Not All Vitamins Are Equal!

Ask yourself this question:

Do you believe that cheap commercially produced food is the best for your body?

If you believe the answer is no, then we are in agreement. So here's another question, would you put cheap commercially produced vitamins aminerals in your body?


It is important to ask these tough questions when looking for the best multivitamin for you. You know you are not getting all the nutrients from Mother Nature anymore with the increasing usage of fertilisers robbing the soil of nutrients. But, you realise you need a multi-vitamin to help detoxify your body of toxins called free radicals especially if you are in a fat loss program as fat stores toxins and as you lose fat, you are releasing your toxins.

Studies in fat loss patients in America found that those patients who lost in excess of 150lbs of bodyweight died within 18 months since all these toxins were too overwhelming for the body to deal with. So it becomes more important to make a knowledgeable decision.

This becomes a very hard task when large, corrupt supplement manufacturers prey on theaverage consumers' lack of knowledge regarding supplement quality and nutrient absorption. They are more interested in the bottom line, their wealth as opposed to your health. They realise that you may not be a competitive athlete interested in maximising your performance and speeding up your recovery. Instead, they know that your buying decision will be based on two things: taking one tablet a day and price.

In order to keep the price down, they use cheap synthetic raw materials and cut corners in order to keep the price down. They are relying on you to see the cheap price and to say "that's good enough". So, it is a real challenge for you the average consumer to go a health food store and select a quality multi-vitamin/mineral supplement.

Did you know that some of the "Big Pharma" buy vast amounts of sea-salt; extract the trace minerals (of which there are over 80 present); then sell the wastage as salt to us (sodium chloride) the extracted minerals are then used as fillers in cheap supplements!

To help you make a better decision for a multi-vitamin, here are four tips that can help you to get your money's worth.

1: What type of magnesium does it have?
A sign of a poor supplement is the inclusion of magnesium oxide. If it contains this ingredient, avoid that brand as it is found in 80% of multi-vitamins. Here is a simple tip - if the magnesium is good, it should a word attached to it that ends in "ate" (e.g. magnesium taurate, magnesium fumarate, magnesium glycinate etc...)

2: All minerals should be chelated.
Chelation means that they are bound to an amino acid, which facilitates absorption. The gold standard in the industry is Albion chelates (check for it on the label.)


3: Check for the levels of manganese.
Your daily dose should not give you more than 5-7 mg of manganese. High dosages of manganese are neuro-toxic i.e. toxic to the brain. That is why giving soy-based formulas to infants has been linked to the increased incidence of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD.)


4: Balanced in iodine and selenium content.

Both trace minerals must be present in the correct order for thyroid health to occur. Imbalanced intake of iodine and selenium should be avoided as this may impair thyroid function.

Please consider these tips when buying your supplements. They may provide you with the edge you are seeking.

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