Hubba's Health & Wellness Magazine - Summer/Autumn 2016 (live) | Page 16

Featured Influencer Are there any interesting trends you are seeing in the health and wellness space recently? Bone broth and collagen are pretty hot now, and ketogenic diets seem to be picking up speed. Are there any products you feel are mis-guiding consumers when they are trying to make healthy choices? “Fat free” and “low fat” are two that come most prominently to mind. Typically, unless you’re talking about the produce aisle, they just mean “high in sugar.” The clean food and healthy living movement is here to stay, whether it keeps the name paleo or not What advice would you give a first time founder of a health and wellness company to watch for when launching? These days brand equity is everything. It’s very difficult to compete on price or margin alone, especially in commoditized products, so you need to offer something no one else can offer and then establish credibility and trust with your customers. 16 Mark Sisson Mark is a former elite endurance athlete who has made health and fitness his life’s work. Since trading in his pro-running shoes 26 years ago, he’s written a series of best-selling health and fitness books, designed natural state-of-the-art, health-enhancing nutritional supplements and educational diet and exercise systems, and has published Mark’sDailyApple. com, the world’s most popular ancestral health website.    193.0k 38.0k 107.0k See full interview at: http://hubb.ly/marksisson