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Keeping up your Vitamin D Levels

Dr. Arianna Carughi SAB Member, Nutritional Scientist One of the most important things we can do these days is keep up our vitamin D status (or levels in our blood). Coming up to winter and with “lockdown” and “stay-at-home” orders we should redouble our efforts to obtain vitamin D in our diet. Why? Because studies show that optimal levels of this vitamin appear to protect and improve the time course of difficult-to-treat viral respiratory tract infections such as influenza.

April 28, 2020

Improving our Immune Resilience: Role of Phytonutrients

By Dr. Arianna Carughi SAB Member, Nutritional Scientist A strong, well-functioning immune system is the cornerstone of good health. Continuing on SAB member, Dr. Diane Clayton’s article Supporting your Immune System and SAB Director, John Miller’s article Human Immune Function: Facts and Realities for today, and always, I wanted to focus on the role of phytonutrients in improving our immune resilience. These powerful food components play an important role in our health, supporting and modulating immune function to keep us healthy and prevent specific diseases.

April 20, 2020

Supporting your Immune System

By Dr. Diane Clayton, International V.P. and NeoLife SAB There is powerful evidence to support the strong role that nutrition plays towards our health. And what in life is more precious to us than our health and that of our family! We must all do the maximum to build up and protect our health. Together our immune system provides biological, biochemical and even chemical weaponry to keep our body defended and to help it repair and recover from challenges. We need to improve our RESILIENCE as much as we can! Optimum nutrition plays a powerful role here.

April 7, 2020

Human Immune Function: Facts and Realities for today, and always

By John Miller SAB Director, Product Technologist, Researcher As everyone in the world comes to grips with the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic I thought it would be a good time for us to remind ourselves of how important our immune system is, how much we take it for granted and how much it is dependent upon our ability to provide it with the nutrition it needs to deliver its highest level of protection. This is a message the NeoLife Scientific Advisory Board has been delivering for decades, but it has never been more appropriate than right now.

March 31, 2020

NeoLife: A Powerful Platform for Female Entrepreneurs

For over 60 years, NeoLife has recognised the fact that women are world-changers. While many industries have merely highlighted the issues facing women in the workplace such as the pay gap and underrepresentation in leadership roles, NeoLife has been empowering female entrepreneurs around the world with an equal opportunity.

March 11, 2020

Back to School Nutrition: A Smart Start to the School Year

The school year has started and the lives of families everywhere become a hectic scramble once again. Despite the many things demanding our time and focus, there is one thing we need to maintain sight of. Our goal as parents is to set the stage for a successful school year and wholesome nutrition is an integral part of the plan.

January 16, 2020

Resistance Training Followed by Quality Protein Drink Helps Control Your Hunger!

Written by Dr. Diane E. Clayton Whether you’re an elite athlete, a keen sportsperson, or you’re just trying to manage or lose weight, building and retaining muscle is always a good thing. It’s well known that protein consumption after resistance type exercise helps build muscle, but the effect that this has on subsequent appetite was unknown. In a study conducted by scientists working in the U.K. the effect of calorie equal carbohydrate-only and protein-only drinks on post-exercise appetite were compared.1

March 7, 2019

Appetite Control: How to Stay Full Longer

According to research conducted at the Nottingham Diseases Centre in the U.K., having your food in liquid form – as a smoothie or soup, for example – helps you stay full for an hour longer than if you eat them in solid form. Anyone craving a smoothie?1

February 21, 2019

It’s About Time and Protein

Build Muscle, Lose Fat Consuming high-quality protein at every meal is a really important part of successful weight management and is key to retaining or building muscle. High-quality protein is defined as being highly digestible and containing all essential amino acids in the proper ratio for human nutrition. The accepted standard for rating protein quality is the Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score (PDCAAS). The higher the PDCAAS, the higher the quality of the protein. NeoLifeShake has among the highest PDCAAS values on the market showing it to be a very high-quality protein source.

February 7, 2019

How To Make The Perfect Salad

Did you know 90% of us don’t eat the recommended 5-13 servings of fruits and vegetables? Here’s a simple guide to pack more colourful nutrition into your day! Use this to build a side salad or as a main dish. Simply start at the base and work your way up to the dressing.

January 25, 2019

Children’s Nutrition: Do Your Kids Eat Enough Fruits & Veggies?

With summer time fun in motion and the kids out of school for holidays, keeping them healthy, happy and productive can be a lot of work! And let’s face it, raising kids and juggling life is no easy thing. According to Australia’s Health 2018 report, children ages 4-18 need between 1½ to 2 serves of fruit and 4½ to 5½ serves of vegetables daily. The good news is that the latest health survey shows kids are eating more fruits and vegetables, but the bad news is neither of those requirements is being met!

January 10, 2019

Your Resident Microbes: Friends or Enemies?

Written by Dr. Diane E. Clayton Believe it or not the average human contains 10 times more microbial cells than human cells. In fact our microbiome or our microbial “ecosystem” together with our DNA is what makes each of us unique. The only time we are microbe-free is during the 9 months we spend in the womb. During birth, after birth and during the first few years of life our resident microbes (comprising not just bacteria, but also viruses, fungi and protozoa) establish themselves in and on our body as a balanced and stable community, helping us grow and develop

December 27, 2018

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