The human body is incredibly complex. For starters we have a brain that can somehow do things that animals can’t do, we have a heart that beats non-stop over two billion times, and the will to use our brain to do something with those two-billion beats.

The complex organs of our body are made up of layer of tissues that are made to grow, twist, stretch, heal, and withstand pressure, temperature and incredible amounts of stress. And each of these tissues is made up of countless cells.

Our cells

Our bodies each contain around 100,000,000,000,000 cells. That one-hundred trillion cells. And there several hundred types of cells that each perform a different function.

In each cell, are a hundred trillion atoms, mostly oxygen, carbon and hydrogen divided into the proteins, lipids and other molecules necessary for human life.

So just a recount: 100 trillion cells in a body and 100 trillion atoms in a cell. That’s a lot of building blocks that go into your body!

What does this have to do with Vitamins?

Our digestive system does a pretty good job of getting all the elements we need to survive and thrive from the food we eat. However, if we don’t eat right, we’ll be depleting our body of necessary nutrients.

Unfortunately, the modern American’s diet is full of preservatives and fillers that provide little nutritional value to us. These products may have the right atoms in them, but they may be tangled up in a molecule that we can’t absorb, or worse, can hurt us.

This is where the multivitamin comes in. Vitamins are designed to contain the right elements for our bodies, in the right amounts and in the right forms.

Why not just eat healthy?

It would be ideal not to have to take extra vitamins in a supplement, but even the healthiest diets will fall short in some areas. High energy food (which we need to fuel our bodily processes) tends to have lower amounts of nutrients (which we use to build our bodies) and visa-versa.

And unfortunately, most of us aren’t able to get a near-perfect diet anyways. This can lead to strain on our bodies as they try to make up for deficiencies in nutrients. But because our bodies are so complex, they aren’t really good at improvising.

Malnutrition and Obesity

Have you ever had a craving, or eaten something common that tasted a whole lot more satisfying than usual? Often when our body is lacking a specific nutrient, it will tell us it’s hungry.

This system is far from perfect, though. Our body may be short on some specific nutrient, so it tells us we’re hungry, so we eat. And eat. And eat, until we get that one specific nutrient and our body tells us it’s not hungry any more.

The Benefits of Vitamins

In the end, vitamins can not only stave off sickness in the form of malnutrition, but will also keep down hunger. We’ll be able to get the right nutrients, the right amounts of energy, and not have to worry abou the trillions and trillions of nutrients that make up our body!