Vitamins & Minerals

Vitamins and minerals are essential nutrients because they perform hundreds of critcal roles in the body. Your body requires at least 30 vitamins, minerals, and dietary components that your body cannot manufacture on its own in sufficient amounts. Cooking, storage, pesticides, chemicals, steroids, polluted air, water, and food all prevent the body from getting the essential vitamins and minerals.

The best way to determine if you are getting the righ amount of vitamins minerals and is through the Yogacara Health Diagnostic.

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Water Soluble Vitamins

B vitamins : Biotin (vitamin B7), Folic acid (folate, vitamin B9), Niacin (vitamin B3), Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5, Riboflavin (vitamin B2), Thiamin (vitamin B1), Vitamin B6 and Vitamin B12

Vitamin C

Release energy : Several B vitamins are key components of certain coenzymes (molecules that aid enzymes) that help release energy from food.
Produce energy : Thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, and biotin engage in energy production.
Build proteins and cells : Vitamins B6, B12, and folic acid metabolize amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) and help cells multiply.
Make collagen : One of many roles played by vitamin C is to help make collagen, which knits together wounds, supports blood vessel walls, and forms a base for teeth and bones.

Fat Soluble Vitamins

Excess fat-soluble vitamins create toxicity in the body, and must be guided by a Docor.

Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Vitamin K

Together this vitamin quartet helps keep your eyes, skin, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, and nervous system in good repair. Here are some of the other essential roles these vitamins play :

Build bones. Bone formation would be impossible without vitamins A, D, and K. Protect vision.
Vitamin A also helps keep cells healthy and protects your vision.
Interact favorably. Without vitamin E, your body would have difficulty absorbing and storing vitamin A.
Protect the body. Vitamin E also acts as an antioxidant (a compound that helps protect the body against damage from unstable molecules).

Minerals

Major minerals : Calcium, Chloride, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium and Sulfur.

What they do :
Major minerals maintain proper balance of water in the body. Sodium, chloride, and potassium take the lead in doing this. Three other major minerals—calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium—are important for healthy bones. Sulfur helps stabilize protein structures, including some of those that make up hair, skin, and nails.

Trace minerals : Chromium, Copper, Fluoride, Iodine, Iron, Manganese, Molybdenum, Selenium and Zinc

What they do
Trace minerals carry out a diverse set of tasks. Here are a few examples:

Iron is best known for ferrying oxygen throughout the body.
Fluoride strengthens bones and wards off tooth decay.
Zinc helps blood clot, is essential for taste and smell, and bolsters the immune response.
Copper helps form several enzymes, one of which assists with iron metabolism and the creation of hemoglobin, which carries oxygen in the blood.

Antioxidants & Free Radicals

Free radicals are a natural byproduct of energy metabolism and are also generated by ultraviolet rays, tobacco smoke, and air pollution. Free radicals cause cellular damage, lead to oxidative stress which causes inflammatory diseases, heart disease, stroke, immunodeficiency syndrome, gastric ulcers, neurological disorder such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, and many others.

Antioxidants neutralize free radicals by giving up some of their own electrons, enabling crucial protein, gene, or cell membrane to escape damage. Vitamin C and Omega 3 are very important antioxidants, with different properties, and play a critical role in overall health, combatting disease, toxic and polluted environments.