Our busy modern lifestyle demands a lot from our body’s both physically and mentally. That’s why we need ample daily intake of the right vitamins, minerals and probiotics to ensure that our bodies can keep the pace in the modern world. While each of these can be found in certain food stuffs, adding a multivitamin and a probiotic supplement to your daily diet is the most efficient way to keep our bodies performing at their best.

Why Your Body Needs Probiotics

Our bodies are made up of microorganisms that live in our digestive tract (gut). These organisms are “good” bacteria known as probiotics. Probiotics play a vital role within the digestive system. They balance the intestinal flora and can fight imbalances that cause constipation, IBD, IBS and diarrhoea.

Research shows that 80% of the immune system originates in our gut and probiotics play a vital role in maintaining this. In the gastrointestinal tract, probiotics reinforce the barrier of the intestinal lining which prevents certain harmful bacteria in the intestines entering the blood stream. This assists in decreasing infections and offers critical support to the immune system. When we consider the stresses and demands of the modern daily lifestyle, maintaining a healthy immune system is imperative.

Luckily probiotics are readily available in a number of foods, such as yoghurt, kefir, kimchi, pickles and raw cheese. However, adding these foods to our diet, and consuming the necessary amount of these food stuffs, is not as easy as it seems. That’s why adding a probiotic supplement to your diet is the best way to ensure you get the probiotics you need to support your immune system and maintain a balanced digestive system.

Why We Need Multivitamins

Vitamins and minerals perform hundreds of functions in the human body. On a daily basis our bodies produce bone, muscle and skin along with red blood cells to carry nutrients around the body and important chemical messages that travel our neural system and help us to function properly. None of this would be possible without vitamins and minerals.

In the human body, Vitamin A helps promote healthy eyesight, skin and neurological function while Vitamin B boosts energy. Vitamin C helps with muscle and bone protection and growth while also offering immune support. Vitamin D aids calcium absorption and is vital for the development of bones and teeth. The antioxidant properties in Vitamin E protect our cells from oxidative damage and ultimately offer support to the immune system while Vitamin K is essential for blood clotting and the transportation of calcium throughout the body.

In addition to vitamins, our bodies also require a variety of minerals to function properly. We’ve already mentioned calcium, but others include magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, selenium and zinc among others. These minerals all perform unique functions which help our bodies to function properly and help us maintain optimal long-term health.

Despite our need for these essential vitamins and minerals, the human body can only produce one vitamin, Vitamin D otherwise known as the “sunshine vitamin”. This vitamin is produced in the skin when it is exposed to sunlight. However, if our bodies need vitamins A to K to perform at their best then we need to source these vitamins elsewhere.

Since the body cannot produce most vitamins it has to get all of its nutrients from the foods we eat every day. Foods that are high in vitamins include:

• Vitamin A: Carrots

• Vitamin B: Eggs

• Vitamin C: Oranges

• Vitamin D: Fish

• Vitamin B12: Dairy products

As with probiotics, obtaining the necessary amounts of vitamins and minerals from a standard diet can be challenging. That’s why adding a multivitamin supplement in your diet is the best way to make sure that your body gets the nutrients it needs.

For Excellent Health Combine Probiotics and Multivitamins

To get your body to perform at optimal level we recommend using MN7 and Pro-B supplements from BFC Pharma in your everyday diet.

MN7 will support your energy levels, boost the body’s metabolism, support circulation of the heart and brain, help the production of vital hormones and contribute greatly to overall health. Pro-B will balance your body’s natural defence mechanisms to fight against infections and maintain the balance of your digestive system. Together they will keep your body functioning optimally.

Adding Pro-B and MN7 from BFC Pharma into your everyday life will ensure that you receive the essential nutrients you need to keep your body in top form. Using the two together will keep you healthy and ready to take on your busy modern lifestyle.

Visit our products page to find out more on our Pro-B and MN7 ranges.