However good your weekly food menu it is, in my view, impossible to obtain the full range of nutrients that you need from food alone – especially at the level which has a positive impact on your health. That’s where a calorie-free nutritional supplement comes into its own.

Therefore I have listed, not just the range of nutrients needed, but also the optimum amounts and, where important, the ideal form. This is because one form of a nutrient may have a much better bio-availability than another, ie. it is absorbed and utilised better by the body.

The combination of nutrients that my research shows should have the greatest impact on maintaining long-term health is as follows. It combines the most protective nutrients from what nutritionists have identified as the healthiest foods.