There are specific nutrients like multivitamins, minerals and trace elements that are vital for women’s health. Let us see a few commonly faced problems by the women and the nutrients that help overcome these problems.
Oral Health:
The multivitamins, minerals, and trace elements help maintain the good health of the mouth and helps prevent the formation of mouth ulcers, cracks in corners of mouth and bleeding gums.
Joints and Muscles:
Calcium, Vitamin D, Magnesium, Phosphorous and multivitamins keep the bones and muscles strong.
Brain Power:
Chromium, Multivitamins, and trace elements keep the nervous system healthy and helps keep the brain power at optimum level.
Menstrual Cramps: The trace elements coupled with B complex vitamins help reduce the severity of menstrual cramps.
Heel Pain:
Calcium, Magnesium, Vitamin C have shown excellent benefits in relieving heel pain.
Control of diabetes and maintaining heart health:
Biotin, Chromium, Selenium, Copper, Magnesium, etc. along with vitamins play a big role in maintaining the heart health and helps to control diabetes.
Let us know some more about the vital ingredients that influence women’s health positively.
Vitamin A
This vitamin supports good health of eyes, skin health, immune system function, and reproductive health.
Vitamin D
The amount of calcium and phosphate in the body is regulated by this vitamin. These nutrients are needed for keeping the muscles, teeth and bone in top condition.
Vitamin E
This vitamin has beneficial effects on skin and hair. It also improves heart and nerves health.
Vitamin K
The body needs this nutrient for blood clotting and healthy bones and also has other functions in the body. Vitamin K deficiency might reduce bone strength.
Vitamin C
Vitamin C keeps our immune system healthy. It thus is necessary nutrient for everyone.
Vitamin B1
This vitamin helps form the fuel ‘ATP’ on which our body runs. Nerve cells require vitamin B1 in order to function normally, which makes this nutrient vital for all.
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)
Riboflavin helps convert carbohydrates into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
Along with vitamin A, vitamin B is essential for a healthy mucous membrane in the digestive system, for maintaining a healthy liver, healthy skin, muscles, eyes and nerves, etc. Foetal development is also related to vitamin B. Thus, Vitamin B2 is necessary nutrient for women’s health.
Vitamin B3
This vitamin plays a critical role in maintaining cellular antioxidant function and thus helps fight diseases.
Vitamin B6 1.75 mg
Vitamin B6 can only be obtained from foods or supplements.
Vitamin B6 may improve mood and reduce symptoms of depression, helps promote brain health and haemoglobin production. Symptoms of premenstrual syndrome, or PMS are improved by this vitamin. It may help to treat nausea during pregnancy.
This vitamin supports good health of eyes, skin health, immune system function, and reproductive health.
Vitamin B12
This nutrient Supports healthy hair, skin and nails. It helps Red Blood Cell formation and Prevention of Anaemia. It influences the overall health of all major tissues like bone, muscle, brain, etc.
Folic acid
Folic acid deficiency and certain types of anemia (lack of red blood cells) caused by folic acid deficiency are treated with folic acid supplements. For women, this nutrient is specially important as it helps in preventing anaemia caused due to blood loss during menstruation.
Pantothenic Acid
It is one of 8 B vitamins. B vitamins help the body convert food (carbohydrates) into fuel (glucose), which the body uses to produce energy and helps stay the women energetic.
Biotin
Biotin deficiency is associated with pregnancy, long-term tube feeding, malnutrition, and rapid weight loss. It is treated with biotin supplementation. The other role that biotin plays is prevention of hair loss, maintaining health of skin and nails, etc. Thus this becomes an essential nutrient for women.
Calcium
Calcium supplements are standard for treating and preventing osteoporosis or weak bones. Post-menopausal women lose calcium in their bones owing to hormonal changes. Thus, Calcium supplements become necessary in post-menopausal women. Before the hormonal changes set in, it is important for women to build strong bones so that they can stay healthy post menopause. Taking calcium post menopause ensures that the bone health is maintained.
Phosphorus
Along with calcium, phosphorus helps build strong bones. Hence this is an essential nutritional element for women.
Iodine
Iodine helps maintain thyroid health. It also helps in neurodevelopment during pregnancy, improving cognitive function, improving birth weight and may also help in treating fibrocystic breast disease.
Iron
Iron prevents development of iron deficiency anaemia and thus keeps you energetic and healthy. Owing to the loss of blood that Women have during menstruation, this ingredient becomes especially important as it helps in production of red blood cells and thus prevent chances of anaemia in women.
Magnesium
It helps in maintaining electrolyte balance and thus helps in prevention of tremor, poor coordination, muscle spasms, loss of appetite, personality changes, and nystagmus. Magnesium helps normal muscle movements. It also keeps the nervous system healthy. It has beneficial effects in depression, type 2 diabetes, inflammation, preventing migraines, reducing insulin resistance and in improving premenstrual syndrome (PMS) symptoms.
Chromium
Chromium supplements are commonly used for weight-loss and for controlling blood sugar.
Molybdenum
It activates enzymes and prevents build-up of toxins in the body.
Selenium
Selenium helps in growth and reproduction. It helps in maintaining muscle health and improves mood. Selenium helps maintain health of brain, thyroid, lungs and immune system.
Copper
Copper helps treat fatigue and weakness. It prevents frequent sickness and helps in maintaining healthy bones, skin, nerves, eyes, etc. Copper also helps in preventing anaemia by helping production of red blood cells. It helps to maintain a healthy heart and positively influences the health of major organs.
Zinc
Zinc helps in improving immunity, growth, appetite, stomach health, sexual maturation, vision, skin and muscle health. A healthy heart needs zinc too. The severity of acne is reduced by Zinc.
Manganese
Manganese helps bone health and prevents bone defects. It has a role in blood sugar regulation. In combination with calcium, it may reduce PMS symptoms. Manganese also maintains the brain and thyroid health. Wound healing is facilitated with magnesium as it plays a role in collagen production.
Taking one tablet a day of Ridomaxx Women might correct the nutritional deficiencies and help to maintain or regain good health.
