| The Problem With Pills | | | | the first place, which is to be proactive with your |
| As a reader of this article there is already a good | | | | health in terms of avoiding illness before it starts. |
| chance that you are well aware of the many | | | | Taking liquid supplements feels much more like |
| benefits the supplementation with vitamins and | | | | consuming a simple energy drink than taking |
| minerals and other supplements can provide for | | | | medicine. |
| your health. You're also probably like the vast | | | | Besides these minor benefits, the fundamental |
| majority of people who have been consuming | | | | reason why you would want to take a liquid |
| numerous dry pills daily as the way to reach your | | | | vitamin and mineral supplement over their dry |
| nutritional supplement goals. If you're like me, and | | | | counterparts is the much higher bioavailability and |
| like many others I know, you may find yourself | | | | absorption rate that liquid supplements offer. This |
| swallowing more than 20 dry and sometimes | | | | simply means that when compared to dry pills, a |
| large pills a day in order to meet your nutritional | | | | lot more of the supplement you are trying to |
| and other supplement goals. There is an | | | | take actually reaches your body's cells where it is |
| alternative you may not be aware of however, | | | | needed. This is because liquid supplements are |
| and that is liquid vitamins and minerals. | | | | somewhere in the middle between the fully |
| Benefits Of Liquid | | | | synthetic world of pill supplements and completely |
| So why would you want to take vitamins and | | | | natural food. |
| minerals in liquid form rather than pills.? That | | | | Of course there is no substitute for the |
| seems a lot less convenient, doesn't it? It is true | | | | consumption of nutritious whole natural foods in |
| that there is maybe some loss of convenience in | | | | order to reach our nutrition goals. However we |
| lugging around liquid bottles as opposed to a few | | | | are also well aware that in order to reach the |
| portable pills, and some of these supplements | | | | doses required by some supplement regimes, the |
| require refrigeration as well. However, you are | | | | consumption of natural food alone is not an option. |
| most likely taking supplements, vitamins and | | | | For example, many people prefer to consume |
| minerals in order to achieve specific health-related | | | | 500 to 1000 mg of vitamin C a day as an |
| goals, and as we will go into in this article, the | | | | immune system booster. We all know that is a |
| health benefits of liquid vitamins and minerals far | | | | whole lot of oranges! So, in this example, the |
| away the minor inconveniences. | | | | typical route that 99 % of us have taken |
| Regarding the specific benefits of taking liquid | | | | (including myself) has been to reach for those |
| vitamins and minerals, the first reason that | | | | readily available and cheap vitamin C supplements. |
| naturally comes to mind is the ability to avoid the | | | | Critically however, what I didn't know until |
| unpleasant swallowing of numerous dry pills daily | | | | recently, is that the bioavailability of those dry pills |
| (and if you have ever taken some of those | | | | are so low that perhaps less than 10% of the |
| especially large multivitamin pills, you'll know what | | | | nutrient is reaching your body. Compare this to |
| I'm talking about). Speaking of multivitamins, you'll | | | | the over 90% bioavailability possible with liquid |
| be pleased to know that liquid vitamins and | | | | vitamins and minerals. |
| minerals and other liquid supplements are incredibly | | | | Less Chemicals |
| varied, and include multivitamin formulations as | | | | The final benefit of liquid supplementation relates |
| well, so that in a single liquid dose you can achieve | | | | to the fact that far less chemicals and other |
| your daily balanced nutritional needs. The reason | | | | preservatives are required. Yes, pills are highly |
| why most of us are left swallowing so many pills | | | | convenient with their long shelf lives of often |
| to begin with is that after you factor in the | | | | many years at room temperature. How is that |
| coating of the pill itself and all the other filler | | | | achieved however? Well unfortunately through |
| agents, there is simply not much room left over | | | | lots of additional chemicals and preservatives. |
| for the supplement itself. Therefore these pills | | | | Such nasty additions not only hinder the |
| suffer from limited space, requiring us to swallow | | | | bioavailability of the supplements you are trying to |
| so many of them in order to reach our nutritional | | | | take but can potentially harm your body, |
| goals. Although more of a minor issue, you also | | | | especially the kidneys and liver which are |
| may not have considered a psychological problem | | | | responsible for eliminating such wastes. In light of |
| with traditional supplement pills, in that they look | | | | all these benefits, I would highly recommend giving |
| too much like normal medicine. Feeling like you're | | | | liquid minerals and vitamins a try, despite being |
| consuming a bunch of medicine every day goes | | | | much less-known than supplements in pill form. |
| against your health goals of taking supplements in | | | | |