Herbal Powers announces an agreement with Chris Kilham for on-site discovery of Tongkat Ali and LJ100TM Tongkat Ali extract. Kilham will be collecting final research in Malaysia's rainforest for his upcoming book Hot Plant. Simultaneously, he will be filming an educational documentary that will be aired in Southeast Asia for 3 weeks. A short version of the film will be available in DVD or CD-Rom format.
Chris heavily researching Tongkat Ali for some time and began working with Herbal Powers because of their deep ties in Malaysia at the heart of research on the plant. Hot Plant and the DVD is targeted to be on bookshelves in the fall of this year.
โ€œGiven the depth of research findings on Tongkat Ali and its more potent extracts, we believe that there are numerous potential benefits for people outside of its indigenous Southeast Asia,โ€ explains Annie Eng, President of Herbal Powers. โ€œWe are excited to be working with Chris and believe his history as an unbiased advocate of truly efficacious herbs will help to spread the word about this amazing plant.โ€
Chris Kilham is a medicine hunter, author and educator. The founder of Medicine Hunter Inc., Chris has conducted medicinal research in India, China, Siberia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Vanuatu South Pacific, Lebanon, Syria, Ghana, Austria, and the US. Chris teaches ethnobotany at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and conducts botanical educational programs for the natural products trade and the media.
Chris has worked with numerous companies to develop and popularize traditional plant-based food and medicinal products into market successes. These successes include kava, maca, horny goat weed, catuaba, tamanu oil, herbal beverages and dozens of other plants.
Chris is the author of twelve books, including Psyche Delicacies, and Tales From The Medicine Trail both published by Rodale Press, and Kava, Medicine Hunting in Paradise. Chris writes articles on plant medicines for several publications, and is Prevention Magazine's โ€œHerb Hunter.โ€
Chris lectures extensively on holistic health and botanical medicines, throughout the United States and abroad. He held the diplomatic post of Honorary Consul to the United States for the Republic Of Vanuatu from 1997 through 2000. Chris has been featured in numerous newspaper and magazine articles including Wall Street Journal, Parade, Boston Herald, Vogue, Natural Health and Men's Health, and hosted his own health-oriented talk radio programs in the Boston area for five years. An avid body surfer and adventure traveler, Chris lives and works in Massachusetts.
Herbal Powers, Inc. located in Chicago, Illinois is dedicated to providing โ€œNature's Best Remediesโ€ to the North American Market. Herbal Powers is the first vendor of Tongkat Ali Raw Materials in the United States and offers a wide variety of raw powders and extracts. Their flagship product, LJ100TM is the most potent, standardized extract available and has been scientifically tested to increase Serum testosterone levels by 100% in as little as 10 days. SourceOne Global is the distributor of Herbal Powers Raw Materials in the US market.
Tongkat Ali works by affecting the feedback cycle controlled by the gonadotropins. As such it safely works with the body to increase testosterone without risk of aromatization to estrogen. Other researched medicinal properties of this plant include use as for anti-aging, pain alleviation, andropause relief, libido enhancement, fertility, allergic relief, and energy improvement.
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