What Vitamins Do You Need To Stay Fit For Fasting? Here's The List

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JAKARTA – Based on scientific studies, fasting is very beneficial for health. In order for your Ramadan fast to be paid off to the end, your body needs to be kept fit. Therefore, it is necessary to support vitamins to help keep your body healthy, fit, and healthy when fasting.

Reported from Bulletproof, Monday, April 12, fasting can cause the body to secrete protein. The way it works makes the body burn fat more effectively. But all must be done carefully. Because in burning fat, the body needs energy.

After three money, fasting is very useful to improve the mechanism of the body in addition to performing worship according to Shariah. Therefore, you need to pay attention to the number of vitamins that the body needs as below.

Water-soluble vitamins

When the stomach is empty, water-soluble vitamins such as vitamin A will be more easily absorbed by the body. While B vitamins often make nausea if consumed without food. Therefore, you can take both of these vitamins during suhoor.

Zinc

Vitamins or nutrients containing zinc can be obtained from food intake. Intake of foods containing zinc include nuts, mushrooms, chicken, beef, and wheat seeds.

Vitamin C and zinc serve to keep the body's metabolism balanced. In addition, both of these vitamins are also useful to increase your immune system during your fasting.

Omega-3

Omega-3 is useful to lower cholesterol and make the blood sugar regulator's insulin work effectively. In addition, omega-3 also keeps the body's pH normal so that it is not easily exposed to diseases caused by bacteria and viruses.

Magnesium

In one multivitamin tablet, it generally contains minerals such as magnesium. Also included are zinc, selenium, calcium, and phosphorus. Beneficially, minerals can keep the body's mechanisms on the rule.

Iron

Since the amount of fluid will be reduced when fasting, the effect can lower your blood pressure. To prevent the body from limping and still be able to do activities as usual during fasting, then you need to take vitamins containing iron.

Of the five vitamin recommendations above, there is a need for fat-soluble vitamins. Fat-soluble vitamins include vitamins K, E, D, and A. When to take them? Because it is dissolved in fat, it is most appropriate to be consumed after breaking the fast so that the function of each vitamin is maximal.