Supplements to keep the Fascia in shape

What does Fascian need to work properly?

Dietary supplement BAS: An easy way to keep your Fascia in shape

Everyone is different and has different needs and nutritional deficiencies. Therefore, it can be useful to do a hair mineral analysis, test different supplements and see how the body reacts over time.

However, there are some nutrients that the vast majority of people in Sweden need to cope with the stresses of our modern lifestyle – and which are essential for the proper functioning of your fascia.

The content and dosage of the BAS box is developed in consultation with Camilla Ranje Nordin, teacher of Fascia Knowledge & Fascia Treatment, who, among other things, has created the world’s largest public research database on Fascia.

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Do I really need supplements to feel good?

The fascia is affected by basically everything we expose ourselves to

Dr. Heike Jäger from the Fascia Research Center in Ulm, Germany, lectures on Fascia in Stockholm, May 2017

For most of us, today’s lifestyle is anything but healthy

Mental stress to keep up with all the “musts”, bad dietary habits with a lot of junk food because we don’t have time, too much sedentary behavior – the list goes on and on about how we misuse our bodies.

In addition, although we try to eat healthy and nutritious food, food today is not what it used to be. Depleted soils due to monoculture and artificial fertilizers, among other things, have meant that vegetables and other crops lack access to many minerals.

For us to feel good and keep our bodies in balance, we need to get all the nutrients we need. All the building blocks and parts need to be present to maintain the machinery and repair what is worn out or damaged and to reduce the risk of disease.

This is why we believe that, in principle, all people need food supplements to get what we need to feel good.

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Dietary supplement BAS: Content and dosage

Why are Vitamin C, Omega 3, MSM, Vitamin D & Magnesium good for your Fascia?

To make it easy to keep track of intake, the dosage is specially designed to last for exactly 50 days.

Vitamin C – consumed during stress & cannot be made by us

Vitamin C has an enormous number of functions in the body.

It is, among other things, the body’s most important antioxidant and thus helps us cope with stress (physical and mental strain).

It contributes to a strong immune system, it helps to build strong collagen (which builds up the whole body’s connective tissue from bones, cartilage, fascia all the way to the skin) and it has many other important functions.

All animals except primates (which includes us) and guinea pigs (and a few others) make their own vitamin C in the liver from glucose. We therefore need to get the vitamin from food.

What is most often associated with vitamin C deficiency is scurvy (weakened collagen and thus deficient bones and other connective tissue). To counteract this, the Food Standards Agency says we need about 80 mg/day, but we need so much more to protect the body against stress and keep us healthy. Animals produce far higher levels and also vary production, increasing production with increased stress. So the body’s needs vary, but what we don’t need we excrete.

Vitamin C is mostly found in fruits, berries and vegetables. Our recommendation in the basic package of 3 g/day is a low dose compared to what various researchers recommend.

Omega 3 – difficult to get and impossible for the body to produce

Omega 3 (linolenic acid) is an essential polyunsaturated fatty acid and the body cannot produce it itself.

Omega 3 is mostly found in oily fish (salmon, mackerel, herring, sardines), some algae, rapeseed oil and walnuts. So we should eat oily fish several times a week. Unfortunately, oily fish often contain large amounts of fat-soluble environmental toxins such as PCBs and dioxins, especially if the fish is from the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Bothnia or Lake Vänern and Lake Vättern.

Omega-3 fatty acids are a group of fatty acids of which EPA and DHA are the most common. Omega 6 (linoleic acid) is also a polyunsaturated essential fatty acid but is much easier to obtain in sufficient quantities as it is found in corn oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil, sesame seed oil and rapeseed oil.

Usual dose 1-2 g/day.

MSM – Needed for a Healthy & Functioning Fascia

MSM-methylsulfonylmethane is organic sulfur.

Sulphur is needed to get a healthy and well-functioning fascia.

It is part of several amino acids, which are part of several different proteins in the body, such as collagen (fascia, cartilage, bones) and keratin (skin, hair, nails).

It is also part of several of the large molecules that make up the liquid gel (known as the ground substance), which is found between collagen fibers.

These large molecules bind water, which is important for the proper functioning of the fascia.

Sulphur also has many other important functions in the body.

The uptake of MSM is increased by simultaneous intake of vitamin C.

The usual dose is 2-4 g/day. Start with one tablet and increase gradually after a week as it may initially cause an upset stomach. If your stomach remains upset and loose, you may need to reduce one tablet.

Vitamin D3 – essential for northerners who don’t spend hours outside each day

Vitamin D3 is produced in our skin with the help of sunlight. In our latitudes, the sun is low for much of the year and our skin does not get enough sun.

We can also get D3 from food, especially oily fish. Dairy products are often fortified with D3. Vegetarian diets contain virtually no D3.

Therefore, D3 supplementation is usually needed, at least from September through April.

D3 has many important functions in the body, perhaps the best known being to increase the absorption of Ca (calcium) and thus contribute to strong bones and teeth.

D3 is also essential for a strong immune system and cell function, and for the body’s energy metabolism by helping to produce the hormone thyroxine (thyroid).

In addition to weak bones and teeth, deficiencies can lead to a weakened immune system, fatigue, depression, numbness in arms and legs, muscle aches and cramps, and general bone and joint pain.

D3 is a fat-soluble vitamin that is stored in the body and if we sunbathe a lot during the summer, we can survive well into the fall.

The amount most of us take in through food is negligible.

According to several researchers, including physician Mats Humble, supplements of at least 2,500 IU or more per day should be taken.

Our supplement is 5000 IU, which is high. If you want to reduce the dose, you take every other day or a shock dose of 3-4 capsules once a week, which works well as it is stored.

Magnesium – sugar, coffee and alcohol can cause deficiency

Magnesium, Mg, is a mineral that has an incredible number of functions in the body and deficiency causes a variety of diffuse symptoms.

Most magnesium is found inside the cell’s mitochondria (the cell’s energy factories).

Mg is a coenzyme in several hundred of the body’s enzyme processes and is involved in about 80% of all metabolic functions in the body. It is needed for energy production, protein synthesis, muscle work (including the heart), calcium balance (Ca and Mg are antagonists), high intake of calcium (dairy products, etc.) can cause Mg deficiency.

Mg also regulates the body’s acid-base balance, an acidic body (a lot of sugar, coffee, alcohol) causes impaired absorption and can cause deficiency. Deficiency can cause cramps, fatigue, sleep problems, high blood pressure, heart problems, depression, neurological diseases, etc.

Today’s plant cultivation with artificial fertilizers also degrades plant content (Thomas E Levy, 2019).

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