Do I need vitamins and which ones are right for me?

Ok be honest, do you eat properly?

I’m not talking about a general, all round good diet. I’m talking about two serves of fruit, five serves of veggies and all the other stuff we’re meant to cram in throughout the day.

I’ll put my hand up and say there’re no way I eat that well. Especially when you consider that one serve equates to half a cup of cooked vegetables. We have veggies every night and eat very well compared to a lot of people but it’s still not meeting the recommended daily intake. So it’s no wonder that some of us may be feeling a little depleted or run down.

Our bodies need the right fuel to keep going – the right support to function at the high level that our busy lives demand. If you’re not getting the right nutrition every day, your health and energy levels are going to suffer. So it makes sense to support a well-balanced diet with a supplement to boost any vitamins and minerals you may be missing out on.

Just as an FYI, you should know that this post is sponsored by Cenovis. But all opinions expressed by the author are 100% authentic and written in their own words. 

For example, I bet you didn’t know that pregnant women are advised to up that daily intake to four serves of fruit and five to six serves of vegetables, did you? And for breastfeeding mothers, it’s up around five serves of fruit and seven serves of veggies. Yeah, that’s a lot of kale.

It’s for this reason that I started taking a multivitamin. I’m not pregnant or breastfeeding, but I was starting to feel run down and exhausted all the time (I wonder why? Two small children, part time work, moving house, Christmas. Yeah, no idea).

The problem was that when I went looking for a multivitamin it wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. There are so many options out there that I was kind of overwhelmed…

I ended up going home and doing a little more research into the topic. I discovered that all multivitamins are not equal and you can actually choose one to target areas where you like to see improvement, which I thought was pretty cool.

I chose to start on a multivitamin which also promised an energy boost. Who doesn’t need more of that, right? Especially people like me, who don’t get nearly enough sleep as we should. I also found out that you can get formulations specifically designed for healthy nails, skin and hair, specialty men’s formulations as well as multivitamins to support people over 50 who obviously have changing dietary requirements.

It’s only been a few weeks since I started taking the multivitamins but I have to say, I have definitely noticed a difference. I no longer hit that slump at 3pm which saw me searching madly for a coffee. I’ve realised now that my body must have been missing something, which the multivitamins have definitely helped with. Best. Decision. Ever.

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