SUPPLEMENT & NUTRACEUTICAL SPOTLIGHT

Are your 💊 supplements going down the loo? 🧻

Supplements are generally expensive and available in a multitude of variants, formulations and all promising to be the magic “pill” you are missing in your life that will catapult your health from average to amazing… right?

WRONG!

Unfortunately, supplements are simply a supplementation strategy that could be useful to support an imbalance in the body and potentially a long-term need, but we need to make sure that what we are putting in is:

1) EFFECTIVE,

2) BIOAVAILABLE

3) in the right FORMULATION

4) taken at the right TIME

5) has no unwanted SIDE-EFFECTS or CONTRAINDICATIONS

I am learning all the time, as the research and applications for supplements are always changing.

SO, WHAT CAN WE DO?

Fill in a comprehensive functional health form that includes a diet diary, which I evaluate through a registered dietary analysis software program and see where the gaps are. This only covers what is going INTO the body, not what is being ABSORBED. We then use the symptomology report to identify any potential absorption barriers and impacts nutrient deficiencies could be having. If your gut health, stomach acid and small intestine are not optimal, no matter what you eat, you won’t reap the benefits. We can also limit absorption by pairing the wrong foods or drinks or having them at the wrong time of day (which can be good or bad, depending on the person).

Fix the gaps with real nutrition and lifestyle changes first, before considering supplements or expensive tests.

Still, think you are depleted? Follow this with a Micronutrient Blood Test. These are available in Dubai (or anywhere in the world) and can detail a significant amount of micronutrient levels in the body. Consider this a worthy health investment.

The difference with Functional Nutrition is that supplements are seen as more than a pill or tablet that layers on top of our dietary intake and are often referred to as “nutraceuticals”.

“Nutraceuticals are nutritional factors that have a proven biochemistry pathway that will elicit a planned and specific response in order to improve health”.

My motto is to take it Low & Slow. Why? Taking it slow means you can find the best dosage - even with supplements, too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. Add one supplement at a time, so you know what is or isn’t working. If your supplements have different objectives, you can add more than 1 at a time, but normally not more than 3. 

Want to learn more about your supplements?

Get in touch for a free 15min chat to see how I can help you.

You can be anywhere in the world too :)