Nordic Naturals was awarded the gold standard, the highest rating available for meeting the following standards and requirements.

1. Compliance with current GMP’s, acceptable third party audit, raw material supplier qualification and raw material testing for identity and purity as evidenced on CoA.
2. Use of most appropriate testing methodologies, potency testing and validated risk-based approach to testing adulterants and contaminants.
3. Testing of every batch for identity, potency, microbiological and other applicable contaminants, a stability program, in place, plus demonstrated evidence of research and product development, clinical trial support and sustainable environmental practices.

Bringing forward a new definition of fish oil quality as it relates to purity, freshness, taste, dosage, and sustainability, Nordic Naturals’ leadership has also shifted the model of how to conduct business truthfully and authentically.
Nordic Naturals incorporates ethical and socially responsible practices with regards to environmental consciousness, corporate transparency, philanthropic partnerships, and education—all of which are integral to fulfilling our mission of correcting omega-3 deficiency around the world.

Nutri-Link is pleased to have been distributing the professional line of Nordic Naturals products since 2003

Research shows that biochemical imbalances caused by nutritional deficiencies are a contributory factor in chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, auto-immune conditions and cancer. This handbook for practitioners explains how to identify and treat such biochemical imbalances in order to better understand and manage a patient’s ill-health.

The book examines a range of biochemical imbalances, including compromised adrenal or thyroid function, gastro-intestinal imbalances, immune system problems and sex hormone imbalances, and explains how and why such states occur. It pulls together a wide range of evidence to show how such imbalances are involved in the most common chronic diseases. It helps practitioners to understand how to identify the imbalances through appropriate case history taking and laboratory testing, and how to design and implement effective nutritional interventions. Developed by leading academics and practitioners  in the fields of nutritional therapy and functional medicine, this evidence-informed approach can be used with all patients who present in clinic, regardless of whether or not they have a ‘named medical condition’.

In the final chapter, a case example illustrates how to use the theoretical information in the practice of treating patients with chronically compromised health. Biochemical Imbalances in Disease is an essential text for nutritional therapy practitioners, as well as for students, and will be welcomed by complementary and conventional healthcare practitioners alike.

Dr Lombard has over 20 years of hopsital and clinical experience and his grasp of the subject was immediately apparent, unusually for a traditionally trained physician he has remained open to the ever increasing body of research data that supports the use of targeted nutritional supplements in the optimisation of enzymatic functions, where they may have been compromised by trauma, genetics or other insults.

If you want to listen to his presentation and gain CPD credits whilst sitting at home, call Claire Bain on 08450 760 402 to sign up or register for the web based version. (Registered Health Care Professional Only)

Nutri-Link and in particular Michael Ash blogs every week in the NLeducation site, you can find his latest missives on the front page, just scroll down.Or look at the resources section to check it out. You will be amazed at the amount of information, videos, media, audio and other goodies that are there free for use.

As part of the science blogging community Michael reviews peer reviewed science papers and relates them to Nutritional Therapy, or other aspects of life he finds interesting. It is possible to follow these quite easily by using the RSS feed, or Google Reader, or if you use firefox as your browser we recommend Feedly a great application for keeping track of all those bits and pieces you find interesting.

The CAM awards continues CAM’s commitment to recognising the practitioners’ and students’ who use CAM to make a real difference to their community, or simply excel in their field of work.

Michael ran a very successful integrated health care practice for 25 years, before selling in 2007 to concentrate on nutrition research, lecturing and developing Nutri-Link. He personally writes most of the articles and reviews for NL education and selects expert speakers from around the world to present their research and clinical experiences at the International Conferences he organises each year. He was also highly commended by CAM Awards in previous years for his Clinical Practice in the Outstanding Practice Award.

Interested in the work he does? why not visit the www.nleducation.co.uk web site and check out the resources section, or go to Research Blogging and type in his name in the search bar. Here you will find the latest blogs or articles written about peer reviewed research that supports the use of nutrition of food concentrates or bacteria in the management of health and well being.

Here at Nutri-Link we installed a tap filter to replace the bottled water we have supplied for years and immediately reduced our costs and use of bottled water. The team at Free Range Studios has put together an animation that explores the costs of water and just like their previous projects, it provokes thoughts and contemplation. So whilst water is essential and most of us do not get enough, do check out this film to ‘provide liquid for thought’. The Story of Bottled Water.org

But like many drugs they have been overused and over prescribed, antibiotics kill bacteria only and the use of these for viral infections, as well as prolonged use and antibacterial resistance have been discussed in many newspapers and journals. Michael Ash BSc.DO.ND.DipION has written an informative review exploring the science behind a single dose or single course of antibiotics and the detrimental effects on the microbiota – the bacterial colonies that share our gastrointestinal tract.

It seems that a number of key components are damaged by antibiotics and practitioners may be well advised to be more consistent in their application of suitable prevention strategies to keep this damage to a minimum, especially in the vulnerable patient. Antibiotic treatment alters the delicate bacterial balance by causing compositional changes in the intestinal microbiota, and may lead to a homeostatic imbalance through alterations in expression of the gastrointestinal cell lining’s tight junction proteins, mucins, antimicrobial peptides, and cytokines.

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On Saturday 27 March 2010 at 8.30pm, WWW want a billion people around the world to switch off their lights for one hour – WWF’s Earth Hour. Show you care about climate change. Whether you’re in Kent or Cumbria, Lancashire or Lanarkshire, Antrim or Anglesey… see how your part of the UK measures up on their interactive 3D sign-up map. And find out how many more sign-ups it takes to top our chart in the exciting run-up to Earth Hour! Learn More>>

WWF’s Earth Hour 2009 took the world by storm as it travelled east to west and hundreds of millions of people switched off their lights. Earth Hour was embraced by people in over 3,000 cities and towns, nearly 1,000 landmarks and more than 83 countries around the world.