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Getting started
How Vplus is taken, and what the first weeks look like.
Start here
What Vplus is, and the reasoning behind the label.
Your first month
What to expect, how much, and what to take it with.
Who it is for
Children, parents, grandparents, and anyone training.
Families & children
Toddlers to teenagers: dose, safety, and the school-morning routine.
Vplus for the whole family
From toddlers to grandparents
Giving Vplus to a child
Crushing, mixing, the age question
Is it safe for children?
The honest answers
Picky eaters
What parents can actually do
The five-minute school morning
Where one more thing fits
Exam season
Feeding a revising teenager
One routine, three generations
The household arithmetic
After 60
A gentler start, smaller appetites, and the conversation with your doctor.
Women's health
Pregnancy, iron, and appetite through the years.
Active & sports
Protein, recovery, and hydration in Singapore heat.
Health needs
The questions people bring us, grouped by what they want to look after.
Gut & digestion
Fibre, regularity, and the bloat after a hawker lunch.
Skin, hair & nails
What whole food does, and does not do, for the outside.
Energy, stress & sleep
B12, the 3 pm slump, and shift work.
Brain, focus & memory
Algal DHA, study weeks, and the over-50s.
Heart & circulation
Omega-3 without fish, and the conversation with your GP.
Immunity & the cold season
Haze season and school-term bugs.
Vitamin C on a label, and what the number means
A calm way to read milligrams, percentages and ingredient names
Haze season, and the week indoors
NEA publishes the number. Use it, then keep the household week simple
School-term bugs and the household routine
Soap, separate bottles, and a morning simple enough to repeat
Bones, joints & muscle
Protein plus movement, and vegetarian calcium.
The product
What is inside, and how we check it.
What is inside
The two algae, and the nutrients people ask about most.
Quality & how it is made
Growing, testing, and how to judge what is on the shelf.
How chlorella is grown
Ponds, tanks and purity
How to ask about batch testing
What a batch number and lab report tell you
Natural vs synthetic
Whole food or isolated vitamin
Tablet, powder or capsule?
And what “broken cell wall” means
How to read a supplement label
Five things, sixty seconds
Greens powders and whole algae
How to compare what is on the shelf
Routines
Daily habits, and the juicing programme.
Everyday practical
Kopi, hawker lunches, humid flats, fasting, and the cost per day.
Juicing programme
The seven-to-twenty-one-day juice routine, and how to come off it.
The Indigo juicing programme
Seven to twenty-one days on juice
A juicing day, hour by hour
What goes in, and when
Why green apple and carrot
The one juice, and what is left out
Three days before you start
Smaller plates, and a date on the calendar
Breaking the fast
The three weeks after the last juice
Reju or juicing?
The gentler routine, side by side
About Indigo
Where Vplus comes from.
Our story
Singapore since 2009, and where algae is going.
General health info
Plain, product-free pages on food, movement, sleep, the numbers on a screening form, and the new tools people ask about.
Ways of eating
Vegetarian, vegan, Mediterranean, fasting, and the sugar in a drink.
The advantages of a vegetarian or vegan diet
A balanced look at the benefits
The different types of vegetarian diet, explained
From lacto-ovo to Jain
The Mediterranean way of eating, in a Singapore kitchen
The pattern behind the name
Intermittent fasting: the patterns, and who should not try it
The three common patterns
Nutri-Grade, and the sugar in a drink
The A to D grade is a sugar label, and the ordering words change it
Move and rest
Exercise, steps, sleep, strength after 40, and long sitting.
How much exercise adults actually need
The weekly target is smaller than most people expect
Ten thousand steps: where the number came from
The famous target began as a pedometer slogan
Sleep: how much adults need, and what gets in the way
Seven to nine hours is the target
Strength training after 40: why muscle matters
Muscle is easier to keep than to rebuild
Sitting all day: what long sitting does, and how to break it up
Sedentary time is its own habit
Everyday habits
Water, cooking oils, stress, children's eyesight, and the gut microbiome.
Water: how much to drink in Singapore's climate
There is no single number, but there are three reliable signals
Cooking oils: which to use, and for what
The amount in the wok matters more than the name on the bottle
Stress: what it does to the body, and what helps day to day
A plain account of the stress response
Myopia in Singapore: why outdoor time matters for children
Daylight
The gut microbiome, in plain English
The community in the gut, what feeds it, and what is still unknown
Numbers and check-ups
Screening, blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, and vitamin D.
Health screening in Singapore: what to check, and when
Screen for Life ages
Blood pressure: what the two numbers mean
Two numbers
Cholesterol: how to read a lipid panel
Four figures on one sheet, and what each of them is telling you
Blood sugar and HbA1c: what the test tells you
A snapshot
Vitamin D in a sunny country: why so many Singaporeans still run low
The sun is there every day, and most of us are not standing in it
AI and your health
Chatbots, smartwatches, glucose monitors, app privacy, and AI in the clinic.
Asking an AI chatbot about your health: what it is good for, and what it is not
A plain guide to what the machine does
What a smartwatch actually measures, and how much to trust it
A watch reads a few signals well and estimates the rest
Continuous glucose monitors for people without diabetes
A device built for diabetes
Health apps, and what happens to the data
A plain guide to the data behind the screen
AI in Singapore's clinics: what is already in use
Where artificial intelligence sits in the system today
Modern health ideas
Healthspan, zone 2, ultra-processed food, Blue Zones, and DNA tests.
Healthspan and lifespan: what ageing well actually means
Two words that sound alike, one of which is worth planning around
Zone 2 training and VO2 max, explained without the jargon
A plain guide to the two fitness terms everyone is suddenly talking about
Ultra-processed food: what the term means, and what it does not
A plain guide to the four NOVA groups
Blue Zones and longevity diets: what holds up
Five regions
DNA diet tests and biological-age tests: what they can and cannot tell you
What a cheek swab reads
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