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Vitamins and minerals are like the very tiny nuts and bolts of your car. They
hold everything together and make everything work just how it is meant to. Any
missing nuts and bolts or if you become low in areas then quiet simply,
everything suffers. Nothing works optimally at the very tiniest cellular level.
This is deleterious to health and impacts upon the quality and result that you
see form your training efforts. One must be aware that the training athlete
requires an entirely different vitamin and mineral intake than the regular
sedentary person in the office.
Your requirements for vitamins and minerals are determined by many, many
factors. The stress you place your body under - from mental to physical. Your
diet and the quality and quantity that you consume, including that of your water
supply. The frequency of your training sessions, type of training and intensity.
Your environment and pollution levels. Your sleeping quota and that is just to
name but a few things. All of these things are a major consideration for the
athlete in training. Especially when one knows that an intense weight training
session specifically depletes the body and leeches vitamins and minerals out of
your system, on a regular basis. Sometimes, studies confirm, you may be
surprised,
but athletes are very often highly deficient in many areas of their vitamin and
mineral status. This is entirely because hard training uses up your vitamin and
mineral stores to fuel training and repair and is lost in cellular processes. It
is for this reason that your vitamin and mineral intake is doubly important for
the active individual than the aforementioned sedentary person.
Micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) are required by the body in very small
quantities as apposed to the larger required amounts of macronutrients (the
basic food groups protein, carbohydrates and fats.)
So what are they? Well, vitamins are essentially metabolic catalysts that
regulate every chemical transaction within the body and include the range of
vitmains from A, B, C, D, E and K. Very few vitamins can be manufactured within
the body, so are required to be consumed through the diet.
Minerals are chemical elements derived from the earth. They are found in a
wide range of food stuffs and include such things as calcium, magnesium, sodium,
potassium, chromium, iron and zinc. Minerals combine to form structures in the
body, for example - calcium fo bone growth, and to regulate bodily processes, such as iron transporting oxygen in red blood cells.
Vitamins and minerals should be considered as essential building materials
for the body since they are vital in every cellular process including those that
regulate hormone levels and can be strong influencing and limiting factors on
muscle growth, fat burning, energy release and recovery.
As one has probably heard of the wonderful benefits to health and vitality
and recovery post exercise of anti-oxidants, it is near impossible to attain
these result driven phenomena without adequate supplementation of the whole food
diet.
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