Vitamin C. Quick! What’s the first thing that comes to mind?

If, like me, you have spent the last few months indulging on a regular basis, now is the perfect time to reset your diet—and your health—so you can take on the new year feeling healthy and energized! One of the best ways to do this is to combine good-for-you foods that support your body’s natural detox system, especially your liver, one of the hardest working organs in the body.

Whether you’re feeling a little run down after the holidays, or your immune system always takes a hit during the winter months, here are five must-have winter supplements that will carry you through the season and keep your immune system working at its best.

A Difference You Can “C”

We all want to put our best face forward, but every day there are forces that conspire against that simple goal. It’s not a conspiracy theory, just an unfortunate fact. The skin is exposed to free-radical inducing insults every day that can damage our skin, leaving it dull, sagging, and wrinkle prone.

The omega-3 polyunsaturated acid DHA is essential for perinatal brain and retinal development and maintenance of neurologic function throughout life. Because of U.S. dietary trends, DHA deficiency is becoming more common.

Hawthorn is the common name given to plants belonging to the genus Crataegus, with many different species found throughout temperate zones stretching from North America to Asia. It belongs to the Rose family and is a small tree with rose-like flowers and brown to red berry-like fruits.

When we talk about cardiovascular disease, we tend to focus on the heart and heart disease, but the typical adult body contains some 100,000 miles of blood vessels.¹ Just as accidents are bound to occur over that many miles of highway, problems can develop in the arteries and veins far from your heart.

Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin that is essential to humans because we are among the few mammals incapable of producing it from glucose. Vitamin C is one of the body’s most important water-soluble antioxidants and acts as a cofactor in numerous important enzymatic reactions in the body. Vitamin C is present in all fruits and vegetables.

You know that vitamin E is an essential vitamin, maybe you know that it’s an antioxidant, but do you know why it’s important for your health? And are you getting enough? (If you’re in the majority, you’re not.)

What is PCOS?

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a condition in which hormonal imbalances cause small cysts to grow on women’s ovaries, exacerbating the hormonal imbalance and often leading to numerous other health issues. It can cause problems with periods or make it difficult to get pregnant.

It could kill you…

We’ve all heard that stress is a killer. And it really is. A 2014 study of veterans found that major life stresses, such as divorce or job loss, increased the risk of premature death by 38 percent.