The Top 5 Best Supplements For Your Health

What are the most important supplements to keep your health in check and fight off disease?  I have composed a Top 5 list of the best supplements which, in my opinion, are the most important when it comes to your health and protecting against free radical damage.

1. A Multivitamin.  Yes, I realize this isn't really a "specific" supplement like the others.  However, a high quality multivitamin is essential to your health because it creates a base.  When you look at a pyramid, the largest part of the structure is the base and everything is built on top of that.  The base is what makes the structure strong and gives you the ability to build up from there.  The same can be said of a high quality multivitamin.  Sure, you can skip it and simply take other supplements on their own, but the thing about vitamins and minerals is that they work synergistically with each other.  Meaning, they compliment each other.  For instance, you need magnesium to work with calcium in order to help get it into the bones.  Build your base with a pharmaceutical grade multivitamin to strengthen your body, and then "build up" from there with other supplements.
2. Vitamin D.  Odds are, you are not getting enough Vitamin D in your diet.  This is especially true if you live in a northern climate.  If you are taking a pharmaceutical grade multivitamin, you are ahead of the game.  However, during those winter months you may need to supplement in order to compensate for the Vitamin D you are missing out on from natural sunlight.  I won't go into too much more detail here as I have just posted a 3-part series on Vitamin D which you can check out here.  However, I will mention a study which was just done in Japan earlier this year which showed that Vitamin D supplementation was 42% more effective than the flu shot.  Vital information with flu season coming up.
3. Fish Oil.  Probably the supplement getting the most attention lately is fish oil.  Even physicians are seeing the benefits and are recommending fish oil to their patients for helping with cholesterol levels and general health.  If you read my earlier post, Fish Oil vs Statin Drugs, you saw two studies which showed that fish oil lowered the risk of cardiovascular disease.  Another study even showed fish oil was more effective than statin drugs (Lipitor, Crestor, etc).  But not only does it help protect your heart and cholesterol, it has also been linked to relieving arthritis, joint pain, and inflammation.  There has been evidence of fish oil helping with ADHD and depression.  It helps to prevent Alzheimer's Disease as this article from WebMD explains.  And it has shown to be very beneficial to both pregnant woman and their unborn child.  According to the Mayo Clinic, babies born to mothers who took fish oil show  an increase in verbal skills and motor skills, and less behavioral problems.
4. Grape Seed Extract.  Have you heard of "The French Paradox"?  Very briefly, it shows that the French suffer a relatively low incidence of cardiovascular disease, despite the fact that their diet is high in saturated fats.  And it boils down to their consumption of red wine.  Grape seed extract gives you an even greater benefit, though not nearly as much fun.  It can help with the circulatory system and protects against free-radical damage (even more than Vitamin C or Vitamin E).  It exhibits anti-inflammation characteristics as a natural COX-2 inhibitor.  And most importantly, it may induce apoptosis, or self-destruction, of cancer cells as shown in this Oxford study and a Med Page Today article.  Keep in mind, I am NOT touting grape seed extract as a CURE for cancer.  Your body actually creates cancer cells every day, but normally your body takes care of them.  Obviously in some cases it cannot handle all of them, and tumors develop.  These studies show that grape seed extract can support that function by causing cancer cells to die off; thus preventing the formation of cancer.
5. Olive Oil.  Again, this is another topic which I have recently reported on, so I won't go into detail.  If you would like to see the full article, it is located here.  Essentially, studies by the Mayo Clinic (found in my previous post) show that olive oil can lower your risk of heart disease by decreasing LDL cholesterol.  And there were significant benefits related to cardiovascular health reported in "The Seven Countries Study".

So there you have it.  The top 5 best supplements you can take to improve your health and protect your body against disease.  As always, you should consult with a physician to determine if nutritional supplements are the right choice for you.  For instance, Grape Seed Extract is a natural blood thinner and, as a result, could have negative effects with certain individuals.  Now that you have the information, ask yourself...how many are you taking?


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