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Vitamins for the elderly
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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When a person grows old (alas, no one is immune from this), irreversible processes occur in his body. And then, even if he did not take vitamins, then with age they are needed as never before. What are the vitamins for the elderly? We will discuss this in more detail.
Age and changes in the body
These changes require the adjustment of the diet. The fact is that people with age are much reduced the ability of the digestive tract to suck up food ingredients. Energy exchange is also not in good condition. And the accompanying diseases, which disturb the person, aggravate a person's condition.
Vitamins help you feel better, increase the activity of metabolic processes, tone up the condition.
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Why vitamins for the elderly?
With age, vitamin exchange in the body becomes worse, especially if it is not maintained. It is fixed that in elderly people the consumption of vitamin B1 and B2 decreases by 20% every year.
The lack of vitamin E is also great: it is fixed in 80% of people after 50. As for the lack of vitamin C in the body, it is not enough for 60% of the elderly. Vitamin A is not enough in more than 80% of patients. This is a threatening situation with a lack of vitamins.
This is fraught with weakness, increased fatigue in elderly people and numerous diseases associated with a lack of useful substances in the body.
On the contrary: if you constantly take the right doses of vitamin complexes, then even in old age people lead an active lifestyle and rarely get sick.
How can vitamins improve the quality of life for the elderly?
Multivitamin complexes of 12-14 substances taken only 2 times a year can significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases, improve the performance of internal organs, in particular, the liver and kidneys, and also strengthen the immune system.
Vitamin D and age
Vitamin D, write dieticians, is very useful in the diet of the elderly. For example, it is proved that the age of bone tissue deteriorates with age. To restore it, it is important to constantly take calcium. And calcium, as is known, will not be absorbed without vitamin D. So, without getting vitamin D, an elderly person receives less calcium.
Vitamins A, C, E and age
These vitamins in the complex very actively help to fight the aging processes in the body. These vitamins for the elderly also help in the fight against cardiovascular, oncological diseases, and are also good at preventing cancer.
Vitamins of group B in combination with vitamins C and P
These water-soluble vitamins for the elderly protect them from the risk of vomiting fragility and such an unpleasant disease as sclerosis.
Vitamin C and one, and in the complex is very good for maintaining the cardiovascular system, atherosclerosis, lowers cholesterol in the blood.
Vitamins for the elderly from products
In the press very often sounds the opinion that if there is enough vegetables and fruits, then the human body will be saturated with vitamins. But when it comes to elderly people who have a deficiency in vitamins, they will not get the right doses from vegetables and fruits.
From fresh vegetables and fruits, as it turned out as a result of research, only a few vitamins can be fully obtained. Namely: vitamin C (folic acid), carotene (vitamin B), and vitamin A.
So, we will count. Elderly person get a daily dose of vitamin C, which is 60 mg. How much apple juice does he need to drink, if 1 cup contains 4 mg of this vitamin? Simple calculation shows that such glasses a day an elderly person should drink a lot or a lot - as many as 15.
So it turns out that pharmacy vitamins are very necessary, otherwise the body does not satiate useful substances.
Vitamins A, D, E also require additives in the form of pharmacy pills. The fact is that their sources in kind - meat, cereals of different types, dairy products, butter, liver and other high-calorie products. To provide a supply of vitamins in the body, many do not eat them.
And not all products of elderly people can eat, as many of them sit on medical diets. Therefore, the appropriate vitamin complexes prescribed by a physician are needed.
Please note that do not overdose drugs. Therefore, you should prescribe vitamins for the elderly and their doses to the attending physician, and not yourself.
Attention!
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Description provided for informational purposes and is not a guide to self-healing. The need for this drug, the purpose of the treatment regimen, methods and dose of the drug is determined solely by the attending physician. Self-medication is dangerous for your health.