Vitamins and Minerals

Vitamins and Minerals

 

Vitamins and minerals are essential for normal growth and development as well as health maintenance.  There are 13 vitamins and 21 minerals that are necessary for human health.  These vitamins and minerals as well as the functions of each are detailed in the tables below:

Vitamin Function
A (retinol) Maintains normal eye function, prevents bacterial infections, maintains health of skin, hair, and nails
B1 (thiamin) Aids in energy metabolism, helps to maintain DNA and RNA, helps conduction of nerve impulses
B2 (riboflavin) Aids in energy production, serves as antioxidant, important for growth and reproduction, maintain health of skin, hair, and nails
B3 (niacin) Helps generate energy in tissues, important for DNA replication and DNA repair
B5 (pantothenic acid) Helps with metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, essential for normal fat and hormone function
B6 (pyridoxin) Maintains nervous system function, important for red blood cell formation, strengthens immune system, forms niacin
B7 (biotin) Helps with metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, helps glucose metabolism, maintains hair and nail health
B9 (folic acid) Helps form proteins, DNA, and RNA, assists with red blood cell formation
B12 (cobalamin) Forms red blood cells, normal function of nerves, forms folic acid
C (ascorbic acid) Antioxidant, wound healing, teeth/gum health, eye health, aids iron absorption
D (calciferol) Regulates calcium and phosphate levels, aids bone mineralization, regulates immune system
E (tocopherol) Antioxidant effects, prevents blood clots, prevents tumor growth
K (phyllochinone) Aids bone metabolism, normal blood clotting


Mineral Function
Arsenic Essential mineral but exact function unknown
Boron Regulates brain function, increases alertness, helps burn fats and sugars for energy
Calcium Essential for bone and tooth health; muscle and nerve function, aids blood clotting
Chloride Maintains electrolyte balance, essential for proper acidic levels in stomach, maintains acid-base balance
Chromium Maintains nervous system health, needed to form red blood cells
Cobalt Maintains nervous system health, needed to form red blood cells
Copper Essential for normal heart function, helps form red blood cells
Fluoride Essential for tooth mineralization, prevents dental caries
Iodine Needed for normal thyroid function. Maintains health of hair, skin, nails, and teeth
Iron Transport oxygen in circulation, forms red blood cells, strengthens immunity
Magnesium Enhances cell communication, maintains heart rhythm.
Manganese Needed for proper brain function, antioxidant properties, role in energy metabolism
Molybdenum Helps burn carbohydrates and fats, forms proteins, need for iron utilization
Nickel Influences production of certain hormones, affects structure of cell membranes
Phosphorus Maintains strength of bones and teeth, aids kidney function
Potassium Essential for muscle and nerve function, stabilizes blood pressure
Selenium Antioxidant, strengthens immune system, improves liver function and eyesight
Silicon Maintains skin elasticity, important for connective tissue health
Sodium Maintains fluid balance, regulates heart rhythm, need for muscle contractions
Sulfur Essential for health of skin, hair, and nails. Needed for normal brain function. Helps with detoxification.
Zinc Needed for sperm production, energy production, immunity, and blood clotting.

With so many different vitamins and minerals, it can be a challenge to attain adequate amounts of all of them from your diet alone alone. Many people turn to vitamin and mineral supplements to ensure that they do not develop a deficiency caused by a poor diet.

In fact, the vitamin and mineral supplement industry accounts for billions of dollars of sales in the United States. Thirty-five percent of Americans admit to supplementing their diet with a vitamin or mineral supplement.

The reason for this widespread trend is that most people believe that vitamins and minerals can ensure that no deficiency develops and that mega dosing with certain vitamins and minerals can prevent chronic disease. Vitamins And Minerals

Ironically, supplementing the diet with synthetic vitamins and minerals is ineffective and potentially harmful in certain cases.

The supplement market is haphazardly regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA does require supplement manufacturers to regularly check the purity of their products. However, manufacturers do a poor job maintaining purity and the FDA does an ever worse job at enforcing it.

Independent laboratories have confirmed again and again dramatic differences between the claimed purity of a supplement compared to the actual purity when tested. Furthermore, these supplements often contain metal fillers to substitute for the missing vitamins and minerals content.

Before making the decision to take a vitamin or mineral supplement, consider not only the substandard purity and the potentially harmful fillers, but also how these products are manufactured.

For example, synthetic vitamin C is produced from corn syrup that is heated to form simple sugars. Then, acetone and hydrochloric acid are added during the process to form a Vitamin C supplement.

The chemicals used to make these supplements and the by-products that are left behind for your consumption may be a reason that these supplements have shown to actually increase the risk of some diseases via some very solid European Research.

Supplementation with synthetic vitamin C actually increases free radical activity contrary to the antioxidant activity found in natural vitamin C sources.  Supplementation with synthetic vitamin E another antioxidant increases your chances for stroke, and lung cancer.

These vitamins and minerals supplements are also ineffective. When these synthetic pills are taken, little is absorbed in the gut. This is in contrast to the high concentrations of vitamins and minerals that are absorbed when whole foods are eaten.

Choose Whole Food Supplements

Whole foods contain phytonutrients, cofactors, and enzymes not found in synthetic supplements that enhance vitamin and mineral absorption.  Whole foods also contain reasonable amounts of vitamins and minerals, which are absorbed easier than the toxic amounts found in standard vitamin supplements.

Whole foods can easily supply you with the necessary amounts of vitamins and minerals that you need without the expense and risk of synthetic supplements. By eating a diet that includes a wide variety of fruits and vegetables with limited amounts of meat, dairy, and starch, whole foods offer superior nutrition to people of all ages.

However, the reality is many are so busy living life; work, family and other obligations often make it difficult for us to eat as we should therefore not getting the adequate nutrition we should.

What to do if not using worthless synthetic vitamin supplements?

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