Why Your Brain Needs Those Vitamins
Some people say it is enough to eat healthy and no need to take vitamins. First of all, there has been a significant decline in the nutrient content of food in the last 50 years. Second, that may be enough to get by but will never lead to optimal health! You see when micronutrients (the ’40 essential vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, and amino acids) are in shortage in the body, some of their functions get restricted. Functions required for short-term survival take precedence over those that are less essential but just as important for optimal health. Insidious changes accumulate as a consequence of restriction, which increases the risk of disease and accelerated aging.
This happens because nature ensures that micronutrient-dependent functions required for short-term survival are protected at the expense of functions whose lack has only longer-term consequences, such as the diseases associated with aging.
The triage theory is unique in that it proposes a mechanistic trigger for the reallocation of micronutrient-dependent metabolic resources and suggests that age-related disease is easily preventable by ensuring an adequate supply of micronutrients.
Micronutrient intake below recommended concentrations, but not severe enough to cause overt clinical symptoms, is widespread not only in poor countries but also in the United States (especially in the poor, children, adolescents, the obese, and the elderly), in part because of the high consumption of calorie-rich, micronutrient-poor, unbalanced diets. Again, societal concern is low because no overt pathology has been associated with these levels of deficiency. You have to take your health in your own hand. But the triage theory suggests that insidious changes could be occurring, leading to an increased risk of diseases, neurodegeneration and aging. Throughout my website I give recommendations to certain products I believe can increase your brain health. These are high quality, pharmaceutical grade pure supplements that come with benefits but no fillers, colorants, preservatives etc that would be bad for you.
