Natural health products include sunscreen without harmful chemicals, deodorants without aluminum, and probiotics to replenish our gut health after a round of antibiotics. It includes those D-drops everyone is told take in the winter to prevent SAD, and the formulas to help people who are constipated like Renew Life. Do you have trouble sleeping? Melatonin will cost more too. Maybe you like to take immune boosting formulas, and extra vitamin C and zinc when you feel sick. Or perhaps you found relief from Ashwagandha or STRESST for anxiety and stress (and really, who isn't anxious and stressed these days?). Maybe you started taking DHA for brain health and found a huge difference in your cognitive abilities. Or are you a fan of super greens, chlorella tablets and spirulina for detoxing?
This is going to impact you. No matter who you are, there is likely something you use regularly that falls under an NHP. The more conscious you are about what you put in and on your body, the more this is going to impact you. And most of all, it is going to hurt our small, local health food stores.
But we CAN try do something about this. Consultation ends July 26th.
Read more:
https://www.saveoursupplements.ca/
Send a letter to your MP:
https://www.saveoursupplements.ca/get-involved
Sending a letter is super easy. It is already written for you, and it gives you the name of your member of parliament. And you can add extra, more personal information easily too.