The Key to Healthy Ageing
Staying Active and why the over 50s should supplement
In a recent survey carried out on over 1000 adults between 50 and 70 yrs old, the most important factor they wanted to maintain as they aged, was that of mobility. This basically means ‘musculo-skeletal health’ which is all about looking after our bones, our joints and very importantly (and often ignored), our muscle function too. It’s about staying energised too and fighting that fatigue!
Nutrition plays such a crucial role in our musculo-skeletal health and unfortunately most of the over 50s, are simply not getting anywhere near the RDA (the target level) across a range of essential vitamins, minerals and also protein too! Scientific Food Intake, Diet and Nutrition studies have been carried out all over the world and specifically, the UK data tells us clearly that many of us would benefit from adding supplements to our daily routine in order to ensure we get at least the RDA and in some cases ‘optimal’ levels of certain key nutrients, in order to support our health in this very critical area. This is based on fact, not hearsay or newspaper reports, and includes some very solid science from the best medical and nutritional research. In fact, I would go further than that and say that the over 50s DO need to supplement to maintain health.
Also, the best type of supplements for managing these three particularly important health areas are what we call ‘targeted’ ie they have been specifically designed for supporting bone health, joint health and muscle health too, and not simply a ‘one size fits all’ multi-vit , which are designed simply to raise certain nutrients across many areas. You cannot for example support muscle health in a tablet, as it is simply too small a dose! Targeted supplements will have optimal amounts of those nutrients, targeted to those health areas of this all-important musculo-skeletal health and will, therefore, be more specific and effective.
Bone health, for example, starts to wane after we get to 30 let alone 50, and in the case of postmenopausal women, bone density can reduce so much that potential osteoporosis and bone weakening will make the risk of fractures much higher.
Our joints too suffer from wear and tear as we age, and ‘feeding’ the body with the right nutrients to support collagen rebuilding in our cartilage, together with tendons and ligaments are key to lessening the risk of osteoarthritis and generally less healthy joints.
Importantly we need to also ensure we eat and indeed supplement with a higher protein intake too, in order to help maintain our muscle mass and muscle health as we age. We all need muscle but its difficult to keep what we have as we age. As we reach 45 yrs old, age-related muscle loss sets in and we can lose over a quarter of our muscle mass and strength by 60 yrs old, unless we eat more protein. We actually need 90-100 gm protein a day according to the latest science, which is three to four chicken breasts!) and also take exercise regularly. Supplementation with a specifically designed over-50s protein supplement for example, will enable you to more easily achieve this target. Failing to do this will mean loss of muscle and strength and an earlier onset of frailty and also faster loss of bone mass and less healthy joints too.
So, supplementation with these so called targeted supplements can make a big difference to your overall musculo-skeletal health and combined with simple and regular exercise, this can make a big difference to your health outcome as you age.
Prime Fifty offers such ‘targeted’ supplements, tailored specifically for these different needs and it is the ONLY such Brand that has formulated such products.
Prime Fifty offers supplements for Joint health, Bone health, Muscle health and also there is a Fighting Fatigue supplement too which is the number one seller by far.
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These products are available on QVC television (special deal on Jan 5th), Waitrose (top 140 stores), Well Pharmacy and some Health Food shops.
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By Dr Max Gowland PhD
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