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Vitamin Supplements

Formula To Healthy Life

Vitamins are food requirements that our body need vitamins to remain healthy and to assist in the breakdown of other components of foods. It is vitamins that enable other forms of foods to be taken in by the body therefore its deficiency will lead to some of the severe diseases.

Vitamins are essential and must be present in sufficient amounts for the body to continue to perform its functions properly. Vitamins are however required in small portions by the body for it to function as required. For the body to grow normally, healthy portions of vitamins have to be taken.

The supplements are supposed to be taken together with natural foods and not as a substitute for food. Before you start taking vitamin supplements, make sure you get adequate information from a dietician.

Vitamin supplements come in all shapes in sizes. They vary wildly in color, consistency, texture, daily value, and effectiveness, as well as suggested dosage and directions for use.

Yet when it’s all said and done, there are only two main groups of vitamin supplements on the market: Natural and Synthetic.

Natural Vitamin Supplements are generally found in capsule, powder, or liquid form. They contain dehydrated, concentrated whole-food vitamins derived usually from plant sources: vegetables, fruits, grasses, grains, sea vegetation, roots, seeds, nuts, flowers, and other natural sources.

In capsule form, you will find a wide array of vitamins, including multivitamins and antioxidant formulations. This two types of vitamin supplement I actually most recommend.

Liquid vitamin supplements are also very popular and effective. Liquid and sublingual vitamins & minerals (dropped under the tongue and absorbed through the sublingual membrane). Powerfully concentrated juice blends could also fall into the liquid vitamin supplements category. The acai berry, when juiced, is an amazing example of a natural liquid supplement. So is wheatgrass.

A common example of a supplement in powder form is a “super greens” drink mix. These contain dehydrated grasses, among other powdered foods, including kelp, algae, brown rice, chlorella, and barley. Again these vary quite drastically, but they are all super healthy and highly recommended!

Synthetic Vitamin Supplements are far more common than their natural counterparts. These are the over-the-counter daily vitamins you see in your corner grocery or drug store. They are made in laboratories by chemists who are desperately trying to duplicate the types of vitamins found in natural food sources.

These are “vitamin simulations” that just don’t measure up. Our bodies don’t recognize these chemicals as vitamins, but as intruders. As if we don’t have enough troubles on our own, now our cells have to work like crazy to eliminate these chemicals, along with the crushed-up rocks that are marketed as “minerals.” Evidence of this can be found in our urine, which often turns a bright fluorescent green. “Vitamin burps,” heartburn, and the jitters are further evidence that this stuff is fake, and that our bodies want no part of it.

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