MULTIVITAMIN

If you want to spend hours being confused, compare all the different Multivitamin products available on the shelf of your local drugstore. There’s a huge variance in quality between products you’ll find ranging from popular grocery store brands that contain negligible amounts of nutrients in their least absorbable forms, to high quality thoughtfully curated formulas that contain all the right nutrients in the right doses. 

So how do you decide? We have a few guiding principles when it comes to selecting the best available Multivitamin:

1. It should contain at least the recommended daily allowance (RDA), but ideally more, of appropriate nutrients
2. Nutrients have to be present in their activated or most absorbable forms
3. It should be dosed at at least 2-3 capsules a day since many of the nutrients in a Multivitamin are water soluble and single daily doses are often excreted before sufficient quantities are absorbed
4. There should be no dyes, and additional excipients should be minimal and pronounceable
5. It should come in a capsule form, as tablets often have hard to digest binders and fillers
6. It should be non-GMO and third party tested for quality and purity
7. Bonus if it also is free from gelatin and the top allergens such as soy, wheat, eggs, dairy, yeast, citrus, preservatives, artificial flavors and sugar. 

Our Multivitamin checks all those boxes! As well, it’s free from beta carotene, Vitamin A and Iron which are often supplemented separately at therapeutic levels as needed. 

We’re especially happy that our supplement contains:

• Vitamin E from mixed tocopherols rather than just the d-alpha form found in most supplements 
• Calcium and Magnesium in their citrate forms rather than the practically unabsorbable carbonate form found in many drug store brand Multi’s
• Vitamin B2 and Vitamin B6 in their activated phosphate forms lending to increased absorption
• Vitamin B12 as methylcobalamin versus cyanocobalamin, again improving absorption and efficacy
• Folic Acid as Calcium L-5-methyltetrahydrofolate instead of Folate as seen in many, even premium brands, of Multivitamins. Many people cannot effectively convert Folic Acid into its active form and given the critical nature of this nutrient, we always recommend taking the activated form directly to prevent any deficiencies, even when one does have a diet rich in folate containing foods. 

And can we talk a bit about the fillers for a minute? There’s nothing in our Multivitamin that shouldn’t be and it’s all encapsulated in a vegetable based capsule that helps ensure 100% disintegration so vitamins can enter the intestine where they should be.