Dear all swimmers,
I am new to multivitamin and before I post this question, I used wholefoods adult multivitamin.
Now I would like to switch to more famous brand like GNC, Centrum, etc,
Could you please recommend a multivitamin for an amateur swimmer?
Generally, I swim 3 times a week, one hour each time. I am 23 years old.
Thank you for your help!
Parents
Former Member
A lot of the vitamins out there are considered food supplements and as such do not have to be verified for content or any other characertistic. As such you may get what you pay for or you may not. Many assays of vitamins have shown time and again you do not get what is on the label. Price has nothing to do with the quality of the vitamin. The manufacturers can charge what they feel the market will bear. Claims by the manufacturer do not have to be proved to be placed on the bottle. If you read the label carefully there is always an if and or but statement there. Marketing needs something to justify there position and the lawyers need to defend them. Vitamins for the most part are a high margin profit center that are pushed to increase the bottom line of a business with out regard to the benefit or determint of the person taking them.
The average healthy american that eats a normal diet gets all of the vitamins and minerals that he needs in a day. I am leaving Calcium out of this post and special situations.
If you still want a multiple vitamin my recomendation would be to get a multiple vitamin that contains a little bit of everything. Read the label. If most are 100 percent or more you do not need more of it. Have you ever tried to put 40 gallons of gas in a 20 gallon tank? The only other requirement I would have is that it be USP verifyed. The label will say USP verifyed which should assure that it has what it says in it. I also would not spend more than ten dollars, probably less, on a bottle of a 100.
The nice thing about being old I have seen a lot of miracles come and go in the way of vitamins. I have seen a lot of vitamins but never a miracle yet. The bad thing about being old is my spelling gets worse every day.
Have a great day
A lot of the vitamins out there are considered food supplements and as such do not have to be verified for content or any other characertistic. As such you may get what you pay for or you may not. Many assays of vitamins have shown time and again you do not get what is on the label. Price has nothing to do with the quality of the vitamin. The manufacturers can charge what they feel the market will bear. Claims by the manufacturer do not have to be proved to be placed on the bottle. If you read the label carefully there is always an if and or but statement there. Marketing needs something to justify there position and the lawyers need to defend them. Vitamins for the most part are a high margin profit center that are pushed to increase the bottom line of a business with out regard to the benefit or determint of the person taking them.
The average healthy american that eats a normal diet gets all of the vitamins and minerals that he needs in a day. I am leaving Calcium out of this post and special situations.
If you still want a multiple vitamin my recomendation would be to get a multiple vitamin that contains a little bit of everything. Read the label. If most are 100 percent or more you do not need more of it. Have you ever tried to put 40 gallons of gas in a 20 gallon tank? The only other requirement I would have is that it be USP verifyed. The label will say USP verifyed which should assure that it has what it says in it. I also would not spend more than ten dollars, probably less, on a bottle of a 100.
The nice thing about being old I have seen a lot of miracles come and go in the way of vitamins. I have seen a lot of vitamins but never a miracle yet. The bad thing about being old is my spelling gets worse every day.
Have a great day
