Posted by Paul Smith on June 1, 2005, at 19:18:03 [reposted on June 2, 2005, at 3:28:08 | original URL]
In reply to Re: multi vitamins, good, bad, or indifferent?, posted by Phillipa on June 1, 2005, at 17:54:13
> This will get redirected to Altenative. But everyone should take a good multivitamin preferably a natural one. The other ones aren't very well absorbed and don't have quality ingrediants. You might also try a protein drink. Fondly, Phillipa<
I found this quote from a sports medicine site. They are not out to seel anything so should not have an agenda:
Claims about "natural" vitamins in pills tend to be false, given the prohibitive costs of extracting vitamins from natural sources. In reality, almost all vitamins in supplements are synthetic. Besides, naturally occurring and manufactured vitamins have identical chemical structures. The one exception is vitamin E, which, in its natural form, is slightly better absorbed and used. But for long-term use--and people generally take vitamin E for chronic conditions--the price of natural vitamin E may be too high to justify the slight advantage.
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