Hello and welcome to the Friday five I do hope that everyone is surviving this dreaded lockdown take two

and looking forward to coming out the other side I for most certainly am. Well one of the focuses of mine these past few months

has been to really drill down and try and focus on the most useful supplements to be taking right now.

Now as a general rule I am not a massive fan of taking supplements I obviously prefer to get all I need from fresh cooked food, cooked from scratch, but the more I learn

about what the body actually needs, especially at a time when it's so important to keep our

immune system strong, as well as what we need as we age,

particularly as midlife women and beyond, our requirements for so many nutrients go up,

and of course even more so during times of stress.

So I do think it's helpful to revisit or even visit for the first time

the benefits of so many different nutrients. Now I'm actually a fan of focusing on a few in particular

rather than a kind of broad brush scatter gun approach because there do seem to be some that keep

cropping up in the literature at the moment time and time again and the key nutrients for me that I'm focusing on right now are

vitamin C, Vitamin D, Vitamin K, K2, magnesium and zinc. And these seem to be the standout big five. Actually that's an African

safari term I picked up from my travels in Kenya where many of you may know I

also have a family home, sadly, not been able to get to recently, but hopefully, maybe in the new year, and I can go and visit the Big Five, because the Big Five out there relates to going on Safari when you can spot lion, buffalo, rhino, elephant and leopard.

And in the old days, these were considered the hardest and the most dangerous to hunt or track on foot.

These days of course tracking happens in a 4 by 4 and the shots come from cameras and not guns

thankfully, but yeah, the big five. Lion, buffalo, rhino, elephant,

and leopard. Actually, for me, my money is always on the giraffe. Love the giraffe. You often see them on my Instagram when I'm in Kenya, just the way they walk. It's so incredibly graceful. Anyway, I digress. Yes, so these five, vitamin C, Vitamin D, Vitamin K, magnesium and zinc are a real focus for my family and for me at the moment and I've posted about them often on my Instagram.

I've linked up with some of the best providers

that I think really make a difference,

producing high quality supplements that do actually work.

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