Essential supplements to fuel your health and wellness

A new year brings fresh opportunities to prioritize your health and wellness. Whether you’re setting goals to feel more energized, boost your immunity, or simply take better care of yourself, the right supplements can help you stay on track.

From a multivitamin to cover your daily essentials to magnesium for muscle support, vitamin D3 to strengthen your bones, a B complex for steady energy, and vitamin C to keep your defenses strong, these must-haves provide the perfect foundation to fuel your wellness journey. Start the year off right by giving your body the support it needs to thrive.

Multivitamin

A good multivitamin is like a safety net for your nutrition. Research studies indicate that several of the nutrients found in a standard multivitamin are important for preventing chronic illness and diseases such as osteoporosis and heart disease. While a daily multivitamin is certainly not meant to replace a healthy diet of nutrient rich foods, it can help to ensure that your nutritional needs are well covered on a day to day basis, even if your dietary nutrient intake fluctuates.

Canadian-made, AOR’s Multi Basics 3® includes all recognized essential nutrients in optimal forms for digestion and absorption.

Magnesium Complex

You may have heard that magnesium is required for over 300 different biochemical reactions in the body. This mighty mineral helps to support muscle function, maintain electrolyte balance, help wound healing and the development of bones, teeth and cartilage...and more.

The thing is, due to the declining mineral content in the soils that grow our food and consequently, the food sources themselves, it can be difficult to obtain adequate amounts of magnesium from food alone. This is where supplementation may help.

AOR’s Advanced Magnesium Complex® combines four sources of magnesium into one comprehensive formula to ensure the body’s needs are met. It includes magnesium aspartate, magnesium ascorbate, magnesium malate and magnesium glycinate. These are easily metabolized by various systems in the body and each form provides more benefits than just magnesium alone.

Vitamin D3

Vitamin D is more than just a nutrient to help prevent the “winter blues”. Vitamin D helps the body regulate calcium levels in the blood, bones and tissues, aiding proper calcium and phosphorus absorption to promote bone growth and remodeling. This is why it is a critical vitamin for healthy bones. Healthy bones = healthy movement.

To get vitamin D the old-fashioned way, we need sunshine. This can be difficult in the North, when dreary winter months mean declining daylight hours. Most North Americans, notably Canadians, have deficient or sub-optimal vitamin D levels. Decreased exposure to sunlight plays a factor, but so do our genetics. Certain genetic variations in vitamin D enzymes prevent the conversion of vitamin D from sunlight into its active form in the body. This makes vitamin D a critical nutrient to supplement if blood levels are low.

AOR’s provides Vitamin3 D in liquid form for both adults and children, as well as a 2500 IU capsule form.

B Complex

Often called “the energy” vitamins, B vitamins function more like keys that unlock the body’s energy and play an essential role in many cellular processes. The B vitamin family includes vitamin B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B5 (pantothenic acid), B6 (pyridoxine), B7 (biotin), B9 (folic acid aka folate) and B12 (cobalamin). When all the B vitamins are combined, this is known as a ‘B complex’.

Picking the most important B vitamins is like picking the most important parts of the body – they all work in synergy. Although each B vitamin is unique, they have closely interrelated functions. The compounds in a B complex are needed for the healthy maintenance of brain cells to the metabolism of carbohydrates, the brain’s fuel source.

Given that the body does a poor job of storing B vitamins (they are lost through urine and sweat) and its need for them is increased by stress, smoking, alcohol use, drugs, dietary practices and illness, it makes sense why deficiencies occur. Aging and genetic alterations also affect the body’s ability to absorb vitamin B12 from foods.

AOR’s Advanced B Complex® is vegan friendly, non-GMO and gluten-free. It contains all of the B vitamins in balanced ratios and clinically supported doses.

Vitamin C

Vitamin C is commonly known for its antioxidant actions, helping to protect against free radical damage. It also plays a vital role in helping to grow and repair tissues in all parts of the body. It helps the body make collagen, an important protein used to make skin, cartilage and connective tissue. Vitamin C is also needed for healing wounds and maintaining bones and teeth.

Given that vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin (like B vitamins, it is also lost through urine and sweat), the body doesn’t store it. It must be obtained from the foods you eat and is easily found in fruits and vegetables like lemons, oranges, grapefruits, broccoli, kale, cauliflower and tomatoes.

During those times when eating whole food sources of vitamin C isn’t happening for you, consider supplementing with vitamin C to ensure you’re supporting your immune system and your body’s ability to metabolize nutrients.

AOR’s Vitamin C is available in both 100 and 300 capsule sizes. It is vegan, gluten free and non-GMO.

About Advanced Orthomolecular Research (AOR)

Advanced Orthomolecular Research (AOR) is a Canadian based company with an established reputation as an advanced dietary supplement formulator. Through ethical discipline and evidence-based science, AOR leads and advances the natural health industry. AOR exists to create safe, effective and therapeutic solutions from nature, so consumers can always trust their products to deliver the right molecule in the right dose, at the right place, at the right time.

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