Beyond the Macros
Macronutrients shape your prescription. Good nutrition goes beyond the numbers.
Protein, carbohydrates, and fats provide the calories and building blocks your body needs. They’re a major part of how we approach nutrition at MacroRx+ — but they aren’t the whole picture.
Vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and other nutrients also play important roles in normal energy metabolism, immune function, recovery, and overall health.
Getting the macros right is important. Building a nutritious diet around those macros matters, too.
The Bigger Nutrition Picture
Your body needs both macronutrients and micronutrients. You need them in different amounts and for different purposes, but both are important parts of a nutritious diet.
Macronutrients
Protein • Carbohydrates • Fats
Needed in larger amounts, macronutrients provide energy and the building blocks your body uses for growth, repair, activity, and everyday function.
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Micronutrients
Vitamins • Minerals • Other Nutrients
Needed in much smaller amounts, micronutrients support countless processes throughout the body, including normal energy metabolism, immune function, cellular health, and antioxidant protection.
Food First. Fill the Gaps When Needed.
Whole and minimally processed foods should provide the foundation of your nutrition. A varied diet can provide an incredible range of vitamins, minerals, fiber, essential fatty acids, phytonutrients, and other beneficial compounds.
Eating well doesn’t always mean eating perfectly.
Food preferences, busy schedules, calorie targets, training demands, dietary restrictions, and reduced appetite can make consistently getting a wide variety of nutritious foods challenging.
This can become especially relevant during weight loss. When you’re deliberately eating fewer calories, you also have fewer opportunities to obtain vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, and other nutrients from food.
That’s where targeted supplementation can be useful—helping fill nutritional gaps when appropriate, not replacing a nutritious diet.
Why USANA?
Not all supplements are manufactured to the same standards. When we recommend a supplement, we want confidence in what’s actually in the bottle—and in the processes used to make it. MacroRx+ members are never required to use USANA products or any other supplements.
Made With Greater Control
USANA manufactures much of its nutrition line in its own U.S. facility, giving it direct control over production and quality.
Independently Certified
USANA’s manufacturing facility is independently certified by NSF, with outside audits verifying rigorous manufacturing and quality standards.
Tested Every Step of the Way
Raw ingredients, materials during production, and finished products are tested to help verify identity, purity, and potency.
Beyond the Minimum
USANA goes beyond standard supplement requirements, also operating under FDA manufacturing requirements for over-the-counter drug products.
Those standards are why I chose USANA more than 20 years ago—and why I still recommend it today.
Experience matters, but longevity alone isn’t enough. The manufacturing standards, testing, science, and independent oversight behind the products are what have kept my confidence.
Start With the Foundation
If you choose to supplement, this is where I recommend starting.
Rather than building a long list of individual supplements, I prefer to begin with a broad nutritional foundation and add something more targeted only when there’s a specific reason to do so.
MY PREFERRED STARTING POINT
HealthPak + BiOmega
My preferred option for simplicity.
HealthPak provides a convenient, pre-portioned way to get USANA’s core nutritional supplements without managing multiple bottles. I pair it with BiOmega as a source of omega-3 fatty acids.
AM packet • PM packet • BiOmega
PREFER INDIVIDUAL BOTTLES?
CellSentials + BiOmega
Prefer individual bottles?
CellSentials provides USANA’s core vitamin, mineral, and antioxidant supplements in traditional bottle form. Pair it with BiOmega for omega-3 fatty acids.
A good alternative if you prefer individual bottles over pre-portioned HealthPak packets.
CellSentials • BiOmega
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These are my preferred starting recommendations, but USANA offers much more—from targeted nutrition and active nutrition to healthy foods, skincare, and other wellness products.