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Best Vitamin Supplements, Where Are They Hiding?

Looking for best vitamin supplements? Thousands of brands of vitamin supplements are sold in shops and online vitamin supplements store. Many claim that there is the best vitamin supplements for you.

Look further before you plunge in.

You need to investigate the vitamin supplement manufacturers to ensure what you are eating is of highest quality.

Factors to consider when choosing vitamin supplements

Here is a quick checklist for best vitamin supplements manufacturers:

1. Is the product provided in a single dose? (a once-a-day simply can’t provide the level of potency needed)

If any product has that claim, look closer. It may not be true.

2. Is the potency level of the ingredients high enough to provide optimal daily nutritional intake without compromising safety?

Most multivitamin provide 100% of the RDI except major minerals like calcium. You need to take calcium supplements separately to meet your RDI.

3. Are the ingredients provided in their most bioavailable form?

Synthetic vitamin C with bioflavonoid improves tremendously the absorption of vitamin C into your body.

Synthetic vitamin E is only 50% bioavailable for absorption.

4. Does the company meet the United States and Canadian pharmaceutical guidelines – for Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)?

Be aware that there are two GMPs, one is pharmaceutical GMP and the other is food GMP. The former is more stringent.

5. Is the product formulated to meet pharmaceutical standards for full disintegration and dissolution?

A simple home test can tell if the vitamin tablet can disintegrate.

6. Is the vitamin supplement product independently tested, reviewed and guaranteed for potency and safety?

7. Is the product manufactured in-house (not contracted to the lowest bidder)?

You can tell by reading their manufacturing literature. If none is available, write to them for one.

8. Does the label list all active ingredients and the DV or RDI percentage clearly and readable?

Read the label, if you see more ‘extra’ ingredients than you need, probably you are paying for such extra ingredients.

9. Is the product potency guaranteed for a specific shelf life?

10. Is the safety profile of each ingredient thoroughly researched and evaluated?

11. Is the product free of ingredients that may have cumulative toxicity?

12. Is the product in harmony with nature (use plant (better still organic) extract as part of their ingredients?

Keep looking if you have not found one.

Do a home test for your vitamin supplement tablets:

I have personally done some disintegration tests on some multivitamin and calcium tablets. Many of them did not disintegrate 30 minutes or longer. I did those test at home. You can also carry it out.

This is how to do a vitamin supplements home test: Immerse the vitamin tablet into a cup of warm water. Wait for 30 minutes. Stir it. Some remain intact, some release the coloring. These are all no good sign of good quality supplements.

A good quality vitamin supplement will disintegrate in warm water in about 30 minutes. It should not release any color.

Read reviews:

Online reviews may publish some test results, typically

- verify the label claim and actual content of the vitamin supplements
- test for presence of toxic content
- test for disintegration test
- issue recall and warnings

Watch out for the warnings and recall news:

Do you know there are many vitamin and herbs supplements being issued warning of use or being recalled? FDA publishes these warning or recall press release at it website.

You also need to find out if you need to take vitamin supplements? And which vitamin to supplement your nutrition gaps. Even if you eat balance diet (only a very small percentage if people do that), you also need to identify what are the vitamin robbers in your lifestyle, diet and environment. Identifying these vitamin robbers can help you to pin-point what you may be lacking and therefore to supplement with the right type vitamin supplements.

With good quality supplements and knowing what you need, this is the best vitamin supplements program you can start with.

Tan Kim Kia
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Heartburn Relief Without Drugs

Millions of people worldwide suffer an occasional bout of heartburn. Many of those suffer frequently, and try one product after another to gain heartburn relief. Products range from simple over-the-counter indigestion relievers to prescription drugs for heartburn relief. But is heartburn relief possible without drugs of any kind?

It has been said that only about 1 out of 100 people who take drugs for heartburn relief really need them. Heartburn, like every other pain in your body, is a warning signal. It is telling you that something must be changed.

If the warning light in your car tells you to check your engine, you do not ask a mechanic to disconnect the light so it will not bother you. That is asking for a bigger problem! You ask the mechanic to check the engine, and correct the root problem that causes the light to come on.

Heartburn relief should not be a matter of turning off the “warning light” so you don’t see it. Heartburn relief should address the root cause of the warning light.

Cause of Heartburn

In simple terms, heartburn is a muscular problem.

The lower esophageal sphincter (LES), a specialized ring of muscle located at the end of the esophagus, opens when you swallow to let food pass into the stomach. It then closes quickly to keep things in the stomach. When the LES doesn’t close quickly enough, or reopens at the wrong time, stomach acid flows back into the esophagus. The acid on the sensitive lining of the lower esophagus causes a burning sensation.

True heartburn relief must make the LES operate properly. It must keep the LES from relaxing inappropriately, or it must strengthen the LES. How can that be done?

How can you get true heart relief without drugs?

1. Diet

Heartburn relief must obviously pay attention to the food that is moving from the esophagus into the stomach. We are all different. Our stomachs produce differing amounts of gastric juices, with differing degrees of acidity. The food you eat must be digestible by your individual system.

Returning to our vehicle illustration, what happens when you use improper fuel? It isn’t long until the engine lets you know! If the fuel contains water or sediment, or if the octane level is wrong, you will know. All you have to do is listen to your engine.

Heartburn relief requires listening to your body. The next time you have heartburn, think back to what “fuel” you just put into your body. What did you eat? Write it down and forget it for now. Do this each time you have heartburn. After a month, look over the list. Does the same “fuel” always demand heartburn relief? Avoiding that fuel may be your answer.

2. Actions

The failure of your muscle to keep the door closed between stomach and esophagus may be as simple a matter as your actions. You may be doing things that make the door open.

Eating too fast, eating too much, or not chewing food well can all contribute to heartburn. Bending at the waist after eating is commonly connected to heartburn, as is tight clothing. Allowing yourself to become overweight puts undue pressure on that area of the body, an action best corrected by losing weight. Going to bed on a full stomach or exercising too soon after eating will also call for heartburn relief.

Your heartburn relief may be as simple as changing your actions. Try eating more slowly, and chewing every bite thoroughly before swallowing. This incorporates more saliva, which helps the stomach digest the food. Stop eating before you are too full. Wait at least 2 hours after eating before exercising – at least 3 hours before going to bed. Addressing other actions that put pressure on the lower esophagus may also bring heartburn relief.

3. Water

Another factor in heartburn relief is the consumption of adequate amounts of clean water. If you suffer heartburn during or after exercise, you may simply be dehydrated. Every muscle, including the LES that prevents backflow of stomach juices, needs sufficient water to function well. Be sure you drink plenty of water daily, with extra when exercising.

4. Garlic

Garlic provides heartburn relief for many, especially those who have H. Pylori. H. pylori is a bacterium found in the stomach. It works with acid secretion to damage stomach tissue, causing inflammation and contributing to heartburn. For heartburn relief, try eating 1 or 2 cloves of fresh, raw garlic daily until the H. pylori is eliminated.

5. Oxygen

Have you considered whether you are breathing deeply and regularly? As noted above, the root cause of heartburn is muscular. Muscles demand oxygen for efficient functioning. If, because of stress or poor habits, you fail to breathe deeply and regularly, you deprive the LES of the oxygen it needs to be strong and operate properly.

Heartburn relief for you may be as simple as deep, regular breathing during and after eating. It will help you relax, and will send adequate oxygen to the sphincter muscle that prevents or permits heartburn.

If you experience heartburn on a frequent basis, please contact your physician to be sure other underlying causes are not involved. Once you have ruled out more serious concerns, try the above tips for heartburn relief.

Disclaimer: The author is not a professional health care provider, and intends the above for educational purposes only.

Anna Hart
http://www.articlesbase.com/medicine-articles/heartburn-relief-without-drugs-127242.html

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How many supplements will result in a failed test?

What percentage of supplements available in a store like GNC will result in a failed test for PED’s in athletic leagues like MLB, NFL, NBA, etc? Do a lot of supplements have banned substances in them or are they mostly OK for players to use?

that is up to the league. for example DHEA is banned in the NBA but its not a illegal substance. I would recommend taking a deeper look into it by going to the MLB, NFL, NBA websites.

How should drug companies respond to people who abuse drugs?

Which approach makes more sense to you? Should drug companies make drugs that are highly toxic if abused (shot up, ect) to discourage their abuse, or should they make drugs that are safer even if abused, not because you want them to be abused but because you believe in harm reduction? If making the pills more toxic turns out to not dissuade everyone from abusing these drugs, it is ethical to be increasing the harm these people experience when that harm could be reduced?

Many binders and time release formulations are dangerous to people who shoot up. They shouldnt be shooting up anyway, but if we are further endangering their lives are we doing the right thing?

Another thing is additives like tylenol in Vocodin and Percocet. Despite what they tell you, the tyenol does not add significantly to the pain relief. Tylenol is good for minor aches and pains and it worthless for moderate to severe pain. It doesnt make enough of a difference. Its put in there however to make people sick if they take too much of the opiate. Too much tylenol will destroy your liver and is more toxic than the hydrocodone. Hydrocodone is dangerous if you take more than you have a tolerance for but is comparably non toxic if you use the right dosage. If you increase your dose of hydrocodone to tolerance, you will eventually destroy your liver with the tylenol rather than from the opiates. Many doctors are now switching to norco instead of vicodin because it contains less of the harmful tylenol which should never ever be shot…but it happens and people die.

So, should we err on the side of preventing drug abuse by making it scary by adding stuff that can kill you, or should we err on the side of compassion and harm reduction even when these people are breaking the law by abusing their medication?
"How about we manufacture drugs that do the optimum good for the patient and let the docs do what they do best"

That would be nice. However, the DEA breaths down the neck of doctors and drug companies in the name of trying to prevent drug abuse, and because of this many doctors are afraid to do their job and end up letter legitimate pain patients suffer. Drug companies are also pressured to cater to the DEAs wishes rather than just focus on making the best medications for pain they can make.

First off. They should crack down on pill docters cause that is most of the cause of these kinds of drugs.
Also i have alot of friends that get xanax from physcatrists. They go in there and say that there family doctor perscribes them this and they do not check.
Really they have done all that they can do for this. Making them illegal makes people want to do it more, thats just the way life works. My answer if its not affecting you
dont worry about it.

What Are The Healthy Weight Loss Supplements?

If you have read some of my other writings on the subject of weight loss I think you will know that I am not a big proponent of weight-loss through supplements. However, if for whatever reasons you want or you need to use supplements to lose weight, what would be the most healthy weight-loss supplements to use?

There are so many weight-loss products on the market today that you could probably spend a year or two just wading through all of them.

Since the weight-loss market is such a lucrative one, you almost have everyone and his dog putting out some kind of supplement that promises you will have wonderful results that sometimes even defy common sense.

The two main categories of weight-loss supplements that you get on the market today are those supplements that are chemical-based and those that are herbal-based.

It probably goes without saying that the herbal-based supplements would be better for your body in general then chemical-based supplements.

This is not to say that chemical-based supplements are necessarily bad for your body, it is just to say that herbal-based supplements are manufactured from natural substances. These substances are generally more in natural harmony with your body.

There is generally this main differentiator between chemical-based and herbal-based products. Chemical-based products generally provide faster results that are not necessarily long-lasting. On the other hand, the herbal-based products tend to work slower but also at the same time provide more longer-lasting results.

None of these two supplement based solutions give you the same durability of results as plain good old-fashioned exercise and diet adjustment.

If you feel that you absolutely must use supplements for your weight control then my advice is to try the herbal based supplements first. Potential harm that these products can do to your body are often far less than their chemical-based counterparts.

People often leave their weight-loss effort to the last minute and therefore want something that can perform a miracle. Under no circumstances is it healthy for your body to experience an enormous fat mass loss in a very short period of time.

Your body has been designed to gradually burn away fat. Trying to short circuit your body’s natural process can cause it a lot of harm.

Tisha Diaz
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/what-are-the-healthy-weight-loss-supplements-125246.html

Hypertension Medicine – 3 Reasons not to Take Drugs to Combat Hypertension

Patients require treatment when their blood pressure rises above safe levels. They are usually recommended by their doctor to try lifestyle changes first to combat their high blood pressure. However many doctors ethics are now leaning towards making money in the economic downturn by handing out drug prescriptions and expensive drug therapy management schemes. This can be detrimental to a patients blood pressure if incorrectly prescribed and be negative to their health in some cases. It is up to the patient to informatively question the doctor and ask more about why the treatment they recommend is suitable for them. Bellow are three main reasons to reconsider natural remedies to lower blood pressure before hypertension medicine.

• All medicinal drugs made to combat hypertension have side affects. The severity of each side affect cannot be predicted fully, for each patient, until they actually take the drug themselves. Thus there will always be an element of risk in taking hypertension medicine.

• The cause of hypertension for each patient will be different. Doctors cannot completely discern 100% of the time what the cause of their patient’s high blood pressure is for each and every diagnosis. They could be prescribing the wrong medication or giving you useless inhibitors that do not work with your system.

• The studies for a lot of hypertension medicine are still today underway. Scientists and doctors alike do not fully understand a lot of the drugs they are prescribing, in a lot of cases it is just trial and error with the patient as the guinea pig. You cannot be certain when dealing with hypertension prevention drugs.

So drugs can be useful in some cases in combating hypertension, but they are mainly just a quick fix and do not provide the necessary long term result that are required. Ask about other alternatives next time you visit your doctor. For more information and highly effective tips and techniques on combating hypertension try the link bellow.

For now stay healthy and good luck.

Charles Gerdson

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Sports Nutrition Supplements – Vitamins And Minerals

We envy athletes for their trimmed physique and endurance to long hours of physical activities. They achieve the body and endurance that we envy because of regular exercise, body training, proper diet and sports nutrition supplements.

Sports nutrition supplements may be in a form of capsule, powdered shakes, liquid food and candy-like bars. What are sports nutrition supplements and what they can do to your body are the things that you should know first before you head to your local health stores for gallons of protein shakes, carbohydrates bar, and amino acid capsules.

Sports Nutrition Supplements: Vitamins and Minerals
Some people think that sports nutrition supplements such as vitamins or minerals help enhance their performance in the field. According to many experts, however, extra intakes of vitamins and minerals don’t add up to improvement in performance, unless of course the athlete is suffering from vitamin or mineral deficiencies.

A well-balanced diet can meet most of the daily vitamin and mineral needs of an athlete.
You should remember to avoid sports nutrition supplements that promise ‘megadoses’ of vitamins and minerals to achieve a bodybuilding body, strength of a weightlifter and speed of a basketball player. Many athletes pop these sports nutrition supplements without question. Don’t be like them. They are the type of athletes who are most likely to suffer from bursting veins and even arteries because of these super supplements.

Also, avoid sports nutrition supplements that claim to be ‘herbal’ in nature. Don’t self-prescribe vitamin oil supplements or ‘herbal’ muscle grower without asking your physician first. Usually, these ‘herbal’ supplements go in the guise of herbal supplement, when in fact they are capsules of steroids.

If you want to help your immune system, you can take megadoses of vitamin C. Vitamin C is water soluble and excess of which is easily discharged through sweat and urine.

To avoid sports anemia, especially to females who lose blood every month due to menstruation, the mineral iron should be part of an athlete’s list of sports nutrition supplements. Iron, in blood, is responsible for carrying clean oxygen to healthy body cells and removing carbon dioxide from them.

Athletes who have sports anemia have low hemoglobin level. You can easily spot an anemic athlete: he is always exhausted and seems to be in fatigue.

Taking iron supplements should be done with caution. There is such a thing as iron overdose. Consult your physician first before you take iron as part of your sports nutrition supplement.

Sports Nutrition Supplements: Proteins and Carbohydrates
Protein and carbohydrate are two of the most important sports nutrition supplements. Protein help the muscle grow and gain strength while carbohydrates fuel the body for long hours of exercise ahead.

Although an athlete can get protein and carbohydrates through his daily diet, he can get the large amount he needs by drinking protein shakes or eating a protein bar. There are also carbohydrates supplements in powder and bar form.

These sports nutrition supplements may be added to an athlete’s daily meal. Powdered proteins and carbohydrates are delicious ingredients to a glassful of smoothies or fruit punch.

If you love to bake your own pastries, you can add a tablespoon of these delicious sports nutrition supplements to your flour mixture. A vanilla flavored powdered protein may work for you. It is considered as the best tasting flavor of a powdered protein.

These sports nutrition supplements are also good for people who are on the go. They are good meal replacements for those who want to lose weight or meal addition for those who want to gain weight.

Nonetheless, anyone who has decided to add these sports nutrition supplements in their daily diet, they should also make it a point to exercise regularly to synthesize and burn out those protein and carbohydrates in the body.

Paul Hata
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/sports-nutrition-supplements-vitamins-and-minerals-547085.html