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All the vitamins you need 60 caplets. 1 TUB= £14.00  Vitamins contains: Vitamin A 5000 IU, thiamine 1.5mg, riboflavin 1.75mg, niacin 20mg, pantothenic acid 10mg, vitamin B6 2mg, vitamin C 60mg, vitamin D 400 IU, vitamin E 30 IU, biotin 300mcg, vitamin K 80mcg, folic acid 400mcg, methyl cobalamin (B12) 1mg, Suggested Use: Take 1 (one) caplet of each daily for complete mineral and vitamin nutrition. Other Ingredients: stearic acid, magnesium trisillicate, croscarmellose sodium, magnesium stearate, pharmaceutical glaze. Produced for Best Herbal Solutions.

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The regulation of mineral balance in the body is essential to survival. Like the body itself, each cell is a living organism and must maintain its internal environment. And it must interact with its surroundings in order to perform the functions assigned to it. The movement of minerals across cell membranes, between the extracellular and intracellular fluid, forms the basis for the body's most primary functions. Electrical activity is initiated; hearts beat, nerve cells signal. Muscles respond. Blood vessels tighten or relax. Water balance is maintained.

Here is a look at how some of these processes work:

Sodium and Potassium
These minerals, as they flow back and forth across cell membranes in controlled fashion, maintain homeostasis in the cell, and in the organ and the body that it is part of.

The body's ability to regulate and maintain its stores of sodium and potassium is impressive.

Calcium and Phosphorus
While there is a recommended dietary intake for calcium and phosphorus, deficiencies are rarely a problem. Calcium will be found in your multivitamins in varying amounts; about 30 to 150 milligrams of phosphorus will be present in your daily vitamin, and it's commonly present in foods.

Magnesium
Magnesium, however, is a different matter. It plays an active role in the metabolism of sodium, potassium, and calcium. It acts on your heart and blood vessels, your nerves and muscles, and your gut. Most of it is concentrated in tissue, so levels in the blood don't tell us much.

Kidneys spill magnesium. Losses also occur in the stool and through the skin. Malabsorption can reduce its availability from the diet. High alcohol use reduces it. Diuretics and some antibiotics deplete it.

Unlike calcium, there are no reserves in bone to draw on if magnesium supplies get low. But also unlike calcium, you cannot get too much.

Recent studies show that magnesium supplementation can reduce lung injury from oxygen toxicity. It blocks blood vessel constriction, so it can augment blood flow. It has been shown to increase the speed of recovery from open heart surgery, and to improve the likelihood of recovery from severe, life-threatening infection.

Since it can be hard to get magnesium in and easy to lose it, since it's so important, since you can't get too much, and since too much can't hurt you, it makes sense to supplement.

Given the exciting results of all the new research described above, you may want to beef up your program with a separate magnesium supplement. There's no way to know how much is enough. For now I suggest 500 extra milligrams a day, on top of whatever's in your combination pills.

Trace Elements
These are other elements whose quantities are small but whose contribution is enormous and essential. There are seven essential trace elements described in humans: chromium, copper, cobalt, iodine, iron, selenium, and zinc.

There is no known use for cobalt except as part of vitamin B12. No deficiency of manganese has ever been reported. Iodine is important in thyroid metabolism. It's present in small amounts in combination pills. Supplementing this element aggressively may meddle with your thyroid levels, so I don't recommend it.

The remaining trace elements are discussed below.

Chromium
Chromium helps insulin perform, so it's needed by your cells to take up glucose. Thus when it is deficient, blood sugar levels can be elevated. Cholesterol and triglyceride levels rise too. Peripheral neuropathy has been reported, as has weight loss. Heavy exercise, infection, and injury increase its use, and hence its loss.

Chromium is found in good supply in brewer's yeast and in meats and cheeses.

The normal diet is said to contain only about half of what we should have, but deficiencies have rarely been reported. And the above effects are the only ones we've seen.

The RDA, which is all we have to go by here, is fifty to two hundred micrograms.

Multivitamins contain from 15 to 100 micrograms of chromium. Trace element supplements can add another 100 micrograms or so.

Copper
Copper is a necessary part of some of the enzymes which help inactivate free radicals. Thus it plays a part in antioxidant protection. It is also used for making blood cells. It is active in the metabolism of iron. Copper-containing enzymes are involved in immune function. Deficiencies are rare. Measurement is difficult. Excesses can be harmful and can lead to liver failure.

There is no RDA for copper. Two to 3 milligrams are generally found in daily multivitamins.

Iron
Iron is needed to make red blood cells. It can function as an antioxidant. Vitamin C promotes its absorption. When your body needs more iron, it absorbs more from your diet.

Deficiency leads to anemia. Malabsorption can result as well. When present in excess, though, iron can work against you. Iron is frequently sequestered in the body to prevent its use by bacteria as a source of fuel. Increasing iron inappropriately might lead to increased infection.

Iron attaches to proteins; it is first stored and then carried throughout the body by these proteins. But in states of chronic illness, the supply of these proteins is reduced. Storage capacity is thus limited. And when the body runs out of safe places to put its iron, what's left is deposited in tissues. The function of these tissues can be harmed by this process, particularly in the liver and the heart.

When present in excess, iron can actually stimulate free radical formation.

Unless you're menstruating, or otherwise losing blood regularly, there's no way to get rid of excess iron. And while insufficient iron can cause anemia, anemia may not mean that you need iron.

Supplementation in documented deficiency states is prescribed at 325 milligrams, one to three times a day.

You'll get about 18 milligrams in most vitamin supplements, and the same in trace and mineral combinations. If your multivitamin specifically advertises iron, in its name or loudly on its label, it may contain more.

Iron is found in red meats, liver, beans, and peas.

Selenium
Selenium is an especially important antioxidant for you.

There is as yet no RDA for selenium.

Zinc
Zinc can be shuttled from blood to tissue in times of stress or illness. Thus plasma levels may not reflect its true concentration in the body. Zinc is absorbed in the small intestine. High-fiber diets and the presence of parasites can limit its absorption. Only 25 percent of what's ingested is absorbed, at best; with poor intestinal absorption, the amount can be even less.

Wound healing and the maintenance of membranes are among its tasks. It also plays a role in antibody production, and other aspects of immune response.

With zinc deficiency, immune response is impaired. Hair loss can result. Night vision is lost. We may think less clearly. Wound healing is slowed, and protein metabolism impaired.

Diarrhea can be both a cause and a result of zinc deficiency, and thus can compound the problem.

A reduction or change in our sense of taste can also result from zinc deficiency. This can be especially disturbing, as it affects both appetite and absorption.

Levels of testosterone, a male hormone, drop in states of zinc deficiency. Loss of sexual desire and a decreased ability to lay down lean body mass are associated.

Multivitamins usually contain about 15 milligrams of zinc. Trace element supplements have 20 to 25 milligrams. Separate zinc supplements usually contain 50 to 60 milligrams. You'll get about 50 milligrams, then, if you take two multivitamins and a trace element supplement each day.

The RDA for zinc is 15 milligrams

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