Why is maintaining a healthy active lifestyle important?
Lack of physical activity has been linked to the occurrence of several chronic diseases, so taking part in regular exercise could be one of the best things you can do for your health and wellbeing.
Your energy levels, mobility, flexibility, bone and muscle health all depend on the nutrients you provide your body with. At Cytoplan we offer the best natural and effective supplements to support your active health.
Active health supplements to support your muscles, bones, joints and energy levels
Bones
The health of your bones is critical to overall health. Bones give structure and allow for normal movement, so supporting your bone health is essential to maintaining a healthy active lifestyle.
Our Bone Support supplement contains the key vitamins and minerals to support bone health including calcium, magnesium, vitamins D3 and K2 and boron.
Several other nutrients can also play a part in healthy bones and so consideration should be given to overall nutritional status.
For example, collagen gives strength, structure, and flexibility to our connective tissue, including our bones, therefore supporting movement and an active lifestyle.
Vitamin C is also important for collagen synthesis, and we offer several high potency vitamin C supplements.
Regular physical activity is essential for bone health and a combination of weight-bearing exercises such as jogging, brisk walking and aerobics, combined with muscle strengthening exercises such as lifting weights and using elastic resistance bands is recommended to support strong bones.
Joints
Your joints, where two bones meet in the body, contain a variety of fibrous connective tissue, such as ligaments, tendons and cartilage, which covers the ends of bones and provides cushioning to allow smooth, frictionless movement. When functioning well, our joints allow us to have a healthy active lifestyle and move freely without any difficulty, pain or stiffness.
Our synergistic joint supplement, to help support joint health and an active lifestyle contains a matrix of type II collagen, chondroitin sulphate and hyaluronic acid. Collectively, these make up the building blocks of cartilage. This all-encompassing, high potency supplement is designed to support overall joint health, especially for those with active lifestyles or ageing joints.
We also offer a joint support formula containing glucosamine, MSM, turmeric and Boswellia to support joint structure and provide anti-inflammatory benefits, as well as standalone products for those wanting individual ingredients, such as MSM and glucosamine.
Muscles
Muscle is essential for normal movement and strength to support active health, particularly into older age.
Your muscles can help to prevent falls, strengthen your bones and help maintain a healthy weight due to their high metabolic activity, all of which contribute to maintaining an active lifestyle throughout life.
We have a range of supplements to support your muscle health. The mineral magnesium is essential for muscle health and relaxation, and low levels are associated with muscle cramps and spasms. We offer a number of gentle and effective magnesium supplements to suit all needs. We offer a Marine Collagen which is a tasteless and odourless, wild caught, clean and sustainable fish collagen providing Peptan type I collagen, which has been shown to support the health of all connective tissue including muscle, ligaments and tendons. It is in hydrolysed peptide form and therefore highly bioavailable and bioeffective and can support an active lifestyle.
We also have a fenugreek extract supplement (Cytosterone) designed to support healthy testosterone levels, which can have beneficial effects on muscle mass and function and can often be lower in older males.
Energy levels
Lack of energy is a very common complaint for many and a range of factors can contribute to low energy levels, including stress, poor quality sleep,a poor diet andnutrient deficiencies.
Our CoQ10 Multi is an all-encompassing and synergistic vitamin and mineral formula with wholefood nutrients that provides an excellent level of nutrients to support healthy energy levels.
What are the best nutrients to support energy levels?
A comprehensive multivitamin and mineral formula providing excellent levels of the following key nutrients would be the first point of call if you are lacking energy and looking to support an active lifestyle.
- The B Vitamins, including B12 are involved in many aspects of energy production and so a deficiency in any can leave you feeling tired.
- Magnesium is an essential mineral involved in energy production. It also plays an important role in sleep, by regulating the sleep hormone - melatonin.
- Iron plays an important role in transporting oxygen through the blood to your body’s tissues, where it is used at a cellular level to make energy.
- CoEnzyme Q10 (CoQ10) plays an instrumental role in generating energy, but the body’s rate of production does decrease as we age so it can be beneficial to take it in supplement form, particularly in those over the age of 50.
Our CoQ10 Multi is an all-encompassing and synergistic vitamin and mineral formula with wholefood nutrients that has excellent level of nutrients for supporting healthy energy levels.
What are the best supplements to keep my joints healthy and active?
Firstly, it is important to address the basics with all-round nutritional support. Due to The Nutrition Gap we recommend a natural and effective multivitamin and mineral supplement in either “food state” or “wholefood” form, which means the nutrients come complete with associated food factors with which they occur in food. This ensures they are recognised by the body as food and optimally absorbed and utilised. Including a multivitamin and mineral will help to provide a foundation for health, including joint health.
More tailored supplements to support joint health may include nutrients to support the health of the cartilage such as glucosamine, MSM and a type II collagen matrix, as well as nutrients that can help to reduce an inflammatory response such as curcumin, Boswellia and omega-3 fatty acids. Vitamin C is also needed for collagen formation. We have joint support supplements that provide these nutrients in their most bioeffective forms to help support healthy, active lifestyles at all stages of life.
