One of our prime directives at Core 4 Nutrition is
to educate people on the power of whole-food supplement support. If you are
still taking a synthetic multivitamin, I hope this post will inspire you to do
things differently.
When evaluating multivitamin formulas, it’s
important to know that the quality of one product’s ingredients can vary. The inexpensive, mass-marketed one-a-days contain
minimal amounts of synthetic nutrients—just enough to meet the government’s RDA
or recommended daily allowance of nutrients necessary for preventing disease,
not promoting health. Their more
expensive, designer-label counterparts often contain hundreds of vitamins and
minerals, all of them synthetic and difficult for the body to use.
Don’t waste your hard-earned money on products that don’t work. Learn the basics before you buy. First, become familiar with the three most common types of multivitamin formulas:
