Description
If you are regularly eating an organic diet consisting of a large variety of fresh, raw food and pastured meats and eggs, you may not need a supplement. Dr Mercola believes it is always better to get your nutrients from healthy food that’s been carefully and thoughtfully produced.
However, anything less than that, and you may be a candidate for a multivitamin and mineral supplement. If you don’t consistently eat organically food grown by regenerative or Biodynamic® farming methods, you most likely could benefit from high-quality supplementation. Here’s why…
Our non-organic food supply has changed drastically over the years with food bourne minerals reducing.
Four factors have played key roles in declining food nutrient values, with significant drops in crucial minerals like phosphorus, selenium, copper, magnesium, cobalt, calcium, zinc, and iron:
- The start of mechanised farming in 1925
- The introduction of ammonium nitrate fertilizer in 1946
- The use of pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides starting prior to 1960
- The introduction of genetically engineered plants and glyphosate in the 1990s
How to Choose a Multivitamin and Mineral Supplement Without Sacrificing Quality or Putting Your Health at Risk
More people than ever depend upon supplements to help fill in nutritional gaps in their diets. According to a recent survey, nearly 68 % of those polled take dietary supplements regularly, with 97 % including vitamins and minerals.
However, in recent years there‚ has also been an attack on supplements. Some studies have questioned their benefit or even claim to show harmful effects from taking multivitamins. Not all multivitamins are created equally, and that for a supplement to be beneficial and not inflict harm, it must be sourced and manufactured according to the highest standards.
You must be very careful about what you buy and be sure you are buying from a reputable manufacturer that uses high-quality sources for its nutrients! Trustworthy supplement makers have the right checks and balances in place for the procurement of materials and production to ensure a high-quality product.
Multi-vitamin Supplement Facts
Here’s the stringent criteria that Dr Mercola believes you must use to find you a high-quality multivitamin and mineral supplement:
- Must be produced by a highly reputable company with the highest quality control manufacturing practices in place
- Must go beyond RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) and DV (Daily Value) guidelines for certain vitamins and minerals – these are just minimums!
- Must include the added bonus of essential mineral – Many high-potency multivitamins lack important minerals
- Minerals should be absorbable; however, most simple forms of minerals are not highly absorbable with chelated forms are among the best
- The dosage must also be high enough to provide adequate amounts. In other words, just one or two tablets a day are likely not enough!
When Dr Mercola first started research for his Multivitamin Plus Vital Minerals, he was absolutely shocked at the low quality demonstrated by so many companies and therefore researched for many months to identify what he believes are the absolute best supplement manufacturers in the U.S. today. The labs chosen have very strong formulation experience with Ph.D. formulators, and a strong manufacturing capability, consistently following the dietary supplement GMPs.
Dr Mercola’s MultiVitamin Plus has been carefully evaluated and selected, each ingredient has been chosen for its:
- Proper nutrient balance – Just like too little of a nutrient does not provide you any real benefits, too much can potentially do you more harm than good
- Absorbability – The key to promoting your health is absorbing as much of the nutrient as possible
- Competitive relationship with other nutrients – A complex evaluation is performed by the scientists to make sure the amounts and types of nutrients work well together to benefit you
- Allergenic potential – Careful selection and measurement of the nutrient to investigate potential allergy issues
- Long-term safety -Any potential toxic build-up balanced out
- Proper use of the bioactive forms of the vitamins and minerals – All are naturally occurring when possible or bio-identical to those found in nature
- Non-GMO – All the vitamins, minerals and nutrients included in my formula are not genetically engineered
- Dosage to get the full benefits from all the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients – don’t be fooled by products that claim to provide you with a multivitamin formula that only requires 1 or 2 tablets per day- you are not getting enough of the important vitamins and minerals
