway locations nationwide.
Originally marketed with a crime-scene campaign claiming it would "kill off" other flavors […]
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Beyond Caffeine: How NNB Nutrition's Four Need States Framework Solves Energy's Real Problems
Most energy drinks fail because they address only one problem: the immediate need for stimulation. A consumer reaches for an energy drink at 2PM feeling drained, unfocused, and overwhelmed. Thirty minutes later, they're buzzing with nervous energy but still can't concentrate, still feel stressed, and now they're jittery. By 4PM, they crash harder than before.[…]
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