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.

What actually changes

Cells make energy in the mitochondria, and that machinery depends on a set of unglamorous nutrients — B vitamins, magnesium, iron — being present in the right form. Oxidative stress is the by-product of that work; the body has its own defences against it, and they are part of how ageing proceeds.

Sleep is governed by rhythm rather than willpower. Cortisol should be high in the morning and low at night. When that curve flattens or inverts, tiredness and poor sleep arrive together, and neither is fixed by trying harder.

Read the research

• The biology of healthy ageing: energy, cells and time
• Stress and sleep: cortisol, rhythm and real recovery
• From French melon to everyday resilience — the SOD research.
• From olive fruit to oxidative protection
• The omega-3 story starts before the fish
• Vitamin D3 for immunity, muscles and bones
• Vitamin B12: methylcobalamin, food sources and energy
• Folate: vitamin B9 and the active 5-MTHF form explained

What we may say, and what we may not

A food supplement may not claim to treat fatigue, poor sleep or the passage of time. What is authorised, and what we therefore say, is this: vitamin B12 and folate contribute to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue and to normal energy-yielding metabolism, vitamin D contributes to the normal function of the immune system and to the maintenance of normal muscle function, and DHA contributes to the maintenance of normal brain function.

Persistent exhaustion is a reason to see a doctor and have your blood tested. A supplement is not a diagnosis.

The formula we built for this

Peak Performance is our wellbeing formula: omega-3, Extramel® SOD from French melon, Hytolive® olive polyphenols, vitamin D3, the active forms of B12 and folate, and vitamin K2. Every active is named on the label with its own figure.

The two-minute quiz compares all three formulas, and our questions and answers covers the rest.