Help me pick a multivitamin please, I'm clueless******update: I've made a choice

[gotsmack]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Those "super mega ultra" vitamins are just a waste of money IMO. You're pissing it all away. Unless you're an athlete or hardcore weight lifter, it's not going to really supplement anything. And then again, if you were one of those, you'd already have a good multivitamin picked out by a trainer/coach

I'm on the eliptical machine 1 hour every day (on level 6 of 8 max resistance) and I lift 2X a week for about 35 minutes.

plus I'm only going to take 1 pill when they recommend 2 so I'll be getting 1/2 the vitamin dose.

I'm also going to be taking one of each of the following

GNC Multi Ultra Mega Gold Without Iron, Timed Release Tablets Recommended is 2

GNC Pro Performance Amino Burst 3000
recommended is 3

GABA I have no idea why this one is women's since it's an amino acid

Vitamin K

GNC Potassium & Magnesium Aspartate 250 mg

 

[BurnItDwn]

Centrum, One a Day, or generic equivelent will all be about the same. As long as you don't take the Iron ones.

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Those "super mega ultra" vitamins are just a waste of money IMO. You're pissing it all away. Unless you're an athlete or hardcore weight lifter, it's not going to really supplement anything. And then again, if you were one of those, you'd already have a good multivitamin picked out by a trainer/coach

Sorry, but not everyone eats a "balanced" diet filled with natural sources of essential vitamins. Supplementation is the only way we get them.

Here's a good study verifying what I said, out of Harvard Med, published in JAMA:

Kathleen Fairfield MD and Robert Fletcher MD. "Vitamins for Chronic Disease Prevention: Scientific Review and Clinical Applications." Clinician's Corner, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol 287, No 23, 19 July 2002.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Those "super mega ultra" vitamins are just a waste of money IMO. You're pissing it all away. Unless you're an athlete or hardcore weight lifter, it's not going to really supplement anything. And then again, if you were one of those, you'd already have a good multivitamin picked out by a trainer/coach

Sorry, but not everyone eats a "balanced" diet filled with natural sources of essential vitamins. Supplementation is the only way we get them.

Here's a good study verifying what I said, out of Harvard Med, published in JAMA:

Kathleen Fairfield MD and Robert Fletcher MD. "Vitamins for Chronic Disease Prevention: Scientific Review and Clinical Applications." Clinician's Corner, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol 287, No 23, 19 July 2002.

There's a difference between wasting money and getting vitamins with 1000% of your DV as opposed to getting normal vitamins with 100% of your DV. Spending the extra $10-20 for 1000% DV of your vitamins IS pissing it all away.

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH

Originally posted by: jpeyton

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Those "super mega ultra" vitamins are just a waste of money IMO. You're pissing it all away. Unless you're an athlete or hardcore weight lifter, it's not going to really supplement anything. And then again, if you were one of those, you'd already have a good multivitamin picked out by a trainer/coach

Sorry, but not everyone eats a "balanced" diet filled with natural sources of essential vitamins. Supplementation is the only way we get them.

Here's a good study verifying what I said, out of Harvard Med, published in JAMA:

Kathleen Fairfield MD and Robert Fletcher MD. "Vitamins for Chronic Disease Prevention: Scientific Review and Clinical Applications." Clinician's Corner, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol 287, No 23, 19 July 2002.

There's a difference between wasting money and getting vitamins with 1000% of your DV as opposed to getting normal vitamins with 100% of your DV. Spending the extra $10-20 for 1000% DV of your vitamins IS pissing it all away.

:roll: Yes, because we all know how accurate the RDA's are. Hahaha, I bet you still think the "Food Pyramid" from 1st grade is accurate too.