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Vitamin C Supplements and its Health Benefits

Do you want to lose weight quickly? Are you sleepy? Try a supplement! There are hundreds of them. Surely one of them can help you. Right? Well, maybe not. Supplements are a multi-billion dollar business. Unlike prescription drugs, the US government doesn’t regulate manufacturer claims about what supplements “could” do for you or how well they do it. It only steps in when they may be harmful. Many supplements include vitamins or minerals that are meant to enhance you in some way or make up for a deficiency in your body. And yes, there’s other supplement products including herbals, protein supplements and enzymes - but let’s focus on vitamins. Your body needs these molecules and elements to survive, but can’t make them on its own, so you’ve got to get them from food. Supplements are meant to, well, supplement what you might be missing from your diet. Doctors and scientists agree you can't miss out on these 13 vitamins. You also need minerals, which are elements like iron, potassium, ...