Have you decided to pamper your body with a multivitamin complex? Check to see if you are making mistakes that could worsen your health.
This stereotype is especially activated in the autumn-winter period, when everyone is sick with ARVI, working capacity decreases, bad weather spoils the mood, and the condition of hair and skin worsens.
But in fact, vitamins cannot be taken in this way. Here are the most common mistakes that almost everyone makes.
1. Choice of vitamins to your taste
Vitamins and their complexes should be prescribed by a doctor if he comes to the conclusion that you really do not have enough of them. Self-selection of vitamins is the same self-medication, when you diagnose yourself and decide how to treat yourself. But you will also have to answer for mistakes yourself.
Just drinking plenty of vitamins and more often is a wrong strategy, because too much vitamins is also bad. This can lead to metabolic disorders, poor absorption of certain minerals and trace elements, etc.
For example, you can't joke with vitamins B6 and B12. Studies have shown that women who took too much of them significantly increased the risk of hip fracture in old age. An excess of vitamin D interferes with the absorption of calcium, and too much vitamin C leads to headaches, problems with blood pressure, and frequent heartburn.If you are still against visiting a doctor for prescribing vitamins, then at least get tested for their level in the blood. If the result shows that there is no deficiency, then you should not take one or another vitamin additionally.
2. Incompatible combinations
If you have a deficiency of any vitamin, then it should be taken in isolation, and not in combination with others. For example, if you need vitamin B1, then do not take a drug where one ampoule also contains B2, B3, etc. Even vitamins of the same group can interfere with each other. So, B1 is not absorbed when taken simultaneously with B2 and B3.
B12 is not absorbed from C, and vitamins E and B12 interfere with the absorption of iron.
3. Food interferes with vitamins
Not only do you need to know how to combine vitamins with each other, it will not be superfluous to also learn how to combine them with food so that the positive effect remains. For example, dairy products, due to calcium, interfere with the absorption of iron, magnesium, zinc, manganese.
Vitamins A, D, E, K should be "seized" with fatty foods, because they are fat-soluble: cheese, a spoonful of vegetable oil, eggs, sour cream will do.The main recommendation of doctors is to drink vitamins in the morning (but not on an empty stomach!), Because in the evening they can negatively affect the health and quality of sleep. For example, vitamin D.
4. There is no Omega-3 in multivitamin complexes
Not in all, of course, but in many, therefore it is worth carefully reading the composition and dosage. Omega-3 fatty acids are vital for the cells of the body to maintain health, because the cell membranes that hold useful substances in the cell are precisely composed of fatty acids.
Omega-3 is the key to hydrated, elastic skin, beautiful hair and nails. In order to make up for the lack of fatty acids, it is necessary to introduce sea fish into the diet more often. The main thing is not to confuse Omega-3 with Omega-6 (found in vegetable oil), because an excess of the latter leads to cardiovascular diseases.
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