Focus of the week...Why should you take a multivitamin?

If there are no other supplements in your cubord but you are feeling like you are ready to get on board and begin a supplement routine for optimal health,  maybe your just not feeling quite like yourself or just feeling a little tired lately?  Well these could be great reasons to start a multivitamin.


Everyone out there should be taking a multi, even if you eat well.  Many foods out there are void of nutrients especially if your not eating certified organic foods or local foods.  Many vital nutrients in foods are lost when they take the journey of being shipped to us in order to eat them :)  So when you eat those foods because they are healthy many of the times they are still lacking some of the benefits they are said to have.


A good quality multivitamin will give you all of the essential vitamins and minerals that may be lacking in your diet as well as all of the trace mineral that we need to absorb the big guys!  It is key to buy a good quality multi (and any other supplement you may be taking) because if not you will not be getting the benefit of pure quality ingredients.  Many of the cheaper brands out there use a lot of fillers so they can put in a small amount of the vitamin/mineral and then fill up the rest of it with crappy stuff that in the end may make you feel worse especially if you may have an intolerance to some of it which you may not even know :(


The other important thing when it comes to taking a multi is that you want one in which you are taking it spread throughout the day.  Rather than taking 1 pill in the morning and that is it, you want to look for something that you take usually spread throughout the day with your meals.  So you may be taking 1 or 2 capsules with each meal 3 times a day.  That way your body has time to absorb each dose rather than being overwelemed and having to excrete the majority of it because it is to much at once.  So some of you may now understand...why is my pee yellow now that I started taking a mulitvitamin?!? Well much of the time if we have enough of a specific nutrient and the multi just tops it up then the rest may be excreted in our urine!! No need to worry this is totally normal, and sometimes a really cool color..LOL


So if your not currently taking a multivitamin why not try one and see how you feel?! Sometimes I don't notice how good I feel from my supplements until I am not taking them, so try a bottle and see how if goes!! Please feel free to leave a comment or question or send me an e-mail if you have any questions!!
bodykarmafit@gmail.com :) Stay tuned next week for another fun topic!!