| The American Medical Association now | | | | It is difficult keeping up with all those pills and |
| recommends that everyone take a daily | | | | swallowing them is just too much hassle; by |
| muli-vitamin. You are probably one of the | | | | contrast, a liquid vitamin formula can contain most |
| individuals doing what your doctor tells you to do, | | | | all the vitamins and minerals you need. Just one |
| but are you taking vitamin pills? | | | | ounce a day mixed in water or your favorite |
| Maybe you should be taking your daily vitamins in | | | | juice. That's an easy way to get nutritional |
| liquid form, instead. Liquid vitamins work better | | | | supplementation! |
| than pills. Vitamin tablets are the original and most | | | | Taking vitamins in pill form is wasteful. Vitamin pills |
| prevalent form for vitamin supplements, but as | | | | may be only 10 - 20% absorbable according to |
| you know, original is not always best. | | | | the Physician's Desk Reference. By contrast, liquid |
| Liquid vitamin formulas are different. Unlike tablets | | | | vitamins are up to 98% absorbable. This means |
| they do not require binders to keep them | | | | that if you spend $100 a month on vitamin pills, |
| together, disintegrators to help them breakup or | | | | you may be literally flushing $90 a month down |
| artificial colors, flavors, sweeteners or wax | | | | the toilet! |
| coating materials. | | | | Take the same vitamin formula in liquid form, and |
| Binders are great for making a tablet stick | | | | you flush only $2 a month. What could you do |
| together, but they are not so good for digestion. | | | | with the $88 saved? A doctor friend of mine told |
| You have to be able to digest the pill those | | | | me about a liquid vitamin and minerals supplement |
| vitamins are packed into to get the benefit your | | | | that cost less than $40 for a month's supply. |
| doctor wants you to have from taking a vitamin | | | | Taking the equivalent supplements in pill form cost |
| supplement. | | | | him over $300. |
| When a vitamin company makes a pill they are | | | | Compare the supplementation recommendations |
| trying to accomplish at least two things. They | | | | of leading health professionals to what is available |
| want to pack in as many vitamins as they can, | | | | in pill form, and you find it impossible to find a |
| and they want to keep the pill as small as possible. | | | | single vitamin pill that contains all the vitamins in |
| These two goals are contradictory. | | | | their recommended dosages. Add in the |
| This results in many vitamin pills being very dense | | | | recommended minerals and their dosages, and |
| or large. Many vitamin pills exhibit both | | | | you find yourself taking handfuls of supplement |
| characteristics; they are both hard and big. Simply | | | | tablets. |
| put, many vitamin pills are hard to swallow and | | | | A liquid formula can contain the vitamins, minerals, |
| just as hard to digest. | | | | antioxidants and amino acids in a balanced dosage |
| Liquid vitamin supplements have a reduced | | | | ration that allows them to make their maximum |
| surface tension (below 58 dynes) and can be | | | | contribution to your health. All this can be |
| especially beneficial to senior citizens who often | | | | combined into a single supplement formula that is |
| experience difficulty assimilating nutrients from pills. | | | | easy to take and easy to assimilate. |
| Many people who do not take their daily vitamins | | | | Liquid vitamins provide a better vitamin formula |
| report they don't like taking pills. They find pills | | | | for less money. They are more convenient than |
| hard to swallow. They also find they have to take | | | | pills and easy to take. A liquid formula can give |
| too many pills to get all the vitamins and minerals | | | | you more nutrition for less money. |
| their health professionals recommend. | | | | |