Healthy Aging: Embracing a Holistic Approach to Feeling Your Best

We all want to age gracefully, and it’s a worthwhile goal to maintain health as we age into our wisest years. There’s no single secret to healthy aging; rather, it's a combination of healthy lifestyle choices tailored to each individual’s unique needs. By taking a holistic approach, you can provide yourself with a wide base of support, addressing your changing needs with physical activity, nutrient-dense foods, healthy lifestyle habits, and possibly dietary supplementation.

Nature Made tailors supplements to address changing needs as you age, helping you get the support you might need in the forms you prefer. Explore how healthy habits, which includes exercise, good sleep hygiene, stress management, and may include dietary supplements, can help you support your best self.

Aging Gracefully, Inside and Out

Aging holistically means taking a wide view of your health, considering all aspects of nutrition and lifestyle, and prioritizing your physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Just like how each aspect of our life is inextricably linked to others, focusing on just nutrition, exercise, or mindfulness alone means you’re not seeing the full picture.

Aging gracefully requires attention to all facets of life, including practicing stress management techniques to center yourself, finding consistent, low-impact exercise to help keep your body active, making healthy eating choices, and considering supplementation as a convenient way to complement your lifestyle with nutritional support.^†

Supporting Your Body’s Changing Needs

As we age, the body changes in many ways. This is part of the normal aging process, and there’s no way to stop time, but there are ways to support your body through the biological changes that come with age, like changes in muscle strength, and joint mobility, along with reduced collagen production.^[1]

Supplements can provide support, helping bridge any nutrient gaps that may arise. Additional lifestyle adjustments, such as a healthy sleep schedule, regular activity, and more, can help keep you moving through these interests in the healthy aging process.^†

4 Lifestyle Tips for Healthy Aging

There are lots of healthy living activities you can do to support your body, so let's break down some of the most useful healthy aging tips.

1. Prioritize Regular Physical Activity

Our body works best when we use it! Keeping active as you age is one of the most important aspects of aging healthfully, and you can support yourself by prioritizing regular physical activity through exercises like strength training to build muscle mass, yoga to improve flexibility, and cardio to support heart health.

You can support your body’s muscle function and strength with creatine, an amino acid that supplies energy to your muscles to be used during physical activity. Nature Made Micronized Creatine Monohydrate Drink Mix Powder supports healthy aging and cellular metabolism in muscles when combined with resistance training.^†

2. Focus on a Nutrient-Dense Diet

We’re all familiar with the phrase “you are what you eat,” and you should aim to be nutrient-dense, rich in antioxidants, protein, healthy fats, fiber, and essential vitamins and minerals. Avoiding over-processed foods, choosing whole grains, fresh fruits, and vegetables, and aiming for a diet that includes essential vitamins and minerals can support your body as you age.

Healthy food is the best way to get your nutrients, but supplements can complement a balanced diet by providing a consistent, convenient source of nutrients to shore up potential gaps. Calcium is an essential mineral for bone support, and Nature Made’s Calcium with Vitamin D3 Softgels include a daily dose, alongside vitamin D, an essential nutrient that aids in calcium absorption. Talk with your primary care provider about supplementation; they can provide personalized guidance to help you assess how supplements can support your individual health goals.^†

3. Manage Stress and Improve Sleep Quality

The modern world is full of stress, and one of the best ways to make getting through the day easier is to find healthy ways to manage stress and improve your sleep quality. Try a guided meditation to help you grab a moment of peace or try journaling at the end of every day to get your thoughts out on paper, where they often look easier to deal with.^[2]

Sleep is another important aspect of our daily wellness, and it’s all too easy to fall into bad sleep habits. Set yourself a regular routine and aim to get into bed at the same time every night. Disengaging from screens for an hour or two before bedtime can also help your brain prepare for rest.^[3] Try an old analog activity like reading a book or putting on a vinyl.

Did you know that Nature Made offers products to support muscle relaxation? Check out our range of Magnesium Supplements, such as our High Absorption Magnesium Glycinate Gummies, which support essential nerve, muscle, and heart health and function, help convert food into cellular energy, and help relax the body in a chelated form that’s gentle on the stomach.^†

4. Engage in Lifelong Learning

Don’t forget to support your brain health! Keeping a healthy brain active all your life is important; you’re never too old to learn. Taking online courses can help you discover new passions and skills, and engaging in your favorite hobbies like painting, gardening, music, or writing will keep you young at heart forever.^[4]

Top Supplements to Support Healthy Aging

Complementing a healthy lifestyle and diet with supplemental support is a great way to support your body as it ages, and Nature Made has a selection of supplements made with high-quality, science-backed ingredients specially formulated to support healthy aging.^†

Above 50+: Essentials for Your Health

Nature Made’s Multivitamins include essential vitamins and minerals to help fill nutrient gaps and support overall health. Advanced Multivitamin Gummies 50+ for Her provide daily nutritional support for the changing needs of women over 50. Advanced Multivitamin 50+ For Him Gummies are formulated as an easy and enjoyable way for men over 50 to help close potential nutrient gaps in their diet. These Advanced 50+ Multivitamins contain ingredients to support healthy aging, muscle health, cardiovascular health, cognitive health, and immune function, and they support healthy blood pressure.^★†

As You Age: Nutrients/Supplements for Changing Needs

While multivitamins are a solid foundation to a supplement routine, many might be interested in targeted supplements for changing needs. Here are some supplements to consider when building a supplement routine.

• CoQ10 Softgels: CoQ10 helps support heart function and cellular energy production and may be important for people taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, which can inhibit CoQ10 production in the body. Nature Made® CoQ10 200 mg Softgels can help replenish this important nutrient.^♦†
• Biotin Supplements: Biotin, also known as vitamin B7, is an essential nutrient that supports healthy hair, skin, and nails. Nature Made offers a variety of strengths and forms of biotin supplementation. Our Skin Hydration + Ceramides Gummies include biotin and skin health nutrients like vitamin C along with clinically studied Ceramides^▲ to support skin hydration in 15 days and help with skin smoothness & firmness as you age, for adults with dry skin.^†
• Vitamin C: Vitamin C is an essential nutrient most famously found in citrus fruits. In addition to its important antioxidant benefits, vitamin C supports collagen production in the skin. Our Vitamin C Supplements offer a wide range of options for your unique needs and preferences.^†
• Vitamin D3 + K2 Softgels: Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 are two essential vitamins; vitamin D3 supports immune, bone, teeth, and muscle health, and vitamin K2 supports healthy artery function. Nature Made packages this duo because they work together to support strong and healthy bones.^†
• Calcium Supplements: Another important nutrient for bone health is calcium, which is why Nature Made offers a number of calcium supplements, including our Calcium, Magnesium and Zinc with Vitamin D3 Tablets, which provides calcium to help support strong bones in a convenient daily package.^†
• Glucosamine Chondroitin with MSM: Nature Made’s Glucosamine Chondroitin Complex with MSM Triple Strength^‡ + Vitamin D3 provides muscle and joint support, with Glucosamine to help support healthy joint cartilage, Chondroitin to help support joint cushioning, and MSM, a source of dietary sulfur, along with vitamin D3 in two daily caplets.^†
• Turmeric: Turmeric Curcumin High Absorption Capsules include a clinically studied Turmeric Curcumin ingredient to provide combined joint and muscle^◾️ support benefits for active adults as they age.^†

Support your body’s needs with our wide range of expertly formulated supplements that support your healthy aging journey. Discuss supplementation and healthy aging with a health care professional, they can help you assemble a healthy aging program to care for your body and mind.^†

Start Your Journey to Healthy Aging

Understanding that aging gracefully requires a holistic approach, including diet, sleep, exercise, and lifestyle choices alongside supplementation, is an important part of your aging journey. It’s an opportunity to support yourself from inside and out, invest in self-care, and take steps to feel your best. Explore our full range of supplements designed to support your healthy aging journey today!^†

References:

1. Flint B, Tadi P. Physiology, Aging. [Updated 2023 Jan 4]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2025 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK556106/
2. Flint B, Tadi P. Physiology, Aging. [Updated 2023 Jan 4]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2025 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK556106/
3. Wein H. Good Sleep for Good Health. NIH News in Health. Published April 2021. https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2021/04/good-sleep-good-health
4. National Institute on Aging. Cognitive Health and Older Adults. National Institute on Aging. Published June 11, 2024. https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/brain-health/cognitive-health-and-older-adults

★ Blood pressure already within normal range^†

♦CoQ10 is not intended to serve as a replacement for statin drug therapy.

**studied on crow’s feet in women ages 35-55

§in women

▲ Clinically Studied Wheat Seed Extract

‡ 3 Joint support ingredients

◾️ Studied in young adults.