| With all the processed foods inundating our | | | | 1. Some multivitamins use inferior ingredients and not all |
| supermarkets, it’s almost impossible to get all your | | | | of that 4000% Daily Value of Riboflavin or whatever it |
| nutritional requirements from food alone. Even if you | | | | may say will be digested by your body. On the |
| eat nothing but whole foods, you would have to eat a | | | | higher potency multi vitamins, I sometimes like to split up |
| large amount of food to meet all your nutritional | | | | the dosage throughout the day as there are some |
| requirements due to the inferior soils used today. | | | | medical professionals that think there are too many |
| Your body is a complex machine that conducts millions | | | | nutrients for your body to digest at one time. |
| of functions simultaneously. Each nutrient contributes | | | | 2. My body’s demands for nutrients on days that I |
| to thousands of essential reactions that make these | | | | workout are not the same as the days that I rest. I |
| functions possible such as B12 for healthy red blood | | | | don’t want to be low on any nutrient if my body |
| cell production, Iodine for thyroid regulation, and B6 for | | | | needs it. I’ve even heard some people on days of |
| protein metabolism. Being deficient in just one nutrient | | | | extreme stress like to take two doses a day; one in |
| is detrimental to thousands of chemical reactions within | | | | the morning and one after a really hard workout. The |
| your body, which in turn will make it much harder for | | | | good thing about multivitamins are many of the |
| your body to run at its full potential. | | | | nutrients such as vitamin C and Vitamin B are water |
| People who put their bodies under physical stress 3-4 | | | | soluble and will be excreted out of you, depending on |
| days a week have a higher nutritional requirement than | | | | your body’s needs. |
| people who live a sedentary lifestyle. I’m sure | | | | |
| you’ve noticed after a hard workout you’re | | | | A good multivitamin I would suggest is Animal Pak by |
| very hungry. It’s your body telling you it is low on | | | | Universal Nutrition. It is made with ingredients that |
| fuel and needs to be replenished. | | | | are easily digestible by the body and they contain a |
| To make sure my body is not lacking in nutrients, I like | | | | good balance between key nutrients for building |
| to take multivitamins with a higher potency for two | | | | muscle, minerals for performance and amino acids for |
| reasons: | | | | recovery. |