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Gabe said:

i've been told that regular vitamins are not absorbed by
the body and that the only way to get the wanted effect
is to take soft gels or liquid form or injections. is
this true?

No, with the exception of vitamin B-12 for people who don't
have enough of certain proteins needed for absorption. Some
people are born with defective intrinsic factor or transfer
factor, and other people develop a deficiency of intrinsic
factor in old age. For these people, injections are
necessary.

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anyone recommend any good B-vitamin complex? I've been
buying the CVS brand. TIA

Whatever is cheapest. They're all the same. A few large
companies make all of the pure raw materials used to make
vitamins, so there's no significant difference among brands,
except price.

Personal reference only. Hard caps can give you air in
your stomache, Pills are heat pressed and may not disolve
fast enough.

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Quoted message said:

i've been told that regular vitamins are not absorbed by
the body and that the only way to get the wanted effect is
to take soft gels or liquid form or injections. is this
true? anyone recommend any good B-vitamin complex? I've
been buying the CVS brand. TIA

Gabe

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Gymmy Bob said:

Personal reference only. Hard caps can give you air in
your stomache, Pills are heat pressed and may not disolve
fast enough.

There's not enough air in a capsule to cause any trouble. A
couple of ounces of a carbonated soft drink would be far
more of a problem.

Pills dissolve quite fast. If you don't believe me, put one
in a glass of water and come back an hour later.

As for Gabe, Mark Thorson is right -- just take whatever is
cheapest. The only supplements I would avoid are dolomite or
bone meal for calcium, as they are too often contaminated
with lead.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net These are my
opinions only, but they're almost always correct. "If I
have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were
standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)

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Quoted message said:

i've been told that regular vitamins are not absorbed by
the body and that the only way to get the wanted effect
is to take soft gels or liquid form or injections. is
this true? anyone recommend any good B-vitamin complex?
I've been buying the CVS brand. TIA

Gabe

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In article <[email hidden]>, Gymmy Bob

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Personal reference only. Hard caps can give you air in
your stomache, Pills are heat pressed and may not disolve
fast enough.

There's not enough air in a capsule to cause any trouble.
A couple of ounces of a carbonated soft drink would be far
more of a problem.

Pills dissolve quite fast. If you don't believe me, put
one in a glass of water and come back an hour later.

As for Gabe, Mark Thorson is right -- just take whatever
is cheapest. The only supplements I would avoid are
dolomite or bone meal for calcium, as they are too often
contaminated with lead.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net These are my
opinions only, but they're almost always correct. "If I
have not seen as far as others, it is because giants
were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)

Thanks!

Of course regular vitamins are absorbed - what would be the
point of selling them otherwise?. The thing about artificial
vitamins, is on a whole, you are not getting them in natural
form (many different molecules of the same type of vitamin),
which you would get in natural foods. For instance vitamin c
(ascorbic acid) has many different salts, whereas the
vitamin you get in the shop would be of one form - ascorbic
acid. Other examples are carotenes, of which one type has
been shown to promote cancers under certain conditions
whereas the natural forms don't, and are protective against
cancers. (As general rule L ascorbic acid is are good for
the body whereas the D isomer allegedly is not)

Interesting article about scurvy and ascorbate, in guinea
pig studies one form was active the other was not. http:/-
/lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/vitamins/vitaminC/vitCfor-
m.html Anth

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i've been told that regular vitamins are not absorbed by
the body and that the only way to get the wanted effect is
to take soft gels or liquid form or injections. is this
true? anyone recommend any good B-vitamin complex? I've
been buying the CVS brand. TIA

Gabe

Cheaper isn't always the best - look on the label and do
your research. Anth

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Bob said:

Personal reference only. Hard caps can give you air in
your stomache,

Pills

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are heat pressed and may not disolve fast enough.

There's not enough air in a capsule to cause any
trouble. A couple of ounces of a carbonated soft drink
would be far more of a problem.

Pills dissolve quite fast. If you don't believe me, put
one in a glass of water and come back an hour later.

As for Gabe, Mark Thorson is right -- just take whatever
is cheapest. The only supplements I would avoid are
dolomite or bone meal for calcium, as they are too often
contaminated with lead.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net These are
my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because
giants were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson,
MIT)

Thanks!

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Of course regular vitamins are absorbed - what would be
the point of selling them otherwise?. The thing about
artificial vitamins, is on a whole, you are not getting
them in natural form (many different molecules of the same
type of vitamin), which you would get in natural foods.
For instance vitamin c (ascorbic acid) has many different
salts, whereas the vitamin you get in the shop would be of
one form - ascorbic acid. Other examples are carotenes, of
which one type has been shown to promote cancers under
certain conditions whereas the natural forms don't, and
are protective against cancers. (As general rule L
ascorbic acid is are good for the body whereas the D
isomer allegedly is not)

Interesting article about scurvy and ascorbate, in guinea
pig studies one form was active the other was not. http:/-
/lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/vitamins/vitaminC/vitCfor-
m.html Anth

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i've been told that regular vitamins are not absorbed by
the body and that the only way to get the wanted effect
is to take soft gels or liquid form or injections. is
this true? anyone recommend any good B-vitamin complex?
I've been buying the CVS brand. TIA

Gabe

I get all my vitamins from Goldshield on the net and they
are very good quality. They do a very good B-vitamin
complex. I believe all vitamins the body needs are absorbed.

Anth. You are not that stupid are you? I guess they give
them away where you shop.

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Of course regular vitamins are absorbed - what would be
the point of

selling

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them otherwise?.

Labels only tell the surface things that they cannot legally
hide. Check for professional's opinions of the manufacturers
reputation.

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Cheaper isn't always the best - look on the label and do
your research. Anth

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In article <[email hidden]>, Gymmy
Bob <[email hidden]> wrote:
>Personal reference only. Hard caps can give you air
>in your stomache,

Pills

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>are heat pressed and may not disolve fast enough.

There's not enough air in a capsule to cause any
trouble. A couple of ounces of a carbonated soft drink
would be far more of a problem.

Pills dissolve quite fast. If you don't believe me,
put one in a glass of water and come back an hour
later.

As for Gabe, Mark Thorson is right -- just take
whatever is cheapest. The only supplements I would
avoid are dolomite or bone meal for calcium, as they
are too often contaminated with lead.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net These
are my opinions only, but they're almost always
correct. "If I have not seen as far as others, it is
because giants were standing on my shoulders." (Hal
Abelson, MIT)

Thanks!

Anyone who claims vitamins are _not_ absorbed is an idiot,
there's well documented blood plasma absorption curves as
well as documented treatments of diseases using vitamins.
(typically scurvy) Anth

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Anth. You are not that stupid are you? I guess they give
them away where

you

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shop.

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Of course regular vitamins are absorbed - what would be
the point of

selling

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them otherwise?.

Are you saying thast magnesium oxide (a form of magnesium
supplement) is absorbed when it won't even disolve in a
glass of acidified water overnight?

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Anyone who claims vitamins are _not_ absorbed is an idiot,
there's well documented blood plasma absorption curves as
well as documented treatments of diseases using vitamins.
(typically scurvy) Anth

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Anth. You are not that stupid are you? I guess they give
them away where

you

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shop.

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Of course regular vitamins are absorbed - what would
be the point of

selling

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them otherwise?.

I am not aware that Magnesium oxide is a vitamin, it may be a nutrient.
Anth
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Are you saying thast magnesium oxide (a form of magnesium
supplement) is absorbed when it won't even disolve in a
glass of acidified water

overnight?

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Anyone who claims vitamins are _not_ absorbed is an
idiot, there's well documented blood plasma absorption
curves as well as documented

treatments

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of diseases using vitamins. (typically scurvy) Anth

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Anth. You are not that stupid are you? I guess they
give them away

where

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you

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shop.

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> Of course regular vitamins are absorbed - what would
> be the point of
selling
> them otherwise?.