Reset Your Health Routine with Multivitamins: A Fresh Start for Wellness

Reset Your Health Routine with Multivitamins: A Fresh Start for Wellness

Making improvements to your health requires examining your everyday lifestyle habits and whether they’re aligning with your goals. In addition to adjusting your diet and exercise habits, a simple thing you can do to support your health is to add a daily multivitamin. Here’s why multivitamins can be a beneficial part of your health reset and how to choose one.

How Multivitamins Can Help Reset Your Health

Addressing Nutritional Gaps

Taking a daily multivitamin can help close nutritional gaps and ensure that your body receives the vitamins and minerals it needs. Being low in a certain nutrient can negatively affect your energy, mood, and overall well-being. While it’s important to prioritize getting nutrition from food, sometimes adding a multivitamin can help. 

Supporting Immune Health

Your immune system is always hard at work trying to keep you safe from harmful germs and optimal nutrition is essential in its ability to do so. Adding a multivitamin can be an easy way to support your normal immune function, especially during times of stress or recovery when the immune defense is weakened and nutrient demands are higher. 

Some key micronutrients for immune health that you can get from multivitamins include: 

  • Vitamin C is an antioxidant that protects your cells from damage and a nutrient needed for producing white blood cells
  • Vitamin D helps modulate your immune system and lower your risk of infections
  • Zinc, an essential mineral in cellular communication

Enhancing Energy and Vitality

When your body has all of the vitamins and minerals it needs, you’re more likely to feel energized and ready to take on the day ahead. Multivitamins typically contain a variety of B vitamins and iron, which are especially important in energy production.

B-complex vitamins — including B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B6, B9 (folate), and B12 — play a crucial role in converting the food we eat into energy by supporting metabolism. They’re also involved in producing red blood cells, which are responsible for transporting oxygen throughout the body, essential for your vitality. 

Iron is a component of hemoglobin, the protein in your red blood cells that carries oxygen from your lungs to muscles and tissues. Having enough iron available helps prevent weakness, fatigue, and reduced physical performance.

Promoting Mental Clarity and Mood Stability

Many multivitamins contain vitamin D, B vitamins, and omega-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA), which work together to support mental clarity, emotional balance, mood, and overall brain health. 

While our body produces some vitamin D when exposed to the sun, it’s not always enough to meet our needs. Many people benefit from the addition of a supplemental vitamin D source. 

B vitamins are essential to make brain chemicals like serotonin and dopamine that are involved in mood and emotional responses, and omega-3s are integral to the cellular structure and function of your brain.

Choosing the Right Multivitamin for Your Health Reset

There’s no shortage of multivitamin options, and it’s important to consider a few things when choosing the best one for your needs: 

  • Age: Many multivitamins are designed to meet the micronutrient needs of specific age groups, including children, teens, adults (including premenopausal versus postmenopausal women), and men and women over 50. 
  • Gender: Men and women have different micronutrient requirements, particularly when it comes to things like iron, calcium, and vitamin D. 
  • Lifestyle: If you’re more physically active than the average person, you may have higher needs for certain nutrients to support performance and recovery. 
  • Pregnancy: Pregnant women require more folate, iron, and calcium, making it essential to choose a prenatal vitamin that can provide these.
  • Dietary needs: People who follow a strictly plant-based diet, for instance, have higher needs for nutrients like vitamin B12 (check out our vegan-friendly multivitamins). If you recently had bariatric surgery, our Bariatric Multivitamin for Post Gastric Bypass Surgery Patients provides the necessary high-potency vitamins and minerals. 

Health Reset: Getting the Most Out of Your Multivitamin

Adding a multivitamin is a great way to help support your wellness, but it’s not the only factor involved in boosting your health. It’s important to examine other areas where improvements can be made as well. 

For example, getting enough sleep (experts recommend 7-8 hours), managing your stress, engaging in regular exercise (at least 150-300 minutes per week), adequate hydration, and optimizing the nutritional quality of your diet are all essential to an effective health reset.

Adding an appropriate multivitamin is like the cherry on top when working to improve your health. Find our full line of whole-food multivitamins here. 


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