Saturday, August 18, 2007

Dry Skin Care May Require Taking Conditionally-Essential Nutrients

The line between essential and non-essential nutrients used to be precise. The first criterion was based on the definition of essential – the nutrient is or is not vital. The second related to the body’s ability or inability to produce the nutrient on its own steam; if it can, the nutrient is ‘non-essential’ and if it cannot, it is ‘essential’ and must be obtained through food or supplementation. However, there is a category between the two and, in addition to topical dry skin care, you may need supplementation that you previously thought unnecessary. The category between essential and non-essential is known as ‘conditionally essential’. It refers to nutrients that the body is inherently capable of synthesizing, but no longer being produced at View the rest of this article


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