Wellness, Interrupted: How to Survive Travel without Ditching Your Healthy Routine
Travel shouldn’t mean you should stop taking care of yourself. But unfortunately, many supplement routines come to a screeching halt when you’re away from home.
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Travel shouldn’t mean you should stop taking care of yourself. But unfortunately, many supplement routines come to a screeching halt when you’re away from home.
Bulky tubs of powder, shakers, blenders, multiple bottles, daily pill organizers…they're all somewhat manageable at home, but far less practical when you're living out of a suitcase or trying to get through airport security.
Many wellness routines just aren't built for travel. At home, your morning routine may look like this:
- Blend a smoothie
- Add three different powders
- Mix another supplement into water
- Take a handful of capsules
- Remember which product is taken with food and without
- Store specialty products in the fridge
It’s all fun and games until you have to fit it into a carry-on. Suddenly you're asking questions like:
Can I bring this through airport security? Does this need refrigeration? Where am I supposed to pack a giant tub of powder? Am I really bringing a blender?
The answer is usually no.
How Travel Disrupts Your Wellness Routine
So, what does this mean for your body? Well, the irony is, traveling is when you need a consistent wellness routine more than ever. Travel can disrupt sleep, digestion, mood, cognitive performance, hydration and even markers of immune function.
You're waking up earlier to catch flights, standing in airport security lines, sitting on planes for hours, crossing time zones, sleeping in unfamiliar beds, eating at different times, staying out later, enjoying local food (as you should) and maybe having a few extra cocktails because, hello, you're on vacation!
None of these things are bad - they're all part of the experience. But together, they can create more stress on your body than the average week at home. When supplements and vitamins get left behind, it’s a perfect storm for a post-vacation cold, a few extra pounds or some darker under-eye circles.
A Travel-Friendly Supplement Solution
But imagine if you had a pocket-sized tin of supplement strips that dissolve on the tongue and require absolutely no mixing, shaking, blending or clean up? Oh wait, we made that (*hair flip*). AKA, us!
At AKA Labs, we believe that wellness products should be designed to support people when life gets busy, and when schedules get unpredictable - not just when everything is perfectly routine.
Our oral-dissolving supplement strips are simple enough to stick with, whether you’re in the air, exploring ruins or enjoying that third Aperol spritz (who’s counting?)
The Best AKA Labs Strips for Vacation
Our recommendations for the best way to strip with AKA Labs on vacation?
- IGNITE: power up your energy and metabolism so you can do those extra 5000 steps in a new city.
- NO BLOAT: we’ve all experienced the traveler’s rite of passage that is vacation constipation and bloating. Enough said.
- CHILL OUT: travel chaos wires your brain, so you need an instant nervous system reset to actually power down.
