How To Choose From Different Multivitamin Supplements?
It is easy to get confused with so many choices for vitamin, mineral and antioxidant supplements. We are bombarded with TV commercials for the most popular store brands, or if you do a search on Google or Yahoo you'll find tons of different online stores who claim their supplements are the best. So what to do? Go for a cheap store brand, where you get a month's supply for as little as $10, or get one of those who claim to have higher quality? I did an extensive research on the topic, and you might be surprised with what I found.
I was shocked to learn that most of the cheap, popular store brands are of very little use, since the nutrients have less than 10% absorption! Furthermore, the vitamin levels should stay high in your system throughout the day. While liquid vitamins have high-absorption, they don't generally stay long enough in the system!
Next important point is that different nutrients should be dissolved in different parts of the digestive system, for maximum effect! Some nutrients get damaged by the stomach acid, so they need to be delivered with a protective coating in order to make it to the lower intestines for example. This is NOT POSSIBLE WITH LIQUID SUPPLEMENTS! Finally, the supplements should be produced using COLD PROCESSING, since heat damages the bio-nutrients. Again, popular store brands are no good, since most use heated processing.
In conclusion, remember to look for 4 major requirements in a quality supplement:
- high absorption
- sustained presence in the system
- ensured delivery of different nutrients to different parts of digestive system
- cold process manufacturing to preserve bio-nutrients
All these requirements should be clinically tested and verified by an independent study. Failing to get quality supplements with these properties will result in your money wasted on mediocre supplements, and more importantly, you'd be undermining your health and denying your mind and body of the optimum health it deserves! Make sure to visit my website dedicated to this topic, for updates and recommendations.
