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Dietary Supplements

A dietary supplement is a manufactured substance that can be taken as a pill, capsule, tablet, powder, or liquid to enhance your diet.

A quality dietary supplement delivers nutrients that may lack in our food in order to boost the amount of nutrients we consume. Vitamins, minerals, fibre, fatty acids, enzymes, and amino acids are all examples of nutritional supplementation.

Dietary supplements may also include substances such as plant pigments or polyphenols that have not been shown to be necessary to life but have a favourable biological impact on our bodies.

Animals may also provide materials for supplements, such as collagen from chickens or fish. These may be purchased separately or can be blended with nutritious substances.

Like the FDA, the European Commission has also introduced standardised guidelines to assist ensure the safety and proper labelling of food supplements. Approximately 50% of the adult population uses dietary supplements. Among the several forms of nutritional supplements, multivitamins are the most widely utilised. According to the National Institutes of Health, supplements may be of help for people who are nutrient deficient because of their diet.

 

Berberine

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Pau D'arco

This herb is also known as LaPacho or Taheebo. Pau D’arco (Tabebuia avellanedae) tea is an herbal tea prepared from the inner bark of a rainforest tree from South American. The tree is not killed during harvesting process, and only...

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Biotin

I first started to recommend the vitamin called biotin with yeast infection about three years ago after I read some interesting studies into its use, and especially after reading about written by an experienced doctor who had been recommending it...

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Grapefruit Seed Extract

Grapefruit seed extract (GSE) is made by converting grapefruit seeds and their pulp into a highly acidic liquid. After processing, filtering and distillation a yellow, viscous and quite bitter liquid is left to which a sweet vegetable glycerin is added...

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Glandular Therapy In Clinical Practice

Hormones, enzymes, and other active components required for normal biological functions are concentrated in glands. Natural health practitioners use glandular products to supplement nutrients, enzymes, and other active factors that may be lacking, depleted, or otherwise compromised in the target...

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5 Forms Of Magnesium

There are so many different kinds of magnesium, it's amazing. Let's talk more about magnesium, some good information here. Here are the 5 forms of magnesium I would recommend the most, and why.

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