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Multivitamins
Glirk Dient
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I am trying to find good bang for your buck miltivitamins. I figured looking around online would be a good bet as things are usually cheaper on the interwebs. Unfortunately I can't seem to find normal multivitamins. They are all for people who work out a lot, old people or women. They are also expensive. So does anyone have any good ideas on a quality money saving multi vitamin?
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Unless you have a serious issue and aren't getting/producing vitamins, you don't need them.
Taking vitamins just because some TV ad says so could be a big mistake, some are toxic in great quantities.
Saludos,
If you DO have special needs, go to your doctor and figure out what's in whatever he tells you to buy, and from there you can do a more informed search.
http://oneaday.com/mens.html
But as the others said, if you are a generally healthy person who eats well, then you probably do not need a multivitamin.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17566547
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17332802
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17209217
Don't bother. Eating an extra serving of vegetables each day will be cheaper. The only vitamins that routinely show a benefit in healthy people are folate (women only and unfortunately it needs to be taken for 6 mos to a year before conception for full benefit) and fish oil (but only for dry skin, not for your heart).
Of course, ignore this advice if you were looking for a multivitamin on the instruction of your doctor, your doctor should have mentioned which component is most important to you and how much you should be looking for, just find the cheapest vitamin with that level of that nutrient. There is no such thing as a "normal" multivitamin. Multivitamins generally come in kids, adult women, adult men, older women, older men because those age groups tend to have different most common vitamin and/or mineral needs.
As far as normal I meant adult mens. I can't seem to find that online very easily.
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Type in a week's worth of averaging eating for you, and then go see what your intake is on vitamins and the like. This will help you target dietary modifications and, if necessary, pick supplements best suited to your needs.
If possible, go with the dietary change though. You'd be surprised how much less you tend to get from supplements even when they have the same content as a serving of food just because of how it is presented in the pill vs. how it is presented as part of a steamed vegetable or seared cowhaunch.
The thing about them is that a generic brand will contain all the same stuff as a name brand vitamin. They're very cheap to make and high profit no matter what. Don't consider vitamin water or things like that as containing anything good though, they're mostly soda with a sprinkling of vitamins.
Assuming you're still eating other kinds of meat and there aren't any other risk factors for deficiency (e.g. alcoholism), or you need them for a diagnosed health condition, I'll echo what most people said - you probably don't need supplements. The cheapest supplement would just be spending that money making sure you maintain a balanced diet. Keep buying fruits and vegetables, whole grains, meats, etc.
If you do want to take multivitamins, just buy the cheapest store brand multivitamin you can find and avoid multiple/huge doses. You're unlikely to have vitamin toxicity, but there are a few vitamins where it's definitely possible.
Bottom line: it's very uncommon for someone in western society (without other risk factors/conditions) to have vitamin deficiency. If you're hoping to prevent disease, there is (unfortunately) little evidence to support multivitamins for this purpose.