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At Etha Natural Botanicals, we don’t believe in "good enough." Our R&D team never stops working, pushing itself further, and reaching for new heights. Even a good thing can usually be better! The ETHA R&D team have spent the last half year or so, heads-down, taste-testing, tweaking, and testing again and again, to bring you something truly exciting: revamped formulas for three of our most loved products: ReFresh Brewed Kratom, Kratom Mints, and Hazelnut Kratom Shots.
What’s changed? Only the parts that make a great thing even better.
Why? Because we want even better than the best for our ETHA customers.
From our very beginning, ETHA built its operations around GMP principles not as an afterthought, but as a core value. We’re proud to be one of the few vendors recognized as a pioneer and continued avid supporter of the GMP program. This means our entire process, from sourcing raw leaves to packaging our final tablets, meets rigorous safety and quality benchmarks.
On this episode of Heal Podcast Alexander opens up about the debilitating back injury he suffered during his freshman year of high school. He tried various conventional treatments, including physical therapy, muscle relaxers, and inversion therapy, but unfortunately they offered little help. In 2016 he found kratom and it was only then, with kratom's help that he experienced dramatic relief. When he consumes kratom, Alexander experiences his pain going from from a 10 to a 2–3. Kratom literally gave him his life back.
The International Kratom Symposium serves as the leading global platform for experts to explore the complexities surrounding kratom, a tropical plant renowned for its benefits yet heavily debated for its risks. Held annually, it gathers scientists, policymakers, health professionals, and advocates to discuss the plant’s applications, safety concerns, and potential regulations. Through transparent and evidence-based discussions, the symposium plays a significant role in shaping kratom’s future.
ETHA's very own co-founder and head of R&D Alexander Karp was not only in attendance, but took the stage to speak about USA's effective and proper regulation of kratom as well as ethical business practices in the industry and as a whole. His presentation tackled the evolving landscape of U.S. kratom policy, the dangers of outright prohibitions/bans, and the critical role of responsible industry leadership.
