Supplementation: Why take supplements?
The team at Ashbrooke Anti-Ageing & Cosmetic Medicine believes that supplements are the key to ensuring that adequate levels of all nutrients required by the body are reached and maintained. Supplements should not replace a balanced diet, but can be used to better one’s internal health and wellbeing. However, not everybody needs the same nutritional supplements. This is why the Ashbrooke Anti-Ageing and Cosmetic Medicine team first performs testing, to produce a tailor made solution of nutritional supplements.
But why are these nutritional supplements necessary?
Nutritional supplements may be necessary as the food that we eat today contains fewer nutrients than food that was available 20 years ago. This is for several reasons including:
- Our soils – low in nutrients
- Foods are often picked before they are ripe
- Food processing techniques – destroy or remove nutrients
- Cooking methods further destroy nutrients
This is further compounded by the fact that we have an increased need for nutrients due to:
- Pollution being higher and more wide spread
- Busy and stressful lifestyle
When we are vitamin and mineral deficient, we are more likely to feel tired.
We may struggle to cope when stressful things happen, making us more susceptible to infection and other disease.
A Harvard University study recently recommended the daily use of multivitamin and mineral supplementation for all adults.
The importance of practitioner only products:
- They ensure quality
- Generally are more bio-available (absorption)
- Incorporate the most current research as to form and dose
- Are not synthetic
Ashbrooke Anti-Ageing & Cosmetic Medicines’ Naturopath Nicole, aims to encourage a balanced diet, with nutritional supplements, further supporting and strengthening one’s health, vitality and wellbeing.
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