Wellbeing from within: energy, sleep and healthy ageing

Feeling well is not one thing. It is energy that lasts past three in the afternoon, sleep that actually restores, and a body that recovers from effort rather than accumulating it. Those are different mechanisms, and it helps to keep them apart. This page collects what we know about energy, sleep and healthy ageing, and the formula we built for a woman's inner strength.

Why does energy not last the way it used to?

Cells make energy in the mitochondria, and that machinery depends on a set of unglamorous nutrients being present in the right form, the B vitamins above all. Oxidative stress is the by-product of that work. The body has its own defences against it, and how well they work is part of how ageing proceeds. Niacin, folate and vitamin B12 contribute to normal energy yielding metabolism and to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue, and in Peak Performance folate and B12 come in their active forms, Quatrefolic® and MecobalActive®, so the body does not have to convert them.

Supplements for sleep and recovery: what can be influenced

Sleep is governed by rhythm rather than willpower. Cortisol should be high in the morning and low at night, and when that curve flattens, tiredness and poor sleep arrive together. Light, timing and routine are the foundation. What a supplement can contribute is the nutrition around it: Extramel® melon extract, a source of SOD, at the same 10 mg used in the human trials on perceived stress and fatigue, and vitamin D, which contributes to normal muscle function. Sleep and energy are also what come up most often in the reviews we receive on Peak.

Vitamin D3 and K2 through the Swedish winter

Between October and March the sun in Sweden never climbs high enough for skin to make any vitamin D at all, however bright the day. Peak Performance provides 25 µg of vitamin D3 alongside 90 µg of K2 as MenaQ7®. Vitamin D contributes to the normal function of the immune system, to normal muscle function and to the maintenance of normal bones, and vitamin K contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.

Omega 3 from algae, olive polyphenols and the immune system

375 mg of omega 3 from OMEGATEX® algal oil, of which 300 mg DHA and 50 mg EPA. EPA and DHA contribute to the normal function of the heart, and DHA to the maintenance of normal brain function and normal vision. Hytolive® olive fruit extract provides 15 mg of hydroxytyrosol, the daily amount used in the randomised human trial, and olive oil polyphenols contribute to the protection of blood lipids from oxidative stress. Zinc and selenium contribute to the normal function of the immune system and to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.

Read the research

• The biology of healthy ageing: energy, cells and time
• Stress and sleep: cortisol, rhythm and real recovery
• Cortisol, sleep and what actually changes recovery
• Vitamin D deficiency: why the Swedish winter is a special case
• Anti-inflammatory diet: what the research shows and what it looks like in practice
• From French melon to everyday resilience, the SOD research.
• From olive fruit to oxidative protection
• Omega 3 from algal oil, EPA and DHA
• Vitamin D3 for immunity, muscles and bones

The formula we built for this

Peak Performance, multivitamin for women with omega 3 is our formula for energy, sleep and recovery: OMEGATEX® algal oil with omega 3, Extramel® SOD from French melon, Hytolive® olive polyphenols, vitamin D3 and MenaQ7® K2, MecobalActive® B12 and Quatrefolic® folate in active forms, plus zinc, selenium and chromium. Every active is named on the label with its own figure. Two capsules a day.

Persistent exhaustion is a reason to see a doctor and have your blood tested, and we would rather say so than sell you a jar. The two-minute quiz compares all three formulas, and our questions and answers covers the rest.