Health: Are 90% of your vitamins going down the toilet?

Are 90% of your vitamins going down the toilet?

Written by Warren Matthews

If you live in repparttar

USA it is likely that you have been exposed to advertising suggesting that 90% of repparttar 115629

vitamin tablets that you are taking are going down repparttar 115630

toilet. Because these claims are so wide-spread I feel that is appropriate to address repparttar 115631

issue of bio-availability and sort out repparttar 115632

fact from

fiction. Is this claim true or not? The answer is not a definitive yes or no because there is no benchmark given in which to base repparttar 115634

claim on. I'll try to explain. Supplements are a bit like cars. For example, at one end of repparttar 115635

spectrum you may have a Russian built Lada which are cheap, utilitarian and very unreliable (at least they used to be) and cost a few thousand dollars or you may have a Rolls Royce which is repparttar 115636

ultimate in luxury motoring and reliability and will set you back around a half million dollars. There is no comparison between repparttar 115637

two vehicles. The same principle applies to supplements You can buy cheap supplements at repparttar 115638

supermarket and what you get is a product which is manufactured to a price. This means that repparttar 115639

cheapest possible ingredients are used as well as repparttar 115640

cheapest excipients which bind repparttar 115641

ingredients together. To give you an idea of just how big repparttar 115642

difference of ingredient costs can be I will quote an example of one nutrient... Beta Carotene. The overwhelming majority of manufacturers use synthetic beta carotene (even those producing repparttar 115643

more expensive brands). The cost of synthetic beta carotene to a manufacturer is around $60 per kilo. However, repparttar 115644

98% pure natural crystalline beta carotene that we use in our Total Balance costs over $2,400 per kilo. The same differences can apply with Vitamin B12 which is generally 3% pure and costs $340 per kilo versus repparttar 115645

99% pure that we use at $12,000 per kg. The differences do not stop at repparttar 115646

active ingredient level but can also apply to repparttar 115647

excipients as well. Some cheaper excipients bind repparttar 115648

ingredients together so well that after swallowing repparttar 115649

tablet a large proportion of it passes right through your system and does indeed end up in repparttar 115650

toilet. To make matters worse those ingredients that are released are done so in repparttar 115651

stomach and are largely destroyed by your stomach acids. When using these types of cheap supplements as repparttar 115652

'yard stick' repparttar 115653

statement of 90% of repparttar 115654

supplement ending up down repparttar 115655

toilet is indeed true... But, that is like trying to compare apples with oranges... The difference between some supplements are as great as repparttar 115656

example given earlier about repparttar 115657

motor vehicles, not only in repparttar 115658

quality of repparttar 115659

ingredients used but also repparttar 115660

delivery system employed or in most cases repparttar 115661

lack of it. When I am talking about a delivery system I am referring to how repparttar 115662

active ingredients get into your blood stream where they are needed to do their work. There are only four effective ways in which nutrients can get into your blood stream. 1. By injection. 2. Through repparttar 115663

mucous membranes of repparttar 115664

mouth. (Only some nutrients) 3. Via repparttar 115665

lining of

walls of

upper intestine. 4. Via repparttar 115668

lining of

walls of

colon. The methods which are used are as follows: 1. Injection with a hypodermic syringe... only practical via a clinic or physician. B12 injections for example. 2. Through repparttar 115671

mucous membranes of repparttar 115672

mouth by a sublingual tablet or liquid. Note: This has limitations because many nutrients cannot be absorbed through these membranes.

Summertime Fitness, Exercise On the Go

Written by Michael Stefano

Whether you’re a seasoned athlete who’s been training all your life, or just getting started on a new exercise program, finding time to workout when repparttar

warm weather hits can become a rather daunting challenge.

From ballgames to backyard barbecues, repparttar 115628 warm weather brings many activities that can lead to more eating and less exercise. Life is not a dress rehearsal, and for most of us, giving up a day of picnicking on repparttar 115629 beach or a sunny morning on repparttar 115630 golf course for repparttar 115631 dank artificial cool of repparttar 115632 local health club, presents no real choice.

So go ahead, bring repparttar 115633 kids to repparttar 115634 park, spend repparttar 115635 weekend at repparttar 115636 shore, do whatever it is your heart desires while repparttar 115637 sun sits high in repparttar 115638 sky.

Exercise and summer fun can go hand and hand –achieving a sort-of two bird with one stone effect. And by following a few simple suggestions, you can turn your day at repparttar 115639 shore into fun and fitness.

Walk It Off

Instead of just lying on repparttar 115640 beach all day, take a walk along repparttar 115641 shoreline. The extra effort that it takes to walk briskly on repparttar 115642 soft, sandy surface will contribute to repparttar 115643 overall fat burning effect. While vacationing at your favorite summer getaway, steer clear of cars and cabs, and walk wherever and whenever possible. On a recent trip to Las Vegas, I logged in an average of 6 miles every day (as measured by a pedometer) simply by walking to and from various hotels, restaurants and casinos all day.

Undoubtedly, this helped balance out repparttar 115644 all-you-can-eat buffet food.

Play Don’t Lay

Get off that beach blanket and join in repparttar 115645 fun –play some volleyball, toss around a frisbee, go for a swim, or bodysurf. Just don’t lie there for 4 hours roasting in repparttar 115646 sun. If picnicking with friends or family members, organize or join in a softball game, play horseshoes, or take a hike in repparttar 115647 woods. Get in repparttar 115648 middle of whatever happens to be going on.

When vacationing at your favorite all-inclusive Caribbean Island, you’ll be offered to participate in an endless stream of events from an afternoon match of water polo to singing and dancing in a combination employee/guest Broadway like stage production. Don’t pass repparttar 115649 chance to make calorie burning this much fun.

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