Using Micronutrients for Our Son's Mood, Anxiety & Focus
Has your child been getting in trouble at school and home for inattentive or disruptive behavior? You’re not alone. In fact, it’s estimated over six million children in the United States alone have been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Not to mention depression, anxiety, and other behavior issues rampantly growing in our youth’s generation.
Along with the rising prevalence of mood, anxiety, aggression, and focus challenges, comes a rising reliance on medications. Parents are constantly faced with the decision to put their children on mood-altering medications or find effective natural alternatives.
For the Thurston family, Hardy’s Daily Essential Nutrients was the solution they’d been looking for.
Early on, Carter’s parents noticed something was a little different. He was consistently waking up irritated, experiencing anxiety, and acting overstimulated in his environment. Tami, would have a terrible time getting him off to school. He would cry and cling onto her, throwing fits and tantrums. Once he got in the door, it wasn’t uncommon for Carter’s teachers to call and let her know he was misbehaving, often throwing objects or melting down in the classroom.
“I was so frustrated that my emotions couldn’t control themselves and they just overreacted and I got in trouble,” recalls Carter.
Pretty immediately his parents knew they needed to find some help for their son’s struggles with ADD, ADHD, and complex motor stereotypies (CMS).
Unfortunately, Carter's parents faced two obstacles. First, they were apprehensive about starting their child on a prescription medication path and instead, wanted something more holistic.
“I felt strongly that I did not want to start Carter on a protocol with medicine and prescriptions. I’ve seen situations where children have been diagnosed and prescribed medicine and then become addicted to different substances and I just didn't want to see that with my child,” Paul, Carter’s dad, explains.
Secondly, when they brought up these concerns with their child’s pediatrician, they did not feel heard.
“We’ve spoken with our pediatrician and then many medical professionals through this process. We found it to be very frustrating for both of us and Carter. You have to be your own advocate. We had a vision of what we wanted helping our child to look like and the doctors really didn’t have that vision,” Tami shares.
So when they came across Hardy’s Daily Essential Nutrients, there was almost an instant sense of relief. These clinical-strength micronutrients are clinically proven to improve mood, strengthen cognition, reduce anxiety, and improve attention. And what's more, they are recommended by a large number of psychiatrists and therapists worldwide.
Most importantly for Tami, Hardy's micronutrients were easy to add to Carter's diet and didn’t require her picky eater to make any drastic changes, like the other holistic options she looked into did. She was able to mix the micronutrients right into yogurt.
After starting Daily Essential Nutrients, the family noticed a change in Carter within the first week.
“Within a few days, he started waking up much happier. He used to wake up grouchy, irritated, kind of whiny,” Tami remembers. Now, he was waking up ready for the day, and most importantly, ready for school.
Before long, Carter says he was able to "go with the flow and start concentrating a lot better", in turn receiving much more favorable feedback from teachers on his report cards, and even earned his yellow belt.
Daily Essential Nutrients was able to give Carter the focus he needed to complete tasks, like his schoolwork, without being too overstimulated or overwhelmed. Throughout the process, Hardy’s Product Specialists were there to help Tami and Paul figure out the best protocols to help Carter achieve dramatic results.
“One of the things that was awesome about working with Hardy’s is that they had scientists on staff who will set up a time to speak with you and will give you all kinds of advice. We struggled at first getting the dosing right with Carter, he was a little bit hyper, and they set up a protocol and a program for us to get him to the right amount. They were so super helpful and they’re there to talk to you anytime. I felt like they were more invested in this process than our own physicians,” Tami shared.
“Now, when I get messages from the teacher it's ‘Carter is doing amazing, he’s a leader in the classroom, he’s such a bright student, he’s one of the first ones to get his work done and turned in,’” she boasts.
Interested in bringing Hardy’s Daily Essential Nutrients into your own family? We have scientists around to answer any questions about this clinical-strength, micronutrient formula. Find a product that’s right for you today at Try.HardyNutritionals.com.
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Micronutrients for Mood & Mania
These individuals share their experiences transitioning to clinical micronutrient therapy, specifically a supplement called "Daily Essential Nutrients" which is backed by multiple independent university studies for mood and mental health.
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Mom Uses Micronutrients to Help Son's Mood, Focus, Behavior
This mom shares her experience using highly research-backed micronutrients called Daily Essential Nutrients to help her son with focus, mood, and behavior.
Her pediatrician recommended Hardy’s Daily Essential Nutrients. She was skeptical at first about trying the micronutrients, even though they were backed by numerous university studies for safety and effectiveness.
“When Dr. Shannon suggested Daily Essential Nutrients, we were very skeptical at first, because we had tried so many things. We had tried so many supplements and a number of medications. But we wanted to say we tried everything, so we gave it a try.”
The micronutrients caused an immediate change in her son.
“We were all amazed. The school was amazed, we were amazed at home,” Annalisa enthused.
Annalisa’s child, who had never managed to find the right medication, was finally seeing results with this specialized blend of broad-spectrum micronutrients.
At school, life became strictly academic. Teachers hardly recognized the child that showed up to their classroom, ready to learn, engage, and even help clean up at the end of the day. For the first time, Annalisa’s child was interacting with classmates in an appropriate manner.
Interestingly, Analissa is hardly the first parent to connect micronutrients with better academic performance. The role of micronutrients in child development is vital, and huge institutions like the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been emphasizing that for years. But plenty of children still aren’t receiving the appropriate amount of micronutrients to function at their best level.The micronutrients caused an immediate change in her son.
“We were all amazed. The school was amazed, we were amazed at home,” Annalisa enthused.
Annalisa’s child, who had never managed to find the right medication, was finally seeing results with this specialized blend of broad-spectrum micronutrients.
School Life Improved
At school, life became strictly academic. Teachers hardly recognized the child that showed up to their classroom, ready to learn, engage, and even help clean up at the end of the day. For the first time, Annalisa’s child was interacting with classmates in an appropriate manner.
Interestingly, Analissa is hardly the first parent to connect micronutrients with better academic performance. The role of micronutrients in child development is vital, and huge institutions like the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been emphasizing that for years. But plenty of children still aren’t receiving the appropriate amount of micronutrients to function at their best level.
Learn more at Try.HardyNutritionals.com
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Using Micronutrients for ADHD
Justin shares his experience successfully using Daily Essential Nutrients micronutrients for ADHD. He tried Ritalin and other ADHD meds, but the side-effects were difficult to deal with. He describes the "clean focus" he gets from using Daily Essential Nutrients and what it feels like to successfully treat his ADHD with micronutrients. His son also uses Hardy's micronutrients for ADHD with much success. Learn more at HardyNutritionals.com.
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Fibromyalgia Energy & Mood: Micronutrients Helped Me
For years, Alex suffered from severe Fibromyalgia. The disorder caused her chronic fatigue and pain that she could not find relief from, despite a never-ending search for the right treatment. That is, until she found Dr. Gabella at Precision Brain Center in North Carolina.
“When I first came to see Dr. Gabella I didn’t really have a whole lot of expectations. I’ve seen tons of different doctors and specialists and have done Eastern-medicine type things. I’ve tried all different kinds of treatments, and I wasn’t really familiar with the kind of care she provided. But I was excited to learn something new about my health and try something different.”
Alex’s current medication had left her feeling like the benefits didn’t outweigh the side effects, and she was ready to get off of them. She brought this up to Dr. Gabella, who she suggested she try Daily Essential Nutrients, a highly research-backed micronutrient formulation clinically proven to reduce mood and mental health symptoms.
“When I first started taking Daily Essential Nutrients, I really didn’t expect much of anything,” Alex explained. “I was pleasantly surprised when it did.”
Supplementing with Daily Essential Nutrients helped Alex get off the medication that she was unhappy with. But one of the biggest surprises was seeing her stomach issues clear up.
“That was awesome. Especially because I didn’t come looking for that.”
Over time, the micronutrients helped Alex regulate her mood levels and energy as well. Removing mood swings and energy depletion allowed her to focus on her work, get back to her busy lifestyle, and resume the quality of life she had enjoyed before Fibromyalgia had set in.
“With my Fibromyalgia, it’s made a huge impact on my life. It sort of came on slowly and then just appeared. It impacted every piece of my quality of life. Getting used to living with that condition has meant that I’ve had to reassess the way that I live my life and better balance my self-care, know what my limitations are,” said Alex. “I’m really an on-the-go person, so having that impact was really challenging mentally and physically.”
Taking Hardy’s Daily Essential Nutrients three times a day for the past five months has been revolutionary for Alex, and she can especially tell when she hasn’t taken it. Without the supplement, her stomach pains start to come back, her energy dips, and she notices she’s not quite herself.
“When I’m taking it, my life seems to go a little bit better,” she related. “Since I started seeing Dr. Gabella and taking "DEN", I’ve definitely seen an improvement in my overall quality of life.”
To anyone who hasn’t tried these powerful micronutrients yet, Alex recommends going into it with an open mind.
After a whirlwind of medication, specialists, and treatments that didn’t seem to help, Alex feels she has finally found a solution that not only stops her Fibromyalgia symptoms but gives her her life back.
“There are no downsides!” she emphasized.
Learn more about Daily Essential Nutrients at HardyNutritionals.com.
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Transformation Coach Uses Tapping & Micronutrients for Bipolar Disorder
Bex Allen, a Transformation Coach who uses tapping and matrix reimprinting, shares her experience using holistic methods including Hardy's Daily Essential Nutrients micronutrients to transition off of bipolar medications. Learn more at https://bexallen.com/vlog/
When Bex Allen, a Transformation Coach and founder of BexAllen.com, decided to transition off of her bipolar medications due to unpleasant side-effects, she knew she had a long road ahead. She chose to switch from several long-term medications for bipolar that were causing health problems for her, to Hardy Nutritionals® clinical micronutrients for mental health, Daily Essential Nutrients. During her transition off the meds to the micronutrients, Bex documented her experience. She took videos during the process where she shared with viewers the ups and downs of coming off the bipolar drugs and phasing onto the micronutrients. These videos are published on her vlog for anyone who wants to follow along with her on her journey.
We were pleasantly surprised and very pleased to learn that Bex had put together videos chronicling her experience using a combination of our micronutrients and tapping to become med-free. We reached out to Bex and asked her to do a follow-up interview with us so we could follow-up and see how life is going for her now that she has been medication-free for over a year.
As a Transformation Coach, Bex helps women get off of the "emotional roller-coaster" that often accompanies recovery from a traumatic event. An example of this is anxiety. People aren't always sure where their anxiety comes from—it could be a result of childhood trauma or deep-seated issues. Bex helps them find emotional freedom by healing underlying traumas using tapping and subconscious transmutation.
When Bex decided to leave her bipolar medications behind, she discovered Hardy Nutritionals® clinical micronutrients, Daily Essential Nutrients, and felt that it would be a great complement to the other therapeutic techniques she uses to manage her emotions and cope day-to-day.
Bex, a native of New Zealand, was originally diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was pregnant with her first child 13 years ago. Prior to that, she had used drinking, smoking, and harmful substances to deal with her mood swings and struggles. As a newly pregnant mom, she was committed to healthfully dealing with her bipolar symptoms, and sought out professional medical help. Her doctor put her on several bipolar medications which helped her get through her pregnancy. Her diagnosis gave meaning to the mental distress she had experienced for years and which didn't have a name until a doctor put it all together for her.
For a couple of years, Bex had felt that she needed to come off of her bipolar medication due to the side-effects she was experiencing. She attended a holistic workshop where she learned about Daily Essential Nutrients. Bex says she was really intrigued by the research done on Daily Essential Nutrients by multiple universities worldwide. As her health continued to decline as a result of the medications, she knew it was finally time to make a change. "I had a lot of life left to live, I really was curious about what life would look like for me, drug-free."
When Bex first decided to come off the medications, she met with her general practitioner who urged her to work with a psychiatrist. She was not keen on the idea of working with a psychiatric provider who she thought would likely want to prescribe different psychiatric medications. Her general practitioner worked with her to come up with a plan to slowly reduce her medications, one at a time. Her next step was to talk to a Product Specialist at Hardy Nutritionals® who helped Bex understand the process of transitioning from medications to micronutrients. Bex was concerned about coming off of Lithium, a drug she had been using to be stable for 13 years. She knew that coming off of Lithium too quickly could cause a bipolar episode. The Hardy Product Specialist Bex spoke with advised her to continue working with her doctor as she transitioned from meds to micronutrients, and assured her that the minerals in Daily Essential Nutrients work very similarly to lithium for people with bipolar disorder. In fact, the mineral lithium is an ingredient in Daily Essential Nutrients and helps with mood stability for those prone to severe mood swings.
Over the course of four months, Bex was able to get off of all her medications. "It was the best thing I've ever done," she says.
"I no longer have any bipolar mood swings now. I would consider my moods to be very normal. I am a highly emotive person...I feel my feelings. I do still of course experience moods. The difference now is that I can bounce back so much quicker."
To learn more about Bex Allen, visit her website at BexAllen.com.
To learn more about transitioning from medications to micronutrients, visit www.hardynutritionals.com/products/daily-essential-nutrients-360.
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Mom & Son Talk About Micronutrients for Mood, Behavior
Jennifer and her son Tyler bravely open up about the realities of living with a mood disorder that impacts focus and behavior. Jennifer wanted her son Tyler to try something holistic before turning to medications, and found that Daily Essential Nutrients, a clinical micronutrient therapy, helped his quality of life improve by leaps and bounds.
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Supplement Helps Mood, Focus & Stress
This supplement is not magical. It is simply scientific. The amount, balance, and level of nutrients provided in Hardy Nutritionals® Daily Essential Nutrients provides the body and brain with what they need to perform optimally. In fact, Daily Essential Nutrients is backed by over 30 independent university studies and medical journal publications for mood, stress, focus, and more. Plus, it has been proven safe and effective by clinicians worldwide. Learn more at HardyNutritionals.com.
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Winning The War With Anxiety: Dan Brandt
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Dan Brandt, co-author of "My Friends That Are Not, Rewriting Your Negative Self-Talk Script", figured out that his ADHD tendencies were just a symptom of an anxiety disorder. He tried Wellbutrin, which had lots of side-effects, and finally figured out that a combination of nutrition, meditation, positive self-talk, exercise, and prayer made all the difference in his life. Dan uses Hardy Nutritionals® Daily Essential Nutrients to help keep his brain and body balanced and to keep his moods and anxiety stable. Learn more about Dan Brandt and his book at ThinkingUp.org
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Micronutrients for Mood Stability
This clinical formulation of powerful micronutrients is backed by multiple independent university studies for mood stability. Learn more at Try.HardyNutritionals.com
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Prison Psychiatrist Recommends Alternative Treatment
In her extensive experience working in the New Mexico prison system, Dr. Saur treated inmates with conventional psychiatric medications, having come from a traditional psychiatric background. But after a while, she says she became disillusioned with the results.
“[With medications], depression usually doesn’t resolve completely, many other problems do not resolve completely, and there are multiple possible side-effects from these psychiatric medications as well. So I started looking elsewhere hoping that I would find something else that would help people,” Dr. Saur explained.
The first time she heard about Hardy’s Daily Essential Nutrients clinical strength broad-spectrum micronutrients, was at an integrative medicine health convention where the 30+ independent university studies supporting the supplement were featured. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Saur began a fellowship at the Integrative Psychiatry Institute where the Daily Essential Nutrients were featured once again. This time, she decided to give them a try with her patients.
“I was working in the prison system at that time and we picked three patients who were particularly difficult and not really very treatable with their current medications. Nothing was really working very well. We tried Daily Essential Nutrients on them and everybody saw what happened and was amazed at the results.”
Over the course of a couple of months, the three test patients experienced decreased anger outbursts, irritability, and physical problems like tremors. They also exhibited an increase in social engagement, empathy, and even seemed to smile more, according to prison staff.
“This was astounding to all of us!” recalled Dr. Saur.
While taking Daily Essential Nutrients, Dr. Saur also noticed her patients had tremendously decreased self-harm behaviors such as biting and headbanging.
“They’re in better control of their behavior, and they interact much more appropriately with other people instead of just acting like other people are not there. There’s an appropriate and normal give-and-take between them and other people.”
Dr. Saur says she has always approached treating her patients by looking at the whole picture. So when it came to trying Daily Essential Nutrients, she wanted to start slowly. This method was especially important, she says, for patients who were on psychiatric medications. In those cases, it was imperative to monitor their medications simultaneously in order to determine if they could be tapered off over time as they worked up to the full clinical dose of the micronutrients.
“We titrated them up starting with one pill, three times a day, and went up by one pill, three times a day every few weeks. So by the end of the month or so they were taking four pills, three times a day.”
After a few months, Dr. Saur thought it would be appropriate to try decreasing the patients' psychiatric medications, and found she was indeed able to do that successfully.
“It takes a while for most patients to notice a lot of difference with Daily Essential Nutrients. It really depends on their diagnosis and how severe their symptoms are. Some people might not see very much happening, maybe a little decrease in depression or fewer anger outbursts, and it seems to take a month or two before you see a whole lot of results,” she explained. "But they're in better control of their behavior and they interact much more appropriately with other people."
Overall, her patients reported an increased sense of well-being, feeling less depressed, enjoying life more, and feeling more socially and physically active.
Dr. Saur explains that before coming to prison, many inmates did not have access to proper nutrition. Some suffered from PTSD and ADHD, which can cause chemical and structural changes in the brain.
Based on her experience implementing Daily Essential Nutrients into a few patients at the prison, Dr. Saur believes this could be an effective way to treat other inmates.
“I would like to see Daily Essential Nutrients offered as one of the first-line treatments for anybody that has a mental health issue in the prison system. The reason I say that is because I have seen Daily Essential Nutrients markedly decrease violence, behavioral dyscontrol, depression and improve sleep.”
Daily Essential Nutrients is currently FDA approved as an investigational new drug for the treatment of ADHD and has been clinically proven safe and effective for the treatment of ADHD in double-blind studies. It is also backed by multiple independent university studies for a wide range of mood and mental health disorders including anxiety and depression.
Daily Essential Nutrients is backed by a growing body of independently-funded university research. It has been clinically proven to help with stress, anxiety, mood swings, depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, sleep, and ADHD. Learn more at HardyNutritionals.com/studies
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For Health Professionals: Getting Started With Micronutrients
At Hardy Nutritionals®, we work with healthcare professionals all over the world to provide evidence-based alternative treatments for mood and mental health.
For patients who are medication-averse, clinical micronutrient therapy can be an effective option when it comes to treating a wide range of symptoms. At Hardy Nutritionals, we help support healthcare professionals and their patients as they navigate the transition to micronutrients.
Learn more at Try.HardyNutritionals.com/clinical-resources/
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Psychiatrists Recommend Daily Essential Nutrients
This highly research-backed alternative for medication-sensitive patients is backed by double-blind, placebo-controlled trials for anxiety, emotional stability, stress, sleep, focus, irritability, and aggression. Learn more at HardyNutritionals.com
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Double-Blind Study: Daily Essential Nutrients Helps Mood, Behavior
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A new study, “Micronutrients for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Youth: A Placebo-Controlled Randomized Clinical Trial,” was published online July 22, 2021, ahead of print in the world-renowned Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. This landmark study is the third double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to independently investigate the effectiveness of a clinical-strength multinutrient formula called Daily Essential Nutrients.
The study was funded through private donations to the Nutrition and Mental Health Research Fund managed by the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care (FEMHC) plus a direct grant from FEMHC and from the Gratis Foundation. The authors also received support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.
The study was approved by Institutional Review Boards at Oregon Health & Science University, The Ohio State University, the Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board at the University of Calgary for the University of Lethbridge; the US Food and Drug Administration, and Health Canada, and was registered prospectively with the National Clinical Trials Registry.
The researchers involved in carrying out the research are associated with Ohio State University, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Oregon Health & Sciences University, and the University of Lethbridge.
The study set out to evaluate whether a specialized blend of micronutrients called Daily Essential Nutrients, formulated by Hardy Nutritionals, benefits unmedicated children ages 6-12 with ADHD and irritability.
Some of the ADHD symptoms targeted with the micronutrient treatment included focus, oppositional defiance, disruptive mood dysregulation, and peer conflict symptoms.
The double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial design ensured that participants, their parents, clinicians, and researchers did not know who received the micronutrients or a placebo. This design is considered the "gold standard" of research.
The results: Daily Essential Nutrients showed significant overall benefit over placebo in children with ADHD and irritability. The formulation was deemed safe and effective by researchers. There were impressive behavioral and mood-related findings, plus, the micronutrient group showed greater height growth than the placebo group—illustrating a powerful and statistically meaningful overall health effect of the nutritional approach. The children taking the specialized blend of micronutrients from Hardy Nutritionals showed no differences in side effects compared to placebo, which bodes well for those who cannot tolerate pharmaceutical treatments for ADHD, due to often severe side effects.
The primary outcome amongst the micronutrient group was "very much" or "much" improved after the 8-week study period.
The study found improvements in:
Anxiety
Aggression
Irritable Mood
Emotional Regulation
Sleep
Anger
Participants in the micronutrient group taking Daily Essential Nutrients were three times as likely to be treatment responders (show improvement in symptoms) than those in the placebo group based on blind clinician ratings. There was also a significant difference favoring the micronutrients group measuring aggression towards peers, compared to placebo.
Researchers stated, “The micronutrient treatment was both acceptable and well-tolerated, with a 93% retention rate...This finding is consistent with previous micronutrient studies.”
This particular double-blind study comes on the heels of two previous double-blind studies also carried out on Hardy Nutritionals’ Daily Essential Nutrients, as well as many non-blinded micronutrient studies, which all showed marked improvements in study participants, including for symptoms such as anger and irritability.
All micronutrient studies conducted to date, demonstrate clearly that nutrition status directly impacts mental health. The researchers believe given the improvements shown in participants who used the micronutrients for ADHD symptoms and given that Omega-3 supplementation is also shown to benefit those with ADHD, combining the two treatment methods should also be studied further.
There are currently three additional double-blind studies underway specifically on Daily Essential Nutrients for mood and anxiety.
You can purchase Daily Essential Nutrients and Essential Omegas at HardyNutritionals.com
Source: Johnstone JM, Hatsu I, Tost G, Srikanth P, Eiterman LP, Bruton A, Ast HK, Robinette LM, Stern MM, Millington EG, Gracious B, Hughes AJ, Leung BM, Arnold LE, Micronutrients for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Youth: A Placebo-Controlled Randomized Clinical Trial, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (2021), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2021.0....
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Micronutrients for Dementia: My Mom is Herself Again
The Johnson family joined us to discuss the incredible turn-around of Norma, Cheryll's mother, who was practically non-responsive before taking Daily Essential Nutrients. She couldn't feed herself, could barely string together a sentence, and was entirely inactive. After just three days on Hardy's clinical strength micronutrients , Norma was back to herself again. Now she shares that she gets up, makes her own breakfast, goes to the gym, attends church, and has lots of energy. Learn more at HardyNutritionals.com.
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Optimal Balance for Energy, Focus
Cheryll and Gladstone Johnson share their experiences using Hardy Nutritionals Optimal Balance for energy and focus.
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