One a Day Vitamins

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Vitamin Simplification

Just an overview of what a multivitamin does for you.

What's a multivitamin good for? 

When people use the term one-a-day, they can mean almost anything, but most commonly in the health world this refers to a single multivitamin meant to be taken INSTEAD of several different pills and supplements as one source of micronutrition.

Centrum could be called a "one a day." Not many people would consider it to be an accurate one-a-day, but nevertheless is does provide all the essential vitamins and minerals needed in adequate amounts to make up for possible deficiencies.

The real one a day multivitamins usually offer several additional supplements besides the essentials. Antioxidants and amino acids are the typical add-ons to a basic one-a-day. There are thousands of antioxidant supplements, but some of the most potent ones included in the best one-a-day pills are resveratrol, bilberry extract, green tea extract, and grapeseed extract.

High end one a day vitamins will additionally have elite supplements like CoQ10 (which is beneficial for energy production), beta glucan (immune system), or Phosphatydil Serine (the how to deal with stress supplement).

List of Essential Vitamins and Minerals 

These should be included in any one-a-day

  1. Vitamin A
  2. Vitamin C
  3. Vitamin D
  4. Vitamin E
  5. Vitamins B1, B2, B3, B6, B9, B12, and H
  6. Vitamin K (not necessary)
  7. Calcium
  8. Iodine
  9. Magnesium
  10. Zinc
  11. Selenium
  12. Copper
  13. Manganese
  14. Chromium
  15. Molybdenum

Multivitamin Links 

Primal Nutrition
A good place to get a great one a day multivitamin
Master Formula
One of the best multivitamin formulas.
Orac Value
How do you measure the nutrition in vitamins? Orac value, that's how.
Orac Value
More tasty, tasty orac value goodness.

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Health Blogs 

This isn't directly related to one a day vitamins, but I found a couple health blogs worth checking out.

1) buy vitamin: This is a simple guide to finding good places to do your vitamin shopping.

2) Omega 3 Capsules: A great place to find fish oil caps, which are the next best thing after the one-a-days!

Some Starter Multivitamins 

Proloftin Stress Release Formula

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