Essential Nutrients to Keep Your Skin, Joints, and Hair Strong

Changes in skin, hair, and joints occur during the aging process and show up as wrinkles, stiff joints, thinning hair, and other undesirable symptoms. To slow this process and repair damaged structures, optimizing nutrition is essential. Nutrition provides the building blocks for maintaining and regenerating tissues, antioxidants for protecting them, and essential fats for maintaining cell structures.

In today's article, we'll discuss specific nutrients to optimize for skin, joint health, and hair health with a special emphasis on bioflavonoids. You may be wondering, what are bioflavonoids? Keep reading as we dive in and explore:

• Nutrients for skin, joints, and hair
• What are bioflavonoids?
• Diet and supplements
• Why choosing high-quality supplements is critical

Nutrients for Skin, Joints, and Hair

Healthy skin, joints, and hair require an abundance of nutrients. It's essential to consume a balanced diet rich in essential nutrients, including protein, essential fats, vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients (plant nutrients). Specifically, these include:

• Vitamin A
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin D
• Vitamin E
• B vitamin complex
• Vitamin B12
• Biotin
• Zinc
• Copper
• Selenium
• Omega 6 fats
• Omega 3 fats
• Collagen
• Antioxidants
• Bioflavonoids (Source 1)

"Healthy skin, joints, and hair require an abundance of nutrients. It's essential to consume a balanced diet rich in essential nutrients, including protein, essential fats, vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients (plant nutrients)."

Additionally, there is much overlap between the nutrients required for skin, joints, and hair.

What are Bioflavonoids?

Bioflavonoids are phytonutrients that provide plant pigment, protection from pathogens, and perform other specialized roles. When humans consume bioflavonoids from plants, we obtain health benefits, including protecting the skin, hair follicles, and joints from free radical damage. (Source 2)

Read about bioflavonoids and their numerous benefits here.

Bioflavonoids also work synergistically with other nutrients. An excellent example is the relationship between vitamin C and bioflavonoids, which are often found together in the same plants and work together in the body and with the gut microbiome to promote health. This synergy is precisely why you'll see vitamin C paired with sunflower bioflavonoids in Core Med Science Liposomal Vitamin C Sunflower Formula.

"Bioflavonoids also work synergistically with other nutrients. An excellent example is the relationship between vitamin C and bioflavonoids, which are often found together in the same plants and work together in the body and with the gut microbiome to promote health."

Diet and Supplements

From a functional medicine perspective, nutrition is foundational and a step you can't skip when it comes to achieving any health goal, including those aimed at improving your skin, hair, or joints. A nutrient-dense and varied diet will provide much of the nutrition your body requires to function at its best.

However, even with the most balanced and thoughtful diet, it may be challenging to obtain everything you need from food alone due to the decreased nutrient content in food resulting from modern farming practices. Additionally, there may be specific nutrients that your body requires in greater amounts, especially during a healing phase.

Supplements can help fill nutrient gaps in the diet and target specific nutrients to support skin health, joint lubrication, and hair strength.

"Supplements can help fill nutrient gaps in the diet and target specific nutrients to support skin health, joint lubrication, and hair strength."

Here are some supplements to consider:

• Multivitamin - Consider this your daily micronutrient (vitamin and mineral) insurance policy to help meet baseline needs for many of the critical hair, skin, and joint nutrients.

Try Core Med Science Active B-Complex Multivitamin with Minerals.

• Curcumin - Curcumin is highly anti-inflammatory, which is beneficial for acne, aging skin, and other skin conditions, as well as addressing joint pain and inflammation. (Source 3, 4)

Try Core Med Science Liposomal Curcumin.

• Glutathione - Glutathione is the body's master antioxidant, powerfully protecting cells and structures in the skin and joints. Read about glutathione and its impact on skin health here. (Source 5)

Try Core Med Science Liposomal Glutathione.

• Vitamin C - Vitamin C is essential for collagen formation, which builds hair, skin, and joint structure. Without enough vitamin C, the body can't build this essential protein. (Source 6)

Why choose Core Med Science? You'll get the benefits of vitamin C plus bioflavonoids with Core Med Science Liposomal Vitamin C Sunflower Formula.

Why Quality Matters

With numerous supplement options available, it pays to do your research and understand what to look for. Most supplements use poor or inactive forms of nutrients that may not be well absorbed or utilized by the body. Further, because of how supplements are regulated (and not regulated), supplements may not contain the dosage the label claims, and even worse, may be contaminated with heavy metals or other toxins.

Core Med Science offers physician-formulated supplements with nutrients in the optimal, active forms. Our advanced liposomal delivery system ensures higher absorption rates and bioavailability. Furthermore, all Core Med Science products are third-party tested to ensure the quality and purity of each supplement and batch.

When it comes to improving your skin, hair, and joints, Core Med Science has you covered with superior quality, synergistic pairings (like vitamin C and bioflavonoids), and liposomal formulas that work well and quickly.

"When it comes to improving your skin, hair, and joints, Core Med Science has you covered with superior quality, synergistic pairings (like vitamin C and bioflavonoids), and liposomal formulas that work well and quickly."

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