Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Multivitamins: Are they really worth it?

If you are anything like me you get more than the daily recommended dose of folic acid from all the crackers and cereal you snack on. What about the other nutrients that our bodies need? Even with eating a full and balanced diet I was still lacking B5 or panothenic acid. How do I know this? Canker sores! I used to get them at least once a month. My mom told me that my grandfather used to take panothenic acid to prevent them so I tried it. I used to take a once daily womens multivitamin, potassium glutamate, a B-vitamin complex, and Biotin. Most of these are huge horse pills.

That stopped about 2 months ago. Why? you ask. My first package from my mom with doTerra products included Lifelong Vitality. The pack includes three bottles, one is a replacement for the multivitamin Microplex VMz, one is a blend of EO's, xEO Mega, and Alpha CRS which includes things like Co-Q 10 and carotenoids and other minerals and botanical ingredients that have been shown to prevent inflammation and cellular degeneration.

The instructions say to take one of each with your three big meals and one each at bed time. I don't follow the instructions because I'm awful with remembering to take pills at meals. It's a really good thing I'm not the diabetic in our family. I take these pills at night before bed when I take my allergy pills. Since I started taking the Lifelong Vitality pack I have not once had a canker sore, my joints have ached less and I feel like I can concentrate more, which for me is huge especially since I am in an online degree program. The best thing for me though is the lack of insomnia. I used to have at least one night a week where I would be awake all night long, but now I don't have that problem.

I'm loving the results I'm getting from my EOs and other doTerra products. If you haven't tried them yet what is stopping you?


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