What does Vitamin E do?
Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant that’s main job is to protect the cells in your body from damage. They’re supposed to protect your cells from free radicals, which are highly reactive substances resulting from metabolism. Free radicals cause damage to your body’s cells by attacking its membranes, DNA, and proteins. Resulting from this can be serious life-ending health problems such as cancer and heart disease.
Taking vitamin E is particularly critical because it protects your bloods cell, your nervous system, skeletal muscles, and prevents your eye retinas from being damaged by free radicals.
What is folate?
Folate is B vitamin, water soluble, that is naturally found in food. Folic acid is the synthetic form of folate, which is the form found in supplements. Folate’s primary job is to help the body produce and maintain new cells. The vitamin is needed to make both DNA and RNA, required by the body to create cells. It also helps prevent cancer by denying changes to the body’s RNA, prevent amenia, and maintains normal levels of amino acid.
Green, leafy vegetables provide folate, such as spinach and turnip greens. In addition, dried beans, peas, and fruits are all natural source of folate. Below is a chart of other dietary items that include folate:
| Food | Micrograms (μg) | % DV^ |
|---|---|---|
| *Breakfast cereals fortified with 100% of the DV, ¾ cup | 400 | 100 |
| Beef liver, cooked, braised, 3 ounces | 185 | 45 |
| Cowpeas (blackeyes), immature, cooked, boiled, ½ cup | 105 | 25 |
| *Breakfast cereals, fortified with 25% of the DV, ¾ cup | 100 | 25 |
| Spinach, frozen, cooked, boiled, ½ cup | 100 | 25 |
| Great Northern beans, boiled, ½ cup | 90 | 20 |
| Asparagus, boiled, 4 spears | 85 | 20 |
| *Rice, white, long-grain, parboiled, enriched, cooked, ½ cup | 65 | 15 |
| Vegetarian baked beans, canned, 1 cup | 60 | 15 |
| Spinach, raw, 1 cup | 60 | 15 |
| Green peas, frozen, boiled, ½ cup | 50 | 15 |
| Broccoli, chopped, frozen, cooked, ½ cup | 50 | 15 |
| *Egg noodles, cooked, enriched, ½ cup | 50 | 15 |
| Broccoli, raw, 2 spears (each 5 inches long) | 45 | 10 |
| Avocado, raw, all varieties, sliced, ½ cup sliced | 45 | 10 |
| Peanuts, all types, dry roasted, 1 ounce | 40 | 10 |
| Lettuce, Romaine, shredded, ½ cup | 40 | 10 |
| Wheat germ, crude, 2 Tablespoons | 40 | 10 |
| Tomato Juice, canned, 6 ounces | 35 | 10 |
| Orange juice, chilled, includes concentrate, ¾ cup | 35 | 10 |
| Turnip greens, frozen, cooked, boiled, ½ cup | 30 | 8 |
| Orange, all commercial varieties, fresh, 1 small | 30 | 8 |
| *Bread, white, 1 slice | 25 | 6 |
| *Bread, whole wheat, 1 slice | 25 | 6 |
| Egg, whole, raw, fresh, 1 large | 25 | 6 |
| Cantaloupe, raw, ¼ medium | 25 | 6 |
| Papaya, raw, ½ cup cubes | 25 | 6 |
| Banana, raw, 1 medium | 20 |
Benefits of Zinc
Zinc is an essential mineral for our bodies as it strengthens our immune system. Having a strong immune system has highly important as it enables our body to deter and reject diseases.
You can find traces of Zinc in milk, red meat, oyster, spinach, oats, and beans. In addition to forming a stronger immune system, Zync helps detoxify alcohol in the liver, helps our bodies digest food better, and increases the production of protein. It also maintains blood cholesterol levels in the body.
Not meeting the recommended dosage of Zinc can have adverse side affects on your body. This can include a weak ammune system, muscle atrophy, and the development of sex hormones of unusual levels.
Animalpak Review - The Best Bodybuilding Multivitamin?
A simple multivitamin tablet once per day may be OK for the average Joe, but bodybuilders, strength trainers and athletes need more to function at optimum level.
Anyone who’s knows anything about bodybuilding, building muscle and intense training will tell you that diet and nutrition count for more than 70% of your results. If you’re not getting the right nutritional intake you won’t get bigger or stronger. Simple as that. The biggest mistake new lifters make is focusing too much on training without backing it up with a solid nutrition plan.
Can you get all the vitamins, minerals and EFAs from your diet?
Yes you can, but it’s impracticable. The sheer amount and variety of food you’d have to eat would make it almost impossible.
Lack of vitamins can hamper your gains.
If you’re not getting the vitamins and minerals you need, you won’t progress. Nutritional gaps not only affect your performance and size, but they begin to impact the way your other supplements work. For many of today’s supplements to work efficiently, your body needs to be running on all cylinders. Nutritional gaps mean that your supplements may be rendered ineffective. For example, many supplements (e.g., prohormones) rely on enzymes and other substances in your body to “activate” them. Poor nutrition means poor conversion and activation of expensive supplements. Animal Pak is your insurance policy to prevent this from happening.
A solid pack of everything you need to grow…
There is no other product that competes with Animalpak on this level of vitamin and mineral supplementation. Check out what’s in every pack:
Mega-Vitamin/Mineral/Antioxidant Complex
• Zinc
• Chromium
• Magnesium
• All The B Vitamins
• Copper
• Manganese
• Potassium
• Phosphorous
• Vitamins
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin E
• Selenium
• Folic Acid
Key Amino Acid Blend
• Arginine
• Leucine
• Valine
• Isoleucine
• Glutamine
• Methionine
• Lysine
• Histidine
• Threonine
• Phenylalanine
• Tyrosine
• Cysteine
Performance Optimizers
• L-Carnitine
• Pyridoxine Alpha-Ketoglutarate
• Coenzymes A & B
• Para-Aminobenzoic Acid
• Siberian Ginseng (Eleuthero)
• Oriental Ginseng (Panax Ginseng)
• Alpha Lipoic Acid (Thioctic Acid)
• IGF Colostrum
• Phosphatidylcholine
Joint & Bone Support
• Shark Cartilage
• Calcium
• Vitamin D
• Magnesium
EFA Complex
• Linoleic Acid
• Oleic Acid
Digestive Enzymes
• Papain
• Pepsin
• Pancreatin
• Micozyme
What about the price?
Compared to your average multivitamin, they’re expensive. But these products aren’t even in the same league. If you have to buy all the products seperately to get the same nutrient profile you’d be paying much, much more. That’s the way I look at it.
Conclusion:
If you’re serious about your training, I really do recommend that you check out Animalpak. There really is no other product that competes.
What is Vitamin B12?
Vitamin B12 is an essential water soluble vitamin that is commonly found in a variety of foods such as fish, shellfish, meats, and dairy products. Vitamin B12 is frequently used in combination with other B vitamins in a vitamin B complex formulation.
It helps maintain healthy nerve cells and red blood cells, and is also needed to make DNA, the genetic material in all cells. Vitamin B12 is bound to the protein in food. Hydrochloric acid in the stomach releases B12 from protein during digestion.
A day’s supply of vitamin B12 can be obtained by eating 1 chicken breast (0.6mcg) plus 1 hard-boiled egg (0.55mcg) plus 1 cup plain low-fat yogurt (1.37mcg) or 1 cup milk (0.92mcg) plus 1 cup raisin bran (1.64mcg).
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