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The story behind one of our teas and the reason it was made by Sebastian.

Sebastian's regular column for Pukka Planet takes a look at his favourite destination of the whole site - the Pukkapedia.

The last in his series on food supplements, Rob Verkerk describes the future for the industry and our own ability to handle stress in our modern lives.

Rob Verkerk continues his fascinating history of food supplements - the connection to Napoleon and the champions of how to keep healthy naturally.

Up against Big Pharma, the natural products movement found it increasingly hard to show what their products did. In the fourth of his articles, Rob Verkerk tells the story of what happened in the 1990's.

The third in our series of articles about the genesis of food supplements. The story behind the dominance and growth of pharmaceuticals in modern society versus the development of natural products or nutraceuticals.

The second article in our series describing the genesis of food supplements - here we take a look at the birth of the pharmaceutical industry and the implications for creating capsules that differ fundamentally from the natural product.

Food supplements have been around for eons. You can go back to the ancient Vedic texts written around 2,000 BC, or the medical papyri of the ancient Egyptian culture to find many recorded examples of our early ancestors using concentrated nutrients. Whether it was herbs or tree resins, or minerals from plants or seaweeds, the benefits of concentrating nutrients has always been known.