What is Choline?

Choline is a water-soluble, organic essential nutrient for humans and other animals. It occurs as a cation that forms various salts. For the maintenance of health, it must be gained from the diet as choline, or choline phospholipids.

What are the sources of Choline?

Choline can be sourced in beef liver, eggs, fish and nuts. It can also be sourced from cauliflower, beans, peas, spinach and broccoli. Other sources include wheat germ and supplements.

How does Choline assist our bodies?

Choline helps your brain and nervous system with the regulation of memory, mood, muscle control and other functions in your body. It also helps to form the membranes that are around other cells in your body.

Why should we supplement our nutrition with Choline at age 50?

As your body experiences a decline in overall health and functionality as you get older, choline can help maintain all of this. It is a brilliant building block within the nervous system, helping to boost your memory as you get older.

It also helps to remove fat from your liver, as well as supports strong heart muscles and regular heartbeats. Helping your liver, kidney, pancreas, muscles and brain to stay healthy, choline is an often overlooked but essential nutrient to the maintenance of your health.

In short

• Helps regulate your brain and nervous system
• Boosts your memory
• Helps to remove fat from your liver
• Supports strong heart muscles

Regarding menopause

As oestrogen levels drop during the menopause, this can lead to a deficiency in choline. Choline deficiency can lead to muscle and liver damage; therefore it is important to boost your levels during the menopause.