5 Tips for Back to School Health!

Staying healthy requires effort and time, but the change of pace and stress of back to school season makes it seem especially hard to keep up with healthy habits! Despite the increased contact you and your little ones will have with chewed pencils and unwashed hands, staying ahead of the health curve doesn’t have to be a struggle! Here’s what you need to do to stay on top of back to school health:

Keep Their Tummies Happy!

Parents know that health starts on the inside, but each day we discover another way that our gut health and gut flora impact immune health! This is true for your little ones, too, and that’s what puts DNA Miracles Chewable Probiotics at the top of our back to school health and wellness list! Containing five billion colony forming units from five carefully selected bacterial strains, DNA Miracles Chewable Probiotics help ensure your child receives the full benefits of the selected probiotics! Each probiotics strain used in DNA Miracles Chewable Probiotics has a unique, proven role to help support your child’s digestive health, immune system, and optimal bacterial balance.

Give Their Antioxidants a Boost!

Antioxidants aren’t just important for adults; they provide astounding benefits for growing children, as well! Between hectic schedules and picky eating habits, it’s difficult to ensure that your children are getting complete antioxidant protection from their foods alone, which makes DNA Miracles Isotonix® OPC-3 an essential product for your back to school health routine! Available in both the traditional isotonic form and a delicious OPC-3 chew, DNA Miracles Isotonix® OPC-3 supports your child’s heart health using amazing ingredients, including the highly-researched, clinically-studied plant extract Pycnogenol®! This product provides benefits such as strong antioxidant defense, powerful free-radical scavenging, and brain health support to give your little miracles something both parents and pediatricians can agree on.*

Fill the Nutrient Gaps!

As much as you adore the little things that make your little miracles unique, their unique and ever-changing taste can be one of the patience-testers (they did like carrots yesterday, right?) that makes it hard to keep up. While there are many options to help support your child’s nutritional needs, it’s important to trust that the supplement you’re giving them works for their unique needs. Enter: DNA Miracles® Isotonix® Multivitamin Plus! Unlike traditional children’s multivitamins, this specially formulated multivitamin supports the needs of children needing particular nutritional support in the areas of digestive, neurological and metabolic health.* Not only does DNA Miracles Isotonix Multivitamin Plus provide children with necessary nutrients needed to grow and stay healthy, but it provides a carefully selected blend of vitamins and minerals chosen for their exceptional bioavailability!

Suds Up Safely!

Splishing + splashing is a staple of every bathtime routine, and it’s great to end their long days with fun and a tub full of bubbles! After picking up germs from the playground and their playdates, your DNA Miracles® Natural Kids bath time products are essential for sudzing away all of the day’s not-so-friendly bacteria. This extension of DNA Miracles’ natural topical line is filled with nourishing ingredients that cleanses skin with extra-gentle ingredients while the bubbles provide endless entertainment. From a Bubble Bath to Shampoo + Body Wash to the Natural Kids Conditioner, special lightweight formulas mean you can get your little ones squeaky clean without worrying about DEA, parabens, dyes or synthetic fragrances!

Keep Your Home Shining Bright!

Kids need a safe and clean environment to grow up in, but navigating the countless cleaning products in-stores can seem like a daunting task after looking into some of the scary ingredients. Thankfully, there’s no need to worry about the DNA Miracles® Home Solutions Bundle! The perfect solution for all busy parents, your Home Solutions Bundle contains:

• DNA Miracles Home Solutions Nursery + Playroom Cleaner
• DNA Miracles Home Solutions Bottle + Dish Soap
• DNA Miracles Home Solutions Spot + Stain Remover
• DNA Miracles Home Solutions Fruit + Veggie Wash

…all formulated to keep your home squeaky-clean! To get started, all you need to do is drop a pack into a bottle, fill with water and in one minute you’ll be ready to clean. Each product is specially formulated to be safe for use in the rooms where your little bundles of joy spend time, but tough on dirt and grime.

Stress and Gut Health: Digestive Enzymes To the Rescue

Just thinking about all of life’s obligations and deadlines can leave your stomach in knots — and for good reason. Too much stress directly affects the delicate balance of your microbiomes! While a lifestyle overhaul might be a great fix, it isn’t always an option for those of us with busy lives, and that’s where digestive enzymes come in!

Stress + Your Microbiomes

As you might already know, the standard American diet of overly processed foods negatively affects the microorganism balance in our systems. But stress can have the same effect, maybe worse, creating a recipe for an unhappy digestive system.

With new research showing that daily stress can negatively affect healthy bacteria in your gut, the next step is understanding how that happens.

The way this occurs is when elevated stress levels cause your brain to enter a state called flight-or-fight mode. This impacts the blood flow to your gut which is why you may remember experiencing a poorer digestive and immune health during periods of your life when you’ve been overly stressed!

The Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology also published a recent study showing that consistent stress can alter the amount and diversity of your good gut flora, but a healthy balance and quantity of flora helps maintain a barrier keeping unhealthy intruders at bay. When these microbes are weakened, you can become more susceptible to illness, exhaustion, and nutritional deficiencies!

What Are Enzymes?

First things first,  proteins are made up of amino acids. They are powerful catalysts, responsible for every chemical reaction that goes on in our body from our muscles and bones down to tissues and cells.

There are two types enzymes in the body: digestive, which help us utilize the nutrients in foods; and metabolic, which are responsible for bodily reactions such as energy production and detoxification. Since we’re here to focus on digestive enzymes, here’s a quick breakdown:

• Proteases: aids in digesting protein
• Amylases: aids in digesting carbohydrates
• Lipases: aids in digesting fats

How Digestive Enzymes Support Gut Health

In order to break down food efficiently and effectively, your body needs a sufficient supply of these digestive enzymes. But, the gut becomes less efficient with age, stress, and poor diet and we may begin to produce fewer digestive enzymes causing our bodies to miss many of the nutrients we need.

Now, you could commit to living a completely stress-free life and eating a perfect diet every single day and your gut would definitely thank you! But how realistic is that? The truth is, we’re all busy.

We’re all going to end up eating on-the-go (probably too quickly!) and overwhelming our schedules because there simply aren’t enough hours in the day! Thankfully, you have another option: supplementation!

By supplementing your diet with digestive enzymes and probiotics, you can help counteract a fast-paced, high-stress lifestyle! 

Isotonix provides one of the best digestive enzyme/probiotic products with the best delivery system on the market to deliver that support right where you need it!

Available in stick packs for on-the-run use or a bottle to keep at home, Isotonix Digestive Enzymes with Probiotics is an isotonic-capable food supplement made from a combination of DigeZyme® and Lactospore® to replenish the digestive enzymes and probiotics that are so essential to good digestive health. Vegetarian, gluten-free, and free from GMO’s, Isotonix provides an easy way to support a healthy gut so you can live your life without worry!

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug. products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease