Mahakea Kava: The Happy Kava
It’s been a long time, but several years of patience as we moved and then replanted our cultivar of kava that made Kona Kava Farm a sought after brand of Kava is back in stock; our Mahakea Kava with a 4-2-6 chemotype and lateral-only root stock in our Mahakea Powdered Kava products!
Read MoreThe Strange Case of Fake Kava
As any long-time reader of this blog knows, I am constantly on the lookout for any news stories about kava kava. I have been blessed to learn so much about kava kava’s traditional uses outside of my home islands, the developing research on her health benefits, and her emergence at long last as an accepted herbal medicine among many Western health practitioners. Yet in all the years I’ve been reading and writing about kava, I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a story as surprising as the curious case of fake kava which I’m about to relate to you all below. 1996 was an exciting year in many...
Read MoreHow Does Kava Relieve Muscle Tension?
As you may recall, a few months back I wrote a post investigating whether kava could make up a healthy part of an exercise routine, as a post-exercise tonic for relaxing and repairing muscles. The more I delved into these positive associations of kava and exercise, the more I began to wonder, how does kava relieve muscle tension and help relax muscles? Physical Mag Online has started recommending kava as a pre-game tonic for athletes who have a competition the next day, noting that it promotes refreshing, restful sleep, calm focus, as well as relaxes muscles to keep them limber and ready for...
Read MoreProud of Our GMP Kava!
Something we’ve been absolutely terrible at advertising (we’re usually quite terrible at advertising ourselves), is the fact that 100% of our Kava products are manufactured in an FDA-compliant, GMP manufacturing facility. That’s something we’re pretty darn proud of, as there’s automatically a certain level of quality that each and every product must meet, from the label, to the package, to the contents of that package, to the way it’s marketed, to any claims made on it. Every one of the products we offer goes through a very rigorous series of tests that...
Read MoreWhat Is a Pea-Sized Kava Paste Serving?
Something we get asked an awful lot here is what the heck is a “pea-sized” serving that we suggest for our Kava paste? We understand that it’s an unconventional measuring system, and although we thought it was simple, customers seem to be having some trouble with the measure. So, we’re here to help! How about something conventional when measuring out your Kavalactone doses? We’ve weighed and re-reweighed product, we’ve looked at it from every angle, and it turns out that 2 pea-sized amounts of Kavalactone Paste equal almost exactly 1/8 of a teaspoon!...
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