The world of complementary and alternative medicine has and always will be, highly political, influenced and affected by a myriad of events, laws and attacks from opponents. Veteran practitioners and manufacturers of nutritional, herbal, homeopathic and Ayurvedic medicines, as well as diverse products such as essential oils, foods, and beauty creams, wade through a minefield of regulations and bureaucracy to bring precious, safe and natural remedies to countless millions of consumers of natural products and medicines.

I don't know if it is a sign of my advancing age, or simply my increased maturity and grasp of more nuanced meanings, but everything in the universe - finance, politics, international, science, healthcare - has become seriously more complicated during the past few decades.