How to choose your supplements carefully

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4 Steps to choose your supplements carefully

From the day we started TERRANOVA our aim was not to create yet another supplement range purely for commercial gain. We wanted to create a new and brighter future of food supplements. Because of our company ethos, we never compromise on product quality, purity, integrity or transparency. And because of our progressive vision of wellness, we provide deeply holistic and intensely synergistic formulations made with only active ingredients - without using fillers, binders or other manufacturing additives.

Here is a short guide for how you can make more careful choices when it comes to supplements.

Check the label,
as you would with food.

Identify whether the supplement contains in-active additives (excipients), such as fillers, binders, flowing agents, colours, flavours, sweeteners, etc. For example, magnesium stearate is one of the most common excipients used in supplements. Some excipients are used to facilitate manufacturing in a manner which increases the speed, efficiency and profitability of the process. Others may be used for reasons such as filling up space in a capsule, binding together ingredients in a tablet, or perhaps for improving the taste or appearance of a product. TERRANOVA products are proof that even highly complex supplement formulations can be made without excipients.

Choose synergistically
enhanced supplements…

which include ingredients that support the bioavailability, utilization and function of the nutrients in each product. No nutrients work independently in the body – they are all reliant synergistic interactions with other compounds. And they are also reliant on the body being able to provide a sufficiently synergistic environment in order to maximize the nutrient’s bioavailability, activity and overall effectiveness. Unfortunately, the body’s synergistic environment is often compromised by a multitude of factors (genetics, stress, deficiencies, digestive inefficiencies, etc.).

Choose supplements with raw,
pure, enzymatically-active
botanicals and whole foods.

How a plant ingredient has been processed can dramatically alter its biochemical balance and overall activity and effect. How the plant is dried and whether it is adulterated by solvents are two of the most significant factors in this respect. Air, oven and spray drying – the standard commercial methods used to dry plant materials – can degrade important compounds and alter a plant’s delicate biochemical balance. And solvent extraction, one of the most common ways to process commercial botanicals, can severely alter plant chemistry – increasing the activity of certain compounds, but at the same time denaturing or removing others which are crucial to the plant’s overall properties.