Supplements
Looking for vitamins and supplements to help support your health year-round? Here, you’ll find a range of them to help support your body from head-to-toe, inside and out. Read more
What are vitamins and what do they do?
Vitamins are organic compounds and essential nutrients that your body needs in small doses to function at its healthy best. Because your body doesn’t produce all vitamins, or only in very small quantities, you’ll need to get them from a varied and balanced diet or supplements. Each vitamin is responsible for a different function in your body from supporting your immune system to making sure your eyes and skin stay healthy.
What vitamins or supplements should I take?
You can usually get all your vitamins from a healthy, balanced diet. But in real life, it’s not always that easy. Thankfully, you can find the vitamins you’re not getting in supplement form. However, it’s important to know that taking too much of any vitamin could be harmful. If you’re looking for a catch-all that supports your immune system all year round, you can try a multivitamin supplement like Vitabiotics Immunace Original tablets.
Sometimes you may need specific vitamins during certain times of the year or in your life. If you’re trying to conceive, or already expecting, the NHS recommends you take a folic acid supplement every day until you’re 12 weeks pregnant. This can help to prevent neural tube defects such as spina bifida.
Vitamin D supplements are recommended during the autumn and winter months when you don’t get as much direct sunlight as you do during spring and summer. They help to keep your bones, teeth and muscles healthy.
The Department of Health recommends children aged 6 months to 5 years should take daily supplements of vitamins A, C and D.
What vitamins are good for hair?
Eating a nutrient-packed diet will do wonders for your hair, but you may want to treat it to an extra few vitamins and minerals to help keep it looking healthy. Supplements that contain sulphur, vitamin C, zinc and B vitamins are great choices. Terranova Beauty Complex Skin, Hair & Nails contains all of these and much more.
What supplements should vegans take?
If you eat a purely plant-based diet or are considering it, you should know that you can get all of your vitamins and nutrients from your diet - but it takes some careful planning. Some nutrients are a bit harder to get than others from plant sources, and having a deficiency in these may cause medical problems. This is why you may want to consider taking a specific supplement for vegans. Higher Nature Daily Nutrients for Vegans has a range of highly absorbable forms of vitamins and minerals including iron and calcium. If you’re looking for a full rundown on vegan health and advice, read our article “Veganuary: everything you need to know.”
