Everybody needs the nutrition of vitamins and minerals to work, grow, and develop properly, which makes them extremely important on a daily basis. But it doesn't stop there. The human body also requires nutrition to do many things, such as ward off disease, boost immune system response, and even improve overall moods! When the skin gets a cut, the human body needs nutrition to clot. When one gets sick, the body requires a more than average amount of nutrition to help fight the virus. Most people don't realize just how extremely critical nutrition is. For example, nutrition regulates reactions that occur in metabolism, unlike other dietary components known as macronutrients (fats, carbohydrates, proteins). One can consume all the right amounts of these fats, carbohydrates, and proteins, get all the exercise needed, but unless there are also very adequate amounts of nutrition in the body to regulate how these macronutrients are used, benefits achieved will be slim to none! Absence of just a single vitamin blocks one or more specific metabolic reactions in a cell and eventually may disrupt the metabolic balance within a cell and in our entire body. With the exception of Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), all of the water-soluble vitamins assist enzymes that function in energy transfer/ metabolism of fats, carbohydrates, and proteins. In other words, it is extremely difficult for our bodies to break down these nutrients into energy we can use without vitamins. As we age our body’s requirement for nutrition changes, supplementation is an excellent way to ensure we have an excess of reserves for our systems to work well at an optimal level of performance. Our vitamin and mineral products are listed below: |