Taking Vitamins


	TAKING VITAMINS


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Why You Should Be Taking Vitamins

Most people taking vitamins or minerals as supplementation do so as a means of giving their body a little bit of health insurance against vitamin deficiencies.

However, recent research allows for a host of other reasons to be taking vitamins and herbs for both healing and prevention, and the research is indicating that the optimum levels are higher than age old wisdom has been dictating.

If you consider yourself to be healthy overall, is there really a benefit to taking vitamins every day? What if you suddenly get a disease or disorder? Can you really expect that taking vitamins is going to help? In fact you can. There is a host of benefits that you will achieve simply by taking vitamins every day.

For the longest time, traditional science felt that it was a lack of vitamins that was the link to deficiency disorders such as scurvy. Scurvy is a problem noted by loosened teeth and softened gums and is the result of a Vitamin C deficiency. Over the past thirty years however, numerous studies have provided strong indication that taking vitamins on a regular basis plays a critical role in the deterrence of several degenerative and chronic diseases today. What most of these studies are showing is that the amount of vitamins associated with the prevention of diseases is substantially higher than current recommended daily allowances for the essential vitamins. To reach those higher levels and realize the benefits of disease prevention, subjects in these studies were taking vitamins to get those affects.

When it comes to slowing down the onset or preventing the progression of diseases, many experts are stating that many vitamins, in particular antioxidants, are beneficial in delaying the process of aging by decreasing the amount of damage to cells. This is not to say that all antioxidants are certified youth drugs, but that there is potential anti-aging benefits through taking vitamins that contain antioxidants.

These are just a few of many benefits to taking vitamins. Not only do they improve overall health, but with new benefits arising every day, it is probably that there are a host of other benefits that have yet to be discovered.

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