Health through and with vitamins shall be the subject of this guide. When it comes to health, the reference to vitamins is rarely missing. Advertising often does theirs to it, sometimes in an exaggerated way. The sale of products with added vitamin C has been missing the real need for years and leads to overfeeding in this respect. This is almost always the synthetic vitamin C, ascorbic acid.
Vitamins through a healthy diet
With a healthy diet, which should include daily fruits and salads, or even smoothies, the daily need for vitamins is almost always met. For in a healthy diet, which should include fruit and salads daily, the daily requirement of vitamins is almost always met. Since vitamin C cannot be stored in the body, any useless overdose is therefore lost. It is excreted again unused. When given the choice between natural vitamin C, found in high doses in lemons, oranges, grapefruits, fresh salads, peppers and sea buckthorn, among others, versus the artificial vitamin C, ascorbic acid, reason is likely to opt for the former. Half a lemon has enough vitamin C to meet normal daily needs. The lemon also has two other vitamins and a lot of valuable fruit acids.
What are vitamins
What are vitamins? They are minute amounts of active substances without which the normal life processes that we want to call health cannot be fulfilled. If one or more of these vitamins is lacking or deficient, deficiencies or disease patterns develop, which in severe cases are called avitaminoses. The difference between hormones, which are effective even in the smallest doses, and vitamins lies in their production sites. Hormones are produced in the body by various glands, whereas vitamins are produced in the plant. If today vitamins are used as medicines, it should be remembered that there is no correspondence between them and real medicines (e.g. quinine or pyramidone). This is because vitamins are part of human nutrition. When they are prescribed, whether as diet, tablet or injection, one is only replacing a deficient component of our diet. They are the most natural healing substances known. However, in many cases this does not make real medicines superfluous. But there is hardly any disease in which vitamins did not deserve attention by some shift in their balance in the body.
Types of vitamins
From a preventive point of view, the view held in naturopathy that foods are remedies and remedies should be a healthy diet, should receive attention. Also the saying “Man is what he eats” is true in many cases of our time, for which alone the high percentage of obese or overweight people speaks. They cannot always be called healthy. High administration of calories does not exclude malnutrition of vitamins. There are water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamins. From this it is already clear that man cannot live fat-free if a deficit of certain vitamins is not to occur. Fat-soluble vitamins are found in milk, butter, cheese, fish, vegetable oils and cod liver oil. All vitamins with their Wirkunsgweisen would cover a whole book, so only the most important vitamins will be discussed here.
Vitamin B12
Vitamin B12, which is of exceptional effectiveness and was discovered relatively late, is an exception among vitamins because it is not formed in plants. The history of the development of vitamin B12 is interesting to mention. It was already a great discovery when it was noticed that people with a progressive anemia, called pernicious anemia, recovered after administration of liver, especially raw liver. In the past, this disease was fatal. The vernacular used to speak of galloping consumption. Researchers searched for this mysterious substance in the liver and found it in the form of a red crystal substance, which they called vitamin B12. The discoverers almost despaired at the fact that no less than 4 tons of animal liver were needed to produce 1g of vitamin B12. After streptomycin, which comes from a fungus, was discovered, the life-saving vitamin B12 was also found in it. It could now be produced in unlimited quantities.This is how complicated the paths of research often are in order to get on the track of producible vitamins. At the same time, hardly anyone ever thinks about what has to happen every day in the large chemical factory of our body in order to keep us healthy and efficient through active substances.
Health Prevention
To summarize, one should support the health and the functioning of the body through a natural diet rich in vitamins, so that there is no deficit in the vitamin balance, a prevention that is worthwhile. Useless and excessive intake of artificial vitamin C and others, are not only useless and futile, but can also be harmful to the body, if the dosage is too high. Therpeutically, vitamin supplements can often have a decisive effect if they are prescribed and administered by the doctor in the right dosage. Much does not help much, it depends on the dosage. Vitamins are indispensable elixirs of life and important regulators of a healthy lifestyle. In the vegan diet, should be paid to sufficient vitamins and other nutrients. You can read more about this here: Vegan diet – How it can succeed healthy.
