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Medical Forum / General / Alternative / September 2005vitamins vitamins vitamins
i've been told that regular vitamins are not absorbed by the body and that the only way to get the wanted effect is to take soft gels or liquid form or injections. is this true? anyone recommend any good B-vitamin complex? I've been buying the CVS brand. TIA Gabe > i've been told that regular vitamins are not absorbed by the > body and that the only way to get the wanted effect is to take > soft gels or liquid form or injections. is this true? No, with the exception of vitamin B-12 for people who don't have enough of certain proteins needed for absorption. Some people are born with defective intrinsic factor or transfer factor, and other people develop a deficiency of intrinsic factor in old age. For these people, injections are necessary. > anyone recommend any good B-vitamin complex? > I've been buying the CVS brand. TIA Whatever is cheapest. They're all the same. A few large companies make all of the pure raw materials used to make vitamins, so there's no significant difference among brands, except price. Personal reference only. Hard caps can give you air in your stomache, Pills are heat pressed and may not disolve fast enough. > i've been told that regular vitamins are not absorbed by the body and > that the only way to get the wanted effect is to take soft gels or > liquid form or injections. is this true? anyone recommend any good > B-vitamin complex? I've been buying the CVS brand. TIA > > Gabe >Personal reference only. Hard caps can give you air in your stomache, Pills >are heat pressed and may not disolve fast enough. There's not enough air in a capsule to cause any trouble. A couple of ounces of a carbonated soft drink would be far more of a problem. Pills dissolve quite fast. If you don't believe me, put one in a glass of water and come back an hour later. As for Gabe, Mark Thorson is right -- just take whatever is cheapest. The only supplements I would avoid are dolomite or bone meal for calcium, as they are too often contaminated with lead. -- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct. "If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT) >> i've been told that regular vitamins are not absorbed by the body and >> that the only way to get the wanted effect is to take soft gels or >> liquid form or injections. is this true? anyone recommend any good >> B-vitamin complex? I've been buying the CVS brand. TIA >> >> Gabe > >Personal reference only. Hard caps can give you air in your stomache, Pills > >are heat pressed and may not disolve fast enough. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > "If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants > were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT) Thanks! Cheaper isn't always the best - look on the label and do your research. Anth > > >Personal reference only. Hard caps can give you air in your stomache, Pills > > >are heat pressed and may not disolve fast enough. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Thanks! Labels only tell the surface things that they cannot legally hide. Check for professional's opinions of the manufacturers reputation. > Cheaper isn't always the best - look on the label and do your research. > Anth [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > > > Thanks! Of course regular vitamins are absorbed - what would be the point of selling them otherwise?. The thing about artificial vitamins, is on a whole, you are not getting them in natural form (many different molecules of the same type of vitamin), which you would get in natural foods. For instance vitamin c (ascorbic acid) has many different salts, whereas the vitamin you get in the shop would be of one form - ascorbic acid. Other examples are carotenes, of which one type has been shown to promote cancers under certain conditions whereas the natural forms don't, and are protective against cancers. (As general rule L ascorbic acid is are good for the body whereas the D isomer allegedly is not) Interesting article about scurvy and ascorbate, in guinea pig studies one form was active the other was not. http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/vitamins/vitaminC/vitCform.html Anth > i've been told that regular vitamins are not absorbed by the body and > that the only way to get the wanted effect is to take soft gels or > liquid form or injections. is this true? anyone recommend any good > B-vitamin complex? I've been buying the CVS brand. TIA > > Gabe > Of course regular vitamins are absorbed - what would be the point of selling > them otherwise?. [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > > > Gabe I get all my vitamins from Goldshield on the net and they are very good quality. They do a very good B-vitamin complex. I believe all vitamins the body needs are absorbed. Anth. You are not that stupid are you? I guess they give them away where you shop. > Of course regular vitamins are absorbed - what would be the point of selling > them otherwise?. Anyone who claims vitamins are _not_ absorbed is an idiot, there's well documented blood plasma absorption curves as well as documented treatments of diseases using vitamins. (typically scurvy) Anth > Anth. You are not that stupid are you? I guess they give them away where you > shop. > > > Of course regular vitamins are absorbed - what would be the point of > selling > > them otherwise?. Are you saying thast magnesium oxide (a form of magnesium supplement) is absorbed when it won't even disolve in a glass of acidified water overnight? > Anyone who claims vitamins are _not_ absorbed is an idiot, there's well > documented blood plasma absorption curves as well as documented treatments [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > selling > > > them otherwise?. I am not aware that Magnesium oxide is a vitamin, it may be a nutrient. Anth http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra ct&list_uids=11794633 > Are you saying thast magnesium oxide (a form of magnesium supplement) is > absorbed when it won't even disolve in a glass of acidified water overnight? [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > > selling > > > > them otherwise?. I sure do not consider myself stupid and I have proof that some vitamins are not absorbed. I and my grandmother both have had the experience of seeing a vitamin in the stool after a movement. >Anyone who claims vitamins are _not_ absorbed is an idiot, there's well >documented blood plasma absorption curves as well as documented treatments [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> selling >> > them otherwise?. |
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