I don't know all the specific chemical details about vitamins, but I know that you body needs them.  If you don't get enough vitamin B, your mind functions as though it's in a cloud.  If you don't get enough potassium, your whole nervous system eventually shuts down. When a person experiences a lot of heat and sweats out a lot of their minerals and vitamins they go into heat exhaustion - a predicament that ultimately leads to death.  Most of the symptoms come from lack of vitamins and minerals. It can be scary stuff.

On the other hand, if you get enough vitamins, your body is able to restore and repair daily stresses.  It has the building blocks required to maintain your health.  The term "Nutrition Vitamins" often refers to essential vitamins that you don't get in a 'normal' diet. 

The average American doesn't get the needed nutrients from their daily diet.  We eat too many processed and unvarying foods.  Eating a healthy, natural, and varied diet is critical to getting all the nutrients your body needs.  Health care people recommend a daily vitamin to ensure your body gets the nutrients it needs.

There are a lot of different options on the market, and it's hard to tell the good stuff from the bad.  There is a quick test you can try on your daily vitamin - put it in a cup of water and time how long it takes to dissolve.  Yes, your stomach has acid to aid in the digestion, but if the capsule/tablet doesn't look like mush and mostly fallen apart within say 20 minutes, chances are you body doesn't get much of that vitamin anyway.

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