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Liquid vitamins and minerals have been talked about more and more over the last few years as medical research has shown standard hard vitamins to be less effective in getting the needed nutrients to the body. This article discusses the basic information on what liquid vitamins and minerals are and how they are important to you.

To start with, liquid vitamins and minerals are a superior nutrition supplement that includes all of the vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants associated with any vitamin. They are superior because they provide a much more effective means for the body to receive those nutrients, and are therefore much healthier than your common chewable vitamin.

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A vitamin a day keeps the doctor away; or so we all hope.  There are so many benefits when you take a daily vitamin or mineral supplements.  Whether we want to be healthier, more vigorous, more active, or just have a glow in our skin and a spring in our step many of us find that we can meet those goals with a daily vitamin supplement.

In the big cities, sprawling suburbs and even the open country, most people live busy hectic and stressful lives. It can be so hard to manage work, kids, gym, cooking, shopping, cleaning, finances, family, travel, and bureaucracy that finding the time to make sure that we are buying fresh fruits and vegetables with a variety of nutrients.  Sometimes, we can barely even make a meal.  Instead, we rely on the convenience of fast food and pre-made meals, which although tasty, often pack minimal nutritional value.  With the economy struggling, it is even harder for working families to get their needed vitamins and minerals through meals alone.

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It is estimated that about 40 percent of Americans take some sort of vitamin supplement. Many of us do not get the proper amount of daily required vitamins in our every day diet and may experience vitamin deficiencies because of this fact. Vitamins are essential to our diet and health as they not only ward of diseases such as cancer, but also promote growth, maintain health, assist in healing and even help with heart disease, the number one killer in the nation.

Until recently, all vitamins were tablets, unless they were the type given to infants. Obviously infants were unable to swallow whole vitamins, so they were given liquid forms that were taken in eye droppers. As the infants became older, chewable vitamins began to take the place of the liquid form. Children still had a difficult time swallowing pills and also would balk at eating something that did not taste good, so children vitamins were invented with cartoon shapes and good taste.

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People often get confused about nutrients for healthy skin, because they don’t really understand or know what a nutrient is or what it does?

Let’s first explain how nutrients work then briefly look at 7 essential ones your body and skin will benefit most from every day for optimal performance.

Nutrients are chemical compounds and substances that enrich your body and regulate body processes, produce energy, build and repair tissue cells.

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What are Liquid Vitamins?

Vitamins taken in any drinkable form are liquid vitamins.

Why Produce Vitamins Liquid?

Physician’s Desk Reference (a highly respected medical guide for doctors) states that absorption of liquid vitamins amount to about 98% within 15 to 30 minutes! According to this research, liquid vitamins can be up to 10 times more effective than nutritional supplements in pill form. Liquid vitamins provide the highest possible assimilation of nutrients into the body. This is because, in liquid form, colloidal minerals and vitamin particles are over 7000 times smaller than a human cell.

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Amino acids are the basic structural units of proteins. They are commonly classified into six (6) groups based on the chemical or structural properties of their side chains (I will talk about groups of amino acids in another article). In total, there are 20: aspartic acid, glutamic acid, alanine, arginine, asparagine, cystine, glutamine, glycine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, proline, serine, threonine, tyrosine, tryptophan and valine.

Amino acids are found in many forms of life. They form short polymer chains called peptides or longer chains called either polypeptides or proteins. They constitute the basic elements of peptides, which contain about ten. Each peptide is linked to another by a peptide bond. Each of these combinations giving rise to different protein structures with a specific function.

What is the role of amino acids?

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