Multivitamin/Minerals

There are many reasons to take a high quality multivitamin/mineral every day. For one thing, we don't always eat the way we should with our busy schedules. Even if we do eat really well, the food that is available to us today is not as nutrient rich as in years past. Did you know, that today you would have to eat 30 pounds of spinach to get 400 IU of vitamin E? Now, I really like spinach, but that's too much for anyone to eat in one sitting! Decades of commercial fertilization has left our soil depleted of essential nutrients and therefore it is almost impossible to eat well enough for optimal health.

Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements by Lyle MacWilliam (4^th Edition) has been used as a resource in determining which quality products to provide to you on this site. This large independent study looks at the more than USP (United States Pharmacopeia) standards. The study assesses the completeness based on optimal health. It looks at the potency and forms of the individual ingredients. Most importantly the study looks at how bioavailable the ingredients are, meaning how well your cells can absorb, utilize and efficiently excrete what you don’t need at the time. The Comparative Guide is an independent study that evaluated and scored 1500 supplements (multivitamins and minerals) on a 0-5 scale, like a hotel rating, with a score of 5 being the best.

Our cellular nutritional needs vary day to day, sometimes even hour to hour, depending on what we are eating and what is going on at the time. A high quality multivitamin/mineral should have adequate amounts of the right bioavailable ingredients so your cells are provided with optimal nutrition.

Most of the products on this page have a ranking of 3.5 or higher. In cases where there was no ranking (meaning it was not included in the study), I have personally reviewed all the ingredients just as I would if a patient brought the bottle into me for review.

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