What Are the Best Vitamin Supplements you Can Use?
When you say “vitamins and minerals” In this context, the word “mineral” is used to describe naturally occurring nutrients, which are inorganic elements and compounds such as iron, potassium, and calcium.
What are minerals and vitamins?
Every cell in a living body needs adequate energy and food supply; if a cell needs to work and function properly it has to be maintained without hazardous energy supply. The energy is supplied in the form of proteins, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins and minerals. It is considered important to know about the minerals and vitamins upon what they are constituted and what part they play in our overall health. A significant drop in their volume can lead to dreadful disease and pathological symptoms.
Vitamins are organic compounds that function as metabolic regulators of the body. Vitamins are derived from vital+ amines (amino acids), the body requires a small amount of vitamins for the various metabolic functions of the body, but any deficiency can lead to metabolic and physical disorders. Most vitamins are not produced in the body, but a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, grains and cereals can provide the essential vitamins needed by the body, in small doses, and in a balanced way. More over vitamins are classified into fat soluble and water soluble vitamins. These play a vital role in preventing certain diseases like night blindness, scurvy etc.
Mineral Categories:
Minerals can be broken down into two basic groups based on their requirement,
– Bulk or macro minerals
– Trace or micro minerals
The macro minerals, such as calcium, magnesium, sodium (salt) potassium and phosphorus are needed in fairly substantial amounts for proper health. Where as, the trace minerals are needed in far smaller quantities and include substances such as zinc, iron, copper, manganese, chromium, selenium, and iodine.
The importance of minerals and vitamins:
Though minerals and vitamins are required in trace quantities, these trace minerals function in a wide and varied form to regulate and balance the body from certain diseases and improper functions. The fitness you are searching for ends with this mineral nutrition that plays a significant role in building fitness and preventing diseases. A nutritional guide you get from a doctor is nothing but a list of these essential minerals and their availability in vegetables and food stuffs and the proportion to acquire.
Why you need them?
The need of vitamins and minerals can be ascertained at the time of the physiological symptoms of the disease. In night blindness the symptoms start with blurring of vision in the evening and the person gradually loses eyesight due to lack of vitamin A. This symptomatic syndrome reveals the significance of vitamin A and its balance in the body. Such deficient diseases can be prevented only through proper supply of vitamin and mineral salts.
The products and the supplements:
You can find a number of products in the market to supply the elements and minerals independently through tablets, capsules, syrups, dry powder and more over liquid vitamins and minerals, available in lots of flavor. When you go for a dietary supply of these minerals you have to be sure that you are taking it after consultation with your doctor.
Here are the list of minerals and vitamins and their required level in the body to function properly.
List of Vitamins required daily for normal adults.
Vitamin A:5,000 – 25,000 IU’s
Vitamins B:
– Thiamin:2-100 mgs
– Riboflavin:50-100 mgs
– Niacin: 20-100 mgs
– Pyridoxine:3-50 mgs
– Folic acid:800 mcgs – 2 mgs
– Cobalamine:500-1,000 mcgs
– Pantothenic acid:4-7 mgs
– Biotin:30-100 mcgs
Vitamin C: 500-2,000 mgs
Vitamin D: 400-600 IU’s
Vitamin E: 200-400 IU’s
Vitamin K: 160-300 mcgs
List of Minerals required daily for normal adults.
Calcium:1,000-1,500 mgs
Copper:1.5-3.0 mgs
Chromium: 50-200 mcgs
Iron: 15-30 mgs
Magnesium: 300-500 mgs
Manganese: 2.5-5.0 mgs
Molybdenum: 75-250 mcgs
Potassium: 2,000-3,500 mgs
Selenium: 70-200 mcgs
Zinc: 15-50 mgs
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January 3rd, 2009 11:01 pm
What are the best vitamin supplements to take if you get leg cramps?
I already eat bananas every day and that used to help but lately if I happen to stretch my leg out while I'm sleeping I get a severe leg cramp in my lower leg (despite the bananas). I don't want to take a bunch vitamins that won't do anything — so what is THE best vitamin supplement to take to prevent this problem?
January 4th, 2009 4:03 am
You need calcium. 1500 mg per day will help.
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January 4th, 2009 4:05 am
potassium.
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January 4th, 2009 4:07 am
This is the one(I had this problem)
Calcium and Mag
Will work 100%
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January 4th, 2009 4:09 am
magnesium is a good supplement to take…you can find it just about anywhere vitamins are sold.
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January 4th, 2009 4:11 am
calcium, my brother
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January 4th, 2009 4:13 am
Ibufrofen and iron is recomended
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January 4th, 2009 4:15 am
Calcium, Potassium and Magnesium.
1. Stretch your legs a few times a day, especially before bedtime.
2. Rotate your ankles and wiggle your toes to increase circulation.
3. Resist pointing your toes as you crawl into bed.
4. Avoid crossing your legs or standing for long periods of time.
5. Eat potassium-rich foods such as bananas.
6. Eat calcium-rich foods such as dairy products, fish with bones (salmon or sardines), green leafy vegetables, almonds and tofu.
7. Reduce your intake of phosphorus-rich foods such as soft drinks, processed meats and snack foods.
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January 4th, 2009 4:17 am
potassium, and any of the b vitamins, like a B complex. mainly when you are experiencing muscle cramping you usually have low potassium levels so try taking potassium supplements or eating more bananas, especially before and after working out
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January 4th, 2009 4:19 am
don't really need vitamin supplement just get plenty of vitamin c you can fined that in all juices 100% it prevents leg cramps and also stretching
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January 4th, 2009 4:21 am
why not try drinking tonic water, they say that has quinine in it & that helps stop cramp, my goodness read the site below i sent you it is a help for cramp, hope it helps you,
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http://www.mothernature.com/Library/bookshelf/Books/48/132.cfm
January 4th, 2009 4:23 am
calcium and potasium
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January 4th, 2009 4:25 am
Five hundred to a thousand milligrams of calcium a day should do it as long as you eat nutritious foods; and yes you can buy the calcium with magnesium in it but I would not recommend the regime for a long period of time without consulting a Doctor. There has to be a reason for the leg cramps! Have you been to a Doctor? Also potassium supplements can be dangerous without a Doctors approval. Good Luck!
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January 4th, 2009 4:27 am
VITAMIN D! You usually get leg cramps when you're going through puberty and having a growth spurt, otherwise it's a Calcium Deficiency, so you either need to Drink more milk or Take Calcium vitamins as well as Vit D!
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January 4th, 2009 4:29 am
Calcium and Magnesium are the minerals you need to supplement with…make sure you get a vitamin that is pharmaceutical grade. Most of the stuff you can buy at the grocery store of at Walmart are just food grade, and no wheres near enough of the mineral in the supplement. The best place to find pharmacuetical grade vitamins is http://www.shopherbalife.com/tfward
the best way to tell if you are getting pharmaceutical grade is the price…if it is really cheap…well you get the picture!
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January 4th, 2009 4:31 am
I have used calcium-magnesium-zinc pills for leg cramps successfully for many years. They help a majority of the people to whom I recommend them also.
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I am a pharmacist