Supplements
Lifelong Wellness: The 6 Best Supplements to Support Healthy Aging
Aging well isn’t about turning back the clock; it’s about nurturing energy, mobility, and wellness through every stage of life. Alongside nourishing foods, regular movement, and restorative sleep, certain supplements may help fill in the nutrition gaps that naturally appear over time.* MegaFood, a brand known for creating efficacious, planet-first vitamins and supplements, offers products ...
These Are the Best Supplements for Healthy Aging, According to Thorne’s Medical Affairs Experts
Healthy aging starts with daily habits — and for many, that includes smart, supportive supplementation. While there’s no one-size-fits-all formula for healthy aging, science continues to uncover promising ways to help support the body and mind through every decade. To help shed light on the most well-researched options, we turned to Dr. Jennifer Greer (ND, ...
What Is Stinging Nettle? A Guide to This Nutrient-Packed Plant
This article was written with help from AI and edited by Thrive Market’s talented team of human writers. If you’ve ever brushed against a patch of stinging nettle in the wild, you might be familiar with its sharp sting. But beyond its prickly reputation, this vibrant green plant has a long history of use in ...
What is Psyllium Husk?
This article was written with help from AI and edited by Thrive Market’s talented team of human writers. In the nutrition world, psyllium husk has become popular as a dietary fiber supplement. Let’s explore the potential benefits, how it works in the body, and the best ways to incorporate it into your daily routine. What ...
What Is Collagen?
In your quest for youthful-looking skin or healthy joints, you’ve likely come across a common ingredient: collagen. Aside from being a popular ingredient in many supplements, beauty products, and even your morning coffee, collagen is a structural protein that makes up about a third of the protein in the human body. Upping your body’s natural ...
Do You Need More Iron? Answering Your Iron Questions With Floradix
The folks behind Floradix have been using traditional herbal knowledge and modern scientific expertise for generations to provide convenient, safe, and effective herbal products to help people live healthier lives. Their liquid iron supplements are tried-and-true remedies made with the belief that nature provides what is needed to heal our bodies, minds, and spirits. We ...
Talking Adaptogenic Herbs and Sustainable Sourcing With Gaia Herbs
Adaptogenic herbs, a classification of herbs that help the body adapt and thrive under various stressors, have become sought-after among those seeking natural solutions to things like stress, digestive ailments, and trouble sleeping. These herbs have been used for centuries in traditional wellness practices worldwide, including traditional Chinese medicine, ayurveda (the traditional wellness practice of ...
MegaFood’s Dr. Erin Stokes Answers Your Most Common Questions About Low Iron in Women
Dr. Erin Stokes has seen a lot of health conditions during her time as a Naturopathic Doctor and Medical Director for MegaFood, but she’s fostered a particular interest in one: iron deficiency in women. “It is the most common nutrient deficiency in the world,” Dr. Stokes shares. But despite its prevalence, the symptoms of iron ...
What are Omega-3 Fatty Acids? Benefits, Food Sources, Supplements, and More
Not so long ago, many people feared eating fats. “Healthy fats” weren’t yet a coveted nutritional powerhouse — and in fact, you’d be more likely to seek out “low-fat” and even “fat-free” labels on foods in an effort to eat well. Today, we know that fats are essential for optimal health, and in the wide ...
What are the Best Vitamins and Supplements for Travel? We Asked a Health Coach
Anything can happen when you travel. You’ll see sights that inspire you, meet people from other cultures, try foods that expand your palate — but the change in routine may also throw your health out of whack. If you often find yourself feeling a little run-down, backed-up, or sleep-deprived while traveling, Parsley Health Senior Health ...
What is Lion’s Mane? All the Benefits of This Mega-Popular Mushroom
By now, you’ve likely heard the phrase “functional mushrooms”. The name implies that mushrooms are more beneficial than the mushrooms you toss in your stir-fry or salad—but what, exactly, are they doing for you? If you want to understand functional mushrooms, the lion’s mane mushroom is a good place to start. Lion’s mane is one ...
Your Guide to Nutricosmetics, aka Beauty Supplements
You’re likely already using topical treatments as a way to care for your skin and hair, but beauty supplements go a step further: by offering a dose of essential vitamins, minerals, proteins, and antioxidants, they can help to do things like boost collagen production and increase hair growth (talk about inner beauty!) “Aptly known as ...
What are Nootropics? All the Brain-Boosting Benefits
A supplement that increases your brain power, makes you think faster, and gives you a jolt of energy… sounds like something out of an action movie, right? While that type of miracle pill doesn’t exist in the real world, the closest things to it may be nootropics, a group of substances that many use to ...
Editor’s Picks: Our Favorite Products in November
As Thrive Market employees, we know a lot about our products. We swap recommendations, we sample from the “free table” at Thrive Market HQ, and we’re the first to add newly-launched items to our orders. Editor’s Picks is a monthly column rounding up the top three products our blog editors are loving.
Tired All The Time? You Could Be Deficient in This Mineral
There are a lot of reasons you might be feeling tired right now: an extra busy workday, a bad night’s sleep, or staying up too late binge-watching your favorite show. (Sound familiar?)
What is Sea Moss, and What is It Good For?
You already know that lots of healthy ingredients come from the ground, but some of the most beneficial ones on earth are found in our oceans—things like algae, kelp, and a fascinating sea plant known as “sea moss”. So what makes sea moss so special? Quite a lot, which is why you’ve likely noticed it ...
How Two Brand Founders Create a Healthy Routine Using Adaptogens
Health looks different for everyone, but the healthiest people seem to have one thing in common: a dedicated daily routine. Whether it’s a cherished morning meditation ritual or a pre-sleep supplement routine, these daily habits start to kick in when you do them over time. We spoke to Four Sigmatic founder Tero Isokauppila and Pulp ...
What Are Real Food Vitamins? Ask An Expert
The supplement aisle can be a confusing place. Real food vitamins, probiotics, prebiotics… where are you supposed to begin? With so many products to choose from and such a wide range of price points, it can be a challenge to figure out which supplements and real food vitamins are the best for you: your unique ...
Build a Sustainable Supplement Routine, Starting With These Three New Chapter Essentials
How important is sustainability when it comes to choosing your supplements? And with that in mind, how can you build a personalized supplement routine that’s not only good for you, but also better for the planet? Brands like New Chapter deeply consider the environmental impact behind sourcing each of their products. We spoke to Charlotte ...
How to Choose the Best Supplements
Supplements might be our partners in health, but with so many options it can be complicated to figure out which ones your body might truly benefit from and where to find them. That’s where Thrive Market comes in. Whether you’re looking for letter vitamins or adaptogenic herbs, we have strict standards to make sure you ...
Vitamin C and Immunity: What It Can (and Can’t) Do, Plus More Immunity Supplements to Try
As more people venture back out into the world—whether to work, to the classroom, to travel, or simply to stores and restaurants—immunity is especially important. With cold and flu season on its way and COVID-19 still circulating, now is a great time to stock your medicine cabinet with some go-to immunity supplements—like the new wellmade ...
Spirulina vs. Chlorella
From mineral rich lakes to fresh water sources, we’re going deeper with two aquatic ingredients: spirulina and chlorella. Both of these superfood algae are highly nutritious and easy to incorporate into your diet—we’ll show you how. What Is Spirulina? Spirulina—technically classified as a cyanobacteria—is a spiral-shaped algae known for delivering nutrients like manganese, B-vitamins, zinc, ...
Need Some CBD Clarity? Our Guide for Choosing the Best Hemp Supplements
If it feels like the CBD carousel keeps spinning, that’s probably because it is. These days, there are so many new hemp products hitting shelves it’s hard to keep up, which is why we vet the most innovative, eco-friendly, and nontoxic brands. This comprehensive guide has everything you need to choose the best hemp supplements ...
4 Ways to Use Superfood ’Shrooms
Mushrooms are just one of those foods: you either like them or you don’t. Whatever your feelings on funghi, it’s worth giving these wellmade by Thrive Market Organic Superfood Mushroom Powders a chance. They harness the power of four functional mushrooms that are considered medicinal for their purported nutritional and adaptogenic properties,* in a highly ...