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Dietary Supplements: How to Pick the Right One for You

How to Choose Dietary Supplements

With our lives becoming increasingly busy and stressful, it’s only natural to start feeling exhausted and overwhelmed over time. Living a balanced life isn’t easy in modern times, but staying fit is key to ensuring that you remain happy, healthy, and immune to common diseases.

While eating nutritious food is the best way to promote good health, there may come a time when you might feel like you need something extra. Consuming dietary supplements is a safe way to ensure that your body gets the nutrition it needs to stay fit and invigorated. These are good supplements that provide a sustained feeling of well-being on a daily basis.

But with a plethora of dietary supplements flooding the markets, how do you know which one is most suitable for you? In this post, we’ll attempt to answer this question. Read on.

1. Figure out What Your Body Needs

Our nutritional requirements keep changing as we age. It also depends on other factors such as our current health, lifestyle, genes, environment, and fitness levels. Closing any existing nutritional gaps with dietary supplements and the highest quality multivitamin is a great idea.

Usually, most people tend to benefit from supplements that contain vitamin B12, which is a common deficiency. You can also consider what foods you dislike or avoid or rarely eat as that’ll leave a huge nutritional gap over time. For instance, if you can’t stand fish, you’ll do well to include a good supplement that offers the benefits of omega-3.

Not sure where to start? Get a blood test done. This simple step will reveal any major and minor deficiencies, allowing you to make the right supplement choices.

2. Determine Your Specific Health Goals

What do you need the dietary supplement for? Are there any specific health goals you’re looking to achieve?

If yes, you can choose from the various targeted supplements to optimize your body’s functioning – from sleeping better and reducing situational anxiety to supporting natural immunity and promoting general well-being.

Being clear about your health goals will enable you to pick a good supplement that fulfills your unique requirements.

3. Explore Your Options

It is super important to exercise caution when you’re buying dietary supplements as not all of them may be safe for use. Some so-called “good supplements” may contain ingredients that might prove to be toxic in the long term.

With this in mind, avoid buying any random dietary supplement you come across (the market is flooded with such products). Do your research – find out about the company, its sourcing policies, use of certain ingredients, quality control measures, and so on before buying anything.

Get into the habit of reading labels on bottles. The serving size, suggested use, ingredients, and percent daily value are a few factors that will have a huge impact on your health and well-being. You should be able to understand what these terms mean.

Also, many cheap supplements available in drugstores or grocery stores contain synthetic nutrients. You want to stay as far away as possible from these. Go for high-quality, nutrient-rich, bioavailable dietary supplements instead. These are the type of supplements that your body will actually use.

4. Check the Supplement’s Ingredients

As mentioned, always make sure to read the list of ingredients before buying any supplement. If you find an ingredient that you don’t recognize, research it online to ascertain it’s not an unnecessary additive.

Look at the nutritional information on supplement labels. You’ll likely find it divided into two categories: active ingredients and other ingredients. Active ingredients are meant to boost your health, whereas other ingredients are the inactive elements in the supplement. While not all of the other ingredients are bad for you, it’s always better to choose a dietary supplement that has fewer of these.

You’ll need to be extra careful if you have any kinds of allergies. So, check if the ingredients are responsibly-sources, organic, vegan, GMO-free, and soy-free. In general, good supplements are free from:

  • GMOs
  • Gluten
  • Dairy
  • Eggs
  • Shellfish
  • Soy
  • Peanuts
  • Tree nuts
  • Artificial colorings and preservatives

Another important thing to remember is to always prioritize quality. It’s better to spend a little more on a quality product with safe ingredients as these are sure to get absorbed and utilized by your body.

5. Consider the Potency

Sometimes, a dietary supplement may not contain enough of the key ingredients and hence, be ineffective. Having too less or too high amounts of the key ingredients can harm your well-being.

The supplement you consume must have the stated amount of ingredients in each dose. This is the only way to be sure that the product will effectively fill any nutritional gaps in your body.

6. Look for Purity

When it comes to purity, look for seals of approval on the product label. The FDA, GMP (Good manufacturing practice), NSF International, USP (US Pharmacopeia), and ConsumerLab are well-known and trusted agencies that offer the reassurance of high purity and potency.

These seals go a long way in ascertaining the product’s purity while boosting consumer confidence in the dietary supplement.

7. Bioavailability Matters

Bioavailability is the amount of nutrients that your body can absorb. It’s no secret that some forms of nutrients are easier for our bodies to absorb than others.

Magnesium, for instance, can be found in several forms like sulfate, magnesium chloride, taurate, or citrate. Some of these forms and certain ingredients can have high bioavailability synergy and help boost the bioavailability of others. As a result, these can be absorbed easily while also offering multiple health benefits.

Our reVITAlize supplement, for example, contains the goodness of vitamin C and iron as well as B vitamins. This is bound to work well for you.

So, do your research or consult a wellness professional to find the suitable form of nutrients and a bioavailability rate that’s right for you.

8. Check If the Product is Independently Tested and Certified

The primary aim of taking dietary supplements is to be healthier. However, you also need to ensure that you choose the right supplement that helps you get there. Considering the intricate science that goes into preparing good supplements, it can become tricky to gauge the quality of the product. Moreover, not everything you buy over the counter is actually safe for consumption.

Hence, the dietary supplement you buy should be tested and validated by independent labs for quality and purity. It’d be even better if production processes have been evaluated and approved by third-party inspectors.

9. Are the Formulations Evidence-Based?

The importance of educating yourself about vitamins, minerals, and botanical ingredients before buying a dietary supplement cannot be emphasized enough.

The potency and form of each nutrient matter. Not every supplement may contain the kind of forms and doses that you might need. For example, our reVITAlize supplement is a powder that is turned into liquid by adding water, making it a fast and effective way to receive essential nutrients.

Powder supplements have a higher bioavailability rate, as they need not physically break down. Hence, vitamins can be better absorbed even as they’re delivered to your body in the liquid form. In fact, the reVITAlize supplement contains premium ingredients with the trademarks Pycnogenol and Wellmune – that offer structural claims as well, proving their efficacy.

These ingredients are tested by reliable third-parties for purity and potency. Moreover, suppliers of these ingredients require to be certified by the NSF (or get another third-party certification for their manufacturing facility).

It is recommended to look for these certified ingredients in the dietary supplement you choose. Our reVITAlize supplement is a great option – it is carefully crafted to be your multi-faceted immunity and well-being ally.

If you’re going for a plant-derived product, make sure it is standardized and find out about the clinically effective dosages for the ingredients that can be used. What dosage should be taken to experience its benefits?

Further, more isn’t always better. It’s crucial to ensure that every nutrient is safe and well within the tolerable upper intake level.

10. Choose a Reliable Brand

Finally, choose your dietary supplements from a company of repute. You’re going to be putting this supplement in your body on a daily basis, so you want to buy it from someone you can trust.

But how can you make sure you’re picking the right brand that actually works for consumers? What can you do apart from checking for approvals and certifications to put your faith in the product?

The answer is simple – find out what other customers of the brand are saying about it. Go through their website and look for product details and research evidence. For instance, our reVITAlize supplement has many happy customers, comes with a money-back guarantee, and was created by a team of health and wellness experts.

Not to mention, our Founder, Cassie Sobelton has personally tied her name and reputation to this product. Very rarely can you pinpoint a specific person to contact or hold accountable if a company’s product is deemed defective or unsafe. This is an enormous benefit when choosing a supplement brand and dietary supplement products.

Additionally, check out reviews and testimonials for the brand’s dietary supplements on review platforms, social media, health forums, and so on. A reliable brand will always have loyal and satisfied followers leaving their comments and feedback. Along with that, if the company has reputed healthcare professionals vouching for its products, you can be sure you’re on the right path.

Conclusion

Choosing a good dietary supplement that works for you can be tricky. It’s important not to be swayed by hollow ingredient lists, misleading claims, and so on. In other words, you need to do your homework before making a decision.

Hopefully, the above points will help you find answers to your eternal question – what supplements should I take? Of course, you can always go for our reVITAlize Daily Essentials + Immunity™, a dietary supplement that combines key micronutrients with the potent antioxidant and protective power of science-backed natural ingredients providing a sustained feeling of well-being day after day.

Visit our online store to learn more about our high-quality product offerings and shop them. Or fill out our secure online form to get in touch today!

Cassie has a background in manufacturing operations, healthcare operations, nutrition, and health coaching. This results in an unparalleled understanding of how each part of production affects the whole product. Cassie is a true advocate for healthy and holistic living, preventive lifestyles, and clean food/ingredients

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