What would you say if i said you could be spending all this money on multivitamins and all its doing is giving your pee a nice shade of orange or green. This may well be the case with some of these cheap supermarket multivitamins you see around the place.
The problem with multivitamins is that there not real food (yes good deduction my dear watson) and this means its like playing lucky bingo when it comes to your body absorbing the vitamins or not, and then there’s also the problem of vitamins and minerals that conflict with each other.
For example taking calcium and zinc at the same time will leave you plenty of calcium and a toilet bowl full of zinc:P. High zinc levels lead to low copper levels and all that stuff but that’s a post for another day.
Multivitamins are so inferior to real food as they are just plain old manufactured minerals and they come with no digestive enzymes found in your foods, or the necessary combination of other nutrients to ensure you absorb the minerals you need. This is where it gets tricky and you start to research every vitamin, what your lacking and you start to go bonkers.
If you are going to take multivitamins its wise to stick to the higher quality ones, and the best way to tell the good from the bad is to actual physically look at the table of contents and see what sort of vitamins and minerals you are getting and most importantly in what forms. There is a big difference in the chance of absorption between a zinc oxide and a zinc amino acid chelate. I am no pharmacist wizz kid but it was around 20-30% for oxide and 60-65% for the chelate. Even they aren’t fantastic odds and you wonder why you bother taking them. But its a gamble pretty much and hopefully when your body needs it , it can tap into the available vitamins and minerals.
Another good way to get your vitamins is to try a natural superfood something like spirulina which contains a great vitamin and mineral analysis , also high in protein and many great plant enzymes all that photosynthesis gives you. Some companies are starting to make multivitamins derived from real sources so its a good idea to look out for them.
I hope your not too confused , whenever I talk about this topic I end up a little confused too ,but in the end its probably best to take some kind of multivitamin, our poor mother earth’s soil isn’t as rich as it once was.
