What Are The Benefits of Vitamins?

Here's just a quick look at some of the common health complaints that people have and how they can be relieved naturally, by striving for optimum nutrition.  I have also included a look at the cancer preventative benefits of the antioxidant.

Depression

Millions of Americans take prescription anti-depressants on a daily basis, despite the unwanted side effects they commonly experience.  They do it, because it is the only option that their doctors recommend.

In the doctor's defense, they do what they do to avoid malpractice.  They must prescribe the course of treatment that is generally accepted by the mainstream medical community.  Luckily, we are started to see more naturopathic and holistic practitioners.

The cause of depression is unknown.  It is thought to be related to a deficiency of the neurotransmitter serotonin.  Prescription anti-depressants prevent serotonin from breaking down. 

The nutritional approach is to increase intake of 5-HTP, the amino acid that the body needs to produce serotonin.  It is known to provide benefit for those suffering from depression, insomnia, anxiety and stress.

Fatigue

What are the benefits of vitamins for relieving fatigue?  Even most doctors recommend vitamins for those patients that complain about a lack of energy.  Chronic Fatigue is a condition that is particularly difficult for doctors to treat.  They can't seem to figure out what causes it.

It is easy to see that a deficiency in any antioxidant, vitamin, mineral, amino acid or other nutrient would cause fatigue.  When people start focusing on improving their nutrition, they start to see an immediate improvement in their energy levels.  If your vitamins don't seem to be working for you, then you are probably taking one of the brands that you find in the drug store. 

Those products are not totally balanced.  They don't contain amino acids or enzymes that allow your body to use the supplement efficiently.  They do not have an enteric coating, so they don't make it to your small intestine, where they are most beneficial.

Cancer Prevention

What are the benefits of vitamins E and C in cancer prevention?  The antioxidant is our best defense against free radical damage to the DNA of our cells.  It is that DNA damage that mutates the cells.  When the cell reproduces, something that happens every day throughout our bodies, it may become a cancer cell.  Continued damage increases that risk.

Recently, there was a new study that disputed the findings of thousands of other studies concerning the antioxidant benefit of vitamins E and C for cancer prevention.  The vitamins used in the study were synthetic, not the naturally occurring form that had been used in other studies. 

Synthetic vitamins are derived from crude oil, as are so many other things in our world.  Most supplement factors do not list the source of the nutrient on their labels.  Xtend-life does.  They use only the natural forms of the nutrients in their products.

The next time that you wonder, "What are the benefits of vitamins that I'm taking every day?"  Think about these things that I've mentioned here and remember, if your supplement is not working for you, try a better brand, like Xtendlife. 

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