The Hot List: Supplements For All Stages Of Your Wellness Journey
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Your wellness must-haves for 2024
With new pills and powders popping up left, right and centre, the world of supplements can be confusing. Should you be taking them? Which ones are worth buying? Do they actually work? To give you a helping hand, we’ve sifted through to find some of the best supplements on the market.
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Fantastic Supplements To Try In 2024
VITABIOTICS’ Feroglobin Capsules
Best For: Tackling tiredness, a good energy boost
Can’t shake off your fatigue? While not as pricey as many high-impact supplements, VITABIOTICS’ feroglobin capsules packs a punch by providing a sustained iron flow that helps to reduce tiredness and improve immune system and cognitive function – all while being gentle to your stomach.
SHOP: VITABIOTICS Feroglobin Capsules, £5.85, vitabiotics.com
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Youth & Earth‘s MenoCare+ Capsules
Best For: Menopause symptoms
This plant-based supplement from Youth & Earth has been specially formulated to help combat symptoms of perimenopause and menopause. Key ingredients include pycnogenol (an extract of French maritime bark), which improves skin hydration and elasticity as well as cardiovascular health, kwao krua, a herb known for its anti-ageing and rejuvenation properties, chaste berry, a dried fruit ideal for targeting hormone imbalance, and Magnolia tree bark, leaves and flowers, which help with insomnia, anxiety, mood and irritability.
SHOP: Youth & Earth MenoCare+ Capsules, £29.99, youthandearth.com
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OSKIA‘s MSM Bio-Plus Capsules
Best For: Skin health
OSKIA’s ‘supercharged’ MSM supplement supports collagen, keratin and glutathione production to help improve skin health and the immune system. The supplement’s key ingredient, MSM, is a naturally-occurring organic sulphur compound, which is known to improve the efficiency of skin cells, in turn boosting skin structure, elasticity and condition as well as strengthening hair and nails.
SHOP: OSKIA MSM Bio-Plus Capsules, £66, oskiaskincare.com
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Neal’s Yard Remedies‘ Pregnancy Supplement
Best For: Mums and mums-to-be
Ideal for use before, during and after pregnancy, Neal’s Yard Remedies’ supplement is packed with folic acid (a vitamin recommended by the Department of Health) which contributes to maternal tissue growth during pregnancy, as well as multiple vitamins and iron to help reduce tiredness and fatigue, regulate hormones and support normal psychological function.
SHOP: Neal’s Yard Remedies Pregnancy Supplement, £20, nealsyardremedies.com
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Hello Day‘s Vegan Omega 3
Best For: Brain and heart function, good vision
This sustainable, vegan and ethically-sourced formula offers a rich source of Omega 3 fatty acids, which promote communication between our neurons while working to prevent coronary heart disease in healthy people and macular degeneration linked to old age. It’s also recommended during pregnancy, as it helps support visual and cognitive development in babies.
SHOP: Hello Day Vegan Omega 3, £24, hello-day.com
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Bioglan‘s Beauty Collagen Tablets
Best For: Nourishing hair, skin and nails
Bioglan offers a range of collagen supplements, from gummies and powders to effervescents and tablets. Those that have heard of collagen, the beauty landscape’s anti-aging buzzword, will know that it’s responsible for maintaining healthy hair, skin and nails. So, with Bioglan, you can help boost your collagen levels, and as a result improve the elasticity, firmness and radiance of your skin.
SHOP: Bioglan Beauty Collagen Tablets, £21.99, bioglan.co.uk
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MyOva’s Hair, Skin & Nails Supplement
Best For: Acne
MyOva is on a mission to erase the stigma surrounding PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome) and help women feel their best self on a daily basis. Utilising a holistic approach to wellness, the brand’s range of supplements helps you regulate, restore and reclaim both your physical and mental wellbeing through a balance of vitamins, minerals and nutrients. MyOva’s ‘Hair, Skin & Nails’ supplement, for example, uses myo-inositol to target hormone imbalances and PCOS-related acne. Using a blend of biotin, zinc, vitamins A and C, hyaluronic acid and selenium, the supplement helps promote longer hair and stronger nails, while facilitating healthier, hydrated skin.
SHOP: MyOva Hair, Skin & Nail Supplement, £35, myovacare.com
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Vitl Health Goals Daily Biotic
Best For: Digestive health
Your gut need a diverse range of bacteria to keep working at its best. Outside factors like stress, illness and lack of sleep can impact the levels of these strains in your gut, meaning you might need a top up every so often. Enter Vitl and its daily biotic, a supplement containing over 14 billion live cultures of bacteria from nine different species. This is a vegan formula that includes no preservatives, artificial additives or bulking agents.
Shop: Vitl Health Goals Daily Biotic, £12.74, boots.com
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JSHealth’s Vitality X + Collagen
Best For: Collagen production
Using a combination of 10 nutrient-rich ingredients to hydrate skin and improve elasticity. The supplement works by activating sustainably-sourced Marine Collagen peptides through the hydrolysation process, which then supports collagen production and the reduction of fine lines.
SHOP: JSHealth Vitality X + Collagen, £39.99, jshealthvitamins.com
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Prym Health’s Apple Ashwagandha Gummies (Rest & Restore)
Best For: Sleep
Struggling when it comes to getting a good night’s sleep? Prym Health’s Rest & Restore gummies are made with ashwaghanda, a plant known for its ability to help reduce stress and anxiety when ingested. It makes these supplements great for calming down and switching off at night, so you can get the deep sleep you’ve been craving. They even come in a tasty apple flavour, so it doesn’t feel like you’re really taking supplements either.
SHOP: Prym Health Apple Ashwagandha Gummies (Rest & Restore), £9.59, prymhealth.com
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Lumity’s Morning & Night Supplement
Best For: All-round support
Looking for an all-in-one wellness supplement? Lumity’s Morning & Night features a blend of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and omega 3s, delivering the key nutrients your body needs around the clock. The supplement helps to tackle the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, while delivering a boost of energy during the day and improving immunity, emotional balance and sleep quality.
SHOP: Lumity Morning & Night supplement, £74, lumitylife.co.uk
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Nourished’s Personalised 3D Printed Stack
Best For: Completely personal recommendations
It’s as simple as taking a quick quiz with Nourished, and you’ll receive a bespoke and tailored recommendation for the vitamins you might particularly need. This recommendation is then sent off to the lab team who 3D print an easy, multilayered multivitamin which you can order in a 30 day quantity. Whether it’s for hair, skin, immunity or menopause, you’ve an array of options at your fingertips and made very convenient. The best part? They come in all sorts of flavours, so you can enjoy sour apple or watermelon as a sweet pick-me-up in the morning which never gets boring.
SHOP: Nourished Personalised Multivitamins, £39.99/month, get-nourished.com
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G Herbal’s FUN Spray
Best For: Improved productivity
Three squeezes of this nootropic spray are equivalent to a strong cup of coffee, yet has zero caffeine and zero sugar (meaning there’s no risk of crashing later). FUN Spray works by delivering an instant hit of highly concentrated Indonesian turmeric and tamarind when consumed, which are clinically proven to boost memory and mood while giving a burst of energy.
SHOP: FUN Spray, £20, thefunspray.co
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Dr. Barbara Sturm’s Sun Skin
Best For: Protection against UV rays
If you usually avoid the arrival of summer – and the sun allergies, heat rashes and prickly heat that come with it – we have the solution for you. Dr. Barbara Sturm’s Sun Skin supplement protects cells against oxidative stress caused by UV radiation while supporting normal collagen formation and healthy skin function. The addition of plant carotenoids will also ensure the look of a healthy tan, year round.
SHOP: Sun Skin, £65, drsturm.com
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Nutriburst Ashwagandha Gummies
Best For: Battling fatigue
The hero ingredient in these vegan, sugar free gummies is ashwagandha – also known as Indian ginseng– which boasts a wide array of health benefits and is commonly used to remedy stress. Other ingredients include iodine, which supports cognitive function, and pantothenic acid, which helps reduce tiredness.
SHOP: Nutriburst Ashwagandha KSM-66, £22, johnbellcroyden.co.uk
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Clinique La Prairie Purity Supplements
Best For: Helping you detox
These handy supplements aid with the liver’s natural cleansing and detoxifying process, providing plenty of vitamins and plant antioxidants including Aronia Berry Extract, Camu Camu and Chlorella microalgae.
SHOP: Purity daily detox, £290, johnbellcroyden.co.uk
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LYMA’s Starter Kit
Best For: An all-round boost
Often considered ‘the ultimate supplement solution’, LYMA makes its supplements with a global network of scientists. Including 10 peer-reviewed ingredients, LYMA help boost your sleep quality, focus and immunity. The starter kit comes with 120 capsules (take two with breakfast and two with dinner), as well as a hand-crafted, anti-bacterial copper vessel. Subscriptions after the starter kit are from £149 per month.
SHOP: Starter Kit, from £195,lyma.life
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ARTAH’s Enhanced NAD+ Complex
Best For: Promoting longevity
NAD+ is one of the biggest buzzwords in skincare at the moment, a vitamin B derivative associated with regulating metabolism and DNA repair. It’s present in every cell of the body, but levels decline as we get older, hence why supplements brand ARTAH has created this Enhanced NAD+ Complex, designed to boost NAD+ levels, enhance sleep, promote healthy blood sugar control and supporting cellular repair. It’s made for women, and is particularly helpful for people going through menopause, as it helps with some of the side effects.
SHOP: ARTAH Enhanced NAD+ Complex, £60, artah.co
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Equi’s Menopause Formula
Best For: Menopause
Menopause is known for wreaking havoc on our health and hormones – but Equi’s Menopause Formula should help balance things out behind the scenes. Supporting peri-menopausal and menopausal symptoms, these supplements are packed with over 45 premium, bio-available nutrients that promise to balance hormone fluctuation, boost energy and improve focus and memory.
SHOP: Equi Menopause Formula (Capsules), £70, equilondon.com
Buy NowArella’s Rise Supplement
Best For: A morning boost
We all could do with a little zap of energy first thing in the morning – and luckily, Arella’s got just the thing. The wellness brand’s super-charged beauty supplement, Arella Rise, is designed to get you up and out. Taking two capsules a day will help support energy levels, mental function and stamina, while enhancing your productivity in a steady burst throughout the day.
SHOP: Arella Rise Morning Energy Supplement, £26.99, arella-beauty.co.uk
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