How can you keep your joints happy in the cold season?

Dress Warmly

Layering up is crucial! The cold can make your muscles tense and stiff, leaving you prone to injury. Keep you head, hands and feet warm, as the majority of heat is lost through extremities. It’s a good idea to layer up when you’re exercising too, so you can stay comfortable and peel them off as you heat up.

Tweak Your Workout

Pain is your bodies warning, so take care when you’re exercising. That isn’t permission to quit exercising in winter though! Exercise can actually help keep your joints supple. Not only that, but maintaining a healthy weight is key for joint and bone health.

It’s a good idea to stretch and warm up with a walk or light jog before you start working out to prevent injuring yourself or aggravating your joints.

Adapt your workout by going indoors and keeping warmer. Head to the gym, or even use a heated pool to warm up your muscles.

Healthy diet for Healthy Joints

 It comes as no surprise that nutrition can help with your health, but there are certain foods which are particularly good for joint health. Fatty fish like salmon, mackerel and sardines are high in omega 3 fatty acids, which can help with joint inflammation. Keep your bones strong to support your joints with calcium rich foods such as yoghurt, milk and leafy greens.

Three Important Supplements for Joints

It can be hard to get the recommended amount of nutrients into your diet every day. That’s where supplementation comes in! Here are three essentials for your joints:

Omega 3 Fatty Acids

Numerous studies have shown fish oil to be effective in maintaining and supporting healthy joints and articular cartilage, assisting in joint comfort and supporting bone health¹.

It has been linked with having anti-inflammatory effects, which could help with inflammation of the cushioning pads around joints².

USANA’ BiOmega is also fortified with Vitamin D, which is important for keeping joints and bones strong, and preventing bone diseases like osteoporosis³!

Procosamine

USANA have a unique supplement which is specially designed for joint-support! It assists in reducing joint inflammation, increasing mobility, and managing osteoporosis and arthritis*.

Not only is it one of the few vegetarian formulas available on the market, the addition of vitamin C makes Procosamine a highly effective, comprehensive approach to joint health. Plus, it has a unique InCelligence® Joint-Support Complex.

MagneCal D – Magnesium, Calcium and Vitamin D

These are the essential building blocks for healthy joints and bones. Lucky for you, MagneCal D has the perfect balance of magnesium, calcium and vitamin D to support your bones, joints and more.

You probably already know that calcium is important for bone health, right? As I already mentioned, your bone and muscle health is important in keeping your joints healthy. Calcium is continually removed from and redeposited in the bones, so adequate levels are needed every day to ensure that bone mineral density is maintained. Not only that, but calcium deficiency can increase the risk of osteoporosis.

Magnesium helps your body absorb calcium and supports muscle strength, which can help with joint stability.

Vitamin D supports healthy muscle function, maintaining healthy bones and absorbing calcium, which supports your joints!

*IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST SEE YOUR DOCTOR OR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL.

Written by Monique Sparks

Marketing Assistant – USANA New Zealand

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Much like Active Calcium Plus, MagneCal D is perfect for supporting your bone health, whether you’re 18 or 80. But this powerfully balanced blend has a few improvements. Just take a look inside our newest product.

What’s Inside Magnecal D?

• Magnesium

It’s the first part of the product name for a reason. Magnesium helps your body absorb calcium, which is critical in supporting bone health. It’s important to maintain an ideal ratio of calcium to magnesium in the body, but most people simply do not consume enough magnesium. That’s why we’ve increased the daily dose to 500 mg—making it equally balanced with the calcium.

Magnesium also supports more than 300 processes in the body, including muscle strength and function, energy production, and cardiovascular and metabolic health.

• Calcium

You know calcium is important for maintaining bone health. New dietary surveys show most people are consuming more of this important nutrient, which is why we’ve rebalanced our formula to include 500 mg of calcium.

• Vitamin D

With 400 IU of vitamin D, MagneCalD helps nourish stronger, healthier bones. Vitamin D is also important in maintaining immune health.

Perfect Harmony of Three

These three nutrients work in perfect harmony to support healthy bone mineralisation, and neuromuscular function for a strong, healthy body. In other words, MagneCal D helps support a solid foundation for your healthy, active life. Take it with your daily CellSentials^® for maximum support. It’s also, vegetarian friendly.

Dietary surveys show that the population is consuming more calcium now than in recent decades; however, the inadequate consumption of magnesium and vitamin D has reached almost epidemic status. MagneCal D offers a solution to promote a more ideal balance. With a 1:1 ratio of magnesium to calcium, plus advanced levels of vitamin D, it is formulated to provide optimal amounts of all three nutrients, so they can work together for maximum effectiveness.

USANA’s MagneCal D can help supplement advanced levels of magnesium, calcium and vitamin D every day to help in the maintenance of your bones and teeth.

The Science of MagneCal D

The nutrients in MagneCal D support cell-signalling and help provide a nutritional foundation for the activities and pathways targeted by USANA products made with the Science of InCelligence.

Higher intakes of magnesium have been associated with higher levels of bone mineral density. Additionally, magnesium is a co-factor in more than 300 enzyme systems that control various natural reactions in the body, including:

• Protein and DNA synthesis
• Normal nerve conduction
• Neuromuscular conduction and muscular contraction

Many of these benefits contribute to magnesium’s support for cardiovascular health. Research has also shown that magnesium can help support healthy or normal arterial elasticity.

Adequate vitamin D and calcium, as a part of a healthy diet, along with physical activity, may reduce the risk of osteoporosis later in life. Vitamin D aids calcium and phosphorus absorption and utilisation. Without sufficient vitamin D, bones can become thin, brittle or misshapen.

In addition to supporting strong bones and teeth, the body uses calcium to support many processes, including healthy blood clotting, muscle contraction and more.

It is carefully formulated for excellent absorption to give you the best support for healthy bones.

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Vitamin supplements should not replace a balanced diet.

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