Essential Nutrients for Optimal Wellness: You Guide to Key Supplements
I get so many questions about supplements and which brands I personally use (and trust) that I created this resource. Within this guide, I cover my top 12 foundational supplements that aid in day-to-day optimal health. Each supplement has a description of benefits, recommended daily does, potential contraindications, and brand recommendations.
Within this guide, you will learn:
- One of the most important herbs in Ayurvedic medicine, scientifically shown to make you more resilient to stress
- The benefits of functional mushrooms and what to look for to ensure maximum potency
- The #1 supplement for managing inflammation
- The energy producing and anti-anxiety benefits of the most common deficient mineral, magnesium
- PLUS the brands I personally trust for each of these twelve supplements.
My hope is that you feel knowledgeable when navigating the overwhelming world of supplements and feel empowered about your health.
I believe that practitioners have the unique opportunity to be a teacher and a mentor that encourages others to take self-responsibility for their health and live a healthy and sustainable lifestyle.
When it comes to supplements, you really get what you pay for. The supplement industry, which is not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States, is a grey market. To ensure you are getting exactly what is on the label, go with a trusted professional brand that is third-party tested, uses good manufacturing practices (GMP), and takes extra measures to ensure authenticity and high-quality products.
While supplementation can be beneficial, you cannot supplement your way out of an unhealthy lifestyle. Further, supplements are not a substitution for an otherwise unhealthy diet. Supplements support the body by filling in the gaps where adequate nutrition is subpar.
With the rise in pesticide use and monoculture agricultural practices leading to topsoil depletion, stressful lifestyles, excessive alcohol consumption, and consumption of nutrient-poor processed and refined diets, now, more than ever, is the need for sufficient micronutrient intake. Targeted supplementation could be the answer, as it has the potential to help restore subclinical micronutrient deficiencies, support weakened or damaged organ systems, and stimulate the intrinsic healing capacities of the body.