to your health

To Your Health: General Supplements

Apr 18, 2023 | 10:24 AM

PRINCE GEORGE — Supplements can be used by people for a whole variety of reasons, to help with digestive health to help keep hair, skin and nails healthy.

In this look at general supplements, we will look at probiotics and how someone may benefit from taking them. Probiotics are used to help with digestive health. Probiotics can also be found in yogurt and other fermented foods.

Multivitamins are used to fill in nutritional gaps and some may choose to use multivitamins instead of taking a capsule or pill for each vitamin that they may be lacking.

“So there are certain dosages that your body requires from a lot of different vitamins. And so stuffing them all into one little pill typically isn’t the answer if you’re more active, especially because then you’re going to be under nourishing your body.” – Cara Roberts, Owner, Active Body Nutrition

Collagen is the main component of connective tissues in our bodies, and has numerous functions including strengthening your bones.