Best Multi-Vitamin?

[CrashOverRide]

Animal Pak

Been taking it for 2 years now, and the sight of neon-yellow piss in the morning never gets old.

Lol thats how you know your body is using nutrients! Where is Animal Pak available? Have you gotten sick often in the past 2 years?

 

[AmIAFC]

Lol thats how you know your body is using nutrients! Where is Animal Pak available? Have you gotten sick often in the past 2 years?

Never gotten sick, ever. They're available at most, if not all, supplement shops, like GNC and Vitamin Shoppe. If you don't have those stores, bodybuilding.com is it.

 

[Groovy]

Apples have little nutritional value. Skip 'em.

It depends on what u mean with nutritional value tho. Sure, they don't have many vitamins, but they may be good in balancing your hormones or doing something like that. Apples are good 4 u. they may be good for ur kidneys or for ur liver, etc.

 

[kyletaylor]

There's so many out there.... which do you all prefer and why?

I have taken the general centrums... and recently picked up some Mega Men from GNC (a lot more expensive)

Do they all essentially have the same vitamins/herbs etc....?

I don't think so every brands have their own stash of ingredients. It's better to read reviews of the product if you want to know about it's multivitamins.

 

[MHeath]

If you want supplements then Mega Men and Centrum are best and if you want to get it from raw food then Broccoli is the best in all.

 

[marmel75]

I don't think so every brands have their own stash of ingredients. It's better to read reviews of the product if you want to know about it's multivitamins.

The quality of the ingredients and the form of the ingredients is much more important than what it purports to contain...its does no good to get "x" amount of mg of a certain nutrient if it is poor quality or is not in a form that is absorbable by the body...

for example, magnesium in an oxide form is very poorly absorbed...around 4%, so virtually all of the dosage(96%) is going directly into the toilet and not into the body. Magnesium citrate is much better and aspartate is best of all...

This holds true for virtually all vitamins except vitamin C, which for some reason is absorbed pretty much the same regardless of what form it is in...

Walmart carries cheap vitamins for a reason...its mostly junk they have in them...IMO, in my opinion if Walmart or any of the other "big box" retailers carry it, it likely is junk because the company must lower its pricing to get into these places and in turn that lowers their margins. The only way to make money for them is to lower the cost of the ingredients and this almost always means lowering quality...

 

[dally]

I agree with Quiksilver..I am not completely in favor of taking vitamins in the form of pills or other forms. I believe that the fresh vegetables and fruits are pack of vitamins. So, it is better to than pills. Yes, it's an exception for those people who are bodybuilding.

 

[MetalFortress]

The best one is the one that is finding its way into your stomach.

No need for them daily, though. Take them as needed. I take mine after really nasty workouts, or if I'm drinking to ease the hangover.