Nutrition plays an important role in your health. When you're lacking certain nutrients, you may be more likely to catch colds or other illnesses, feel tired, and even develop chronic diseases. Your Grapevine, TX, gynecologist, Dr. Miriam Torres of Serenity Gynecology & Functional Medicine can help you identify your deficiencies and choose women's supplements that will enhance your health.
Improving your health with women's supplements
Ideally, the foods you eat should provide all of the nutrients you need for good health. Unfortunately, that's not always the case. Sometimes, deficiencies can occur even if you follow nutritional recommendations. Supplements can fill in the gaps and also help you at times of your life when your nutritional needs may be changing.
Women's supplements can:
- Help You Protect Your Bones: Eating foods that contain calcium and taking vitamin D and calcium supplements may help you avoid osteoporosis, a disease that affects many more women than men. In fact, 80 percent of people who have osteoporosis are female, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation.
- Stay Healthy If You're Vegan or Vegetarian: Vitamin B12, iron, calcium, vitamin K-2, Omega-3 fatty acids and other vitamins and supplements help you avoid health issues related to your diet.
- Avoid Yeast Infections: Probiotic and antifungal supplements may prevent the overgrowth of vaginal yeast and help you avoid burning, itching and other uncomfortable yeast infection symptoms.
- Manage Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) and Perimenopause Symptoms: Women's supplements can reduce PMS symptoms, like fatigue, fluid retention, breast tenderness and depression. They can also help you manage hot flashes, brain fog and other perimenopause symptoms.
- Improve Heart Health: After menopause, your heart attack risk rises. Fish oil, Omega-3 fatty acids and other supplements offer a natural way to reduce your risk.
It's not always a good idea to start taking supplements on your own. Some supplements can interfere with medications you take or may cause unexpected issues. During your visit to the Grapevine gynecology office, your doctor will recommend safe, effective women's supplements that will boost your health naturally.
Could supplements improve your health? Call your gynecologist in Grapevine, TX, Dr. Miriam Torres of Serenity Gynecology & Functional Medicine, at (817) 280-9616 to schedule your appointment.