VH BUZZ

For New Year’s Day, Sarah’s Health page for the Mail On Sunday YOU magazine featured a Q&A on anti-ageing supplements.  (If you missed it, click here to read.)  We weren’t really surprised that this received fantastic feedback. 

We do get lots of queries about the best (i.e. most appropriate) supplements to take to soften and/or delay the ravages of time - so here are the ones that all of us (that’s Sarah and Jo from Beauty Bible, and Victoria Health’s Gill Sinclair and Shabir Daya the pharmacist) consider the most effective.

Hyaluronic Acid.  Shabir says this is the most crucial of all anti-ageing supplements for its ability to hydrate skin, stimulate collagen, and scavenge damaging free radical molecules. 

•  NHS Labs Acid Hyaluronic Acid Capsules High Strength, £35 for 30 200 mg Vege-caps – and you get a 5% discount on that, deducted automatically;  click here to find the product

Ceramides.  The new ‘buzzzz’ supplement for healthy skin – these vital lipids (oils) form part of the skin barrier and are vital for locking in moisture.  Applying them topically may help but taking a wheat ceramide supplement can totally rehydrated stubbornly dry skin.

•  Skin Restoring Ceramides by Life Extentsion, £25 for 30 capsules – and you take £23.75 off that;  click here to find them

Sun Chlorella A.  Teeny tiny green pillules of super-nourishing algae (one of the most ancient plant forms) can make skin look plumper, more velvet, with more even skin tone and – extraordinarily – slightly ‘lifted’ in our experience.  That’s apparently down to the gut-soothing effect of chlorella.  In Chinese medicine, there are two pairs of energy lines (meridians) running down your face: if your gut is unhappy, the lines droop.  Calm the gut and the lines contract to normal. 

•  Sun Chlorella A, £21.95 for 300 pillules, dose 15-40 daily;  find them here (just £20.85 with your discount)

...  Also consider taking Omega-3 Essential Fatty Acid (IdealOmega 3, £23.70 for 60 capsules) – click here to find it (that’s £22.15 to you)

...  And vitamin D:  D Lux 1000 Spray, £7.15 for 15 ml;  click here to find it (the discount brings it down to £6.79)

Both of these are essential for all your body functions, and have a real effect on the structure, tone and hydration of your skin. 

Stay gorgeous...!