I eat pretty healthy, but I'm probably not a textbook diet either. I am currently taking 1 Centrun Performance, 500mg Vitamin C, and 400 IU Vitamin E every day. Is there anything else that I should be trying to get a bit more of?
I eat pretty healthy, but I'm probably not a textbook diet either. I am currently taking 1 Centrun Performance, 500mg Vitamin C, and 400 IU Vitamin E every day. Is there anything else that I should be trying to get a bit more of?
Nowadays, even though you think you "eat pretty healthy", that's no insurance. Unless you eat home-grown organic food, you really don't get vitamins and minerals that you are suppoed to be getting from certain foods. For example, tomatos are picked while they are still green and they turn red in a truck or at the store. We grow tomatoes in our backyard but the differences in taste are ridiculous (and sad!). Same with orange. You are supposed to be getting vitamin C by eating orange but vitamin C will be destroyed quite rapidly once riped. More and more we need to rely on supplements for vitamins and minerals.
Study all that you can about vitamins and minerals. I take zinc, magnecium, calcium mixture (sometimes separately, sometimes in a form of kelp), B complex, iron and vitamin C as well as liquid mineral. Lorraine Moller introduced to me this liquid mineral (tastes quite crapy!) and I swear by it. The only time I got sick in the past 5 years are when I ran out of it and didn't get the new one right a way.
I think any multivitamin is good. I take One a Day Active. Like nobby said you dont get as much as you think from food. But, it sounds like you might be dependent on it Nobby. The only time a crackhead gets sick is when he runs out of crack. :)
What you want to be careful of with Centrum is that is a syrup coated supplement. Therefore it takes longer and it is harder for your body to digest. An easy experimental way to find this out for yourself is to put it in a glass of water and watch how long it takes to dissolve. Your body needs vitamins that are easy to digest and readily available to your system.
Here's a website that I have found very useful.
http://www.shaklee.com/main/prodNutSports
The supplements are very good and are organic,(if your into that sort of thing.)
This is actually true. I have heard that the body does not digest the whole vitamins most of the time and that some of the vitamin goes right through your system. Breaking them in half is supposed to help with that.
Doug E, how old are your?
nutrie run wrote:
What you want to be careful of with Centrum is that is a syrup coated supplement. Therefore it takes longer and it is harder for your body to digest. An easy experimental way to find this out for yourself is to put it in a glass of water and watch how long it takes to dissolve. Your body needs vitamins that are easy to digest and readily available to your system.
What good will that test do, only B & C are water soluble, A, D & E are fat soluble and will fail your test!
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