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Why Liquid Multivitamins are Superior
By: Dr. Obikoya
The benefits of multivitamins and minerals are more important
today than ever before. In today’s hectic world, in which various factors such
as our busy schedules, and poor nutrition make it more difficult for us to eat a
balanced, healthy diet. For most people, supplementing your diet with a
multivitamins is now a necessity.
But do you dislike swallowing pills? Do multivitamin in tablet form disagree
with you? You are not alone. Many vitamins and minerals have a naturally strong
and objectionable taste. One may argue that this is a subjective consideration,
for how long and how regularly will someone take a bitter tasting product? No
matter how important it is to take multivitamins and how high the quality of a
product is, it is useless if you cannot take it. Fortunately there are some
great tasting multivitamins out there, you just have to look around.
However, you can still have your multivitamins and enjoy all the benefits
derivable from them in liquid form. Research evidence suggests that only 10-20%
of vitamins and minerals in a pill form are absorbed by the body, compared to
98% for liquid vitamins. This is mostly because liquid vitamins bypass the
digestive process and are absorbed directly into the blood stream and into the
cell. Vitamins in capsule or tablet forms, therefore, have low bioavailability,
hence have weaker therapeutic benefits.
There are several other reasons why you may prefer liquid vitamins. Vitamin
capsules have powdered ingredients placed into pork based gelatin or vegetable
capsules with added additives such as talc or other fillers. The table forms of
multivitamins also have powdered ingredients and additives but this time
compressed into tablets using special carrier molecules and additives that
require extra digestive efforts to get the desired effects.
It is not trivial to be concerned about the bases and additives used to prepare
multivitamins. Many of these inert substances are carbohydrates. For obese
individuals and children with a seizure disorder being treated with a ketogenic
(high fat, low carbohydrate and low protein diet) even a small amount of
additional carbohydrate that is not calculated into their daily diets may add up
or be enough to cause a recurrence of seizure activity by pushing them out of
ketosis.
Because information on the amount of inert substances in multivitamins is not
easy to obtain and generally requires contact with the drug manufacturer, ask
your pharmacists to help in retrieving this information.
Liquid multivitamins are much easier to swallow for children and seniors.
Because these groups of individuals also have immature or attenuated digestive
enzymes, it will be even more difficult to digest and assimilate vitamins in
capsules or tablet forms because of the additional ingredients used to
facilitate their production in these forms. For children in particular, liquid
vitamins offer an array of flavors that they can choose from.
