It's often said that you are the company you keep. Well, at National Nutrition, we keep fairly good company. Our closest friends include talented and knowledgeable industry leaders and nutrition experts who help us carry out our message by providing reliable, scientific, and practical information. We are dedicated to providing you with reliable natural health knowledge that you, as a supplement shopper, can use in your life. Here are some of our closest friends:
Karlene Karst, Dietician & Nutrition Expert
Karlene Karst is a registered dietician and nutritionist who has been practicing for the last 20 years. In fact, if Karlene looks familiar to you, it’s probably because you’ve seen her in our popular Supplement Review videos on our YouTube channel. In addition to being a media personality and nutrition expert, Karlene has authored many books over the years. Her publications include: The Full Fat Solution, Belly Fat Breakthrough, The Metabolic Syndrome Program, and her newest cookbook, This Kitchen is For Dancing: Real Food, Pure Flavour.
She is the founder of Karlene’s Sea Licious, which is a line of clean, potent, and high EPA and DHA fish oils. Sea Licious proudly has a 5-Star IFOS rating, which is the gold standard for fish oils sold today. Karlene lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with her family.
Marita Schauch
Marita Schauch is a naturopath based in Victoria, BC. She has also trained extensively in pharmacology and nutrition, carrying a bachelor of science degree in each. Dr. Schauch has written about women’s health and nutrition for 20 years. She is the author of Making Sense of Women’s Health and Collagen: Myths and Misconceptions and co-authored The Adrenal Stress Connection and, more recently, Stress and the Disease Connection.
Dr. Schauch works with WomenSense, a company devoted to making products that provide natural solutions for women of all ages.
Dr. Udo Erasmus, PhD
Dr. Udo Erasmus is a German biochemist and nutrition expert who, after being poisoned by pesticides in the 1980s, has been studying the effects of food on the body for over 40 years. Dr. Erasmus has written several books on nutrition, including The Essentials Of Natural Healing and Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill (with Maria Emmerich).
Dr. Erasmus is the founder and formulator of Udo’s Choice, a supplement company specializing in producing omega fatty acid blends, digestive enzymes, and probiotics.
Joy McCarthy
You're probably familiar with Joy McCarthy, founder (and the face behind) Joyous Health.
Joy is a holistic nutritionist, media personality, and author of three bestselling cookbooks: Joyous Health, The Joyous Cookbook, and Joyous Detox. She has a line of organic herbal teas and natural beauty products, including skin, hair, and body care, plus a line of children’s natural supplements in partnership with Genuine Health. A trusted nutrition expert, Joy has been featured in hundreds of publications both online, such as Well and Good, CNN and CBC, and in print. Joy is also a regular health expert on television, including Cityline and CTV’s Your Morning. Joy also has a podcast, The Joyous Health Podcast. Joy lives in Toronto with her family.
Doctor & Nutrition Expert W. Gifford-Jones
Dr. W. Gifford-Jones is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Harvard Medical School. After practicing gynecology for 40 years, Dr. Gifford-Jones started a medical column in 1975 and now has a readership of 7 million people who follow his non-conventional medical advice.
He is the author of nine books, including The Healthy Barmaid; his autobiography, You’re Going To Do What?; What I Learned as a Medical Journalist and his latest book, 90+ How I Got There! Dr. Gifford-Jones has also worked to legalize heroin for use in terminally ill patients. Now, after raising money to build it, the Gifford-Jones Professorship in Pain Control and Palliative Care at the University of Toronto Medical School exists today.
As on of Canada's top nutrition experts, Dr. Gifford-Jones has formulated an innovative product called Medi-C Plus. This formula combines vitamin C and lysine, an amino acid that together works to support healthy collagen levels for better heart health.
We hope you enjoyed meeting our good friends. Each, with a different focus, has been involved in revolutionizing the world of natural health and makes excellent and reliable natural health products we know you’ll love.
