Vitamins And Female Mortality

Introduction.

Professor Robert Smith of the Department of Neuroscience at Penn State University, recently put his support behind a publication in the “Archives of Internal Medicine” regarding vitamins and female mortality. The report focuses in particular on the positive effects of both vitamin supplements and some other minerals regarding their ability to reduce female mortality.

The main report findings.

When taken in isolation the three vitamins – D, C and B complexes – were all found to reduce female mortality by as much as 8%. Making sure you have sufficient of the vitamin B complex in your system can reduce your mortality by up to 7%, regularly taking vitamin C shows a 4% reduction in mortality whilst maintaining the correct levels of vitamin D in your body can reduce your mortality by up to 8%. Regarding mineral health supplements, having sufficient Magnesium in your body can help to reduce your mortality by up to 3%, as too can having the correct doses of Selenium and Zinc in your body. You may be surprised that calcium isn’t in this list? Calcium supplements are recommended, see below, but Magnesium too can help reduce the onset of osteoporosis – through the production of calcitonin which preserves your bone structure.

Other findings concerning supplements and mortality.

Apart from the health supplements mentioned above there are several other vitamins and minerals that can help to reduce female mortality. Most noticeably these are taking the correct doses of vitamin E and a Calcium mineral supplement to give generally better health and a longer life span. Two mineral supplements were also identified as being potentially antagonistic to older people have also been identified. These are Iron and Copper supplements. Although both of these minerals are important to the continuing good function of of body’s – an excess of them in older people can actually cause toxicity and inflammation. So, unless for some reason you are concerned that you aren’t getting enough Iron and Copper from your normal diet – supplements for those two minerals are not thought to be beneficial.