For years I have harped on the fact that vitamin and multivitamin products do not necessarily give you what they claim.  I have questioned whether cheap vitamins really work  ,and if  they really do save you money in the long-term.  Years ago, Physician’s Management Journal  reported that one-third of all dollars spent on supplements are wasted.  I agree.  ConsumerLab routinely evaluates hundreds of multivitamins  and reports on their quality.  They recently reported that many multivitamin vitamin products fail the test.  Vitamin product problems are usually related to:

• Too little or too much of specific nutrients listed on the label
• Manufacturing processes utilizing poor quality ingredients which are not well absorbed
• Excessive levels of toxins such as mercury levels in fish oil.
• People randomly take supplements based inappropriate for their specific type of metabolism. 

This last point is a major part of the reason I incorporated metabolism testing and appropriate metabolism-specific supplements into this web site, RxAlternativeMedicine .  I credit William Wolcott, author of Metabolic Typing Diet and contemporary authority on the subject, as well as the late Dr. William Donald Kelley, for their visionary research on the subject.

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