There seems to be a real trend in supplements these days, for both humans and animals. There are supplements to relieve stress, improve sleep, support physical activity, boost the immune system, build muscle, lose weight, and so on.

Are they really that important and necessary or is it just a temporary fad?

As with everything, the answer is: it depends!

It depends on the reason why you choose the supplements and what condition you want them to support.

There is no doubt that intensive exploitation has depleted cultivated lands by 80% of the nutrients they once abounded in.
The same nutrients that once ended up in the plants we and animals eat.

Today, plant- and animal-based foods are poorer in essential nutrients than they once were, and this is reflected in a systemic deficiency of salts and nutrients.

An example among all is represented by magnesium , an essential salt for our organism, the deficiency of which can cause illnesses and disorders, sometimes insidious, such as irritability , poor tolerance to sugars and in some cases even excess weight.

When is integration necessary?

There are cases in which the diet provides the appropriate nutrients, but certain conditions and diseases cause this quantity to be insufficient.

We are referring, for example, to amino acids , which are the building blocks of proteins.

Under normal conditions, balanced diets are able to provide the correct amount of these nutrients, but particular conditions, such as chronic inflammatory diseases , recovery from surgery , and the loss of proteins through urine, can create an imbalance between the amino acids taken in with the diet and those consumed by the body.

Under these conditions, studies have shown that consuming amino acids alone promotes the body's healing and adaptation processes more rapidly than increasing the protein content of the diet, which, although more natural, requires the body to work harder to digest and assimilate, at a time when energy is being diverted elsewhere.

Precisely for this reason, the technicians at Biolife Pet have created a supplement based on essential amino acids, useful during illnesses, convalescence and especially during phases of proteinuria, a common condition in dogs in which the loss of protein in the urine induces a chronic deficiency that leads to anemia, fatigue and delayed healing.

In addition, it also contains salts and vitamins that promote assimilation processes and accelerate healing.