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]]>1. Go Soap Free!
No, we aren’t suggesting you don’t wash. It is a chilly skin sin to use soap, especially on your delicate face. Try using a pea-sized amount of USANA Celavive® Creamy Foam Cleanser to wash away the day.
2. Don’t Get Too Hot & Steamy
Even the best of us enjoy a long steamy shower on the coldest nights. However, remember that hot water can irritate and dry out your skin. Okay, so we know you’re probably going to still have a hot shower every now and then, but try to cut down on shower time and not have the temperature up too high. Swap this warm indulgence with a hot water bottle, your fluffiest blanket and herbal tea.
3. Hyaluronic Acid for the Winter Win
Use products with hyaluronic acid (Hi there, USANA Celavive® Perfecting Toner). It can hold 1,000x its weight in water.1 Can’t you just feel the hydration?
4. Whip out the Body Cream
We’re talking body! Apply a body cream straight after showering to lock in moisture. If you haven’t tried USANA®’s Firming Body Nourisher, now is the time! It nourishes and sweeps away dry skin with delicious ingredients like shea butter, Irish moss, mallow, whole grape and green tea extracts. Perfect to help counteract environmental exposure.
5. Always Wear SPF
Although it might not all be blue skies and rainbows, it’s still vital to wear SPF in winter. We might not feel the warmth—unfortunately—, but UVA and UVB rays can still damage your skin.
USANA Celavive® Moisturising Day Cream with Sunscreen (SPF15) is a great SPF moisturiser option with rich hydration or Moisturising Day Lotion with Sunscreen (SPF15) is perfect for lightweight, yet nourishing results. Both these products feature a botanical blend that has been clinically shown to provide 24 hours of rich hydration after just one application!
6. Drink More Water
Well, this one is kind of obvious, but it’s a crucial step in staying hydrated, and therefore keeping our skin looking healthy. Make sure you hydrate your skin from within by having your water bottle with you at all times so you can sip away thirst. If you struggle to drink enough water, you could try out our tasty fruit-infused water recipes!
7. Supplements for Your Skin!
Proflavanol® C 100 and BiOmega
are two dietary supplements that should be a must for your daily beauty routine, helping you go beyond skin deep and maintain a healthy-looking complexion.
A deficiency in essential fatty acids can mean dry and dreary skin. Top up your fatty acids with a high quality fish oil, to help keep your skin hydrated and even help with inflammation.
If Proflavanol® C 100 isn’t on your skin wish list, then write it down! Vitamin C is great for helping to maintain healthy skin due to its antioxidant benefits and its role in collagen synthesis.
Skincare You Can Be Sure About
Find out more or shop for our advanced skincare range here and go beyond what you see!
Vitamin supplements should not replace a balanced diet. Use only as directed. Always read the label.
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]]>1. Fuel up with CellSentials
The CellSentials® (Vita-Antioxidant & Core Minerals) are designed to provide an essential foundation of optimal nourishment.
“Traveling around the world from event to event through different cultures and different foods, it can be hard to always get the right nutrients in my food to feel my best. This is why Cellsentials is the perfect traveling companion to help fill the nutritional gap that I sometimes might be missing. They give me piece of mind that I’m getting all my nutrients and am keeping healthy wherever I am in the world” – Paige Hareb, New Zealand Surfer
Vita-Antioxidant is an excellent source of vitamins B6 and B12, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, biotin, pantothenic acid and folate. The vitamins in Vita-Antioxidant are essential to many aspects of our health, including:
- Metabolising fats, proteins and carbohydrates, which plays a role in maintaining energy levels
- Supporting healthy immune function
- Supporting healthy brain and nerve function
- Supporting normal cardiovascular health
- Antioxidants help defend your cells against the oxidative stress caused by sunlight, pollution and stress, which can all prematurely age the skin.
“As An Elite International athlete travelling all over the world it is not always easy to access food with the best nutritional values and nutrients for my heavy workload, even stuff in the supermarket does not always live up to expectations and can harbour some harmful chemicals. This is why I take CellSentials to keep myself healthy and filled up with the good stuff my body needs to keep performing at the highest level possible” – Joelle King, New Zealand Squash Player
Core Minerals is an excellent source of magnesium. Magnesium is a cofactor in more than 300 enzyme systems that control various natural physiological processes in the body, including:
- Metabolising glucose and protein synthesis;
- Supporting the production of cellular energy;
- Producing protein, and the synthesis of DNA and glutathione.
It is important for proper calcium utilisation, which contributes to the structural development of bones.
“Cellsentials is an all-round safety net. The food I consume sometimes isn’t of my choice, nor of my nutritional requirements (reality of racing in all sorts of countries). I find taking Cellsentials ensures I am acquiring the required nutritional values to keep performing and remaining healthy when my body is being pushed to the limit.” – Regan Gough, New Zealand Race Cyclist.
2. Team USANA Big on BiOmega
Omega–3 fatty acids are considered necessary as humans cannot produce these fatty acids; for that reason, it needs to be gained through supplementation or diet. Fish oils are an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids that offer numerous health benefits for athletes, such as:
- Support healthy joints
- Support healthy cardiovascular function
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“Omega 3 is a hard supplementary nutrient to acquire in your ever day diet. Taking the Bio Mega capsules ensures I am not deficient in this area and allows my body to perform and recover at its optimum rate.” – Regan Gough, New Zealand Cyclist
Recent studies have shown an unexpected prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in both Australia and New Zealand. Emerging evidence suggests many protective benefits of vitamin D, in addition to its role in bone health. For Australians to achieve optimal levels of vitamin D without putting themselves at greater risk from increased sun exposure, there would be an increased requirement for dietary sources of vitamin D. As vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin, BiOmega provides an ideal delivery medium for vitamin D, to ensure a sufficient daily intake.
USANA’s BiOmegaTM is free of trans-fatty acids, and is guaranteed to be virtually free of heavy metals, organic contaminants and pesticides. Each capsule also contains mixed natural tocopherols to minimise oxidation of the omega-3 fatty acids.
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“Being a pro surfer, I can put a fair bit of stress on my joints, in particular my knees. With a long competitive season, it’s important for me to have my body as healthy as possible all year round. Taking USANA’s BiOmega supports my healthy joints.” – Paige Hareb, New Zealand Surfer
Thus of course leading into our third top USANA supplements for athletes:
3. Gain resilience with USANA’s Vitamin D
Vitamin D is involved in several physiological functions and helps maintain our health in various ways. Once you begin to list the benefits this fat-soluble vitamin does, you might begin to question if there is anything it doesn’t do. This amazing vitamin assists in the absorption of calcium. Calcium plays an important role in bone growth and development, immune function, and as we age, muscle mass and strength.
Vitamin D helps maintain a healthy functioning immune system. This is very significant for athletes with a deficiency in Vitamin D, as they have a tendency to be frequently sick, as they have an intense training schedule. Sick athletes are not winning athletes. Powerful and high quality training could be bettered by improving your immune and bone health.
Diet is a secondary source of vitamin D in that most foods contain only small amounts of this nutrient. It is estimated that average intake of vitamin D for most Australians is less than 100 IU per day from diet alone, leaving a gap in vitamin D nutrition for those with insufficient sun exposure. USANA’s Vitamin D is formulated with maximum strength to help you bridge the vitamin D deficiency gap in your dietary consumption. It provides you with 1000 IU per tablet to support optimal intake of vitamin D.
Stay tuned for our next blog and find out athletes should take the remaining 3 USANA products!
References:
Nutrition and Dietetics, 2006, Vol. 63(4)
Vitamin D and adult bone health in Australia and New Zealand: a position statement;
MJA 2005; 182 (6):281-285+
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Vitamin supplements should not replace a balanced diet. Always read the labels. Use only as directed.
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]]>Do Athletes Really Need to Take Supplements?
One question that commonly arises is, “If I eat a healthy diet, do I still need to take supplements?”. Let it be clearly indicated that a healthy diet is an essential foundation for any program of optimal nutrition. Realistically there is no substitute for eating healthy. In this perspective, USANA’s nutritional supplements are designed and calculated to complement a healthy diet rather than a replacement. USANA supplements are designed to provide advanced levels of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that are challenging to gain from diet alone – levels that individuals can use every day to promote a lifetime of good health.
Secondly, inadequate vitamin levels may result in poor athletic performances. Athletes deficient in B-vitamins may perform worse during high-intensity exercise and have less ability to repair and build muscle than individuals with nutrient-rich diets. B vitamins, including thiamine, riboflavin, B6, B12, and folate, are required by the body for proper conversion of proteins and sugars into energy. B vitamins are also utilised during the production and repair of cells, including red blood cells.
In a US study (Woolf & Manore 2006, Even a marginal deficiency in these nutrients negatively influenced the ability of the athletes’ bodies to repair, operate efficiently, and fight disease. Exercise-induced stress, changes in body tissues resulting from training, increased loss of nutrients (in sweat, urine, and faeces), and the additional nutrients needed to repair and maintain higher levels of lean tissue mass may all affect an individual’s B-vitamin requirements.
Why Do Our Elite Athletes Choose USANA Supplements?
Brooke Neal, New Zealand Hockey Player
“In today’s world, I believe it’s extremely hard for me to get all of the nutrients needed to perform at my optimum from food alone. USANA gives me peace of mind that I’m fueling my body with the right nutrients 7 days a week, wherever in the world I am competing.”
– Brooke Neal, New Zealand Hockey
“Using USANA supplements provides great peace of mind that I am getting quality nutrition and therefore giving my body the best foundation to perform. At the top level it’s all about finding the 1% advantages over your opposition.”
– Katie Perkins, New Zealand Cricket
The sports world is consumed by energy drinks, protein bars, pills, powders, and to make things harder for the consumer there are thousands of marketing and research material out there on supplements. USANA’s supplements are easy to take, easy to read, and easy to understand! We aim to fuel the athletes body with the best supplements, after all we are the Cellular Nutrition Company! We understand supplements!
Katie Perkins, New Zealand White Fern
The Top 6 USANA Supplements Taken by Team USANA!
- CellSentials®(multi-vitamins and minerals providing potent levels of B-Vitamins)
- Biomega(Omega-3 Essential Fatty Acids EPA and DHA from natural fish Oil)
- Vitamin D
- Proflavanol C 100(grape seed and Vitamin C)
- Coquinone 100(Coenzyme Q10)
- Procosamine®(glucosamine)
Stay tuned for our next blog to find out why these supplements have been picked as the top six!
Vitamin supplements should not replace a balanced diet. Use only as directed. Always read the label.
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]]>Our skin is the largest and most visible organ in our bodies, acting as a protective shield deflecting potentially harmful environmental elements. It might look like nothing much but if you delve deeper down you’ll find out that our skin is the product of countless complex processes occurring every millisecond. Skin is far smarter than you think and has adapted for use in different areas of the body – from the temperature-regulating armpits to the soles of our feet.
Ignoring skin problems is extremely hard so we must do all we can to ensure that our skin is at its optimal health every day. Remember, prevention and general upkeep is far more effective than damage control and treatments.
External pressures on skin health
Skin deterioration and damage is undeniably endured on a daily basis. And like every other organ, our skin constantly works to repair itself. As you can imagine, with an immense amount of pressure, the integrity of your skin suffers and if we don’t reinforce our protective barrier it might just collapse.
Skin dryness is a fact of life that severely impedes our skin’s ability to function efficiently. How does our skin get dry you might ask. The water we wash ourselves with everyday has chlorine added which naturally dries out the skin and being indoors with air-conditioning on throughout the day dehydrates your body as well as skin.
If you couple dryness with poor hygiene or genetic predisposition to skin irritation or inflammation, then you could have a big problem on your hands. Now imagine adding the daily stresses of life into the mix as well! Can you now see how at risk your skin health is? There are hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders with skin conditions and the rate of incidence is growing dramatically each day.
So what can you do?
Simple things like having good sleeping habits, relaxing or meditating, and eating a healthy well-balanced diet go very far in helping to ensure optimal skin health. But these are usually not sufficient enough to meet our needs.
It has been found that in addition to good general nutrition, omega-3 fats are one of the major components of healthy skin. Omega-3s are vital as they make up the outer hydrophobic, water hating, part of skin cell membranes. They work as gatekeepers by controlling the movement of substances in and out of skin cells. On top of that they influence our skin cell’s ability to hold onto water, contributing to moister and softer skin, by helping to repel water which can cause dryness.
We know omega-3 fatty acids are essential for good health but eating the right foods to get the right doses can be quite tricky. Modern diets contain far less omega-3s than your daily recommended intake. This is a result of manufacturers mainly using less beneficial omega-6 fats instead, a low consumption of fish per week per capita, and a preference for foods that don’t contain omega-3 fats.
Now this where supplementation comes in! Your body can’t make omega-3s so you need to get them from other sources, such as food or supplements. Plant sources include walnuts and flax seeds but omega-3s are also found in the oil from fatty fish, like salmon or mackerel.
As far as skin is concerned, omega-3 fats help to:
• Nourish the skin.
• Hydrate the skin by encouraging skin cells to retain natural moisture.
• Encourage the maintenance of healthy skin cells.
A good quality fish oil is a good way to ensure adequate omega-3s and is generally safe unless you are sensitivity to fish oils, are taking a blood-thinning medicine, or you’ve been advised by a medical professional not to take the supplement.
Why not give your kids BiOmegaTM Jr.?
Children are far more susceptible to developing skin conditions due to poorer hygiene, a weaker immune system, and a heightened exposure to skin irritants. Because of this, it is extremely important to have a protective system in place to help your child cope with all the health stresses they encounter every day.
Fish oil supplements vary a lot in their content and quality. You must make sure that you choose a supplement that is high quality, has the right amount of omega-3 fats in the right forms, and meets all regulatory standards.
BiOmegaTM Jr. is a great choice because:
• It has high levels of EPA and DHA – two of the most important constituents in omega-3 fats.
• It uses natural sweetener only, with a creamy orange flavour that all children will love.
• It is packaged in single-serve packets for convenience and personalisation.
• It is manufactured under the most stringent standards, ensuring that what is written on the label is actually in the capsule and in the exact same amounts.
Click here to buy BiOmegaTM Jr. now!
Vitamin supplements should not replace a balanced diet. Use only as directed. Always read the label.
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