Vitamin and Mineral Salt Supplements
Vitamins and mineral salts are of primary importance for body working, often representing part of coenzymes or of vital metabolic processes. Both must be taken thanks to a varied and rich food diet of vegetal origin.
In sportsmen sweating and accelerated anabolic mechanisms often require a supplement of multivitamins and mineral salts. Some vitamins and mineral salts also play an important part against free radicals, whose production is physiologically greater in people who lead an active life.
Even in this field the food supplement industry has not skimped on fantasy, often putting on the market products whose micro nourishment concentration is far from the real needs of sportsmen.
Among vitamins, as mentioned concerning protein integration, those taking part in protein synthesis processes therefore pyridoxine, folic acid and cyanocobalamin (B6, B9, B12) are very important for athletes. Vitamin C is also particularly useful in sportsmen, playing an antioxidizing action, favouring the assimilation of iron useful to the haemoglobin synthesis, strengthening immune defences and making collagen synthesis easy.
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