Longevity & Health Span
Redefining Convenient Nutrition for Lifelong Vitality
At Essential Provisions, we believe that providing your body with the nutrients it needs to support your metabolic health is central to a longer and better life. Our nutrient rich meals are crafted with high-quality, nutritive ingredients to meet your daily needs. As important, we have rigorously tested our products to assure you are not getting what you don’t need e.g. pesticides, heavy metals, preservatives, glyphosate, etc.
Fueling a Life Well-Lived
Research has shown that the greatest predictors of longevity and the capacity to thrive functionally are muscle mass (also known as lean body mass) and strength. Essential Provisions products are developed to assure adequate and complete protein sources including highly bioavailable essential and non-essential amino acids. Getting adequate protein throughout the day that is higher in the champion amino acid leucine is central to stimulating muscle protein synthesis.
When Essential Provision products are integrated with other aspects of a health-promoting lifestyle interventions e.g. resistance exercise, time in nature, sleep hygiene, stress management, loving relationships and cultivation of purpose in one’s work and play, morbidity can be “compressed” with better quality of life and lower disease/mortality risk.
Stay Strong, Stay Active, Stay Vital
The Blue Zones epidemiology research supports the power of whole foods, minimal toxin exposure, regular movement, meaningful and loving personal interconnection, and purpose as predictors of longevity, compressed morbidity and improved health span.
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- Disclaimer:
We have reviewed the published literature for studies that have examined specific plants, extracts from plants and phytonutrients of our organically sourced, toxin-free products. Some of these studies are animal studies, in vitro experiments and mechanistic by nature. Broad claims for disease-specific outcomes in humans cannot be inferred.