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.
