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Detoxification -Types Of Vitamins & Minerals Help to Detoxify Your Body

08 March 2010 · Viewed 5130 times · Disclaimer & Terms
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American diet is high in saturated fat, trans fat, and other harmful substances such as sugar, caffeine, pesticides, additive substances, and less in fruits and vegetables. These types of harmful substances is toxic. Our body's detoxifying functions try to get rid of them everyday, when they fail it causes disruption of hormone production, damaging our body's detoxification organs and weakens our immune system resulting in hormone imbalance and many chronic illness consequently. In this article, we will discuss how to detoxify your body with vitamins and minerals.

1. Vitamins C and A
Vitamin C is an antioxidant and also has a mighty function in increasing absorption of nutrient intake. Without enough vitamin C, food entering our stomach will either be wasted or little will be digested through the cells of the intestine. Be sure to add vitamin C your food intake together with vitamin A. It also promotes strong immune system, dissolves heavy metal that accumulated in our body, as well as prevent the loss of eyesight in elders. Remember, overdose of vitamin C causes diarrhea and vitamin A is toxic causing jaundice.

2. Be sure to have a balance of magnesium and calcium
Mineral deficiency causes our body to pick up other forms of toxic minerals to compensate for these deficiencies weakening our body tissue, blood and bones. Unbalanced or deficiency of magnesium and calcium decreases the function of our heart as well as increase the risk of calcium sticking on the arterial wall and arthritis.

3. Vitamin E
Besides helping to promote the production of sperm and testosterone in men, vitamin E in the form of tocopherone and d-alpha tocopherol reduces the accumulation of heavy metals in the brain, increasing the physical and mental sharpness, and other activities as well as decreasing the risk of muscular degeneration.

4. Zinc
Zinc is a critical mineral for prostate gland in men, deficiency of zinc not only increases the risk of enlarged prostate and prostate cancer. It also is a vital mineral in the forming of stomach acid, decreasing the chance of malabsorption syndrome.

5. Iron
Deficiency of iron not causes anemia but also decrease the production of red blood cells resulting of the depletion of oxygen circulated in the bloodstream, weakening the immune system and increasing the risk of inflammation and chronic diseases.

6. Vitamin K
Vitamin K can be found abundant in broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, kohlrabi, and brussels sprouts. It is an essential vitamin needed to underline skin membrane. Without vitamin K our skin becomes less elastic, becomes dry and increases the risk of forming skin free radicals, wrinkles and skin diseases.
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