Benefits of vitamins

      Benefits of vitamins

Using supplements & vitamins against disease & aging

Numerous studies & anecdotes have pointed to the benefits of vitamins in preventing health disorders.

Following are links to health conditions which can be prevented or remedies by vitamin supplementation. 

The importance of vitamins is especially pronounced during illness. Then you should increase supplementation simply because your body will need more to fight off the illness & replace depleted nutrients.

Following is a list & links to particular conditions & diseases. Clicking on condition will take you to page detailing the benefits of vitamins in preventing or managing the particular disorder.

The conditions covered are in alphabetical order. Descriptions include a brief summary of the condition followed by vitamins & supplements help the condition & which might worsen the situation.

You should not expect all vitamins to work in the same way for you that they reportedly for in other persons. We all have individual responses to what we ingest, depending on genetics & causes.

Benefits of vitamins should be apparent if you start with a high quality multivitamin & multimineral tablet & build from that. Then you should add one supplement at a time, allowing at least a month for the benefits of supplements you are taking to kick in.

Be patient. If you experience little positive effect, move on to another vitamin.

There is no reason to immediately start taking a stew of supplements & see what happens. If you experience benefits to supplements you are taking, what would you credit? If you experience little benefit or worse, negative side effects, what would you eliminate? That’s why you should take supplements systematically unless directed to do otherwise by a health professional.

                  Tips & cautions for vitamin supplementation

*The dosages provided are for people not suffering from kidney or liver disease. If you have liver or kidney problems, you should lower dosages & consult with a medical professional before taking supplements.

*If you are pregnant, nursing or on blood thinners, you may also need to lower dosages & consult with your doctor about supplementation with vitamins.

*You should not supplement for 1 week before & after surgery. Try and reduce supplementation gradually before surgery. One week after surgery, you should build up supplementation gradually.

*Finally, you should not view supplementing against disease & aging as giving you license to indulge in an unhealthy lifestyle. Using vitamins is supposed to be supplemental not replacement for exercising, eating properly, reducing stress and the like.

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