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eyesthatkissu · 03-09-2006, 03:22 PM

Well Bridget asked me a very specific question today. So here is her very specific answer!

Why are liquid vitamins better for you then pills?

Choosing the right multivitamin is a very difficult undertaking. With so many choices on the market, its important to know a little bit behind the scenes in order to make the right choice. So what do you look for in a multi-vitamin? Well, that varies depending on your needs, but to fulfill the basic purpose of a multi-vitamin, it needs to contain a wide variety of vitamins and minerals. By now your probably thinking, OK, well i thought all the "multivitamins" did include the essential recommended daily intake? If that's what you thought, sorry to break it to you, but your wrong. In order to fulfill your recommended daily intake you would need to take, on average, 10 multivitamin pills a day! Who wants to swallow 10 pills a day, I know I don't, if your with me, then read on.

Pills are simply not able to contain the required amount of ingredients to meet the recommended daily intake within a single capsule. The reason being, a pill requires other essentials before the vitamins and minerals can even be added. The pill needs to be stable enough to be ingested, in order for the active ingredients to be absorbed. Up to 80% of a pill can be filler, certainly they cant fit the daily recommended intake in the other 20%. Many times those fillers are things like paraffin! That's candle wax folks! Another reason pills are in-sufficient is the fact that the pill itself inhibits the absorption of the active ingredients. This means you aren't even getting all of the vitamins and minerals that are in the pill. As your body expends energy digesting the pill it's letting things slip through with out being processed. Think of it like this. The pill is a soccer player on steroids. Your digestive track is the goalie trying trying to catch all the soccer balls, or nutrients, so he can put them where they need to go. That poor goalie just can't do it at that insane rate of speed! Those balls are flying every which way none of them going where they need to go and half of them shooting right past and ending up in the bushes! Now picture your liquid vitamin as Mia Hamm. Very controlled, not rushed, just exact. Working together with her team to make sure each soccer ball hits the net. Make sense??

Liquid vitamins have almost no filler in them whatsoever, in turn, you get larger quantities of the essential vitamins. Not all liquid vitamins are made equal however, but generally speaking, they all out-do a pill. The best liquid vitamins will give you 100% of your recommended daily intake for 10+ different vitamins, as well as a mixture of various other vitamins and minerals. Liquid multi-vitamins should not only be packed with the vitamins you need, but also provide general nutrition. Some liquid vitamins are also supplemented with much needed minerals. Like the ones I have posted about.

To sum things up, there is really no reason to take a multi-vitamin pill. Liquid vitamins compare in price, and beat pills in every other department. Choose your multi-vitamin wisely, and you'll be on the path to a healthier, more vibrant you!