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Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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If you take vitamins in time ...
That we can gradually get rid of the negative that we get with harmful substances, namely with fats and carbohydrates. Most they harm the cardiovascular and respiratory system, disrupting their work.
To make your cardiovascular system feel great, scientists say, it's important before you eat something fat, take 400 units. Vitamin E and 05, a gram of vitamin C (ascorbic acid).
Are vitamins harmful not from natural products?
It is often said that vitamins, taken not from foodstuffs, but from a pharmacy, bring more harm to a person than good, because they are perceived by the body as alien. Is it really?
No. The vitamins that we bought at the pharmacy contain components that are compatible with each other. After all, not all vitamins are combined. Many of them extinguish or inhibit each other's action. A pharmacy vitamins are made according to strictly prescribed pharmacists recipes, so their compatibility is taken into account.
You only need to correctly calculate the dose so as not to harm the overdose. It can help to make your attending physician-dietician-gastroenterologist.
Not natural vitamins actually produce from natural products, but with additives. For example, vitamins B-B12 and B2 are produced by the synthesis of microorganisms. Vitamin C (such a favorite of many ascorbic) is obtained from natural sugar with the addition of acid. Vitamin P is obtained from fruits of black mountain ash, as well as lemon peels and oranges, or from sophora medicinal.
Such vitamins are useful to a person in the right quantities and proportions.
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How do they produce unnatural vitamins?
When there is a process of production of vitamins, it is followed by highly skilled workers. Cleanliness exists in the laboratory, employees observe technology of production. This is fundamentally different from the situation when you tear off an unwashed apple from a branch or grab a not quite clean plum to immediately eat it.
In laboratory vitamins, in addition, the amount of a substance is strictly calculated. Compare this with the fact that when storing and processing the products that we use to saturate the body with vitamins, the latter are destroyed the more, the longer they are stored. This never happens with pharmaceuticals.
Features of artificial vitamins
For example. In humans, an overabundance of vitamin PP can cause allergic reactions due to the fact that in nature this vitamin is represented as nicotinic acid.
The same vitamin PP (its complex) in the pharmacy is represented as nicotinamide, that is, a substance that has a much milder effect on the body than nicotinic acid, and does not have destructive effects on the internal organs. The fact is that people react to nicotinic acid 100 times more often with allergies than with nicotinamide.
Another example - about the famous and inimitable vitamin C, which people need so much. Ascorbic acid (that is, vitamin C) in natural sources, for example, lemon or apple, can be harmful to people with high acidity of gastric juice. On citrus with vitamin C in the composition are very common allergic reactions. At the same time, ascorbic acid, which is produced for vitamins, is much softer and less acidic than the natural source.
Therefore, contact a dietitian doctor to develop your own vitamin menu and be healthy!
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