Vitamin & Mineral Supplements
See bottom of page for recommended supplements for your vitamin and mineral needs and deficiencies.
Biotin: helps convert fats and amino acids into energy. Also promotes healthy nails and hair and combats yeast and fungus overgrowth.
Boron: helps with the absorption and utilization of calcium.
Calcium: mineral that promotes healthy skin; helps you sleep better; helps to maintain healthy bones; is the cement that holds cell membranes together; regulates muscle contraction; influences your nervous system; and is involved in enzyme lipase activation, which breaks down fats for use by the body.
99% of calcium is stored in bones. Stored calcium is used as needed for blood and tissue.
Calcium absorption is reduced by lack of exercise, stress, iron, and zinc. Moderate exercise promotes absorption while heavy exercise will interfere with it. Calcium loss can result from drinking alcoholic beverages, coffee, soft drinks, junk foods, excess salt, and white flour. Foods containing oxalic acid (almonds, beet greens, cashews, cocoa, soybeans, and spinach) can inhibit absorption.
Signs of deficiency include aching joints, brittle nails, eczema, muscle cramps, hyperactivity, agitation, irritability, high blood pressure, numbness or tingling in the arms and/or legs, rheumatoid arthritis, tooth decay, and a pasty complexion. Too much phosphorus inhibits calcium absorption. Use 1:1 ratio between calcium and phosphorus. Excess calcium can reduce the absorption of magnesium.
Most effective when taken in small doses throughout the day.
Caution: avoid supplements with D1-calcium-phosphate because they are insoluble and interferes with absorption of the nutrients in your multivitamin/multimineral supplement.
Recommendation: Young Living's "Super Cal" capsules. Young Living's "Master Formula HERS/HIS and MIGHTY VITES."
Choline bitartrate: is used in the treatment of many liver disorders, including elevated cholesterol levels, viral hepatitis, and cirrhosis.
Chromium Picolinate: stabilizes blood-sugar levels by helping the body properly use insulin; helps your body use fats, cholesterol, and protein.
Signs of deficiency are fatigue, anxiety, increased risk of arteriosclerosis, and glucose intolerance (borderline diabetes). A diet high in refined white sugar, flour, and junk foods will lead to a deficiency in chromium.
Note: Calcium carbonate can impair your body's ability to absorb chromium and lead to a deficiency.
Caution: don't take unless advised by a doctor when you have diabetes and discontinue if you feel lightheaded or get a rash.
Copper: is necessary for proper red blood cell and immune function.
Folic Acid: required for energy productions and red blood cell formation. Strengthens immunity by helping make white blood cells. Its function as a coenzyme in DNA and RNA synthesis is important for healthy cell division and replication.
Deficiencies result in: sore, red tongue; apathy; fatigue; graying hair; insomnia; weakness; and digestive disturbances. You need more folic acid when using oral contraceptives and alcohol. Caution: limit to amount in multivitamin supplement when used for long periods if you have a convulsive disorder or hormone-related cancer.
Iodine:& helps prevent goiters, reduced thyroid hormones, and estrogen imbalance.
Iron: is needed to prevent anemia, fatigue, hemorrhoids, and peptic ulcers.
Magnesium: helps body use calcium; lowers blood pressure and boosts your thyroid gland; needed to use glucose and fatty acids and to activate amino acids; helps your body build new proteins and form cyclic AMP (regulator of several metabolic processes). Needed to use B vitamins properly.
Excess calcium can reduce the absorption of magnesium.
Signs of deficiency: loss of appetite, heart rhythm disturbances, confusion, anxiety, depression, disorientation, hyperactivity, irritability, nervousness, jumpiness, vertigo, restlessness, hallucinations, anemia, and cold hands and feet. Magnesium may be lost in your urine from the use of potassium, caffeine, and alcohol. Excessive sugar and high levels of protein will increase your body's need for magnesium. Magnesium absorption will be reduced from eating a lot of fats (French fries, fried foods, and butter).
Ratio of calcium to magnesium should be 2:1.
Take magnesium with calcium and vitamin D because vitamin D stimulates intestinal absorption of magnesium and calcium.
Pantothenic acid: is needed for the prevention of depression and tinnitus.
Recommendations: Young Living's "Master Formula HERS/HIS and MIGHTY VITES."
Potassium: is crucial for proper cellular fluid balance. Plays a role in reducing high blood pressure, increasing insulin sensitivity, and improving bone density.
Selenium: A powerful antioxidant that inhibits the oxidation of fats. Prevents the formation of free radicals, thus protecting your immune system. Selenium helps the body make natural antioxidant glutathione peroxidase, an antioxidant that helps reduce inflammation in your skin. Selenium also helps activate the thyroid hormone.
Signs of deficiency include high cholesterol, sterility in men, stunted growth, frequent infections, and poor liver and pancreas function.
Note: if you are deficient in vitamin C, your body will struggle using selenium.
Silicon: is required for proper functioning of enzymes essential for the formation of collagen in bone, cartilage, and other connective tissues.
Vitamin A: essential for healthy skin, nails, and eyesight; needed by skin for maintenance and repair; necessary for healthy cell growth; needed to make bone, tooth enamel, and soft tissue; enhances your immune system and helps protect your body from the effects of pollution.
Vitamin A helps keep skin soft and smooth, while protecting membranes by attaching to free radicals in your cells. Vitamin A discourages abnormal cell development, like those found in breast, stomach, cervical, and lung cancer.
Deficiencies of Vitamin A results in: dry hair or skin; rough, scaly skin; fatigue; insomnia; frequent infections; loss of smell and appetite; night blindness; and dry eyes.
Too much Vitamin A will damage your liver, cause damage to red blood corpuscles leading to skin rashes, headaches, nausea, and jaundice.
Vitamin B Complex: helps your body handle stress and improves all the functions in your cells; maintain the health of your skin, hair, nerves, eyes, mouth, liver, brain, and muscles in the gastrointestinal tract. Also involved in the body's production of energy.
Vitamin B1 (thiamin): needed for nerve cells; repair and healing of skin tissue; gives you energy; helps circulation and blood formation; and helps your brain efficiency. Reduced in body by sulfa drugs, oral contraceptives, and antibiotics. See Young Living's "Master Formula HISTM ."
Deficiencies lead to: fatigue, nervousness, forgetfulness, numbness of the hands and feet, lack of coordination, mental or emotional depression, weakness, tingling sensations, and gastrointestinal disturbances.
Vitamin B2 (riboflavin): critical in the production of cellular energy, helps regenerate the liver, and helps prevent migraine headaches and some esophageal cancers.
Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid): relieves stress on the adrenal glands; helps the body use vitamins and convert fats, carbohydrates, and proteins into energy; helps your immune system; needed to synthesize cholesterol and corticosteroids. Necessary for the proper absorption and body's use of folic acid.
Deficiencies may cause nausea, headache, fatigue, and hand tingling.
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine): helps the body break down and use protein, fats, and carbohydrates; promotes healthy skin; affects physical and mental health; keeps sodium and potassium levels balanced, and promotes the formation of red blood cells; necessary for the absorption of protein and fats; reduces infection and fluid retention; needed for synthesis of RNA and DNA (nucleic acids); and helps to treat allergies, arthritis, and asthma.
Deficiencies will depress antibody-related and cell-mediated immune function (P. Dowd and R. Heatly, "The Influence of Undernutrition on Immunity," Clinical Science, 241-248). Caused by eating lots of protein and items containing yellow food dyes, drinking alcohol, smoking, or using oral contraceptives. Deficiences also cause flaky skin, arthritis, anemia, headaches, nausea, acne, sore tongue, fatigue, oily facial skin, vomiting, cracks or sores on the mouth and lips. Linked to carpal tunnel syndrome.
Vitamin B12: necessary for fat, carbohydrate, and protein metabolism. Needed to make enough white blood cells and normal cells. The function of white blood cells is to eat and destroy foreign invaders. Increases energy levels.
Deficiencies lead to chronic fatigue, digestive disorders, dizziness, drowsiness, depression, eye disorders, hallucinations, irritability, labored breathing, headaches, moodiness, memory loss, nervousness, ringing in the ears, and spinal cord degeneration. May be caused by potassium supplements, anticoagulant drugs, and antigout medications. Absorption of this vitamin may be blocked by large doses of vitamin C.
Excess calcium can reduce the absorption of magnesium.
Vitamin C: essential for healthy teeth, gums, and bones. Helps heal wounds, scar tissue, and fractures; builds resistance to infection; helps make collagen (cement that holds tissues together); helps form skin tissue and boost the immune system. Helps prevent turning nitrates (found in smog, tobacco smoke, bacon, lunchmeats, and some vegetables) into cancer-causing substances.
Deficiency signs include: soft, spongy, bleeding gums; poor wound healing; joint pain; dry skin; lack of energy; tendency to bruise easily; edema; extreme weakness; and pinpoint hemorrhages under the skin. Vitamin C levels are reduced by disease, stress, steroids, alcohol, analgesics, antidepressants, anticoagulants, and oral contraceptives.
Caution: High doses of vitamin C taken with aspirin can lead to ulcers; chewable vitamin C may damage tooth enamel.
Vitamin D: needed to heal skin; important for bones because the body cannot absorb and use calcium and phosphorus without it. Made from sunlight on the skin.
Signs of deficiencies include: loss of appetite, burning in the mouth and throat, diarrhea, sweating on the scalp, insomnia, visual problems, and weight loss. Too much vitamin D can cause hypercalcemia (too much calcium in the bloodstream) with long-term effects of calcium deposits in the kidneys, lungs, or arteries. Vitamin D absorption is hindered by liver and gallbladder malfunctions.
Caution: vitamin D should be taken with calcium, but calcium must be taken separately from iron supplements as they compete with each other in the intestine for absorption.
Vitamin E:
Deficiencies keep you from absorbing vitamin A and impair the proper metabolism of vitamin D in your liver.
Zinc: helps your body heal; necessary for proper growth of hair, skin, and nails; regulates activity of oil glands; most critical nutrient for immune system health; protects your liver from chemical damage and is vital for bone formation.
Deficiencies can: impair your metabolism of vitamin A; cause acne, spotty hair loss, loss of appetite, loss of taste and smell, brittel nails, white spots on nails, scaly skin rashes, frequent infections, irritability, night blindness, impotence and mail infertility, poor wound healing, high cholesterol, and fatigue.
Take zinc in chelated form; in ionic form it can cause copper deficiency.
Young Living Supplements:
A liquid complex of natural vitamins A, D, and E. This powerful antioxidant formula supports normal heart and immune function.* (If pregnant or under a doctor's care, consult your physician.) How to use: Take 5 drops once a day in distilled water or as desired. Ingredients: Vitamin A (as beta carotene), vitamin D , vitamin D (as cholecalciferol), vitamin E (as d-alpha tocopheryl acetate and mixed tocopheryls) and grape seed oil.
Master Formula HERS/HISand MIGHTY VITES contains: vitamins A, C, D, E, folic acid, thiamin (vitamin B1), riboflavin (vitamin B2), niacin, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, biotin, pantothenic acid, choline bitartrate, calcium, iodine, iron, magnesium, copper, zinc, potassium, manganese, chromium, selenium, and silicon.
Super Cal is specifically formulated for proper electrolyte balance, hormonal balance, and muscle and bone development. Contains; Calcium, magnesium, potassium, boron, and zinc citrate.