These are some of the supplements that we use ourselves and often recommend to clients. Please be sure to check with your doctor before taking anything new as some supplements, even vitamins and minerals can interfere with some medications.
Protein
- Whey Isolate Protein – NOT whey concentrate, or casein, or mixed protein. Whey isolate protein has gone through a specific filtration process to remove the lactose which ensures fast and easy digestion.
- Vegan Protein – For vegan clients ONLY
- Protein for expecting OR nursing mothers:
Vitamins & Minerals
- Calcium – helps build and maintain strong bones and your heart, muscles and nerves also need calcium to function properly.
- Magnesium – helps move blood sugar into your muscles and dispose of lactate, which can build up during exercise and cause fatigue
- Zinc – aids in repairing your tissues after exercise and plays a role in hormone production, including testosterone, which is essential for building lean muscle mass.
- B Complex – important for metabolism, energy processing and recovery
- Vitamin C – promotes a healthy immune system and may help to prevent the dip in immune function that may occur right after exercise
- Vitamin D – provides increases in muscle protein synthesis, ATP concentration, strength, jump height, jump velocity, jump power, exercise capacity, and physical performance
Fat Loss
- CLA – helps reduce body fat and improve lean body mass
- L-Carnatine – burns fat, increases energy during and after a workout and boosts your metabolism and can also protect and support gut microbial species
- Green Tea – boosts your metabolism and increases fat burning
- DIM – helps regulate estrogen and acts as an aromatase inhibitor
- Omega 3 (fish oil) – increases your metabolism so you burn more calories per day. Provides movement of oxygen into skeletal muscle during exercise which improves endurance
Muscle Gain
- Creatine – improves strength, increases lean muscle mass, and helps the muscles recover more quickly during exercise
- Leucine – stimulates protein synthesis in muscle
- Vanadyl Sulfate – reduces hyperglycemia and insulin resistance
- Arginine – improves blood flow, which aids the delivery of important nutrients to working muscles and assist with metabolic waste product removal. It also increases growth hormone levels in the blood
- Citrulline Malate – increases oxygen content in the muscles and improves exercise performance
- Taurine – reduces fatigue, increases fat burning and decreases muscle damage while getting rid of muscle cramps
- BCAAS – branch chain amino acids that help with muscle soreness and muscle recovery
- Biotsteel – improves hydration with electrolytes, healthy sustained energy, and improved recovery from fatigue
Overall Health, Wellbeing & Digestion
- Collagen – increases muscle growth post workout, and improves joint health, tendons and ligaments, as well as improves hair, skin and nails
- Biotin – help the body convert food into energy, boosts the health of the hair and nails, and helps manage blood sugar levels
- COQ10 – heart health, reduces migraine frequency, increases endurance and aids in digestion.
- Magnesium Citrate – causes intestines to release water into stool to soften stool and relieve constipation
- Citrus Bergamot – reduces “bad” LDL cholesterol and increases “good” HDL cholesterol. It also helps regulate the motion of our intestines and therefore facilitating the digestive process.
- Glutathione – immune system, stress and recovery & synergy with citrulline and is known to treat various health issues linked to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, acute pancreatitis, leaky gut syndrome, and irritable bowel syndrome.
- Betaine with Pepsin – helps support healthy gut function and safely restores normal gastric acidity
- Ulcetrol with PepzinGI – Ulcetrol supports a healthy stomach lining and Pepzin supports the integrity of the stomach lining by prompting its own natural healing processes.
Sleep
- Melatonin – sleep aid, antioxidant and an anti-inflammatory nutrient for prolonging muscle strength
- Gaba – promotes relaxation to help sleep, improves hormones and reduces stress
- L-Theanine – sleep aid that promotes recovery through its ability to promote relaxation and mental ‘regeneration’ following intense exercise