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Anti-Aging Vitamins - Cornerstone for Staying Young!

Prolong Youth - Use a good Multivitamin daily!

The first type of Anti-Aging vitamins you should add to your supplements is a good multivitamin. Foods do provide vitamins, but it is difficult to know for sure how much you're getting through food.

Fruits and vegetables all contain natural vitamins. However modern shipping, holding, and produce production all degrade the vitamins. So you can't depend on getting enough vitamins from your fruits and vegetables.

Do you have ideal eating habits?

Most of us don't. A multivitamin will keep you from sickness caused by some lacking vitamin that "fell through the cracks" of your actual eating habits. Finally, a good multivitamin is very cheap health insurance. It provides a nutritional safety net.

How do you find a good one? Consider these Tips:

Give Your Health a Foundation with a good Multi-Vitamin

Read the label.

Choose multivitamins that provide 100% of the recommended daily value (DV) for most vitamins and minerals. Ideally you'd want to find one that had 100% for all of them, but practically you usually can't find that. Come as close as you can.

Check for GMP (Good Manufacturing Processes) or USP(United States Pharmacopeia) on the label to be sure it is manufactured using adequate standards.

Ask your health care professional to recommend high quality anti-aging multivitamin brands.

Choose a multivitamin that is gender specific because men and women need different amounts of vitamins and minerals, and different ratios to promote optimal health.

B Vitamins - Boost Energy and Decrease Stress!

The B complex vitamin group actually includes eight different substances. They are B1 (thiamin), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B5 (pantothenic acid), B6 (pyridoxine), B12 (cobalamin), folic acid, and biotin.

These vitamins are frequently referred to as the stress or energy vitamins, but in reality they do a lot more than simply help with stress and provide energy.

For example, folic acid prevents birth defects, other types are known to prevent cancer in some situations, and they are very effective in improving blood profiles such as high cholesterol and homocysteine levels, thereby improving cardiovascular health. Finally, they are useful in relieving premenstrual and menopausal symptoms in women.

These are water soluble vitamins, and they work better together, so unless directed by a doctor to do differently, you should supplement them together. Dosages usually come in 50 milligrams or 100 milligrams.

My doctor recommended a B complex 100 milligram supplement to help with menopausal symptoms. It is very helpful for me.

If you don't have any specific health challenges, probably a 50 milligram supplement would be enough to accomplish your anti-aging vitamin needs.

Side effects from supplementation are not usually a problem, although some do get nausea and skin flushing as a reaction to niacin.

If you should have a problem taking the B vitamins, you should check with your doctor since it could indicate an underlying metabolic problem in the liver.

Vitamin D - The Sunshine Vitamin -Why Supplement?

When I was a kid, I was always told I didn't have to worry about Vitamin D because as long as I got a little sun, I'd be OK. However, current research has shown a far different picture!

A leading researcher has referred to low Vitamin D blood levels as "a Vitamin D epidemic". Recent research has discovered that a fourth to a half of all adults are deficient in Vitamin D, and researchers now believe over half of elderly Americans are deficient.

Why?

Several things play a role:

First, if you live outside the tropics, researchers have found that during three seasons of the year you don't get enough of the required radiation from the sun for your body to make enough Vitamin D.

Then, doctors are telling us to stay out of the sun to avoid skin cancer.

Also, busy schedules and inside work keep many people out of the sun during the middle of the day when the most Vitamin D could be made.

Finally, very few foods provide Vitamin D, and those that do don't provide enough to avoid deficiencies.

So what difference does it make anyway?

We need Vitamin D to absorb calcium, so it promotes bone health, but recent research reveals that it does far more in the body.

Vitamin D is now believed to be a central player in the immune system. It is involved in regulating inflammation. They even believe it is necessary to prevent many different types of cancer.

So supplementing with Vitamin D may be the only reliable anti-aging vitamin plan.

the governmental recommended daily value is 400 IU, but many researchers now believe most adults need 800 IU, or twice as much.

Life Extension Foundation, a non profit research organization that studies how to stay young, recommends healthy adults get a least 1000 IU as part of their anti-aging vitamin regimen, and they believe elderly adults may need doses between 2000 and 5000 IU daily. They recommend regular testing to find out your blood levels of Vitamin D.

Since Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin, too much can be toxic. So the best way to supplement is to have your doctor check your blood levels and then recommend how much you need to take.

Vitamin K - The Blood Clotting Vitamin

If you're like me, you probably haven't heard much about this vitamin. I had to do some research to be able to write about it. I found out there are two forms - K1 and K2. Vitamin K1 is found in dark green leafy vegetables such as spinach and kale. Vitamin K2 is made by friendly bacteria living in the intestines.

Its major function is to help with blood clotting. If you are on anti-clotting drugs, you have to be careful not to take too much Vitamin K since it could cancel the effect of the medicine.

Recent research has additionally shown that it helps maintain bone strength and reduces the risk of atherosclerosis.

Recent studies have shown that we probably need to take about twice as much vitamin K for bone and heart health as what the government recommends. The recommended daily allowance is 70 to 80 micrograms for men, and 60 to 65 for women.

Researchers believe that vitamin K is better absorbed from supplements than from food and they've recently discovered that intestinal bacteria contribute less to healthy vitamin levels than previously believed.

You should discuss with your doctor whether Vitamin K might be a wise addition to your anti-aging vitamin supplements.

Reliable Sources for Anti-Aging Vitamins

There are many sources for Vitamins both on-line and off. You can always pick some up the next time your are in Wal-Mart. But please be aware that sometimes you get what you pay for.

For reliable high quality vitamins I would recommend Life Extension Products.

If you can't afford their vitamins, you can also get vitamins more economically from Vitamin World.

I've had good experiences from both locations. So either place should provide you with Vitamins that will improve your health.

Conclusion

Anti-Aging vitamins, as well as the antioxidant vitamins make important contributions to our health. If you have a general understanding of what those contributions are, you can make better choices about whether or not you might need to supplement one of more of them for anti-aging benefits.

I personally take a multivitamin, a 100 mg. B complex vitamin, and several antioxidant vitamins on a daily basis. For more information on the antioxidant vitamins please click the preceding link to visit that page.

I can't prove exactly how they've improved my health, but I believe anti-aging vitamins are worth taking as an economical form of "youth" insurance.

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