The Top Essential Daily Nutrients Every Woman Needs

March is Women's Health and Wellness Month. A time to focus on ourselves and increase our awareness around women's health, and become proactive when it comes to our health, guarding it against conditions that affect women at a significantly higher rate than men. Prevention IS THE BEST CURE, starting with nutrition.

Get an edge over osteoporosis, heart disease, sarcopenia, and even cancer with the right vitamins and macronutrients.

In an ideal world, we would all get our nutrients from vegetables, fruits, amino acids (aka protein), and other unprocessed whole foods. But as we women enter our 50s, hormonal changes make it more difficult to meet our daily nutrient requirements for certain vitamins, minerals, and macronutrients, such as protein, which supports collagen production starting at age 40.

Nutrition (food) science has advanced leaps and bounds and NOW combines nature with science, making it easier for us to meet our nutritional targets and more affordable for everyone. LynFit nutritional supplements are 100% natural, unpreserved whole foods, and perfectly combined in the proper amounts to help you supplement your diet with the key nutrients your body needs to help you proactively protect your health every day, so you can stay on top of your game. 

Here are the TOP essential daily nutrients every woman needs, and you do not have to wait until you're 50! START now before problems arise. 

According to the metadata, including Harvard University, the single most important thing we can all do to protect our health is … (drum roll) … live a healthy, leaner lifestyle. Interestingly, while there are many differing opinions, especially between natural health methods and conventional medicine, the bottom line is that every study agrees that adopting a healthy lifestyle is #1. What's not being mentioned is what a healthy lifestyle really includes.

• Always get adequate, high-quality sleep and rest. Swap out alcohol, over-the-counter, and prescription medications/sleep aids for natural supplements instead. Natural methods work better without side effects like weight gain, fatigue, and most natural methods like pure melatonin also provide powerful antioxidant protection, providing your body with a stronger immune response, slowing the aging process, and boosting hair regrowth while also slowing and in some cases preventing hair loss that happens as we age. 
  
  
• Every day, eat lots of vegetables and some low-sugar fruits. Eating your vegetables, not juicing, is what works best. Eating more vegetables and minimal low-sugar fruits is what we mean when we say eat a more plant-based diet. We DO NOT mean go buy expensive foods or products at the health food store. MORE leafy greens, specifically. It is important to note that most of the videos shown today are ads that use celebrity doctors to sell products, rather than teach you the right way to eat, which includes plenty of leafy green vegetables.
  
  
• Reduce stress. This includes beating your body up in the gym or running, when walking works better for weight loss and flat abs, which require balanced cortisol levels. Swap out worry (worry worships our problems; praise carries us through it.)
  
  Swap worry for BOLD prayers instead. Ask God to intervene and BELIEVE HE WILL! And never forget to breathe… our breath tells our brain whether we are okay or if we should stress. Take slow, deep breaths, inhaling to a count of 7, holding it, and slowly exhaling to a count of 7 to help reduce the stress levels in your body. 
  
  
• Swap out saturated, bad fats for more omega-3 essential fatty acids. Avoid or drastically reduce red meat, pork, cheese, and dairy, and increase your omega-3 intake instead. Omega-3s reduce inflammation, including arterial inflammation, whereas saturated fats worsen the problem. 
  
  
• Get at least 10,000 steps every day. 10,000 steps daily changes everything. From reducing back, hip, and other pains to preventing blood clots, strengthening and improving the health of everything from eyes to your arteries, and YES, protects your brain.
  
  Sit as little as possible. If you drive a lot, that means you'll need to be very conscious and intentional about getting more steps in, and don't stop at 10,000 steps daily. The benefits of walking more are worth every extra step. 
  
  Prioritize walking over every other form of exercise to live a healthier, longer life because it improves blood flow, which is required for every single process in our bodies, including delivering nutrients to cells where they can and need to be used. 

Now that I've got that out of the way, and you're clear on what a healthy lifestyle really is and what qualifies as that, here are the nutritional supplements you need to prioritize in your 50s to help make it easier and ensure your body has the proper protection it needs more of every day. 

The supplements listed here are essential, meaning our bodies need them, and are more important for women over 50. They make it easier for you to provide your body with minerals like calcium, so you won't need to take additional amounts to keep your bones strong. LynFit does not sell calcium for this reason, and because excess calcium is not good for the kidneys. It creates stones and doesn't work unless you have adequate vitamin D3, which is why we suggest taking it. 

• Priority Supplement #1: LynFit Natural Whey Protein (naturally delivers calcium your body can use vs store and won’t cause kidney stones). Either add it to your coffee instead of milk and cream, or, if you're trying to lose weight, replace what you currently eat with a clean, healthy protein shake made as directed on the label. DON'T add juice, high sugar fruits, or any kind of milk (including nut milks). LynFit Natural Whey makes your coffee taste even better and turns it into a health-boosting beverage.
  
  
• Priority Supplement #2: Take a Women's Whole Food Multivitamin every day to ensure your body gets what it needs in proper amounts and can absorb it so well you'll feel the difference. LynFit Women's Whole Food Multi makes it easy and affordable and includes additional adaptogenic herbs and nutrients that help keep your hormones balanced, so hot flashes disappear, hair and nails grow faster, and skin radiates. The best balance is affordable for every woman. 
  
  
• Priority Supplement #3: Take a pure, natural Omega-3 essential fatty acid from fish, NOT algae or other plants, unless you have to, of course. LynFit makes its own Pure Omega 3, so we know it's not from China, has the highest DHA and EPA ratio for women's overall health and brain health, is made fresh, so no fishy burps, and is so potent you can feel it working. It gets rid of the inflammation that ages us and makes us ache. Cleanest, highest potency you can buy without a prescription. We DO NOT cut it down with lower-quality fats to boost our profits, as most plant-based and omega-3 companies do. Nor do we mass-produce it. Our omega-3s are fresh, and you'll know by how well they work.
  
  
• Priority Supplement #4: Vitamin D3 + K2 in a higher-absorbing liquid to help your body use it most efficiently. Proper ratios + highest absorption = better results. LynFit Liquid D3 + K2 speaks for itself. You already know how crucial this pro-hormone is, so if you're not taking it, start today.
  
  
• Priority Supplement #5: This one is a tie … while probiotics are good for the body, it’s the prebiotics that are BEST, and that’s why we add prebiotic fiber to our Natural Whey Protein powder and encourage vegetable eating EVERY DAY.
  
  When these two are combined consistently, your body really doesn't need the additional support unless you have digestive issues, constipation, or you’ve recently taken antibiotics that stripped your body of these beneficial bacteria. Our bodies make the good gut bugs when we nourish them properly, as I suggested above, so my personal opinion is that probiotics do not make the top 5 list.
  
  What does make my top five supplement priority list is the dynamic duo melatonin with magnesiumm which is why I added the perfect amount of magnesium in the most absorbable liquid form, so you don't have to take excessive amounts and run the risk of magnesium building up in your system or causing diarrhea or magnesium nutrient depletion that can occur when we take too much of any nutrient. Most people don’t realize that more isn’t better. BETTER is always best. Leave the supplement science to me and take 1-2 ounces of Liquid Lean Sleep every night before bed to improve sleep quality and mood, and the only side effect is less muscle and leg cramping.