Often times, multivitamins and minerals are used to support vitamin deficiencies or health conditions. Some of these deficiencies are caused by poor diet, pregnancy, or other times when the body is not optimally nourished. Often, it becomes necessary to supplement with multivitamins and minerals within the diet to make up for any deficits. So what [...]
Iron is an essential nutrient that is especially important during pregnancy. In fact, women need 3 to 5 times more iron during pregnancy! Unfortunately, however, a 2011 study of pregnant women in the U.S. found that 30% of women in the third trimester were iron deficient. This can have serious negative consequences, as fetal and [...]
Iron is an essential mineral that is especially crucial during pregnancy—women need 3 to 5 times more iron during pregnancy. Studies show that supplementing with iron during pregnancy to meet these increased needs promotes healthy birth weights and full-term births. But the problem that many women experience with taking iron during pregnancy is that typical [...]
Many women know it’s important to take a daily prenatal multivitamin during pregnancy. But did you know that it’s just as important to keep doing so after they give birth, during breastfeeding? Continuing to take your prenatal multivitamin after delivery ensures that you get enough essential nutrients, which affects the nutritional content of your breast [...]
Gummy prenatal vitamins are increasingly popular among pregnant women, especially among women who find traditional pill-form prenatal vitamins difficult to swallow or keep down. But women may not realize that gummy prenatal vitamins may not contain all of the vital nutrients found in other prenatal vitamins. In fact, many popular brands of gummy prenatal vitamins [...]
Pregnant women pass vitamin D on to their newborn babies at nearly 3 times the extent previously thought, according to new research published in the Nutrition Journal. It had been previously thought that newborns received 19% of their supply of vitamin D directly from their mother. But thanks to a new measuring technique, this new study [...]
We’re thrilled to announce that two of our Oxylent formulas have each been named award-winners by leading natural health publications! Children’s Oxylent has been awarded the 2013 Essentials Award by Taste for Life magazine. For these awards, parents on the magazine’s staff nominated products that are essentials in their own families, and then the editors selected the [...]
50-90% of pregnant women are affected by nausea and vomiting, and for about 35% of women, nausea and vomiting are severe enough to impair their daily routines.1 Women interested in nonpharmacologic remedies for nausea are often interested in knowing which vitamins have been shown to help nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. The vitamin with the [...]