Long winter without sun accustomed the population to the idea of eternal vitamin deficiency. Hair loss, brittle nails, problems with nervous system – it’s common to blame the lack of vitamins and minerals for all this. In many cases, it is, but is it worth taking multivitamins and buying other medicines in pharmacies without a doctor’s prescription?
Modern medicine allows you to understand in detail which elements a person lacks for a full life and well-being. With uncontrolled taking certain drugs, you can harm the body. You need to clearly know what is missing. It is possible to calculate on your own, but it is difficult. Individual symptoms may indicate a lack of various elements, or may even be signals of an onset disease. Therefore, you need to dive deep into the problem, and calculate the necessary data. It is much easier to take a blood or urine test for vitamins and minerals.
However, one analysis is not enough to start taking vitamins. Ideally, you need to see a doctor. The doctor will help to adjust the diet and prescribe the necessary drugs. Some shortage can be made up by simply adding variety to the diet and adjusting the daily routine a bit. Do not treat tablet vitamins as a panacea for solving all problems. It is rather the last opportunity, the most powerful way to balance the body when everything else is exhausted or inaccessible.
The digestibility of various vitamins is different. To achieve the maximum effect, each of them needs to be taken in due time. Some are better absorbed in the morning with food, others before bedtime after dinner. There are competing minerals that minimize the effect of each other, and there are good tandems. Therefore, in some cases, it is better to take monovitamins, such as Apo-Folic, Apo-Nicotinic, Arcalion and Pascorbin.
Tablets containing complex of vitamins and minerals are necessary when a person has malnutrition. If the form and combination of their components is incorrect, then they will simply pass through the body without being absorbed. Some manufacturers are trying to solve this problem. They conduct special studies and, in accordance with them, create combined multivitamin-mineral medications. These include Avipro Plus, Chela-Ferr Forte, Derma-3 Softgels and Hepaplus.
Like any medicine, packaging of vitamins is accompanied by information about the doses and methods of administration. Do not violate these recommendations yourself. Some of the extra vitamins will simply come out of the body, but some can accumulate in the liver cells. Hypervitaminosis is able to provoke various diseases. Drink vitamins should only with clean water at room temperature. Various drinks (for example, juices, coffee, and tea) are not suitable for this, as well as for tablets. It is better to take each drug at the same time.
So that the body does not experience a lack of vitamins, you need not so much – lead a healthy lifestyle, sleep 7-8 hours, regularly spend time in the fresh air, play sports. All this only at first glance seems completely impossible. Once having trained to think about their health and their loved ones, people quickly get in good shape and forget the way to pharmacies.