Supplement & Me... ...

Orange, grapes, bananas, pineapple, mangoes, star fruits, guava, strawberry, watermelon……

All these are the very common fruits that we eat in our daily life. Besides fruits, in our meals we always maintain balance diet such as vegetables, meats, seafood and so on. This is because other than the 4 main biomolecules: carbohydrates, proteins, lipids and nucleic acids, human body also requires various types of vitamins and minerals in order to keep our body functioning well. Therefore vegetables, fruits and the food we consume everyday are the sources where our body obtained the vitamins and minerals.

 

As we know, different vitamins and minerals play different role in our body. For example, vitamin A is good for vision, vitamin D will strengthen our bones and teeth, Vitamin E promotes healthy skin as it is an antioxidant, while Na⁺, K⁺ and Cl^- are the examples of minerals that help to maintain the electrolytes balance in our body.

 

Since I entered my college life, I have to stay away from home. I always fall sick as I seldom eat fruits and vegetables in my meals. Therefore, the doctor encourages me to take supplement in order to strengthen my immune system. So now, every day I am taking a tablet of vitamin C. Nowadays, Vitamin C is a very common supplement and we can easily get it and numerous brand of vitamin C are available in the market.

Recently, in my pharmaceutical chemistry lab class, one of the unknown organic compounds that we tested is Vitamin C or the scientific name is known as ascorbic acid. This gives me a good opportunity to learn and know more about what actually vitamin c is. It is commonly used for treatment of scurvy disease. Besides that, it has an anti-oxidant property so it can promote healthy skin. Hence, I think most of the girls will like it. *_*

 

Molecular structure of Vitamin C

Other than vitamin C, during my community pharmacy training, I am exposed to various type of supplement. One of the supplements that caught my attention is Natberry tablet. This supplement promotes good vision and help to relief tired eyes. So, it is very suitable for me as I always sit in front my laptop and look at it for don’t know how many hours to search for information, doing assignments, lab reports as well as watch movie. *_* So, I would like to recommend this supplement to all of my course mates especially those who always play online games hehe. 

In conclusion, even though supplement can provide us the vitamins or the minerals that lacks in our diet, I strongly feel that we should not totally depend on them. Instead we should try our best to maintain healthy and balance diet. So, with this we can always stay healthy and happy as well as enjoy our life.  *_*