supplements and vitamins I get quite a bit of questions about all these

subjects and I'm super excited to share more information with you in case you

guys don't know I am a registered holistic nutritionist I got my

certification in 2015 I do want to mention that all this information is my

opinion and I highly recommend you guys to go and talk to you health care

provider for anything concerning your supplements or your vitamins or any

medications you are taking just to make sure so let's get to I don't want to say

huge thank you to the Montreux reserve for collaborating with me and sponsoring

this video so first I want to start by saying that I know there's a lot of

information out there and a lot of contradicting opinions there are studies

that are done literally on a weekly basis talking about the power of wanting

and then completely saying the opposite the next week so it can be really

confusing and I totally feel you guys the one thing I want to mention is it's

wonderful to have supplements out there but those are basically to fill the gaps

these cannot replace a good balanced diet you want to make sure that you're

eating properly you're eating sustainably you're eating healthy and

providing your body with all the nutrients that means let's start by

talking about the supplements that I personally take there are three of them

and those include omega-3 multivitamin and probiotics so with the omega-3 I

take it on and off depends on what phase I'm in so before pregnancy I took it

during pregnancy I took it and I was taking it a little bit after but now

that I'm kind of back to eating my fish during the week I don't really need to

take omega-3 so I kind of taking a break from it if you watched any of my

previous nutrition videos you saw that I was taking cod liver oil I used to take

cod liver oil especially in the winter because my diet was a little off and

also it has a naturally occurring vitamin D in it which is necessary for

us especially during winter time but I was done with that and I decided to

buy an algae oil algae oil is basically the same version of omega-3 from fish

oil but it's a vegetarian vegan option it's also more sustainable because it's

seaweed and not fish if you do have any heart conditions or heart problems

omega-3 actually been proven to help with that it also may help with any

condition like the Fridays with anxiety or depression but those haven't been

proven and there's not a lot of studies on it but these are some of the claims

that you can find online so if you experience any of that I recommend you

guys to check it out and try and see if it can help the next thing is a

multivitamin again a multivitamin is basically feeling that the ABS if you

feel like you're not getting enough from your diet and you don't eat enough I

think that a multivitamin is a great way just to make sure that you get the right

things another thing that you can do before you get into any supplements is

to go to your doctor and ask for a blood test so with blood test you can actually

check which vitamins or minerals you are lacking in and to make sure that you are

going and getting yourself the right supplement also I highly recommend for

you to start one supplement at a time and then go and do another blood test or

even just document how you feel after six to 12 weeks and see if it helped

with any condition so multivitamin is again something that I took before

pregnancy especially because of folic acid iodine calcium and other necessary

vitamins and minerals that I needed to make sure that I am growing a healthy

baby and to help with the development I took it throughout my pregnancy and I

still take them the next thing is probiotics so probiotic is extremely

important for gut flora probiotic is something that I am a big believer in

especially because we live in a pretty stressful environment and times these

days trés does affect our gut flora directly

and gut flora is connected to a lot of different things you can also get

probiotics from food sources especially fermented sources such as kefir

sauerkraut can move and the more conventional way to get

probiotic is your so you don't have to take probiotics as a pill but if you are

lactose intolerant or don't consume those foods as much probiotics would be

a great way to introduce to your diet so those are three supplements that I

rotate in my health routine and then I have of course the powders and

adaptogens and other things that I love and incorporate into my daily use so

those are matcha maca collagen powder spirulina and protein powder so the

first thing is an organic maca powder and this one is from the matcha reserve

this is a plant-based superfood and it's an adaptogen adaptogens are great

natural healers to help your body to deal with stress and to balance your

hormones it helps increase energy helps with clarity and fight brain fog and to

boost immunity and metabolism this is great for women because it may help with

anything to do with pre menopausal post menopause this is something I started

incorporating into my mom's diet this you can easily mix into smoothie it's

actually pretty delicious especially chocolate hay also helps libido

so it's quiet a great one to introduce into your diet if you in need up any of

those things next thing is a combination of two

things that I use and it's the much of collagen so matcha and collagen are

probably the two powders that are used in most on a daily basis so matcha is

basically a pure out of form of green tea and this is my source of caffeine

especially when I try to kind of stay away from coffee it gives you a more

sustainable energy boost and it doesn't crash your blood sugar and it really

rich in antioxidants if you think that I want to mention when you are looking to

purchase matcha and the reason why the module Reserve is my go-to place you

want to look at three different factors number one is the great you want to make

sure that when you look at matcha you see the Japanese Sumo

matcha which is the highest grade and the most rich in antioxidants and

potency the second thing is the sourcing you want to make sure that it is quality

product that comes on the right country with much a reserve they get their

machchar from Japan they get their mushroom powders and adaptogens from

different countries like Russia so you want to make sure that they are all

grown in the places where they're experts in it also I really appreciate

the fact that all the powders and supplements on the mattress or website

are low quantity because they really don't keep anything on the shelf things

are oxidizing then they're not as strong and they're not effective so there's

fresh products all the time and this is very important to make sure that you are

getting the effect that you're looking for the third thing you should look for

when you are purchasing matcha is color I know that we're all accustomed to

seeing this vibrant green color but those are usually the powders that

companies will use fertilizers and to make sure that that vibrancy is there

the higher-quality Matra are usually a little more dull in color and darker

green so that's something that you can visually see if it's good great or not

another thing that I appreciate about much reserve is the fact that there are

a lot of third-party companies that they go to to get certified if it's for

organic to make sure there's no GMO in it no fertilizer there is no unnecessary

ingredients so that's really important so when you are purchasing any powders

for that matter any company that you look into make sure that they are clean

and go through the right amount of certifications and testing from third

party so this product is specifically my favorite just because you can take it on

the go anywhere I put it in my backpack go with me to the office or wherever an

add here's a little recipe that I like to make for a quick matcha latte so what

I like to do is teaspoon of the matcha or one of those

backs of the match on collagen and then I'll add some warm water make sure there

it's not too hot to make sure it doesn't kill all the benefits of matcha I'll

steer it with a fork just to make sure it combined well and there's no clumping

then I'll add a little bit of sweetener I like to add a little bit of maple

syrup to it you can also add either brown sugar or coconut sugar whatever

makes you happy then I'll warm and sweeten oatmeal to make sure that it's

hot and steamy you can also use any other nut milk or milk that you like and

then I like to use this electric whisk which was the best Amazon purchase and

butter to whisk my milk to make it foamy and very latte ish then I'll just

combine it with the matcha and voila there you go you have your matcha latte

that will put any Starbucks macho to shame and then talking about the college

and that if you follow me on instagram you see I use quite a bit and my

smoothies I put it also for the kids collagen is the main structural protein

found in skin and in connecting tissue so basically it's the glue that holds

everything together the reason why I got into collagen was actually because I had

some joint pain and problems with my knee so when I started working out I

found that I had a lot of pain so I was doing research to see what I can take to

help with that and collagen was kind of on the top of the list I started taking

collagen a while ago like I think it's been maybe four to five years so I've

been an avid collagen lover and it's only recently that it got so popular for

the benefits of like anti aging and wrinkles because collagen is something

that we produce but our bodies slowly stop producing it as we age basically

supplying your body with the collagen will help supposedly with the aging

process I'm definitely not taking it for that but I mean it's a bonus

again there hasn't been a lot of really clinical big studies to prove this point

but there has been some smaller degree studies that show that women especially

between the age 35 to 50 the word taken collagen did

notice a difference in their skin texture and wrinkles and things like

that but again it takes a while it's definitely not a magic pill also

collagen is a great source of protein which is another reason why I use it in

my smoothie sometimes and I don't want to use a protein powder so for me this

combination is awesome the matcha reserve has been super kind and they are

giving my subscribers 30 percent off from the website so if you click on the

description box you see the link there and another really exciting thing is

that 10% of my link will go to the hunger project which is an amazing

organization nonprofit organization around the world and in Africa South

Asia and Latin America to help men and women sustainably make progress in

overcoming hunger and poverty so 10% of this link will go towards that cause so

I'm super excited for that too spirulina spirulina is also something that I love

and I use it's definitely an acquired taste because it is seaweed so it tastes

gross but that's why for me I love using it in smoothies where there's a lot of

other paste to hide that spirulina is a blue-green algae and it's often used as

a vegan option for protein and source of b12 the spirulina is known to have

really high amounts of different nutrients like copper and iron so if you

are looking into iron supplements spirulina can be a great additive to

your booty's it has a lot of antioxidants in it and it's

anti-inflammatory which is wonderful also helps with blood sugar control and

any metabolism problem so definitely something that you should look into if

you want to introduce some superfood into your life and then we have protein

powders I personally my body digests way and

it digests any other vegetarian sources of protein so it's pretty much anything

works for me so just depends on kind of a individual preference one of the

questions that was asked was if I do consume protein powders even when I

don't work out so the answer is yes the way my body works is that I tend to lose

weight and I think especially when you have young kids and work and life a lot

of us forget to eat or eat enough so I definitely will drink protein powder

sometimes throughout the day just to make sure that I need all the nutrient

requirements and I don't just swing and then it's harder to build the muscle so

I'm trying to do I'm trying to build stuff there was a lot of questions also

about if you should take supplements with food if there's the best time of

day to take supplements I recommend you guys to check the instructions on the

bottles a lot of the supplements will give you a specific instructions Sam you

should take with food others doesn't matter when so I think it just attends

and what exactly you take that will really dictate when you should take it

some of you guys asked about and update about my celery juice experience so I

did the celery juice video a few months ago where I was kind of going after the

trend of celery juice and it was definitely pushed to the public as like

this miracle answer to every health issue I don't believe that there's one

thing that will literally solve everything I think that maybe work for

some people I think a lot of it is placebo but again that's just my

personal opinion but I stopped doing it first of all because I just couldn't I

literally had to wake up so early in the morning to make sure that I have it

first thing in the morning and the case just like I can't so what I do instead

is I will put it in my usually in my green smoothies like green apple and