Vitamin Levels inadequate?

April 15, 2007

Inadequate vitamin levels may result in poor athletic performance

Active individuals with low Vitamin B intakes may perform worse in

high-intensity exercise

and have a decreased ability to build and repair muscle. National B-Vitamin

recommendations may be too low for active individuals. Athletes with poor or

restricted

diets should consider and multivitamin supplement.

Active individuals lacking in B-vitamins may perform worse during high-

intensity exercise

and have a reduced ability to repair and build muscle than individuals with

nutrient-rich

diets.

These B vitamins, which include thiamin, riboflavin, vitamin B6, B12 and folate,

are

necessary for the body to convert proteins and sugars into energy, and are used

during

the production and repair of cells, including red blood cells.

Researchers analyzed the diet and athletic performance of several elite and

collegiate

athletes, as well as less competitive individuals. Even a marginal deficiency in

these

nutrients negatively influenced their body's ability to repair itself, operate

efficiently and

fight disease. Exercise induced stress, the changes in body tissues resulting

from training,

increased loss of nutrients in sweat, urine and feces, and the additional

nutrients needed

to repair and maintain higher levels of lean tissue mass may all affect an

individual's B-

vitamin requirements.

The researchers noted that current national B-vitamin recommendations for active

individuals may be inadequate, and that chronic deficiencies could jeopardize

their

abilities and long-term health. Athletes and individuals with poor and

restricted diets

should consider a multivitamin and multimineral supplement to ensure adequacy.

Kathleen Woolf; Melinda M. Manore Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab 2006(16) 5.

April 18, 2007

Wouldn't it be wiser to investigate and find out what is causing nutrient deficiencies and then eliminate the cause rather than use the quick fix (vitamins in a pill)? Wouldn't it be wiser for a person to get their nutrients from proper food intake? Could it be that if a person is deficient in any vitamin they are eating lousy food? Are synthetic vitamins the same as natural phyto chemicals?Maybe you should study Dr. Royal Lee's work. He is considered one of the greatest nutritional scientists in the history of the world. Are you selling vitamins or do you own stock in vitamin companies?Jerry AndersonLesley Reid <lesley.reid wrote: Inadequate vitamin levels may result in poor athletic performance Active individuals with low Vitamin B intakes may perform worse in high-intensity exercise and have a decreased ability to build and repair muscle. National B-Vitamin recommendations may be too low for active individuals. Athletes with poor or restricted diets should consider and multivitamin supplement. Active individuals lacking in B-vitamins may perform worse during high- intensity exercise and have a reduced ability to repair and build muscle than individuals with nutrient-rich diets. These B vitamins, which include thiamin, riboflavin, vitamin B6, B12 and folate, are necessary for the body to convert proteins and sugars into energy, and are used during the production and repair of cells,

including red blood cells. Researchers analyzed the diet and athletic performance of several elite and collegiate athletes, as well as less competitive individuals. Even a marginal deficiency in these nutrients negatively influenced their body's ability to repair itself, operate efficiently and fight disease. Exercise induced stress, the changes in body tissues resulting from training, increased loss of nutrients in sweat, urine and feces, and the additional nutrients needed to repair and maintain higher levels of lean tissue mass may all affect an individual's B- vitamin requirements. The researchers noted that current national B-vitamin recommendations for active individuals may be inadequate, and that chronic deficiencies could jeopardize their abilities and long-term health. Athletes and individuals with poor and restricted diets should consider a multivitamin and multimineral supplement to ensure adequacy.

Kathleen Woolf; Melinda M. Manore Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab 2006(16) 5.

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April 18, 2007

Inadequate vitamin levels come first and foremost from a lack of proper nutrients from foods. Vitamins, whether extracted from foods, or synthetic can add some to the vitamin supply of the body, but on the other hand, eating the right foods one can still develop vitamin, and other nutrient, deficiencies.

People are not necessarily even born with perfectly operating bodies that are fully capable of digesting and metabolizing the nutrients that they get from the food supply even when the food supply is ideal (rich in vitamins, minerals, and all the other phytonutrients). Most "foods" in the present day are not grown in nutrient dense earth for the food, and thus the food is often lacking in the nutrients that the particular food might have carried even 50 years ago. And, as well, food agriculturally grown is often less dense in nutrients, usable nutrients, than are wild foods.

The combination of various factors lead to the deficiencies. If an apple has less than a tenth of the nutrients that it used to have, what does one do, eat 10 apples a day? To keep the doctor away. Multiply that with everything else one eats, and..........Obesity, same as for eating all the nutritionally empty fast foods that Americans eat.

Of course one can eat one to several herbs that are not normally in the diet to take care of some deficiencies as well. We tend to eat only the herbs that we think taste good, which are generally the more empty vegetables (thinking of iceberg lettuce here as one example).

One does not have to necessarily be selling vitamins or own stock in the companies that manufacture them to believe in them. The below article was also about athleticism, another artificial condition of people. To train for high performance exercise is to increase the needs of the body beyond the normal. It may actually not be possible to reach the "high standards" in todays competitive sports, at least some, with just food intake. So, what the article is recommending vitamins for is already an unnatural status of the body. Not to say that bringing the body to a high state of agility, flexibility, reflexiveness, etc, is necessarily detrimental. For most it is, training is done for the sake of competition and not for true "body" building. And ends up doing harm to the body because there is no way one can truly eat for the body. One is out of balance towards competitiveness.