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There is growing awareness that we require vitamins and minerals to promote and raise our health and well-being.

Our environment has gone through and continues to go through such enormous changes that we cannot trust altogether the food we eat alone for our nutritional needs.

Vitamins
Vitamins are organic substances (made by plants or animals). They come into two classes: water soluble and fat soluble. The water-soluble C and the B-complex vitamins (such as riboflavin, folic acid, niacin, etc) require water to dissolve for them to be absorbed . The body can not store these vitamins and any surpluses exit the body primarily through urine. There is a daily need of fresh supply of water-soluble vitamins. The fat-soluble vitamins - A, D, E, and K - resolve in fat and they can be stored in your body usually in the liver and adipose tissue.

Minerals
Minerals are inorganic chemical elements derived from the soil and water then taken by plants and in turn by animals that eat plants or other animals. Humans use both plant and animal sources but also man made supplements. The body’s need for some minerals, such as calcium, is greater than other minerals, named trace minerals such as iodine, iron, selenium, zinc, etc. where only very small amounts are essential in order to grow and stay in good health. Minerals are required for hundreds of important bodily structures and chemical reactions. Yet it’s nearly impossible to receive optimal levels through diet alone.

Even when the diet is rich in minerals, many people, particularly the elderly, might not absorb and assimilate minerals well. While certain minerals like calcium, magnesium and potassium are well-known, there are at least 28 minerals recognized to have a founded role in human nutrition. All minerals are of the same equal importance, so a good multi-mineral dietary supplement is the best insurance that you are getting all the dietary minerals your body needs in the correct dose and physiological form.

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