Every person’s health and vitality can be enhanced by a good diet and adding well chosen vitamins, minerals and other supplements.
Why take supplements?
3 Reasons To Take Supplements
1. Give your body some nutrients that may be lacking in your regular diet.
2. Achieve greater strength and athletic performance as well as help optimize your weight.
3. Lower your blood pressure, improve your lipid profile and otherwise improve your health, without relying on expensive prescription medications and their side effects.
Which supplements are best for you?
It takes some research, and a bit of reflection on your regular diet and lifestyle, to answer that question, and it’s an answer unique to you.
The website of The National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements has a wealth of information and is worth taking a look at. http://ods.od.nih.gov/ The health benefits of some supplements are well documented, while the claims made for others may be nothing more than hopeful conjecture.
Consideration of a regimen of supplements certainly should go in hand with reflection on a good diet. If you think of “food as medicine” rather than merely a source of energy or a source of pleasure, you have a useful approach. If you are giving some thought to changing your diet, you could look at the Wikipedia article on Healthy Diet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_diet
Your supplement list probably would have several subsets, for example:
1. Supplements that most every person would benefit by, including a Multivitamin, Folic Acid, and perhaps specific additional vitamins like C and D3.
2. Supplements that may enhance energy and cardiac performance, for example, Magnesium, Nitric Oxide and D-Ribose.
3. Supplements that address your own diet for example Beta Sitosterol and CoQ10 or Ubiquinol if you eat limited amounts of meat or are a vegetarian
4. Supplements that address a particular health concern you have or tend to reduce known health risks, for example taking EPA / DHA may reduce the risk of stroke and heart disease.
5. Supplements addressed to specific issues like detoxification, for which EBTDA is mentioned, or quicker recovery after exercise (consider D-Ribose.)
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