Chiva-Som (Prachuap Khirikhan, Thailand)
Vitamins are essential for growth, health and physical well-being. With current lifestyles placing ever-increasing demands as we deal with the stresses of modern life, we have never needed them more. Heavy business schedules, a hectic social calendar and inner-city pollution all play havoc with our health and immune systems, so a regulated intake of vitamins is more important than ever.
If you analyze people’s dietary intake retrospectively, most don’t get anywhere near the minimum recommended vitamin levels, let alone the levels they might need living in a city amid all the diesel fumes, with overwork, drinking too much coffee and alcohol, and modern life stresses. People need more because of their diet and lifestyle. At the same time, they also usually require more detoxification.
Many vitamins form essential components of enzyme systems, which help in energy production and exercise performance. Others aid the functioning of the immune system, the hormonal system and the nervous system. But our bodies are unable to make vitamins, so they must be supplied in our diet. Everyone has different nutritional requirements, according to weight, age, activity and individual body chemistry, so to discover your exact requirements requires a series of biochemical and physiological tests.
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