Unless otherwise advised by a healthcare professional, you won’t need these four supplements in your summer arsenal.<\/p>\n
Vitamin D<\/strong><\/p>\n Why you might skip it: <\/strong>Since your body produces vitamin D in response to sunlight exposure, government advice is to take a daily supplement during autumn and winter. This means that as long as naturally exposed to around 20-30 minutes of sunlight daily you may not need it.<\/p>\n Caffeine-based energy supplements<\/strong><\/p>\n Why you might skip it: <\/strong>Caffeine is widely used as a pre-workout energy booster that has been proven to increase endurance and stamina, but since caffeine is a diuretic, it can raise the risk of dehydration, so switch to electrolytes instead.<\/p>\n Zinc<\/strong><\/p>\n Why you might skip it: <\/strong>Zinc is best known for its immunity-boosting benefits, but if you\u2019re already striving to take extra vitamin C, adding extra zinc in supplement form may be unnecessary. <\/p>\n Vitamin B6<\/strong><\/p>\n Why you might skip it: <\/strong>The B-vitamins are an important family of nutrients, and vitamin B6, one of the eight water soluble B-vitamins that helps to support the nervous system, brain health and immunity has been shown to increase sensitivity to UV rays, so unless you have a strong reason to take it you might want to save vitamin B6 for autumn and winter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unless otherwise advised by a healthcare professional, you won’t need these four supplements in your summer arsenal. Vitamin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4318],"tags":[36271,105,4434,14741,26546,16,15,19366],"class_list":{"0":"post-175060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-energy-levels","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-nutrition","11":"tag-sun","12":"tag-supplement","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-vitamin-c"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114663555311878244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}