What you need isn’t in a bottle.

6th November 2024

I came home this evening to find this ad had been pushed through my front door.

Fact: You cannot get the benefits of physical activity – any physical activity – from a bottle.

If we could — in some way — bottle physical activity, it would be the drug that doctors would prescribe most.

Really.

Many, many people in Ireland do not get their recommended amount of physical activity that is essential for heart health, mental health, healthy aging, brain health, liver health, digestive health, joint health….

This is a real problem — but the solution to it isn’t in the supplement aisle.

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What you need isn’t in a bottle.

I came home this evening to find this ad had been pushed through my front door.

This is a real problem — but the solution to it isn’t in the supplement aisle.

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