What kind do you take and do they really work. I want to start talking a basic vitamin to help me as well as one for the kids but I dont know where to even start.
I take a basic women's multi-vitamin, generic brand usually. But, I also take B12 and a calcium with D on my doctor's recommendation.
Multi-vitamin plus a D supplment is a good place to start. My kids are on an Rx D drop, but I just take the capsules from store. I also take a super B complex and C.
I take 5000 IU of Vitamin D3, a calcium supplement because I have no dairy in my diet and I am nursing my son, and a B-complex for D-MER.
I am a huge vitamin and supplement believer. The very first thing you need to know when buying vitamins is their absorption rate. I only buy either Metagenics or Ortho Nuclear Products vitamins and supplements because their absorption rate has been proven to be as close to 100% as you can get. If you go buy, let's say Centrum or something along those lines the absorption rate is less than 30%, which means the other 70% of the drug is just passing through your body and going out in your pee. You might as well flush your money!
Even when you go to someplace like GNC or The Vitamin Shoppe, they either don't know the absorption rate of their own vitamins, will lie and tell you it's high or don't know what your talking about. Their vitamins have been proven to be higher than some, but still maximum 50%. There is no reason to spend the money on vitamins and/or minerals and supplements if your just going to flush them.
Both the companies I mentioned above have a multi vitamin for adults and kids, they are a little more expensive then the Wal-Mart or Target brand, but you're getting the full effect of the vitamin.
I've been on a very strict regime of vitamins and supplements since they found all kinds of parasites and bacteria growing in my digestive system, after taking the vitamins/supplements for one month I am completely parasite and bacteria free, without having to take a single drug and I feel great! Thank heaven I have a gynocologist who teaches holistic or Eastern medicine as much as she does Western medicine.
It's always better to get the viatmins and minerals you need from the food you eat. However, it's unrealistic to get everything in in one day. You can take a basic multi-vitamin but make sure it has Iron in it. I've only been able to find one that added the Iron and that was an off brand at Kroger. Also, don't bother buying different kids for you and your kids. You can take the same kind as them, just look at the serving sizes.
I take a prenatal vitamin because I'm nursing. I probably could take additional vitamins/minerals, but I don't. I should check out what I need and do that.
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- hailnbray
on Sep. 25, 2011 at 7:29 PM