Therapeutic nutrition and food supplements

The secret to good health is simply to maintain a balanced diet, a good level of physical fitness and a healthy lifestyle. When we talk about nutrition, we mean providing your body with the nutrients it needs to carry out all the body’s biological processes, but this raises the following question: If I eat well, do I actually need food supplements? What purpose do they serve?

At Probelte Pharma we can answer this question because we have over 10 years of experience in researching therapeutic nutrition, with cutting-edge technology and a multidisciplinary team of experts from different fields.

THERAPEUTIC NUTRITION

At this point we must first explain what therapeutic nutrition is and what it entails. Therapeutic nutrition is a type of therapy that consists of correcting any nutritional deficiencies that a person may suffer from by supplying the nutrients they are lacking, either through food or natural supplementation.

FOOD SUPPLEMENTS

Food supplements are concentrated sources of nutrients or substances with a physiological effect. They can be found both in physical shops and online in many different formats, from capsules, ampoules, vials and drops to small single-dose bottles or larger formats with a dispenser. The type of format will depend to some extent on the nutrients or components included: vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, plant and herbal extracts, among others.

Food supplements should not be confused with fortified foods, which are foods in which the content of one or more nutrients is higher than usual.

TYPES OF FOOD SUPPLEMENTS

They can basically be classified according to their origin, whether they be synthetic food supplements, created entirely in a laboratory, or natural food supplements, which are of animal, vegetable or mineral origin and have not been chemically altered.

At Probelte Pharma we opt for the latter, offering our KERIBA range of online natural food supplements, created with olive extract (Mediteanox ®) and pomegranate extract (Pomanox ®).

CONTENTS OF FOOD SUPPLEMENTS

Nutrients are chemicals that come from outside the cell and are needed by the cell to carry out its vital functions. They are mainly categorised as macronutrients (carbohydrates, lipids and proteins) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals).

Due to factors such as modern diets, preservation methods and cultivation techniques, diets are now more deficient in certain nutrients. The main nutrients in food supplements are:

MAGNESIUM

Of vital importance to the human body, it supports vitamin D absorption for the bones, nerve impulse transmission and muscle relaxation, among many other processes.

It can mostly be found in foods that are rich in chlorophyll, a plant component that contains magnesium: nuts (almonds, cashews or walnuts), soya, cereals (brown rice or millet). Fat and alcohol hinder its absorption.

ANTIOXIDANTS

Antioxidants are a group of vitamins, phytochemicals and minerals that produce an antioxidant effect on other substances, called free radicals, which are considered to be harmful to the body. Free radicals are products of the body’s metabolism process, but when too many of them are produced, they affect the stability and functionality of cells by oxidising them.

Environmental pollution, stress, a poor diet, prolonged exposure to UV radiation or a lack of physical exercise or too much exercise increase the number of free radicals, which is why our body secretes antioxidant enzymes to fight them. In addition to our body’s natural secretion of antioxidants, there are many external sources of them, such as: grapes, blueberries, strawberries, beetroot, pomegranate, soya, green tea, lentils, olives and peas.

Therefore, taking natural foodsupplements rich in these elements, together with a combination of healthy exercise and eating habits, will help you to strike the right balance of the nutrients your body needs.

Remember, after over 10 years of research, at ProbeltePharma we have developed our KERIBA range of online natural food supplements, created with olive extract (Mediteanox ®) and pomegranate extract (Pomanox ®) and you can purchase them online on our website.