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Nutrient Deficiencies and Anxiety

First, it’s important to understand how your body and mind are connected.

A healthy dietary pattern can affect mental health and well-being through anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, neurogenesis, microbiome- and immune-modifying mechanisms, as well as through epigenetic modifications (1). Dietary profile affects not only the brain composition, structure and function, but also endogenous hormones, neuropeptides, neurotransmitters, and the microbiota-gut-brain axis, in turn playing a key role in modulation of stress and inflammation and in preservation of cognitive function (2). In addition to a healthy and balanced diet, the supplementation of micronutrients (e.g., vitamins and minerals) and macronutrients (e.g., fatty acids) can provide several beneficial effects, due to their multiple biological roles (3).

When you find yourself feeling overwhelmed with stress, anxiousness or spiraling moods, you use up nutrients faster, which is why it’s important, especially in the modern world, that we are eating nutrient dense Whole Foods. The key here is neurotransmitters, the chemical messengers that tell the cells in our body what to do.

The building blocks of neurotransmitters are amino acids. Of the 20 amino acids used by the body, 9 are essential and must be consumed through the foods we eat. When we have nutritional deficiencies in our diet, we essentially weaken the brain’s ability to create and send healthy messages, leading to disrupted, lacking or ineffective neurotransmitters. When these chemical messengers are disrupted, the message may then go right back to the transmitter or be lost altogether impacting our concentration, appetite, memory and mood.

 

If you want to desecrate your levels of anxiety, you have to have the proper nutrients supporting your brains capabilities to function properly. 

 

With our busy, modern lifestyles it can be difficult to get enough of the right nutrients from our food alone. But our body needs a certain amount of vitamins and minerals to function. We all have a recommended daily amount (RDA) of each of the essential vitamins. It needs vitamin D to absorb calcium and vitamin K for our blood to coagulate. Other nutrients can help to support bodily functions, such as antioxidants to prevent further free radical damage.

They should never be used to replace a healthy diet, but taking them can supplement the food that you eat. They can help to make sure your body gets all the nutrients it needs to function. Your body needs vitamins every day, so it’s important that we take them consistently.

Vitamins and Minerals are considered essential nutrients – because acting together they perform hundreds of roles in the body. They help bones, heal wounds, convert food into energy, repair cellular damage, and boost your immune system just to name a few.

Many multivitamins on the market today have a random blend of vitamins that truly can’t work within our bodies without the proper minerals to go with it and or amounts making them useless and invaded with unwanted fillers.

It’s important to note that our multivitamin also includes powerful antioxidants which reduce the risk of many diseases and cancers. Antioxidants scavenge free radicals from the body cells and prevent or reduce the damage by oxidation. This is important to take daily with your other essential nutrients to ensure all bases of health are covered!

Our antioxidant blend includes an energy blend made from all natural Ayurvedic herbs such as Green Tea, Pomegranate Fruit Extract, and more! All The Zens also provides 170mg of additional immune support with a blend of Echinacea, Beta Glucan, Spirulina, and Garlic. (Don’t worry, you can’t taste it!)

Other Important Reasons To Start Taking All The Zens Multivitamin Daily:

1. Energy
B vitamins and magnesium are important cofactors for the energy powerhouses of our cells, the mitochondria. Folate and vitamin B12 ensure that we can make new red blood cells needed to transport oxygen around the body. Research has shown that a multivitamin can help with energy related conditions like chronic fatigue. This supplement covers all of the B Vitamin bases ensuring you’ll have maximum energy to go about your day.

2. Mood
Micronutrients are involved in the production of brain regulating chemicals like neurotransmitters and hormones. Vitamin C supports the production of dopamine, an important mood regulating chemical. Multivitamins have been shown to improve mood in women and men!

3. Eye Health
Fat-soluble micronutrients like beta-carotene, vitamin A and vitamin D are important for protecting our eyes. A multivitamin can help to protect against cataracts in later life.

4. Alzheimer’s Disease Protection
Vitamin B6, B12 and folic acid support a process called methylation which allows our body to regulate homocysteine. High levels of homocysteine are associated with Alzheimer’s disease. This multivitamin containing vitamin B6, B12 and folic acid could help to lower homocysteine in in Alzheimer’s disease.

5. Supports Exercise 
Exercise is incredibly important but certain things can get in the way of us exercising. One of these barriers is overtraining. Overtraining can result in a number of hormonal changes and a multivitamin has been shown to help protect against some of these harmful overtraining related symptoms and increase antioxidant levels to protect against exercise-induced oxidative stress.

6. Bone Protection
Vitamin D, calcium, magnesium, folate and vitamin B12 are all micronutrients which are involved in healthy bones. Vitamin D deficiency is very common and therefore ensuring sufficient quantities in the diet is very important for bone protection. Taking a multivitamin and mineral can reduce fracture risk and protect bone mineral density.

7. Heart Health
There are many micronutrients involved in the protection of the cardiovascular system. Recent research found that multivitamin supplementation increased vitamin C and blood folate levels with the main outcome being a reduction in markers of heart disease.

8. Anti-Inflammatory
Micronutrients are required in reactions involving inflammation and the immune regulation. For example, vitamin C is an important cofactor for the production of cortisol, an important anti-inflammatory in the body. Research suggests that a multivitamin can help to reduce inflammation and blood pressure.

9. Sleep 
Healthy sleep patterns require a normal balance of sleep supporting chemicals in the body like melatonin. Melatonin is made in the made through a series of reactions which are dependent on micronutrients such as vitamin B6, magnesium, folate and zinc. A multivitamin can help to improve sleep, just don’t take it in the evening as it might actually keep you awake!

10. Weight Loss Support 
Obesity is often associated with lower absorption of micronutrients and a lower intake from the diet, resulting in poor micronutrient status. Low micronutrient status could play a role in facilitating poor weight control. Research suggests that in obese individuals multivitamin and mineral supplementation could reduce body weight and body fat.

Now, back to Antioxidants. This is one of the reasons All The Zens is so special, because it contains a natural blend of herbs and extracts to not only elevate your overall wellbeing and brain, but to protect your health as a whole. ATZ also has an Immune Blend of Echinacea, Beta Glucan, Spirulina, and Garlic! Which as we all know, this is a great time to ensure optimal immune function. And last but not least, theres also an added Health Support blend. All together, this blend is unlike any other supplement in the fact that it covers in depth all you need on a daily bases and more.