Did You Know Just That Many Cancers Are Linked To A Vitamin Deficiency?
Why
Liquid Multivitamins are Superior
Why
Liquid Multivitamins are Superior
By: Dr. George Obikoya
The
benefits of multivitamins and minerals are more important
today than ever before. In today’s hectic world, various
factors such as our busy schedules and poor nutrition make
it more difficult for us to eat a balanced, healthy diet.
For most people, supplementing your diet with a multivitamins
is now a necessity.
But
do you dislike swallowing pills? Do multivitamin in tablet
form disagree with you? You are not alone. Many vitamins
and minerals have a naturally strong and objectionable taste.
One may argue that this is a subjective consideration, for
how long and how regularly will someone take a bitter tasting
product? No matter how important it is to take multivitamins
and how high the quality of a product is, it is useless
if you cannot take it. Fortunately there are some great
tasting multivitamins out there, you just have to look around.
However,
you can still have your multivitamins and enjoy all the
benefits derivable from them in liquid form. Research evidence
suggests that only 10-20% of vitamins and minerals in a
pill form are absorbed by the body, compared to 98% for
liquid vitamins. This is mostly because liquid vitamins
bypass the digestive process and are absorbed directly into
the blood stream and into the cell. Vitamins in capsule
or tablet forms, therefore, have low bioavailability, hence
have weaker therapeutic benefits.
There
are several other reasons why you may prefer liquid vitamins.
Vitamin capsules have powdered ingredients placed into pork
based gelatin or vegetable capsules with added additives
such as talc or other fillers. The tablet forms of multivitamins
also have powdered ingredients and additives but they are
compressed into tablets using special carrier molecules
and additives that require extra digestive efforts to get
the desired effects.
It
is not trivial to be concerned about the bases and additives
used to prepare multivitamins. Many of these inert substances
are carbohydrates. For obese individuals and children with
a seizure disorder being treated with a ketogenic (high
fat, low carbohydrate and low protein diet), even a small
amount of additional carbohydrate that is not calculated
into their daily diets may add up or be enough to cause
a recurrence of seizure activity by pushing them out of
ketosis.
Because information on the amount of inert substances in
multivitamins is not easy to obtain and generally requires
contact with the drug manufacturer, ask your pharmacists
to help in retrieving this information.
Liquid
multivitamins are much easier to swallow for children and
seniors. Because these groups of individuals also have immature
or attenuated digestive enzymes, it will be even more difficult
to digest and assimilate vitamins in capsules or tablet
forms because of the additional ingredients used to facilitate
their production in these forms. For children in particular,
liquid vitamins offer an array of flavors that they can
choose from.
A
good multivitamin is the foundation of health and nutrition.
Take a look at our scientific reviews of many of the popular
brands for factors such as ingredients, areas of improvement,
quality level, and overall value.
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