Vitamins. Do you get enough of your daily value? Or are you experiencing a deficiency without even realizing it? What we eat each day matters not only in terms of caloric intake, but also as it relates to our nutrition. Each of the 13 essential vitamins plays an important role in resisting infections, keeping our nerves nice and healthy, assisting us in getting energy from food, and helping our blood clot properly.
If you’re curious about the role that vitamins and dietary supplements could play in your diet, give this episode a listen!
Here are two reasons why you should listen to the full episode.
- Discover what the 13 essential vitamins are, as well as the risk factors of deficiencies.
- Learn what role social and biological factors play in the way we eat and subsequently our nutrition.
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Episode Highlights
What Are the 13 Essential Vitamins?
- A, C, D, E, K, and the B vitamins including biotin, folate, and B12
- The term essential basically means that we need a diet that incorporates all of these vitamins to some degree in order to be at our optimal health.
Why Do Vitamin Deficiencies Occur?
- Being deficient in certain vitamins occurs naturally when we don’t have access to healthy fruits and vegetables or when we aren’t able to create enough variety in our diet either as a result of living in a food desert, poverty, or lack of access to proper education.
- There are even biological and environmental factors that come into play. Because all of our bodies are different, we all process food differently. Additionally, our environment can impact the amount of a certain vitamin we require to function properly.
Are Dietary Supplements Safe?
- Vitamin supplements are not regulated by the FDA, making it incredibly difficult to know for sure what you’re consuming.
- The United States Pharmacopeia is a not-for-profit, nongovernmental pharmacopeia agency that “sets quality, purity, strength, and identity standards for medicines, food ingredients, and dietary supplements.” Looking for a dietary supplement that has been examined by the USP may be in our best interest.
- It’s always important to consult a nutritionist or doctor if you’re considering adding something to your diet, particularly if you already take medication. This is because certain vitamins can interact with medicine.
5 Powerful Quotes
- “A Vitamin D deficiency, which is something that four out of every ten Americans struggle with, can cause a variety of effects such as excessive fatigue, bone and joint pain, depression, irritability, anxiety, weight gain, and hair loss.”
- “A Vitamin B12 deficiency can cause anemia, numbness, difficulty walking, weakness, memory loss, a swollen tongue, and cognitive difficulties.”
- “Combining supplements, using them in conjunction with medications such as hormonal birth control, or accidentally ingesting too much of the supplement presents hazards.”
- “The manufacturers of the supplement must label them properly and ensure that they don’t contain anything harmful such as harsh metals that may be found in the soil, but realistically, there exists no overarching agency that tests these products.”
- “If the option to eat healthy food every meal isn’t there for us to take, we might be deficient and not even know it.”
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