Feb
17
2010
What Vitamins Or Supplements Would You Recommend Taking Daily, Along With A Multivitamin?
Posted by: Alan in Probiotics, tags: Along, Daily, Multivitamin, Recommend, Supplements, Taking, Vitamins, What, With, Would
I see so many different vitamins and supplements ( garlic, probiotics, cinnamon, DHEA, cocunut oil, etc) out there….I’m just wondering if I could get some suggestions on what would be good to take in addition to my multivitamin, please explain the benefits of any you list…Thanks
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February 17th, 2010 at 5:06 am
Hello,
the first thing is to make sure the multivitamin you take is a high quality vitamin. Bio availability is the most important thing when choosing a supplement. Bio availability is the % of a dose that will be absorbed by your body(cells) and this is the difference between cheap and good quality vitamins.
I’ll also suggest fish oil because it’s essential for your health,it helps the brain functions, regulates your mood,helps with PMS, is good for the skin, make your hair shine. Fish oils are not all equal. It is important to choose a product that is ultra pure and free from chemical contaminants. Choose one enriched with vitamin D because a lot of people are lacking this water soluble vitamin.
Vitamin C intake is a must. It is better to take it everyday…do not wait to be sick.
Taking calcium is also a good idea because after a certain age (around 35) your bone mass decrease. Choose your calcium carefully.
Hope that helps
February 17th, 2010 at 11:41 am
Everyone is different. So vitamin should be customized to fit your individual need.
If you are in doubt what kind of vitamin you should take for your body, take the nutri-physical assessment test. It’s a free Internet based analysis tool that recommends customized nutritional supplements to improve your individual’s quality of life.https://www.marketamerica.com/lcbeauty/i…
For general health purpose, everyone should take multivitamin, fish oil, and antioxidants.
Isotonix Multivitaminhttp://www.marketamerica.com/lcbeauty/in…
Reasons for taking it:
• Supports a healthy immune system
• Promotes skin health
• Contains 100 percent or more of the recommended daily value of essential vitamins and most minerals
• Promotes the conversion of food into energy
• Supports a healthy cardiovascular system
• May promote mental clarity
• Helps maintain normal blood pressure
• Supports a healthy thyroid
• Promotes normal healing
• Helps maintain normal metabolic functioning
• Supplements deficiencies in diet
• Promotes healthy growth and repair of tissue
• Helps maintains water and electrolyte balance in the body
There is no substitute for a healthy, well-balanced diet; however, in today’s fast-paced lifestyles it is important to ensure the body is getting the fuel it needs.
OPC-3 (super antioxidants)http://www.marketamerica.com/lcbeauty/in…
Reasons for taking it:
Contain grape fruit extract, red wine extract, Pycnogenol® (pine bark extract), most powerful bioflavonoids (OPC) currently known to research scientists. Isotonix OPC-3 offers scientifically supported OPCs, found to be the most potent antioxidants for human health.
Free radical damage and oxidative stress everyone is subject to. Free radicals develop as byproducts of physiological processes that occur within the body. This damage does not cause noticeable harm at first, yet may add up over the years. This process is largely responsible for the aging process. Free radicals have been linked directly to premature aging, poor circulation, poor heart health and poor immune health.
OPCs are the most powerful natural free radical neutralizers and you get the best of all OPCs by taking Isotonix OPC-3. Regular use every day is vital for keeping free radicals in check and a long, healthy life. Laboratory studies have shown that OPCs are more powerful antioxidants than vitamin C and vitamin E.
Key benefits:
• Combats free radicals
• Demonstrates anti-inflammatory activity
• Helps maintain healthy cholesterol levels
• Helps maintain healthy circulation by strengthening capillaries, arteries and veins
• Helps maintain joint flexibility
• Helps promote/support cardiovascular health
• Helps reduce mild menstrual cramping and abdominal pain
• Helps support visual health/visual acuity
• Potent free radical scavenger
• Promotes/Supports healthy blood vessel dilation
• Promotes/Supports healthy nitric oxide levels
Heart Health™ Essential Omega III Fish Oilhttp://www.marketamerica.com/lcbeauty/in…
Reasons for taking it:
Contain essential fatty acid, Omega 3, provides the three grams of EPA† (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA† (docosahexaenoic acid) that studies reveal is the most effective amount to promote overall cardiovascular health. (Heart disease is the No. 1 among US population! )
• Helps maintain normal cholesterol levels
• Promotes healthy blood pressure levels
• Helps maintain normal blood flow
• Helps maintain normal triglyceride levels in the blood
• Helps enhance mood
• Promotes overall cardiovascular health
A deficiency in essential fatty acids can also lead to severe bone loss and osteoporosis.
A health diet should be in the range of 1:1 to 1: 4 ratio of omega 3 v.s. omega 6. (Which means 1 part of omega 3 to 1 to 4 part of omega 6. However, for a typical American diet, we tend to consume 1 part of omega 3 to 11 to 30 part of omega 6 (Most omega 6 comes from high fat diet).
Omega 6 increase inflammatory property within the body, while omega 3 does the opposite, anti-inflammatory.
When shopping for supplements, the key factors to look at are: potency and absorption rate.
I would only recommend Isotonix line of supplements when available because:
1st, Isotonix is the only isotonic form of supplements in the market that provides superior absorption rate that pill form cannot beat. In order to form pills, filling, additives needs to be added, these are waste to our body and increase digestion time.
2nd, Pills need to be broken down into stomach first before our body can absorb. Stomach is very high acidic, thus most of the nutrients are destroyed in our stomach before reaching small intestine for absorption. So with pill form, you are looki