| There is no point in taking supplements if they are | | | | reason I have already alluded to. Reports tell us |
| not going to be absorbed into your blood stream. | | | | that pills and capsules are not easily digested. For |
| You are simply wasting your money. This is the | | | | instance, 250, 000 pounds of undigested vitamin |
| view of most medical practitioners and they have | | | | and mineral pills have been reported as being |
| good reason to hold this view. It is not necessarily | | | | pulled out of the sewers in Tacoma, Washington, |
| based on their ignorance of the importance of | | | | every six weeks, and 159 gallons of undigested |
| nutrients over pharmaceutical treatments, even if | | | | pills are showing up in sewer filters in Salt Lake |
| they make their living from the treatment of | | | | City every month,, In fact, a National Advisory |
| disease rather than the prevention of illness. | | | | Board investigation has revealed only 8.3% of |
| Medical practitioners test urine and that is where | | | | every 100mg of nutrients consumed in tablet |
| vitamins and minerals are found in abundance | | | | form is absorbed. The Physicians Desk Reference |
| when not absorbed by the body. They are also | | | | purports absorption to be as low as 10%. What |
| aware of the amount of undissolved vitamin and | | | | this means is you should take a liquefied form of |
| mineral capsule casings that are found in sewers. | | | | nutritional intake because it is more effective. |
| The problem then is the absorption of the | | | | The second reason even proportionately balanced |
| vitamins and minerals that you might use to | | | | vitamins and minerals are not absorbed into your |
| supplement your diet. There is no contention that | | | | body is largely due to a lack of an ingredient called |
| they are probably needed. The question is | | | | piperine that is found in black pepper. Piperine |
| whether or not you are absorbing them and | | | | enhances the bioavailability of nutrients and |
| obtaining the benefit you expect. | | | | increases the uptake. However, it needs to taken |
| You will not absorb the vitamins and minerals you | | | | with the nutrients and be available at the same |
| take if they are not balanced in proportion to | | | | time. Black pepper itself releases piperine too |
| your bodies requirements. What this means for | | | | slowly to be effective. So what you need to |
| you is unless the vitamins and minerals have the | | | | consume is a product which is proportionately |
| right ratios to each other in accordance with your | | | | balanced that contains piperine, if you are going to |
| body's requirements, they may not be absorbed. | | | | get maximum benefit from your nutrient |
| In the event they are absorbed into your blood | | | | supplementation. |
| stream and are not made use of, they will be | | | | Two of the reasons for your body not getting |
| filtered out through your kidneys. This can happen | | | | maximum intake of the nutritional supplements |
| even if your body has a need for them. This is | | | | that you take depends upon whether they are in |
| why you need proportionate supplementation if | | | | liquefied form or whether they have piperine as |
| everything is going to be working for you, and | | | | one of their ingredients. The product I personally |
| not an over-supply of some nutrients and an | | | | consume has a biovailabilty of around 100% |
| under-supply of other nutrients. | | | | because it liquefied and contains piperine. That's |
| As for two of the reasons your body will not | | | | what you want if you would like to stay healthy |
| absorb the nutrients you supplement, the first | | | | and remain young. |