Food Supplements

What are diet supplements?

Through a balanced diet an organism takes the essential for its daily nutritious substances needs.

However, the modern way of life, stress, the pollution of the environment, “fast food” and the not correct diet increase the needs of the organism in these substances so that it needs aid with diet supplements.

The diet supplements are products that usually contain vitamins, trace elements, nutritious components (carbohydrates, greases, proteins, amino-acids), extracts and plant matters.

When are the supplements granted?

In order to cover the daily diet and the special alimentary needs of an organism achieving the better possible absorption, the diet supplements should be taken under suitable conditions. Vitamins from group B and C can be taken before or after dinner and if more than one tablet or capsule is taken, it is preferable they are taken in divided doses.

What are vitamins?

Vitamins are organic substances essential in life. They are needed for the physiological operation of an organism and apart from minimal cases they cannot be composed from the organism. Vitamins are found in natural foods and the best way to take them is through our diet. Insufficiency of vitamins can place our organism at risk.

On the market they circulate in various forms as capsules, pills, dust, liquids and spray.

What are amino-acids?

They are the structural units of proteins with concrete mission-use. The basic operation of most of them is the benefit of important material for the copy of genetic code and the division of cells and the shaping initiating and conjunctive webs. They are used also for the shaping and operation of hormones, antibodies, ferments, neurotransmitters as well as nutritious substances providers.

There are twenty two known amino-acids. Eight of them are called basic amino-acids and contrary to the rest, cannot be composed from the organism; therefore they need to be taken with a diet or supplements.

The basic amino-acids are:
   Histidine (for babies and kids)
   Isoleucine
   Leucine
   Lysine
   Methionine
   Phenylalanine 
   Threonine
   Tryptophan
   Valine

The not basic amino-acids are:
   Alanine
   Arginine
   Asparagine
   Aspartic acid
   Cysteine
   Glutamic acid
   Glutamine
   Glycine   
   Proline
   Serine
   Tyrosine