Know About Vitamins that Help in Muscle Growth

Muscle growth is primarily important for giving body a definite shape and to stay fit. Muscle growth can be seen from childhood to adulthood. After certain age, there will be decline in muscle growth due to reduction in calcium and vitamin D. Therefore, make sure to take care with regard to calcium and vitamin D deficiencies. In this article, we discuss vitamins that help in muscle growth.

Vitamins for muscle growth
Muscle growth takes place near hands, legs, heart muscles and lung muscles. Vitamin D, C, E, B complex, iron and proteins help in muscle development.

• Vitamin D helps in calcium deposition on bones and their overall development. Deficiency of this vitamin leads to formation of improper bones leading to rickets in children.
• Vitamin C provides oxygen continuously to muscles to continue metabolism that stimulate muscle growth.
• Vitamin B complex is depository of energy, it prevents muscle tiredness. They promote protein synthesis that is very important for body building.
• Vitamin E also helps in circulating blood to muscles for their proper functioning.
• Iron is very important to promote blood supply from lungs to muscles.
• Calcium and phosphorous are good for muscle or bone development.
• Coenzyme Q10 is another vitamin that is very important in supplying oxygen to heart muscles for its normal functioning.

Diet that helps in muscle growth

• Eating food that contains calcium, iron and all the above vitamins helps in muscle growth.
• Vitamin B complex rich foods – cereals, bread, meat, milk, peas, fish, legumes, soybeans, brown rice, brewer's yeast, etc.
• Vitamin C foods – strawberries, orange, green peppers, red berries, etc.
• Protein rich food - egg yolk, salmon mackerel, flax seed oils, etc.
• Calcium and vitamin D – milk, bananas, broccoli, leafy vegetables, etc.
• Proteins are the building blocks of muscles, so protein rich diet helps in muscle growth.

For kids muscle growth supports proper walking, development of heart muscles, brain muscles and nervous system. If these muscles are not developed it may lead to many disorders.

Requirement of vitamins at menopause stage, specially for women is very important because they have low calcium and vitamin D levels, because of which muscles become weak and create muscle weakness in women, they cannot do more activities, and often feel tired. Proper intake of vitamins is required.

Main function of muscles is contraction and relaxation. Imagine, if heart muscles are not developed properly and heart contraction and relaxation is improper then it leads to heart failure.