The 5 Essential Supplements You Need This Fall Season
When the leaves start changing, the noses start running. It’s no surprise the toll that autumn can take on your health. Between the temperature dropping, kids getting sick from school, and the peak of allergy season; this time of the year always seem to weaken our immune system.
To combat the season change, it’s important to strengthen our natural defenses early with vitamins and minerals and not just when we feel sick. That’s why we want to share 5 essential supplements you need this fall season!
1. Probiotics
Our digestive tracts are filled with trillions of bacteria, both good and bad. Probiotics are “good” bacteria that eliminate toxins and foreign bacteria that might disrupt your gut’s natural balance. This is crucial for not only relieving digestive issues like cramping and bloating, but it also boosts your immune system too.
The reason why? Because 80% of your immune system is actually located in your gut. Taking probiotics regularly can improve the body’s immune response so it’s prepared to fight off the common cold and allergies. It may even help reduce the severity and length of your symptoms.
2. Essential Oils
We all love essential oils for their intoxicating aromas but also for the wide variety of health benefits they offer! Whether it’s reducing inflammation (allergies) or clearing sinuses, natural essential oils can help ease the difficult seasonal transitions.
Here are a few essential oils that we love for the colder months:
Peppermint Oil Benefits: Reduces inflammation, relieves scratchy throats, opens up sinuses, and promotes better digestion.
How to Use: Diffuse at home or apply it to your skin.
Eucalyptus Oil Benefits: Produces a cold sensation to relieve nose and chest congestion while providing pain-relieving and cleansing properties.
How to Use: Diffuse at home or apply a few drops to your chest to open up your airways.
Lemon Oil Benefits: One of the best essential oils for allergies because it supports lymphatic system drainage and reduces inflammation. It also fights toxins and bacteria.
How to Use: Diffuse at home or add a few drops to a spray bottle with water to disinfect allergens found on clothes or surfaces.
Since many essential oils are heavily concentrated, we never recommended digesting and suggest to dilute with a carrier oil when applied to skin.
3. Curcumin (Turmeric)
Fall is the perfect time to enjoying the outdoors and Mother Nature before winter arrives. But our bones and joints can get in the way of that, especially as the temperature drops. Colder weather can create painful swelling in our joints and cause them stiffen up.
That’s where Curcumin (concentrated from Turmeric) comes into play. One of nature’s most revered herbs, Curcumin can decrease inflammation associated with cold and long term joint pain so they move freely.
Seasonal allergies, which is caused from inflammation triggered when the immune system is being attacked, may also keep us from staying active outside. Curcumin provides powerful antioxidant properties that stop those allergy attacks from happening in the first place so you can get back to your active lifestyle!
4. Omega-3 Fish Oil
Omega-3 Fish Oil is truly one of the world’s most versatile nutrients that helps support the heart, brain, joints, and overall health. These essential omega-3 fatty acids should be added to everyone’s supplement regimen, regardless of the season.
But it can also be very helpful in these autumn months. Omega-3’s help improve our energy levels as the days become shorter and reduce stress as our schedules become busier.
Do your hands and feet get especially cold when the temperature begins to drop? Since these extremities are further away from your heart, they are the last place to get blood. Omega-3 fish oil supplements help promote circulation to warm up those freezing fingers and toes.
5. Green Tea Extract
The last supplement we want to mention is Green Tea Extract. Now that summer is official over, your schedule has probably gotten a lot busier with work, the kids being back in school, and preparing for the holidays. You may need a little pep in your step!
Green Tea Extract is a super antioxidant that is loaded with vitamins and nutrients, including L-theanine. This amino acid provides stable and steady energy to help you power through the day, without the jitters and crashes you get from coffee or sugary energy drinks.
