One of the most important supplements you can take when trying to achieve a fitness goal is, believe it or not, a multivitamin. Your body requires essential nutrients in order to complete all of its daily tasks and functions. Being deficient in any vitamins or minerals can cause your metabolic pathway to breakdown. Everyone can benefit from taking a multivitamin, but it's especially important for those who lead active lifestyles because they need more nutrients. Taking a multivitamin will help to make sure you are not missing any vital nutrients that are not covered in your diet, because you cannot necessarily get them all from food. Food processing and refining has been shown to result in great nutrient losses. Mass production of food also results in the lack of nutrients because many fruits and vegetables are harvested before ripening, which does not allow for antioxidants to be fully developed. According to research, fruits and vegetables must ripen on the vine/branch to contain the full amount of nutrients. Cooking can also cause the loss of nutrients.
Multivitamins contain not only your essential vitamins and minerals, but they also can contain other ingredients. For example, women's multivitamins can contain formulas for hair, skin, and nails, and men's multivitamins can contain ingredients to support testosterone.
When I'm talking about a multivitamin, I'm not talking about your average Centrum or One-a-day multivitamin. These multivitamins are not high-potency, and they are not timed-release so your body will not absorb any of the nutrients.
For women, some good vitamins are Optimum Nutrition Opti-Women, Source Naturals Women's Life Force Multivitamin, or GNC Women's Ultra Mega Active to name a few.
For men, Optimum Nutrition Opti-Men, GNC Mega Men Sport, and Controlled Labs Orange Triad.
There are a lot of good multivitamins out there, these are just a few!
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