By Dr. Sharon Stills, NMD
If you’re like many of the women I hear from, you’ve probably noticed that your health needs have changed over the past few years.
Have your hormonal symptoms worsened — or have new symptoms emerged? Is your sleep disrupted? Are your joints achy? Do you remain concerned about your immune health?
Whenever you detect a change in how you’re feeling, it’s a good time to look at what you are doing to support your health, including the supplements you take.
Is your body telling you it needs added support in 2024? Here are some supplements that can really help.
A good multivitamin
When healthy eating habits fall off the rails during stressful times, your body ends up lacking that vital influx of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients needed to sustain its basic processes. This includes everything from cellular energy production and immune function to hormone production and hormonal balance. Boosting your dietary intake of fruits and vegetables can restart the nutrient pipeline, but taking a quality women’s multivitamin helps to quickly bridge nutritional gaps and ensures a constant flow of the micronutrients that can be difficult to acquire from diet alone.
If you have been feeling fatigued, it’s a sign that you should look for a quality multivitamin that is a rich source for B vitamins. Most women feel a big boost in energy when they consistently get more B vitamins — especially Vitamin B12. In addition to being key nutrients for energy production, B vitamins are very important for clear thinking and a stable mood.
Essential Nutrients
Superior women’s formulation of absorbable vitamins and minerals
Support for hormonal balance
Suboptimal nutrition and lots of stress are two potent triggers for hormonal imbalances, especially if you are already in the menopause transition. When your hormones shift into a state of dysfunction you can see and feel it through a number of troubling symptoms, including hot flashes, low libido, irritability, fatigue and weight gain.
Your goal is to give your body what it needs to bring hormones back into balance. First, you can take our free quiz to check the severity of your hormonal symptoms, and then it’s time to take action. Many traditional remedies for hormonal symptoms use herbs, including black cohosh and red clover, to work gently in the body to restore balance and relieve symptoms. Our Herbal Equilibrium is a multi-herbal formula that helps to actively balance all three problem hormones: estrogen, progesterone and testosterone.
Herbal Equilibrium
Doctor-formulated natural support for hormonal balance during perimenopause and menopause
Adaptogenic stress support
As I always say, stress is a leading cause for 99.9999% of illnesses and so it’s really important that we manage our stress levels — because, let’s face it, these are stressful times we’re living through! I encourage you to try various stress relief techniques. But what I really want to focus on is how to balance cortisol, the main hormone we produce when we’re stressed. Cortisol, when chronically over-produced during extended periods of stress, is a known factor for wreaking havoc in the body, contributing to everything from brain fog and trouble sleeping to weight gain and lowered immune function.
You need something powerful to counter all this and we have it in the form of Adaptisol, our stress support made with adaptogenic herbs and other compounds like cordyceps, astragalus and eleuthero. These help stress levels balance out and cortisol production regain homeostasis. Adaptisol’s adaptogenic formula also helps to balance your T-cells and reduce inflammation so your immune system is not triggered unnecessarily.
Help for immune support
As Covid returns for yet another cold and flu season, many of us have renewed concerns about the strength of our immunity. Our Super C Plus contains Vitamin C and curcumin, two powerful nutrients that are anti-viral and help to support immune function. Vitamin C is an antioxidant vitamin known to enhance neutrophils’ phagocytic capacity — phagocytes are kind of like little Pac Men in our immune system that eat up viruses. Curcumin helps suppress pro-inflammatory cytokines like interleukin-1 and interleukin-6. Cytokines can cause a “cytokine storm” that increases the severity and complications of Covid-19, and curcumin can help to prevent this. It also suppresses tumor necrosis factor alpha, helping to inhibit viruses from taking hold in the body.
Bonus: Need more support?
More immune support. For even greater immune support, take a probiotic. More than 75% of your body’s immune cells exist in the lining of your gut, living side by side with the bacteria of your gut’s microbiome. Your immune cells benefit from good gut flora, so it’s important to replenish the “good bugs” for healthy gut flora balance. To make it easy for women to get this 1-2 immune support, we paired Super C Plus and our Super Biotic in our Immune Support Combo.
Better digestion and easier weight loss. As noted above, probiotics help support your immune function. However, there are so many other good reasons why you should add a probiotic as a star supplement for daily support. Replenishing your good gut flora can help calm digestive issues and also help budge stubborn weight gain. In one study, people taking a probiotic lost twice as much weight as people who didn’t. Probiotics also reduce your risk for vaginal and urinary tract infections. Look for a high quality probiotic with several strains of beneficial bacteria.
Super Biotic
Our exclusive research-backed 8 strain formula delivers 15 billion CFU for superior probiotic support.
I hope this gives you ideas to help you support your health in 2024. Here’s to a happy and healthy year for all of us!
