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Supplements – a non-food substances that are used to augment the dietary intake of minerals, vitamins, amino acids,
and/or herbs.
A dietary supplement is a manufactured product intended to supplement the diet when taken by mouth as a pill,
capsule, tablet, or liquid. A supplement can provide nutrients either extracted from food sources or synthetic,
individually or in combination, in order to increase the quantity of their consumption. The class of nutrient
compounds includes vitamins, minerals, fiber, fatty acids and amino acids. Dietary supplements can also contain
substances that have not been confirmed as being essential to life, but are marketed as having a beneficial
biological effect, such as plant pigments or polyphenols. Animals can also be a source of supplement ingredients, as
for example collagen from chickens or fish. These are also sold individually and in combination, and may be
combined with nutrient ingredients.
Vitamins
A vitamin is an organic compound required by an organism as a vital nutrient in limited amounts.[12] An organic
chemical compound (or related set of compounds) is called a vitamin when it cannot be synthesized in sufficient
quantities by an organism, and must be obtained from the diet.
The list: vitamins A, C, D, E, K, Thiamine (B1), Riboflavin (B2), Niacin (B3), Pantothenic Acid (B5), Vitamin B6,
Biotin (B7), Folate (B9) and Vitamin B12. Vitamin intake below recommended amounts can result in signs and
symptoms associated with vitamin deficiency. There is little evidence of benefit when consumed as a dietary
supplement by those who are healthy and consuming a nutritionally adequate diet.
An example of this that we have consumed is Ceelin Chewables or Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), it is used to prevent
and treat vitamin C deficiency in children.
Minerals
Minerals are the exogenous chemical elements indispensable for life. Four minerals: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen,
and nitrogen, are essential for life but are so ubiquitous in food and drink that these are not considered nutrients and
there are no recommended intakes for these as minerals. The need for nitrogen is addressed by requirements set
for protein, which is composed of nitrogen-containing amino acids. Sulfur is essential, but for humans, not identified
as having a recommended intake per se.
The essential nutrient minerals for humans, listed in order by weight needed to be at the Recommended Dietary
Allowance or Adequate Intake are potassium, chlorine, sodium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, zinc,
manganese, copper, iodine, chromium, molybdenum, selenium and cobalt (the last as a component of vitamin B12).
There are other minerals which are essential for some plants and animals, but may or may not be essential for
humans, such as boron and silicon. Essential and purportedly essential minerals are marketed as dietary
supplements, individually and in combination with vitamins and other minerals.
An example product of minerals is Conzace Minerals, it is used to treat vitamins and/or mineral deficiencies.
It has Zinc that promotes tissue repair and wound healing through synthesis.
Proteins and Amino Acids
Proteins are chains of amino acids. Nine of these proteinogenic amino acids are considered essential for humans
because they cannot be produced from other compounds by the human body and so must be taken in as food.
Recommended intakes, expressed as milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day, have been established.
Protein-containing supplements, either ready-to-drink or as powders to be mixed into water, are marketed as aids to
people recovering from illness or injury, those hoping to thwart the sarcopenia of old age. to athletes who believe
that strenuous physical activity increases protein requirements] to people hoping to lose weight while minimizing
muscle loss.
Actually, those amino acids are the very reason that protein is so important. Put very simply, amino acids are the
building blocks of life. When you ingest a protein, your body breaks it apart into the individual aminos, reorders
them, refolds them and turns them into whatever is needed at the time. But some amino acids are incredibly unique
in the way they’re used in your body, especially when it comes to fitness.
Of primary concern to athletes is a group of three amino acids, leucine, isoleucine, and valine,called Branched-chain
Amino Acids (BCAAs). As their name suggests, these aminos have a specialized shaped that allows them to be used
in ways that other amino acids could only dream about.
And the benefits of these are guaranteed, balanced dosage, improved muscle growth, increased endurance, greater
fat burn, reduced fatigue, increased mental focus, muscle sparing, improved recovery, reduced muscle soreness,
improved performance in sports.
Natural Supplements
Dietary supplements can be manufactured using intact sources or extracts from plants, animals, algae, fungi or
lichens, including such examples as ginkgo biloba, curcumin, cranberry, St. John’s
wort, ginseng, resveratrol, glucosamine and collagen.
An example of this are mx3 supplements, which contain the fruit mangosteen which contain fiber, protein, vitamin C,
vitamin B9, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, manganese, copper, and magnesium.