Vitamin Absorption

dragonflydi

Something that was recently shared with me, that I thought I would share here ... if you are taking vitamins (any of the vitamins that are a solid hard pack tablet/caplet ... centrum, one a day, even prenatal, etc) ... you are not getting nearly the vitamins you think you are unless you are taking ones that specifically say they are a 'quick dissolve tablet'.

Those pills are compacted together so hard that it takes so long for the body to break them down, you expel them after only having absorbed about 10-20% of the vitamins they actually contain.

If however, you take that same pill, crush it up and then consume it, then you would get close to the dose that the bottle indicates in included in eachof those little pills. Liquid vitamins are also a good choice to avoid this.

This was something I had not realized ... and when this bottle is gone, I am going to try the liquid version and see if I notice a difference.

Anyone else have any experience with this???

Atlantique

Not sure of the veracity of that assertion, but I do know that you should be consuming your vitamins with a meal instead of on an empty stomach in order to abosrb them better.

marci355

Yep, that would be me. But I have malabsorbtion on everything, being a gastric bypass patient. I wonder sometimes, if I absorb any of my Omega 3 fish oil, I take. The only way to know where you're at with vitamin levels, is to have your doc run some lab tests. WLS people do it once or twice a year. It lets us know what we are deficient in, and if we need to tweak our vitamins a bit.

edorice

I used to take the women's One a Day vitamins but someone told me to do a vinegar test on them. They didn't desolve in vinegar compared to another brand. So I discontinued use and switched brands.