Vitamin C

I use the Puritan's Pride vitamins and other food supplements daily and I recommend them anybody. The quality of the products is good and relatively cheap on the market.
Let's start my list with Vitamin C. I just checked out The Vitamin C Foundation website and I read this:

Comment: I had been taking 1000mg of vitamin C. When I increased to 3000 mg, my BACK problems disappeared.

I think if you take only the RDA minimum of Vitamin C 60 mg each day it is not enough for your body's proper operation. I took at least 1000 mg C daily, but I'm healthy if you have any disease or disorder you should take much more.

I take at least one tablet of Natural C Vitamin with Rose Hips 1000 mg daily.

Puritan's has a wide selection of Vitamin C 250 mg-1500 mg and 100 tablets to 1000 tablets. They have Normal or Time Release C, ESTER-C and crystals as well.


And there is a Super C Complex with Citrus Bioflavonoid, Rutin, Hesperidin, Acerola. The Vitamin C is better if you take with these flavonoid elements.

Puritan's currently have a sale on supplements if you buy 1 get 1 free or buy 2 get 3 free total 5 bottles.

The shipping to US is only $ 3,95 on any size order.

Vitamin B 12

Vitamin B₁₂ is also called cobalamin because it contains the metal cobalt. This vitamin helps maintain healthy nerve cells and red blood cells and gives more energy.

Vitamin B₁₂ is bound to the protein in food. Hydrochloric acid in the stomach releases B₁₂ from proteins in foods during digestion.

Vitamin B₁₂ is naturally found in animal foods including fish, meat, poultry, eggs, milk, and milk products. Fortified breakfast cereals are a particularly valuable source of vitamin B₁₂ for vegetarians.

Vitamin E natural d-alpha tocopheryl

I use this 400 I.U. Vitamin E supplement daily and I take 1-2 softgels.
Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant that helps fight free radicals. Oxidative stress caused by free radicals may contribute to the premature aging of cells. Vitamin E also promotes immune function and helps support cardiovascular health. This Puritan Vitamin E is 100% natural.
Vitamin E also helps your body to utilize more oxygen. Athletes like to have this valuable vitamin 1200 I.U. dosage daily.

Vitamin B12

As you may know, the B Vitamins play many important roles in the body, including energy metabolism. Specifically, the vitamin known as B-12 helps maintain proper metabolic functioning and circulatory health, and contributes to the health of the nervous system. It also aids in normal development and the regeneration of red blood cells.

Vitamin B12 deficiency causes fatigue. Years ago, a small, double-blind trial reported that even some people who are not deficient in this vitamin had increased energy after vitamin B12 injections, compared with the effect of placebo injections.
A lot of body builder use Vitamin B-12 because of the metabolic effect of it, but not only body builders can benefit from B 12.

B 12 injections available on the market you need only a person (doctor) to take it in injectable format.

Vitamin B12 is found in all foods of animal origin, including dairy, eggs, meat, poultry, and fish.

If you like more natural energy take Vitamin B 12 daily.

Vitamin A

Vitamin A is an important vitamin and it helps maintain the eyes, skin, bones, teeth, and a healthy immune system.

Proven: Vitamin D Prevents the Flu -- Throw Out Your Tamiflu

"Well, technically we only "prove" things in math and logic, when we assume our premises. But the most recent study on vitamin D and the flu, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, gets as close to proving anything as we can get in nutritional and medical science."

The Daily Lipid: http://bit.ly/autPy3

Vitamin B12 Crying Babies & Pregnancy

Crybabies may lack vitamin B12 mothers advised

The meat manufacturing, production, processing and industry is now clutching at straws following the UK Government's announcement that we should eat no more than the equivalent of a small lamb chop and restrict our meat consumption to the bare minimum to avoid increased risks of cancer.

Once again ignoring the facts that there are safer plant based sources of all of the handful of nutrients that are found in meat, and that meat is not only missing most anti-oxidants, fibre and many other essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals but is also implicated in thwarting our ability to attain a healthy synergistic balance of these nutrients.

Once again it's the essential vitamin B12 that meat industry lobbyists have got their blood stained mitts on.

Acording to FIGO The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics almost 3,000 pregnant women took part in the study, in which researchers in the Netherlands measured the levels of vitamin B12 in the bloodstream of the mothers-to-be.

The Dutch researchers found the women with the least amount of the vitamin B12 nutrient in their blood had babies who were eight times more prone to crying.

Leading UK Nutritionist, London Yvonne Bishop-Weston explains the implications of the new findings.

The new study (reference) has shown a link between the level of vitamin B12 in the mother and excessive infant crying (more than 3 hours a day for more than 3 days a week for more than 3 weeks). The reasons for this are not fully understood but it could be due to the fact that a lack of vitamin B12 and folic acid hinder the foetal development of the nervous system before birth and also that in the first 6 months after birth lack of these vitamins can affect the development of the protective myelin which surrounds the nerve cells and helps them communicate.

Excessive infant crying is also called infant colic and may also be due to B12 deficiency. Excessive infant crying was found to be stronger when the mother experienced high levels of psychological problems so could affect the circadian rhythm. The circadian rhythm of the body controls the sleep/wake cycle, the development of which starts in the womb.It also takes about 3 months after birth to settle into a rhythm. As lack of B12 has been seen in people with sleep disorders it is suggested that lack of B12 may the infant circadian rhythm interfere with serotonin melatonin and trigger gut cramps and crying.

The developing baby relies on the mother to provide B12 and if it is deficient in her diet and her stores are too low the baby is likely to be deficient too. B12 is made by bacteria in the gut and meat, fish and eggs the usual source recommended by NHS dietitians.

Plantarians and Vegans maintain there are healthier, safer, more sustainable sources of vitamin B12  that come without the extra calories and detrimental effects of saturated animal fat and natural hormones but with essential fats and a range of useful vitamins, minerals,  anti oxidants and fibre.

Yvonne seems to agree;

I would be cautious in recommending women eat more animal foods as meat and dairy comes along with saturated fats which can hinder the body's use of essential fats which are needed for the baby's brain and nervous system development. Due to the potential levels of toxicity in fish no more than 2 portions a week should be eaten in pregnancy and egg consumption tends to be lower in pregnancy as they can only be eaten fully cooked. If anything this study is a strong argument for basic nutrient testing at the start of women's pregnancies and addressing any deficiencies as well as of course more promotion of either better, more nutritious diets or the need for effective, easily absorbable prenatal supplements.

Vitamin B12 is made by mimicing the human digestive system's ability to produce B12 from yeasts and bacteria in the gut and is then added to a number of foods from breafast cereals and plant milks to fruit juice.

Unfortunately, most natural plant sources of vitamin B12 have been proven to contain biologically inactive vitamin B12 analogues (non absorbable pseudo-vitamin B12) , inadequate for human supplementation.

Algae seems to be the most reliable plant based source of true Vitamin B12 so far. Following a research study in France in 1978 (Greiko et al) scientists in Finland (Rauma et al ) and  Japan (Watanabe et al)  have found true vitamin B12 in Nori and Chlorella (but only non-absorbable pseudo-vitamin B12 in Spirulina) whilst Italian researchers say a strain of Klamath blue green algae appears to be, in a preliminary study, an adequate and reliable source of vitamin B12 in humans (L Baroni et al , published in The International Journal of Vitamin and Nutrition Research 2009)

Vitamin D

Vitamin D works with Calcium to help develop strong bones and teeth. If you're not getting enough Vitamin D every day, you may not be able to adequately absorb Calcium from the foods you eat, and your body will have to take Calcium from your bones. Getting your daily recommended amounts of Calcium and Vitamin D can help you do this.
If you can have sunlight your body can produce vitamin D but at winter you can't.
So you need to get vitamin D supplement to take.

Vitamin K

Vitamine K includes a group of fat-solule vitamins that are essential for maing the blood clot. These vitamines are rather abundant in food. They are found particularly in the green leafy vegetables, such as spinach, cabbage, kale, and cauliflower. Pork liver is also excellent source of Vitamin K.

Intestinal Bacteria manufacture Vitamin K in the human body. Therefore, deficiencies of Vitamin K are rarely the result of poor diet. But deficiencies can result when something interferes with the normal function of the intestines. Doctors sometimes give mothers Vitamin K before childbirth as a precaution against hemorrhages in the newborn baby.