• A quick meal that will keep adults and children going at times when there simply isn’t time for a meal.
• A meal replacement shake when used as part of a kilojoule controlled eating plan.
• A nutritious meal in a glass that can be used for extra energy and weight gain if used in addition to meals.

Enjoy your very own health spa, by adding Marina spa to your bath water, and reap the benefits:

• Invigorating and exfoliating
• An excellent skin tonic and nourisher
• Protects against drying out of the skin
• Promotes general skin health
• Invigorates a tired body
• Relaxes aching muscles

Marina Spa can also be added to the Sportron Conditioner and then used on the scalp to assist with dandruff.

• Easy to use combination of products for well-being
• Incorporates the benefits of FoodState® technology
• Helps maintain health, give energy and protect from the threat of illness
• Available in a monthly or family pack
• Available in a veggie capsule ideal for children, people who can’t swallow tablets or for vegetarians.

Many problems can be traced back to an inefficient digestive system. Digestron helps with the management of the following symptoms:

• Constipation
• Flatulence
• Indigestion
• Nausea

Magnesium deficiency

Many lifestyle factors cause a magnesium deficiency. These include smoking, intense exercise, diet and prolonged stress. The foods we consume do not contain enough magnesium for our bodies. There are many reasons for this, for instance boiled, refined and processed foods are stripped of most of their magnesium.

A magnesium deficiency may also be associated with a specific health problem or condition that causes an excessive loss of magnesium or limits magnesium absorption. There are also certain drugs that interact with magnesium and change the body's status:

• Some medications like certain diuretics, antibiotics and oral contraceptives.
• Individuals with poorly-controlled diabetes have an increased loss of magnesium in the urine and may therefore, benefit from magnesium supplements.
• low blood levels of magnesium occur in 30% to 60% of alcoholics, and in nearly 90% of patients experiencing alcohol withdrawal.
• Individuals with chronic malabsorptive problems such as Crohn's disease, gluten sensitive enteropathy, regional enteritis, and intestinal surgery may lose magnesium through diarrhoea and fat malabsorption.
• Individuals with chronically low blood levels of potassium and calcium may have an underlying problem with magnesium deficiency.
• Older adults are at increased risk for magnesium deficiency as a result of lower dietary intakes, a decrease in magnesium absorption and increase in the excretion via the kidneys. Seniors are also more likely to be taking drugs that interact with magnesium.

A magnesium deficiency is fairly common so if you feel any of the following symptoms, you may be deficient in  magnesium: loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, and weakness. As magnesium deficiency worsens, numbness, tingling, muscle contractions and cramps, sudden changes in behaviors caused by excessive electrical activity in the brain, personality changes and abnormal heart rhythms. Severe magnesium deficiency can result in low levels of calcium (hypocalcemia) and potassium (hypokalemia) in the blood.

Functions of Vitamin D

The main function of Vitamin D is to regulate the blood levels of calcium and phosphorus. It helps in the intestinal absorption of Calcium. Since Vitamin D is important for regulating calcium and for bone health, it is necessary for growth in children and it is used to help prevent osteoporosis.

Vitamin D is helpful for maintaining a stable nervous system, normal heart action and for blood clotting, because all of these functions are linked to the body's utilization of Calcium and Phosphorus.

Vitamin D also plays a role in lung and immune function, and is especially beneficial for decreasing immune-mediated inflammation.

Deficiency and Supplementation

Vitamin D deficiency will lead to inadequate absorption of Calcium and hence faulty mineralization of bone so bones become softer and unable to withstand stress. Deficiency therefore, causes muscle pain and weakness with symptoms such as heaviness in the legs, rapid fatigue, and problems with climbing stairs.

Vitamin D supplementation may be needed be elderly people who have limited sun exposure, as well as people with gastrointestinal diseases as they have a malabsorption of Vitamin D from their diet.