Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is now common in most industrialized countries. No pharmacy would dare open up without having Vitamin C as one of its items. Everybody knows that Vitamin C is good for your health, but if asked about it, most people do not know what the body needs it for. Since this is a vitamin that, literally, we need for our survival, we might as well be informed about where it’s from and what it does.

Vitamin K is a nutritional element that comes in different forms. There are good sources of vitamin K that come from plants, and there are also synthetically produced vitamin K.

When talking about Vitamin K, it is usually natural to bring up the topic of “blood clotting”. After all, the “K” of this vitamin stands for the German word “koagulation” (coagulation) which means clotting.  Generally, the most important duty of Vitamin K is to guard the human body from great bleeding by thickening the blood. Sufficient amount of Vitamin K in our system comes in handy in times of cuts, wounds or internal bleeding.

Zinc is a significant component that can be found in almost all the cells of our body, which makes it a very important element in sustaining life. It fuels the movement of more or less 100 enzymes in our body that props up biochemical reaction.

Millions of people take daily vitamin supplements to encourage good health. With all the different kinds of vitamins, minerals and herbs flooding the market these days, it's sometimes difficult to know what to choose.

The key to effective supplementation is in understanding how the body works and what supplements are most effective for you. The best way to understand proper supplement to use is to conceive of a nutrition pyramid. If we were to have such a pyramid, it would explain why some supplements seem to work for some people while they do not work for others.

In other articles, I mentioned two nutrients that can you should take daily - serrapeptase and fatty acids, to fight the unseen inflammation that goes on everyday in your body. It is this unchecked inflammation that leads to those illnesses that you are so familiar with in people over 50 and even younger.

For centuries, natural ingredients have been used for medicinal purposes in countries like India, to bring about a healthier, happier lifestyle. Nowadays, the whole world has awakened to the advantages of these natural herbs, vitamins, and nutritional supplements, which are becoming increasingly popular.