Healthy Ageing: How do you score in the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI)
As we age, maintaining health is important, making small adjustments to your daily food can make a difference. Emerging research underscores the role diet plays in healthy ageing and reducing the risk of chronic diseases. The Alternative Healthy Eating Index…
Intermittent Fasting vs. Calorie Restriction: Exploring the 4:3 and 5:2 Diets
The 4:3 and 5:2 diets are yet another option for our weight loss missions, slightly different to traditional daily calorie counting, but care still needs to be taken on ‘days off’. Let’s take a look at 5:2 and 4:3 intermittent…
The Latest in a Good Night’s Sleep: The Role of Protein and Fibre
At Naturobotanica we want everybody to have the best sleep, and we love this recent study from Japan. They examined how protein and fibre intake influence sleep duration and efficiency. It’s about the connection between nutrition and restorative sleep. Protein’s…
Glutathione and Vitamin C: A Powerful Duo for Health and Wellness
Glutathione and vitamin C are two powerful antioxidants that support overall health, boost the immune system, and promote radiant skin. While each of these nutrients provides remarkable benefits on its own, they work even better together, enhancing each other’s effectiveness….
Sweeteners: Healthy to Unhealthy Choices
Sweeteners play a major role in our diets, whether natural or artificial. Being mindful in reducing refined white sugar can be beneficial to health, energy, and overall well-being. Below, we rank sweeteners from the healthiest to the least healthy, discussing…
What Should Not Be Taken with Vitamins? Understanding Contraindications
Vitamins and supplements are becoming increasingly popular in daily health routines, but not all combinations are safe or effective. This is due to contraindications—interactions that can occur between supplements, medications, or even certain foods. To ensure safety, it’s important to…
Balance Your Hormones Naturally
Hormones play a role in regulating many of our bodily functions, from metabolism and mood to reproductive health and energy levels. When hormones are out of balance, we tend to feel it! From fatigue to weight gain, mood swings, and…
Intermittent fasting benefits
Intermittent fasting (IF) is simply put as a period of time between eating. Unlike traditional diets that focus on what to eat, IF emphasizes when to eat. Intermittent fasting has gained popularity due to potential health benefits, which include weight…
CoQ10 and a feature on Cytoplan CoQ10 Multi
Coenzyme Q10 is an antioxidant present in almost every cell of the body. It plays a key role in energy production and is important for the function of the mitochondria, the energy powerhouses of our cells. CoQ10 is a key…
The difference between multivitamins for men and women
Multivitamins are food supplements providing essential vitamins and minerals that may be lacking in our diet. There are special multivitamin formulations and today we will be looking at the differences between multivitamins for men and women, and why. We are…
Understanding Biohacking: Meaning, Examples, and Supplements
Biohacking has become a new keyword in health and wellness, a buzz that feelings of lethargy and negativity be overcome and the feeling of freshness and enthusiasm in this wonderful life is goal. Sharpen your mind, and read on as…
Vitamin E: Benefits and Food Sources
Vitamin E is an essential vitamin that plays a key role in maintaining overall health. As an antioxidant, it protects the body from oxidative stress and supports the body in skin health, immunity, and heart health, to name a few….
The Benefits of Ginseng & Il Hwa Korean Ginseng
Ginseng has long been taken as one of the most powerful and versatile medicinal herbs in traditional medicine. Used for thousands of years across Asia and North America, ginseng has adaptogenic properties—supporting the body against physical, chemical, and biological stress—and…
The Mediterranean Diet Meal Plan and the basics
The Mediterranean diet, originally came from a study of the diets of people living around Crete, Greece, and southern Italy, and is a well-known diet today with its known and researched health benefits. Whole foods and healthy fats are the…
The Elimination Diet and what food can you eat
The elimination diet is the gold standard tool for identifying hidden food sensitivities that may be contributing to a variety of uncomfort and health issues. By temporarily removing certain foods from your diet and then reintroducing them one by one,…