Vitamins & Supplements

If you’ve browsed health or beauty products at any point over the last couple of years, you’ll be familiar with activated charcoal. Once almost completely unknown in the UK, activated charcoal seems to be everywhere from our toothpaste to our water bottles. What is this stuff – and why is it suddenly everywhere? And most importantly – should you be using it? What is it? Activated charcoal is known as...

For some people, IBS symptoms cause daily frustration. Could probiotics help? Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common long-term condition affecting the digestive system. There's no known cure. But through careful diet and lifestyle choices, it’s often possible to control IBS symptoms. One way to do...

Just like adults, babies and children also need their quota of Vitamin D every day to help them to stay healthy. Also known as the sunshine vitamin, Vitamin D is essential for making sure our bones, teeth and muscles are healthy as they develop and...

Oh, Vitamin D, where would we be without you! The ‘sunshine vitamin’ is important to keep our body happy and healthy. From maintaining normal bones to supporting normal function of you immune system , vitamin D is one vitamin we can’t go without. As we’re spending...

Almost everyone has heard of vitamin C and knows how important it is for our health, but do you know why? Hearing about all the brilliant benefits of vitamin C may have you opting for a glass of OJ more often or scouring the beauty...

Could there be a way to help regain some of the lustre of youthful hair, skin and nails as we get older? What is collagen? Collagen is a protein which occurs naturally in all animals and humans, making up around a third of the body’s...

We all need iron. It’s an essential mineral which plays a key role in transporting life-giving oxygen around the body, among other important functions. However, many people experience low iron levels. In fact, it’s the most common nutritional deficiency in the world. 1 Learn all...

Are you getting enough Vitamin D every day? In fact, thinking about it, how much is ‘enough?’ Before we delve deeper into the ins and outs of Vitamin D, let’s just spend a minute or two focusing on what it is, the main sources of Vitamin...

If you’re vegan or vegetarian, then you may find that you need to top up your intake of certain vitamins and minerals to make sure you are still benefiting from a healthy, balanced diet. Vital vitamins and supplements for non-meat eaters: Vitamin B12 plays a...

Find out all about acidophilus, including what it does, the benefits to taking it and how much you might need Written by Charlotte Haigh on December 5, 2018 Reviewed by Dr Sarah Schenker on December 18, 2018 Overview What is acidophilus and what does it...

The discovery of the structure of vitamin B12 was considered so important to human health that it earned the chemist Dorothy Hodgkin a Nobel Prize in 1964.1 What is vitamin B12 and what does it do? Our understanding of vitamin B12 may have changed over...

In the past, poverty and a lack of understanding of basic nutrition meant that many people developed severe vitamin deficiencies which caused significant health problems, even death. One such health problem was scurvy – a severe vitamin C deficiency caused by getting no vitamin C...