Muscle Building Supplements

Chondroitin, a carbohydrate, is a cartilage component, which helps to attract fluid into the cartilage and helps to maintain joint health. Naturally produced by the body, Chondroitin helps form a sponge-like substance that acts as nature’s shock absorber.

Price: £12.00

CALCIUM helps to maintain strong and healthy bones, teeth and nails. 20% of an adult’s bone calcium is re-absorbed and replaced every year and as the body ages this may decrease.

Price: £7.00

Our Garlic high strength tablets have been carefully formulated so that each tablet contains 125mg of dried garlic (equivalent to 375mg of fresh bulb). Allicin is the vital beneficial ingredient in garlic and is produced when it is crushed, from allinin - a compound containing sulphur. Garlic helps to promote normal cholesterol levels and is widely recognised for its ability to help maintain a healthy heart. Maintaining normal cholesterol levels also prevents the clogging of arteries, which helps maintain good circulation. Garlic is also known to have anti-oxidant properties, and so can help to protect the body against the damaging effects of free radicals.

Price: £4.00

Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the body and is essential to good health. Approximately 50% of total body magnesium is found in bone. The other half is found predominantly inside cells of body tissues and organs. Only 1% of magnesium is found in blood although the body works very hard to keep blood levels of magnesium constant. Magnesium is a vital component of bones and teeth. It helps the body utilise vitamins, calcium and other minerals. When combined with Vitamin B6, magnesium ensures that calcium is deposited in the bones and not in the kidneys or blood vessels. Magnesium is closely involved in energy release and for the correct functioning of the nerves and muscles. The Benefits: Helps maintain normal muscle and nerve function Helps maintain steady heart rhythm Supports a healthy immune system Helps maintain strong and healthy bones Helps regulate blood sugar levels Promotes normal blood pressure Known to be involved in energy metabolism and protein synthesis

Price: £6.00

This useful and traditional supplement has been proved to be popular throughout the world. Cranberry has a strong flavour and this discourages many people, so Vitamins Direct have formulated a capsule that provides 80mg of Cranberry Extract (equivalent to 400mg of Cranberry Juice). Warnings: Not to be used by pregnant or lactating women. To be avoided by those taking Warfarin.

Price: £13.00

A healthy diet should ideally include two servings of oily fish a week. This would include salmon, mackerel, trout, herring, sardines, pilchards. Oily fish contains omega 3 fatty acids which contain Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA) and Decosahexaenoic Acid (DHA). These two components produce prostaglandins which reduce the stickiness of the blood. Diet has a role to play in health and longevity and in our senior years we all want to remain in good mental and physical health. Omega 3 has been recognised for promoting good health and vitality, maintaining a healthy heart and circulation as well as encouraging healthy blood flow. The different types of dietary fat fall into three main groups: saturated; mono-unsaturated; and polyunsaturated. Polyunsaturated fatty acids are further divided into two sub-groups called omega-6 and omega-3. Both of these groups are essential for good health and normal growth. Since they cannot be manufactured by the human body, they must be supplied in the diet and for this reason, they are often referred to as ‘essential fatty acids’. The Benefits: Helps maintain a healthy heart Helps maintain healthy circulation For overall health and well-being

Price: £7.00

You may be thinking ‘why shark liver oil rather than a quality fish or cod liver oil?’ Because not only does shark liver oil supply’s the healthiness giving OMEGA 3, DHA (Docosahexaenoic Acid) and EPA (Eicosapentaenoic Acid), it also contains alkylglycerols and these are only found in human milk, cow’s milk and shark liver oil. Shark Liver Oil acts in the biosynthesis of cholesterol. It also easily penetrates the cell membranes and plays an effective role as an antioxidant. Shark liver oil has DHA (docosahexaeonic acid) and EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid), two omega-3 fatty acids that help in the maintaining of healthy joints. SHARK LIVER OIL BENEFITS: Helps maintain supple and flexible joints It contains antioxidants that help protect the body’s tissues against the damaging effects of free radicals. Helps maintain healthy skin The benefits of Shark Liver Oil are not a recent discovery. Fishermen around the world have long been aware of the curative properties of the oil from deep-sea shark livers. Japanese fishermen fishing Surga Bay on the Izu Peninsula hundreds of years ago called the liver oil they got from sharks pulled from 1000m depths of the bay, “Samedawa” or “cure all”. In Norway and Sweden shark liver oil was traditionally used externally to heal wounds and to protect the skin from the ravages of days in the sun in small boats and hauling in nets with wet hands.

Price: £7.00

The benefits of methylsulphonylmethane (MSM) are well recognised by those looking for a solution to their joint problems. MSM stands for Methysulfonylmethane which is a naturally occurring organic sulphur compound. Sulphur is a vital element for the body to produce and regenerate cartilage. Unfortunately, as we get older the levels of MSM diminish. An adult human body should contain 140grams of sulphur, and nearly half of this is found in muscular tissue, skin and bones. MSM is one of the major building blocks of glycosaminoglycans – key structural components of cartilage, which play vital role in the maintenance of joint health. That’s why MSM is often said to be the ‘perfect partner for Glucosamine’. Glucosamine works synergistically with MSM, therefore making this a perfect combination. The Benefits: Helps maintain the mobility, flexibility and future comfort of your joints.

Price: £7.00

It works in concert with the body’s own bioelectromagnetic immune system It agitates cell wall membranes which encourage the release of endorphins into the bloodstream It also encourages the release of enkaphalins (a type of endorphin having opiate qualities that occur in the brain and spinal cord and elsewhere) It stimulates pluripotent stem cell activity to accelerate scab formation and wound healing The pulsed induction waves from the X4000 travel directly to the source-body cells It is the only product that works unhindered through hydrogel and specialist dressings The patented, programmed software algortithms are only present in the X4000 The X4000 is the only device that generates up to 28 Gauss pulsed induction wave emissions in a controlled and timed progression It does not contain magnets It is non-invasive It increases oxygen content of the blood and functional supply to the body’s cells and tissues will be greatly enhanced The X4000 also stimulates improved blood circulation as well as oxygen and carbon monoxide diffusion which will reduce friction and flow resistance in narrow capillaries Cell membrane potential will be normalised and this increased efficiency will release calcium from the protein layer of the cell membrane, resulting in unbound calcium flowing into the cell core which triggers many metabolic reactions Macrophages (tissue cells, functioning as protection against infections) will be activated and therefore the immunological system will be strengthened Cytogenesis (structure, function, and multiplication of the cells) is also stimulated. The modalities the X4000 employs are all proven and do not rely on pain gateway blocking in any way

Price: £149.95

Devils Claw, native to Southern Africa, derives its name from the herb’s claw like fruit, which are attached to their trumpet shaped flower. Suitable for vegetarians, this herb has been used by South African tribes for centuries and is now available as a capsule containing 450mg of the natural herb.

Price: £5.00