 Should you take vitamins? Is it a waste of your money? Is it a waste of your time? A few days ago on my channel, I released an in-depth nutrition video and the question of vitamins came up. So should you take vitamins? Well, I guess you're gonna have to watch this video to find out. Consuming vitamins on a daily basis gets expensive and if you don't even have the food handled, eating proper nutrition, don't worry about vitamins and supplementation. Focus on the food first. Try to get all your vitamins and nutrients from food. Now if you have the finances and if you are, you just want to do everything possible to make sure that all your micro nutrients are met so that your energy is high, your mental clarity is high, you feel good, then the next step is taking vitamins. Now be complex for energy. D3, I can't really say that everything is for energy or it's for testosterone or recovery because micronutrients are all about keeping your hormones in balance and when your hormones are out of balance in any way, it affects everything. It doesn't just affect one thing. It doesn't just affect your sleep or your recovery or your energy or your ability to build muscle or to burn fat. All of those things are related with each other so it's really important that you're trying to hit all your micronutrients. Try to do it from food first but the help of supplementation or vitamins can't be beneficial to you. Hey, what's up? Are you still with me? These are just a few clips from that other video but there's some good information in there. Stay with me all the way to the end of this video because I'm going to answer specifically should you take vitamins, how often should you take vitamins, when should you take vitamins and my top five vitamins that I personally take but maybe you want to take as well. I bought one of these like an old man, a sickly person who has to take 20 medications instead of going in the cupboard and popping this pill then open this pop this pill open this pop this pill I just put them all in there set it up for the week and then when it's time to consume it you also have to become instead of doing one at a time I've just learned to take them all back let's see just pop them all in there done move on with your day but based on my research be complex think about energy D3 vitamin D3 for bone health for for so many things actually it helps you with your sleep as well helps you with energy levels biotin for hair and nail growth kelp for iodine function to make sure your thyroid is functioning properly which has a direct correlation to your testosterone. CoQ10 is for cardiovascular health heart or heart health magnesium glucosamine and even zinc can focus on or think about recovery helping the muscles relax release inflammation but zinc and magnesium also and vitamin D are also very important for muscle building testosterone and metabolism as I said these other ones not necessarily for your software this is more longevity thing ginseng is a good source of energy however if you could get it in a tea is the way I prefer to consume it but it might be more powerful in supplementation for well first of all you should not be taking vitamins if your nutrition is not on point do not expect a vitamin to solve your problem or to make you healthier if you don't have the foundation of proper nutrition so analyze your nutrition number two I want you to analyze how you feel if you think your nutrition is good but you're still always tired you're always lethargic you feel lazy you're not getting good sleep maybe you're doing all the proper nutrition and all the exercise and you think your metabolism is out of whack because you're still not losing weight or you're still it's impossible to gain muscle now you need to be honest with yourself a lot of people say oh I'm doing everything but really they're not but if you honestly think that well maybe you need to look into vitamins so let's say you are struggling with sleep do a search for vitamins related to sleep or which vitamins will help me sleep better something like that do your own research and find out which vitamins are best for you so how often should you be taking vitamins well in order for vitamins to work you can't just take them once a week and expect them to have an effect they need to get a consistent flow into the body so you should be taking vitamins daily now some vitamins will recommend if you look on the back they'll recommend that you take different dosages at different times personally I don't really want to be taking vitamins three times a day so I just do them all at once and certain vitamins absorb at different rates so you can't take three pills at once you can only take one at a time so different vitamins require you to take them at different times but you need to get them on a consistent basis so at least once a day when should you be taking vitamins well I talked about it briefly in those other clips it's best to take vitamins with a source of fat so if you've had a high-fat meal and that doesn't mean unhealthy fats it means healthy fats let's say you had a source of avocado some olive oil some coconut oil some nuts some seeds that would be the best time to take your vitamins because it absorbs more efficiently into the body my top five vitamins that personally I take but I think everyone should take a look at these vitamins number one vitamin D we are all not getting enough sunshine and vitamin D is important for so many different things as far as muscle development your metabolism your sleep your bone health all these different things so vitamin D is number one zinc and magnesium for recovery but also muscle growth extremely important of the complex so B vitamins are very important for your energy levels your immune function personally B12 is one that I really focus on but I get that from nutritional yeast or other fortified foods for vegans for vegetarians you really have to look at your B12 levels also your iron take a look at that but for everyone B vitamins are so important for your energy and the fifth and final vitamin that I would recommend you look into is kelp but actually it's not the kelp kelp is seaweed it's the iodine from the kelp so it's an iodine supplement because iodine has a direct impact on your thyroid function which is related to your testosterone so if you feel like your testosterone is low if you're a male women also need to look into the testosterone level is very important for your energy for your muscle building for your overall well being take a look at an iodine supplement