Do you buy your vitamins in bulk to try to save money? Bulk grocery stores like Costco and Sam's Club offer you huge bottles of vitamins at a great price, right!? Take a better look at the ingredients and you'll see why you could be wasting your hard earned cash!
If your goal of taking a daily vitamin is for improved health, choosing a pharmaceutical grade supplement is necessary. If you're unknowingly ingesting food dyes, modified food starch, soy and more on a daily basis to improve your health, you must research the products that you are purchasing. Is it really worth the savings? You get what you pay for! Maybe you're continuing to have gastrointestinal issues, breakouts, headaches, etc., and they may be from your vitamins ingredients. If you check the labels on your food, also check the ones on your vitamins.
I'll compare popular vitamins I found at Costco this past weekend, show you the harmful ingredients, and a superior alternative that your body can actually use! Synthetic vitamins often contain harmful chemicals and essential nutrients in inabsorbable forms.
While you can essentially get more "vitamins" for your dollar with the big box brands, that is because they are of lower quality, and use cheap preservatives, chemicals, dyes, etc., to bring the cost down. For example, this is the same reason why real peanut/almond butters cost more than their cheaper alternatives, that have added sugars and hydrogenated oils. Corn syrup is cheap, genetically modified, and easily added to foods, beverages and vitamins as a filler!
Kirkland Signature Wild Alaskan Fish Oil:
- ~$.10 cents per capsule
- Contains SOY (GMO)
Better option is Integrative Therapeutics Pure Omega HP; ~$.37 per capsule
Does not contain any of the following!
artificial coloring
artificial flavoring
corn
dairy products
gluten
preservatives
salt
soy
sugar
wheat
yeast
Nature Made Coenyzme Q 10:
- ~$.25 cents per capsule
- Contains artificial coloring, soy
- Synthetic, chemically made. Contains a different chemical other than the natural form
Better option is Integrative Therapeutics Vitaline CoQ10; ~$2.00 per capsule
Contains only the NATURAL form of CoEnzyme Q10 and is identical to the form produced by the human body
- The natural form can cross the cell membrane and does increase serum CoQ10 levels
Does not contain any of the following!
artificial coloring
artificial flavoring
corn
dairy products
gluten
ingredients of animal origin
preservatives
salt
soy
wheat
yeast
Centrum Silver Women's 50+
- ~$.08 cents per capsule
- Contains modified corn starch, Red 40 Lake, hydrogenated palm oil, maltodextrin
Better option is Integrative Therapeutics Clinical Nutrients 45 Plus Women; ~$.19 per capsule
Does not contain any of the following!
artificial coloring
artificial flavoring
dairy products
gluten
preservatives
soy
sugar
wheat
yeast
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