Liquid Vitamins

Manufacturers of liquid vitamins claim that they are the ideal way for you to satisfy your daily requirements for vitamin supplements. These manufacturers claim that, unlike vitamins prepared in pill form, liquid vitamin supplements are completely absorbed by your blood stream. These manufacturers claim that vitamins in pill or tablet form have only an 80-90% absorption rate, while liquid multi vitamins are touted as having nearly 100% absorption rate because of their liquid form. Despite these claims, it’s time to set the record straight with a few basic facts.

As with so many misleading claims, there is always a kernel of truth to give them an air of legitimacy. For example, the claims made these manufacturers of liquid vitamins do apply, for the most part, to the cheap, supermarket variety brand of vitamins that are sold to the masses. That’s because these supplements are made from the cheapest materials possible. Upon entering the digestive system, the nutrients are easily destroyed by your stomach acid. Therefore, much of the nutrients delivered by these supplements do indeed go to waste.

However, other vitamin supplements—known as “nutraceuticals” because they are essentially whole food supplements—boast a more impressive track record. These vitamins are made with high quality, dense whole food nutrients, using sophisticated processes, and with a built-in delivery system that ensures that the nutrients are delivered directly into your bloodstream for maximum absorption. Therefore it is not truly that all vitamins in tablet form are inefficient and wasteful, and purveyors of liquid vitamins who claim otherwise are being disingenuous, to say the least. Liquid vitamin supplements are not necessarily more effective than pill or tablet vitamins, and in many cases are not on par with vitamins created using nutraceuticals.

The claims about more efficient absorption using liquid vitamins ignore or at least distort some basic facts. First, there are only several main ways that vitamins can be effectively directly delivered to your bloodstream: through injection, through the mouth and through the upper intestines. Injection is popular for B12 and must be administered by a physician. Taking vitamins through the mouth—or what are popularly known as sublingual, or beneath the tongue—are effective for some vitamins but not for others. Some nutrient molecules are simply too large to pass through the mucous membranes of the mouth. The final method is through the upper intestines, the method employed by the very effective nutraceuticals described above.

Other claims about liquid vitamin supplements are that enzymes have been added to them, to make them more bio-available. However, this is not possible for one basic reason. Enzymes in liquid form will only survive for 2 to 3 hours. Therefore they cannot be added to liquid multi vitamins in any meaningful quantity. They can, however, be added to nutraceuticals, and it is these that nutrient dense, rich, whole food vitamins that recommend for your optimal health.

Choose liquids only if you have difficulty swallowing, but otherwise, nutraceuticals are your best bet for maximum absorption. In the end, of course, the final decision is yours.

Seasilver Liquid Vitamin Guide - Seasilver liquid vitamin has been touted as having nearly every vitamin and mineral that a person will ever need, and has been claimed to be effective in treating hundreds of diseases. Of course, in our culture such fantastic claims cannot but, at first, be met with a healthy dose of skepticism.

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