| Many will state that the best supplement is liquid | | | | form, you can be sure it doesn't and, |
| vitamin supplement because it's much more easily | | | | furthermore, the body will do everything in its |
| absorbed by the body. They say that pills and | | | | power to treat it like a pathogen - reject and |
| capsules usually are not broken down at the right | | | | destroy it! This is one of the main reasons why |
| time and in the right area of the digestive tract, | | | | only about 10% of the nutrients are absorbed and |
| therefore, traveling through the body leaving a | | | | assimilated, leaving the rest to flush down the |
| majority of the pill heading for elimination. They | | | | toilet! The best multivitamin supplement will be |
| also say that much less energy is used to break | | | | 100% absorbed and assimilated. |
| down a vitamin in liquid form than if it were a | | | | Always be an ingredient detective when it comes |
| solid. These claims are not true in totality! | | | | to choosing the best liquid vitamin supplement. |
| Don't let a company fool you by saying that just | | | | When you see ingredients like: Vitamin C as |
| because their liquid vitamin supplement is absorbed | | | | ascorbic acid, Vitamin B12 as cyanocobalamin or |
| better, it is the ultimate supplement. There are a | | | | the like, these liquid vitamin supplements are |
| handful of great supplemental pills and capsules | | | | lab-produced. The optimal supplement is one that |
| formulated ideally where the absorption rate is | | | | is made up of whole food ingredients as nature |
| also high. Even though a highly absorb-able | | | | intended us to consume and the body will know |
| supplement is a good thing, there is more to this | | | | what to do with it! |
| equation. More importantly, are these nutrients | | | | Then there's the concern of the formulation |
| being assimilated once they are absorbed into the | | | | processes. Is heat applied during the processing |
| body? | | | | stages? I think everyone realizes that when food |
| Let's take a closer look at that question: For | | | | is heated, much of the nutrients are destroyed. |
| better bio-availability (the extent to which | | | | Why not go for a supplement that has been |
| nutrients can be assimilated by the body), the | | | | flash-freeze dried or very minimally processed? |
| ingredients are a major factor. A liquid multivitamin | | | | Unwittingly, a liquid multivitamin supplement may |
| supplement that consists of lab-produced | | | | boast of ingredients such as the well-known |
| chemicals for ingredients has a much less | | | | antioxidant plant-sources (i.e. acai, noni, |
| assimilation rate than a pill that consists of purely | | | | mangosteen, etc.) and additionally having a |
| whole foods. So, the idea that the best | | | | plethora of chemical additives and preservatives, |
| multivitamin supplement is better just because it is | | | | not to mention the heating process that the |
| in liquid form making it more absorb-able is | | | | product undergoes in the formulation! |
| ludicrous. | | | | All of these considerations and more should be |
| When a person takes a supplement, does the | | | | taken into account when choosing your liquid |
| body recognize it as food? If it is in chemical | | | | vitamin supplement! |