What is the best supplement for the elderly in winter?

Go to bed early and get up late, and work at sunrise to ensure adequate sleep, which is conducive to the hiding of yang energy and the accumulation of yin essence. As the saying goes, "medicinal supplements are not as good as dietary supplements." Food supplements are especially important in early winter:

In order to allow the stomach and intestines to adapt, it is best to take supplements first. You can first stew beef with gorgon seeds or stew gorgon seeds, red dates, and peanut kernels with brown sugar, or boil some ginger and jujube beef soup to drink to adjust the function of the spleen and stomach. When taking supplements, avoid raw, cold, and greasy foods to avoid hindering the digestive function of the spleen and stomach and affecting the absorption of supplements.

Supplements should be adapted to people and local conditions. They both belong to winter, but the climate conditions in the northwest and southeastern coastal areas are completely different. The weather in the northwest is cold in winter, so it is better to take food that is warm and hot, such as beef, sheep, dog meat, etc.; while in the area south of the Yangtze River, although winter has already entered, the temperature is much milder than in the northwest, so the tonic should be clear and tonic with sweet and warm flavors, such as chicken, duck, and fish; in a plateau mountainous area with less rainfall and a drier climate, fruits, vegetables, and rock sugar, which are sweet and moisturizing, should be used.

In addition, it also varies from person to person. If symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath, anorexia, abdominal distension, and loose stools often occur, it means that the person has spleen and qi deficiency. You can choose foods that strengthen the spleen and replenish qi, such as glutinous rice, jujubes, lentils, yams, carrots, chestnuts, etc.;

Eat more porridge for health maintenance in winter. Avoid sticky, hard and cold food in winter. It is better to eat more hot porridge, such as wheat porridge to nourish the heart and relieve troubles, sesame porridge to nourish essence and yin, radish porridge to digest and reduce phlegm, walnut porridge to nourish yin and strengthen essence, poria porridge to strengthen the spleen and stomach, jujube porridge to nourish qi and yin, etc.

Salty taste enters the kidneys and replenishes yin and blood. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that winter corresponds to the "kidneys" of the human body, and salty among the five flavors of sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty enters the kidneys, and salty taste has the effect of replenishing yin and blood. You can eat more salty foods in moderation, such as kelp, seaweed, jellyfish, etc. In addition, you should also eat more warming and Yang-protecting products, such as longan, wolfberry, walnut, chestnut, jujube, yam and fungus.