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Time to pin down to top choices for multivitamins once and for all. There are too many competing multivitamin companies, too many claims and too many varying results.
My overall questions:
1. What in your opinion is the best brand for overall health and preventing colds?
2. Is it worth taking them "just in case"?
But first, some background to this thread.
I get colds/viruses during the winter season about once a month and it's horrible. I do Brazilian jujitsu on not so clean mats and roll 4 days a week. Plus I'm getting older. I'm not in my 20s anymore. Those who never get sick on the mats take a cocktail of multivitamins every morning with 50 mg of zinc. They are never sick. Unbelievable. So my multivitamin research ensued.
Clinical studies
Participants who took a Centrum-brand multivitamin each day for an average of 11 years had no change in cancer mortality or cardiovascular disease mortality compared to the placebo group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrum_(multivitamin)
This is discouraging. Also if you are not deficient in a certain vitamin or mineral, you just pee it out. Waste of money. But the problem is you don't know what you are deficient in, so you should take a blood test before you start popping multivitamins which I did. I am awaiting my blood test results.
Brand choice
Brand choice is overwhelming. Centrum is #1 recommended. I found out because it's made by Pfizer and Pfizer has wide reach into many pharmaceutical areas. So of course they are highly recommended by doctors. It's also cheap, filled with fillers and I am scare to take them. In the centrum bottle in front of me:
Some non-medical ingredients: BHT, corn starch, 40 Aliminum Lake, Titanium dioxide,...plus 25 more!!!!
http://bydesignliving.com/why-is-centrum-bad-for-you/
I google top choices. Hundreds popped up. My brother told me to take Herbalife Multivitamin Mineral Complex, it has no synthetic ingredient. Must take 2-3 times a day. That is better than once a day pill where you pee out magnesium after 4 hours. I am skeptical, but will try. Seems to be the best I can find right now. He swears by the moon and stars it's the best. I checked, no bad non-medical ingredient.
How much is too much?
Look what happens when you take too much Zinc: https://www.livestrong.com/article/29333-effects-much-zinc/
Damn. so I had to tone the zinc down. Its' very difficult to strike a perfect balance. So it seems if you take multivitamin you don't need to take extra stuff on the side. Am I right?
Thanks for reading and thanks for your input.
My overall questions:
1. What in your opinion is the best brand for overall health and preventing colds?
2. Is it worth taking them "just in case"?
But first, some background to this thread.
I get colds/viruses during the winter season about once a month and it's horrible. I do Brazilian jujitsu on not so clean mats and roll 4 days a week. Plus I'm getting older. I'm not in my 20s anymore. Those who never get sick on the mats take a cocktail of multivitamins every morning with 50 mg of zinc. They are never sick. Unbelievable. So my multivitamin research ensued.
Clinical studies
Participants who took a Centrum-brand multivitamin each day for an average of 11 years had no change in cancer mortality or cardiovascular disease mortality compared to the placebo group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrum_(multivitamin)
This is discouraging. Also if you are not deficient in a certain vitamin or mineral, you just pee it out. Waste of money. But the problem is you don't know what you are deficient in, so you should take a blood test before you start popping multivitamins which I did. I am awaiting my blood test results.
Brand choice
Brand choice is overwhelming. Centrum is #1 recommended. I found out because it's made by Pfizer and Pfizer has wide reach into many pharmaceutical areas. So of course they are highly recommended by doctors. It's also cheap, filled with fillers and I am scare to take them. In the centrum bottle in front of me:
Some non-medical ingredients: BHT, corn starch, 40 Aliminum Lake, Titanium dioxide,...plus 25 more!!!!
http://bydesignliving.com/why-is-centrum-bad-for-you/
I google top choices. Hundreds popped up. My brother told me to take Herbalife Multivitamin Mineral Complex, it has no synthetic ingredient. Must take 2-3 times a day. That is better than once a day pill where you pee out magnesium after 4 hours. I am skeptical, but will try. Seems to be the best I can find right now. He swears by the moon and stars it's the best. I checked, no bad non-medical ingredient.
How much is too much?
Look what happens when you take too much Zinc: https://www.livestrong.com/article/29333-effects-much-zinc/
Damn. so I had to tone the zinc down. Its' very difficult to strike a perfect balance. So it seems if you take multivitamin you don't need to take extra stuff on the side. Am I right?
Thanks for reading and thanks for your input.