Is it worth taking multivitamin supplements?

In today's world, it's increasingly difficult to talk about good quality food and proper nutrition. Pervasive stress, the rush of responsibilities, and the lack of adequate recovery time make us increasingly more inclined to reach for convenient, ready-made meals, often fast food and other highly processed snacks.

This situation leads to gaining additional excess weight and the spread of overweight and obesity. Unfortunately, this condition promotes chronic inflammation and numerous diseases.

Many of these adverse effects stem from improper nutrition. How can we address this? For the most part, it's worth focusing on appropriate lifestyle modifications, but equally important is the use of high-quality multivitamin preparations to effectively address nutrient deficiencies, including vitamins and minerals. Why is it worth using multivitamins and nutritional supplements? The answer is in this article.

Multivitamin supplements and food quality in the past and present

Food quality is slowly deteriorating. Unfortunately, this process is long-term and has been uninterrupted for over a decade. When we talk about high-quality food, we really mean the days when our great-grandparents cultivated various vegetables, fruits, grains, and groats. Nowadays, higher-quality food can still be found in rural areas, and even that isn't so obvious.

Fortunately, unprocessed products have retained their key active ingredients, often antioxidants, which give these foods their colour. Fortunately, carrots remain orange, berries purple, and so on. Unfortunately, the total content of vitamins and other minerals has declined by over several dozen per cent.

Research confirms that to meet the human body's nutritional needs fully, we would need to consume approximately 15,000-17,000 kcal daily from minimally processed foods. This is practically impossible to achieve, even with a voracious appetite. Over 100 years ago, and even more recently, such a volumetric value of food products would have been practically unimaginable! Despite the lack of understanding of concepts such as calories, macronutrients, and so on, it's safe to assume that to fully meet the body's nutritional needs, consuming 3-5 times fewer calories would be sufficient.

For this reason, multivitamin supplements are increasingly being used. These supplements, prepared in appropriate doses of individual ingredients, perfectly replenish deficiencies of various vitamins and minerals.

Multivitamin Supplements and Modern Dietary Standards

Despite people increasingly turning to reliable sources of nutrition and supplementation information, a significant portion of the population still lacks the time to make appropriate changes to their diet or lifestyle. Unfortunately, this situation leads to inconsistent overall health care, ultimately resulting in the development of various unpleasant metabolic ailments.

Lack of time and irregular mealtimes often result in ravenous cravings, especially for high-calorie foods, in an attempt to quickly replenish glucose levels and simply hunger.

A lack of adequate vitamins and minerals, on the other hand, leads to poor well-being, poor concentration, and inefficient nervous system function. To prevent this, it is worth using high-quality multivitamin supplements, which can quickly address deficiencies in key nutrients involved in energy production and stimulate nervous tissue function, thereby improving cognitive performance.

Multivitamin supplements – why aren't all supplements created equal?

There are a multitude of multivitamin supplements on the market. Choosing a specific supplement can be truly confusing due to the multitude of factors to consider.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of multivitamin supplements offered do not effectively address nutrient deficiencies. This is because they contain biologically inactive forms of vitamins and minerals, ultimately leading to low absorption rates of several to several dozen per cent. To effectively supplement minerals, you should choose dietary supplements with ingredients in the methylated form in the case of vitamins and minerals, and often acetylated and phosphorylated.

These biological dietary supplements effectively replenish deficiencies in key substances, with a focus on the speed of this process. This means we suffer from deficiencies of various nutrients for a shorter period of time, ultimately leading to a faster return to well-being and good health.

Another factor in quality multivitamin preparations is their dosage. Individual vitamins and minerals should be selected in appropriate quantities to maximise their absorption. Furthermore, a therapeutic dose is also essential, not significantly exceeding dietary recommendations. Interestingly, B vitamins can be used in much higher doses because the human body is not designed to store them. In the case of excess, they are safely excreted in the urine.

VitaMinBest as the best choice

The 21st century is a time of constant rush and a perpetual lack of time to take care of one’s health. Unfortunately, this situation ultimately leads to the development of many metabolic ailments.

In response to the need to address nutrient deficiencies in the majority of the population, the VitaMinBest supplement was created.

VitaMinBest is a multivitamin supplement created based on the extensive experience of Iwona Wierzbicka , a clinical dietitian known for her highly professional approach to diet therapy and one of the top specialists in Poland. Her extensive knowledge and professional experience enabled her to develop a comprehensive formula that perfectly meets current nutritional needs.

The VitaMinBest supplement is a combination of key vitamins and minerals in the best possible, highly absorbable biological forms, helping you improve your body's performance on many levels.

VitaMinBest supports the body by:

• improving immunity,
• enhancing stress tolerance,
• more effective regeneration,
• improving physical performance,
• improving nervous system function,
• improving well-being,
• greater vitality,
• more effective preventative care,
• better and more efficient appetite control,
• and achieving fantastic health, motivation, and a willingness to act.

Importantly, and also worth noting, VitaMinBest is a pure-ingredient supplement, meaning it contains no unnecessary fillers, anti-caking agents, or other additives. VitaMinBest contains only active ingredients with proven health-promoting properties.

The VitaMinBest supplement contains:

B vitamins in their active biological forms:

• B1, B2, B3, choline, B5, B6, B7, folic acid, B12.

Fat-soluble vitamins:

• Vitamin E and A.

Minerals:

• Zinc, copper, chromium, iodine, selenium, molybdenum.

The effects of each ingredient in the VitaMinBest supplement are listed on the product label.

SUMMARY

In the 21st century, there is increasing concern about health problems resulting from a poor diet and inadequate daily nutrition. This situation, if prolonged, often leads to numerous unpleasant side effects and metabolic problems.

Much of the challenge in addressing nutritional deficiencies is the quality of food, which is currently not the best, as to supplement essential nutrients effectively, one would need to consume around 15,000 calories daily.

If we want to reduce mineral deficiencies effectively, it's worth considering supplements characterised by high-quality individual ingredients and high bioavailability. One of the best products for this purpose is the VitaMinBest supplement, which features the most biologically active forms of its ingredients and appropriate therapeutic doses. The product is also free from unnecessary additives.

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