Re-Imagine Your Self-Care Practices!
When you're considering self-care practices, your mind may go straight to lounging in a warm bubble bath. However, self-care is about so much more than that, and it encompasses anything you do to keep yourself feeling your best.
While self-care may seem to be an obvious need, it's usually the first thing we drop when faced with day-to-day challenges. However, that's when we need to care for ourselves the most. Maintaining our physical and mental health is critical if we want to thrive through life's obstacles.
Of course, the main reason you may drop your self-care in times of stress is simply a lack of time and energy. Not all self-care requires booking hour-long massages or yoga classes. One of the most effective self-care practices takes less than a minute to prioritize your health and well-being. All you have to do is take your supplements.
Supplements as Self-Care
The recent emphasis on self-care is a reaction to the constant stress most of us feel. Trying to juggle busy schedules, work deadlines, and the feeling of being pulled in all directions can lead anyone to feel overwhelmed.
Once you add in everyday life stressors that rise, like financial difficulties, complicated relationships, or work issues, many adults now find themselves experiencing chronic stress and the symptoms that come with it.
Chronic stress is a consistent sense of being pressured or overwhelmed for an extended time. Since our bodies are only designed to handle acute stress or short-term stress, chronic stress often has adverse side effects, including:
- Low energy
- Poor sleep or sleepiness
- Aches and pains
- Lack of focus
- Change in appetite
- Poor immunity
- Emotional withdrawal
- Headaches
- Upset stomach
Supplements offer an easy start to begin or maintain your self-care, offering the first line of defense in handling chronic stress. In addition, taking high-quality supplements can promote your immunity, mental wellness, sleep function, and how you feel overall.
Providing your body with the nutrients it needs to function correctly allows you to feel better inside and out, giving you the resources you need to handle any stressful situation life throws at you.
Self-Care Supplements
When you're looking for supplements to support your self-care specifically, you may easily get overwhelmed with all of the available options. However, the way to determine the best self-care supplements for your needs starts with identifying your struggles.
When you're stressed, do you feel run down? Do you find yourself more susceptible to negative thinking? Is your stress response to grab comforting "junk" food? Or do you stay up all night worrying? Do you get irritable and snap at the people you love? Or just feel kind of "off"?
The good news is, no matter what your stress response, Quality of Life has a supplement that may help.
AHCC®
Quality of Life's AHCC® works to promote your body's immune system performance.* Since the immune system needs to provide a perfect balance without over- or underreacting, the ideal supplement provides immunomodulating support. AHCC® does precisely that.*
AHCC® uses QOL's proprietary blend of medicinal mushroom roots to provide advanced immune system support.* With Kinoko® Gold AHCC® and Kinoko® Platinum AHCC®, you can boost your immune system's function, promoting healing and supporting your overall wellness.*
Unlike many other immune supplements, AHCC® uses an extract of hybridized medicinal mushroom roots, whose therapeutic rewards date back thousands of years in supporting wellness and internal healing.*
Thoroughly examined and researched, AHCC® enhances and activates five vital elements of the immune system, providing comprehensive support.*
Oligonol®
Oligonol® takes a different approach to supporting your immune system by helping your circulation, fighting free radical damage, and balancing the body's inflammatory response.*
Quality of Life's Oligonol® uses a unique blend of lychee fruit and green tea to relax blood vessels and serve as a potent anti-oxidant, with far-reaching rewards, including weight management and smoother, younger-looking skin.
Oligonol® works to harness the advantages of lychee fruit combined with the impressive benefits of green tea extract.* This combination offers support to your digestive, immune, and circulatory systems and fights off the lack of energy and endurance that often comes with chronic stress.*
Melatonin-SR™
Any self-care routine needs to prioritize sleep. Sleep is the body's time to recharge and rejuvenate. When you're getting quality sleep, your muscles repair, your memories consolidate, and you receive an overall improvement in your mood, memory, and judgment.
The critical benefits of sleep make stress-induced sleep deprivation even more frustrating, as when we're stressed, we need quality sleep more than ever. Melatonin-SR™ provides the essential sleep support required to fall asleep and stay asleep.*
While melatonin is on every drugstore shelf, Quality of Life's Melatonin-SR™ stands out through its unique, micronized, sustained-release matrix.* Regular melatonin metabolizes quickly, leaving the body within four hours of consumption.
However, Melatonin-SR™ continues working for seven hours, released slowly over the night so you can enjoy every moment of well-deserved rest with no morning grogginess.*
PureBalance™ Serotonin
Serotonin is a chemical messenger or neurotransmitter that sends signals between your nerve cells. Serotonin levels connect to anxiety levels, happiness, and mood. Physicians often consider serotonin a natural mood stabilizer that helps with sleeping, eating, and digesting.
The body produces its own serotonin, but it needs the essential amino acid tryptophan. PureBalance™ Serotonin provides your body with 5-HTP (L-5 hydroxytryptophan), the building blocks that the body needs to maintain your serotonin levels.*
In addition to 5-HTP, PureBalance™ Serotonin contains mood- and immune-supporting L-theanine, vitamin D, and Rhodiola Rosea.* This unique combination of vitamins and nutrients works to help the body manage its stress response and support overall health.*
Curcumin-SR™
While the benefits of turmeric in supporting the body's healthy inflammatory response are well-known, it's almost impossible to achieve all of those benefits through turmeric alone. Turmeric's concentration of its active ingredient, curcumin, is relatively low and poorly absorbed by the body.
Thankfully, Quality of Life created Curcumin-SR™, a supplement featuring MicroCurcumin™, QOL's proprietary blend cultivated to increase curcumin's absorption by the body and its bioavailability.*
By incorporating Curcumin-SR™ into your self-care routine, you can reap all of the benefits of curcumin, including a healthy immune and inflammatory response, healthy aging, and low oxidative stress*
Self-care doesn't require extensive pre-planning or reserving long blocks of time. Instead, the first step in self-care is just thinking about your health and wellness and providing your body with the nutritional supplements to keep functioning at your best.